Hello, and welcome to In My Bag! My name is Jenn, and this is my product review blog. 
I found an unopened bottle of KY Intense in my husband’s nightstand drawer, which is where we keep our sex toys and the like. What’s interesting is that I have no recollection of buying KY Intense (though I did buy KY Yours + Mine last year!), and my husband swears he didn’t buy it. I guess I must have, since the stuff didn’t just grow legs, check itself out at Target and find its way to our house.
Anyway, expect a review soon! This stuff sounds awesome, and I’m definitely looking forward to using it.
For years I have used a standard wringing mop and bucket, and have used a Clorox ReadyMop for the in-between messes caused by dirty shoes (whether they’re Payless or mbt, they have the same ability to track in dirt!), random spills, pets, etc. But when I went to Target two weeks ago to pick up more cleanser and pads for the Clorox Ready Mop, I realized that for the price of the cleanser ($6) and the pads ($8), I could get an entire Swiffer WetJet starter kit. It was on sale for $18.99, but when purchased in conjunction with Bounty Basic paper towels, which I already had in my shopping cart, I’d receive a $5 gift card — which you could say reduced the price of the Swiffer WetJet to $13.99. So, I put back the Clorox Ready Mop cleanser and pads and grabbed a starter kit — in red!
I set up the mop right after I bought it, but I didn’t bother to put batteries in it until tonight. I did a quick spot-clean in the area around my kitchen sink, but I want to mop my entire kitchen and both bathrooms at least twice before I write up a full review.
The Kenmore Select Seal-n-Save was a Christmas gift from my husband. I’ve been in love with it ever since I wrote about getting it, and now I’ve finally returned to write about my experience with it!
The Kenmore Select Seal-n-Save is a vacuum sealer that stores and cuts rolls right inside of it. It’s the best thing since sliced bread and unlocked phones. There’s an optional port that you can connect specialty containers and lids to as well (I have a lid that came with the sealer, but no jar to put it on? I’m not even sure what jars the lid would fit!). Cutting and sealing bags is a cinch, thanks to the included cutter that you simply slide from one side to the other. Sealing is as easy as placing the bag between the sealing strips, closing the lid, securing the lid and pressing seal. Vacuuming & sealing is just as easy, though you can also specify sealing speed (handy if you’re sealing cookies that you’d like to seal slowly so as to prevent crumbling; wetter foods and soups should be sealed fast so that they don’t leak!) as well as the food type. And if the vacuuming process seems to be taking too long, simply hit the seal button to override it and get the job done.
I have used my Kenmore Select Seal-n-Save to vacuum seal approximately ten pounds worth of a variety of meats, with each sealed portion being no more than half of a pound worth. It has worked flawlessly, without any of the issues or odd quirks that my previous vacuum sealer threw at me randomly. I would definitely recommend this machine to anyone looking for a vacuum sealer!
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Last summer my mom proudly came over to my house showing off the Sport Pet pop open kennel she bought for her dog, Molly. For the record — and in a moment you’ll see why this is worth mentioning — Molly is a four and a half pound Yorkshire Terrier.
So anyway, my mom was excited about the Sport Pet pop open kennel, because it’s a portable mesh & nylon kennel that quickly pops open, then folds flat when not in use. I doubt the thing weighs more than a pound, so it’s very easy to toss around or put away for storage. Her intention was to use it for Molly when she was at my house and needed to be crated (Molly had and still has issues with being housebroken, so understandably I didn’t want her to have free run of my house), or when they were out somewhere and Molly needed a quiet place to retreat to.
Here’s why I felt it was worth mentioning that Molly is a four and a half pound Yorkshire terrier with the strength of, oh I don’t know, a hamster:
You’re looking at a hole that was clawed and/or chewed into the bottom corner of the Sport Pet pop open kennel. I think it’s ridiculous that a kennel advertised to safely crate dogs up to 20 lbs. or more wasn’t able to stand up to a four and a half pound toy breed dog for more than a half an hour.
And for the record, I fully intend on writing to Sport Pet to see what kind of guarantee they offer on the product, and if they’ll be willing to refund or replace it.
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This Friday and Saturday Old Navy is offering 30% off on EVERYTHING (but gift cards)! New fashions, current favorites, sports apparel, something dressy, clothes for the ladies, clothes for the fellas… it all goes! So if you want to get ready for the upcoming spring season, or pick out something sassy and cute for Valentine’s Day, check out Old Navy this Friday and Saturday — their 2-Day Super Sale! — and enjoy a nice 30% discount on everything in the store!
I’ve now had a few days to try out o.b. Tampons, and I think I’m in love. As I mentioned, I’ve been dealing with applicator issues with my previous preferred choice of tampons, Tampax Pearl. And after a point I wondered why I’m buying tampons with applicators that don’t always work. If I’m going to be using my fingers to insert a tampon sans its applicator, why should I buy the applicator tampons to begin with? Hence the switch to o.b. tampons.
So… o.b. tampons. As far as tampons go, they’re certainly comfortable. I picked up a multi-pack, which contains regulars, regulars and super-pluses. I’ve been using the supers, but switched to a regular this evening, and they’re both quite comfortable. As far as insertion goes, it’s just a matter of wriggling the firmly-attached string around to create a small indentation to place the tip of my index finger in. You use your thumb and middle finger to help guide the tampon in and into the right position and at the proper angle (aim towards your spine, in case you don’t know!), and then your firmly-planted index finger to push the tampon in to a comfortable spot. It’s really not as messy as you might think it would be, though I obviously wash my hands afterward.
Absorption-wise, I’d go so far as to say that o.b. tampons even have Tampax beat.
Psst… don’t they look like bullets?
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I know this is a very specific type of post, but seeing as how the HP dv6 and HP dv7 are both fairly popular laptops (at my local Panera Bread alone I have run into the same two HP dv7 people on two different occasions each!), I thought I’d share a solution I ran across tonight.
Basically, the HP dv6 and HP dv7 feature a row of “quickplay” buttons on the horizontal surface of the laptop. These buttons control volume (including mute) and audio/video playback: previous, play/pause, forward and stop. By default they work with Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player. They also work with iTunes — so long as iTunes is the active window selected on the desktop. But if iTunes is minimized to your system tray, the buttons don’t do squat. This is a pain if you’re like me and using Google Chrome, which as of the date of this post have an extension similar to FoxyTunes; or if you’re just busy doing other crap and don’t have iTunes open. But relax: you can stop popping open iTunes every single time you want to skip to another song or pause what you’re listening to. Here’s what you need to do:
1) Download this file (it’s virus-free, I promise — it’s on my laptop as I type this!)
2) Make sure iTunes isn’t running
3) Place the file you just downloaded into C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes Plug-ins, where username is your Windows account name. Note: Depending on your OS version (I am using Windows 7), this path may not be exact. But you do want that Roaming folder (and thus the subsequent sub-folders) to be your starting point!
4) Start iTunes, minimize it, and give your quickplay buttons a whirl. They should work like a charm! 
