December 22, 2006
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What's up with Target?? and other "HOT" issues.
I need new jeans. I put on my old jeans yesterday and realized I can pull them down over my hips with them zipped and buttoned. When that happens to my girls - that's when I know their pants are too big for them. So it's just gotta be true for me too. Besides, they were so bagging they were an honest-to-goodness trip hazard!
Yesterday, we went to the Dentist and was killing time before we went to the Chiropractor. I suggested we go to Target to look for some last minute gifts for Daddy and get me some jeans. So we hit the women's section first so I can look for jeans. I find all kinds of jeans, but they are all medium or long in length. Well my inseam is about 30" on a really good day - so I ask an employee where are all the petite's. She says "Target does not carry petites". I'm thinking she doesn't understand what petite means -- I know I didn't for a very long time -- and she was maybe 18-20. As she is looking at Stormy I tell her it's not small sizes, but shorter length. She sticks to her guns and says "Target does not carry them -- I just hem mine up". WHAT??? Does Target not know they are missing a huge part of the market? I just couldn't believe it. I still don't. Later today, they WILL be getting a letter from me. So there.
Well I get over to the men's department, but by this time we were all tired of being in the store, but I did see they sell the men's jeans by size (??X30). I no longer had the heart to make the girls wait while I figured out what jeans fit. So we left Target jeanless.
Still needing to kill time we came across a thrift store. I found a great pair of jeans -- looking brand new for $2.99. They fit perfectly. SCORE! Okay, they are really a little bit long, but for $3 I'm willing to take the time and hem them up. The thought of spending $20 + for jeans and then having to take additional time to hem them up just kills me!
Am I alone here??
When I went for the stress test last week and talking with my cardiologist about my "accidental" cholesterol test. We decided to try a drug called Niaspan to raise the HDL (the good cholesterol). It's a slow release Niacin (vitamin B3). Since it is a huge does --500mg-- there are some side effects associated with it. One is called flushing. When the Dr. described it to me it sounded kind of like a hot flash -- at worst. (You women know what I mean when I say hot flash!) Reading the literature also made me think it was like a hot flash. You know, hot around the neck and face area. So, I've been taking the meds for a week now and no reactions. I thought perhaps, the possible side effects are exaggerated as usual.
Have you ever watched one of those shows about spontaneous human combustion? Well this morning at about 3:00 a.m. I woke up and felt like I was on FIRE. I jumped up out of bed, so that I wouldn't catch the whole house on fire!! Holy Hell! From my ears down to my thighs was on fire! Or at least it felt like it. I was relieved once I got to the bathroom to see that I was indeed NOT on fire. That my skin was not melting off my body. And that I was gonna be okay. The whole "flushing" lasted less than 5 minutes, but what a horrible sensation. And of course I just used the last of the samples a couple of days ago and purchased a 34 day supply of those suckers! (I don't know why they gave me 34 days). And they ain't cheap!
Okay, I've reread what not to do before taking Niaspan and perhaps it IS my fault that I felt like I was going to combust. I had a cup of hot tea before I took the meds. Well, I won't be doing that again. Drinking hot drinks causes vasodilation. Vasodilation is when the tiny capillaries that are near the surface of the skin open up wider. Niaspan apparently also does this.
Lesson learned. Goodbye camomile tea before bed.
12/23/06 EDITED to add: It must have indeed been the hot tea. No Human Combustion happenings last night! Yippee!!
Comments (8)
I can never find jeans that are short enough at Target, and I don't even wear petites. The "average" size is just a bit too long. Somebody told me that they're designed to wear with heels, but I only wear heels about once every 3 years.
Try JCPenneys. They seem to still carry a wider variety of sizes and styles.
I do love thrift store jeans when I find them. I just got 1 shirt and 3 great sweaters at Goodwill for $17 total.
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I can't ever buy jeans off the rack that fit. To get the hips big enough, the waist is always way too big, so I have to alter them every time. Sounds like you had a hot flash. I'm going to have to go look up "Vasodilation" now. Have a very merry Christmas
Lee makes all their sizes in Short. I love Lee. Lee loves women. :wave:
I can so relate to your search for petite pants! I, too, have been to stores that make it sound like "petite" is some strange alien word. I've settled mostly on Bongo for jeans, but almost always have to get them through mail order from a place in Florida called Bealle's I think.
I needed some work slacks and luckily found some (although still very few) at JC Penney's and Chadwick's.
Good luck!
And Happy New Year!
I missed this entry somehow- and you know... I don't think I've ever found jeans at Target for me but I didn't wonder about it. I know I can get Levi's at Walmart for me, I know of all places but they fit -length AND waist- and I can get them at Fred Meyer's... do you have that store? Try shopping all the way over here where in our exchange (that's our department store) all petite people must have the taste of little old women. It's a sad time for me!
YAY on needing smaller pants tho!!!!!
I'm 4 foot 10 and a half, with an inseam of 27 inches if I'm lucky! First thing I did when we moved to OKC was to find a clothes alteration place. Sometimes I can get lucky and kids or juniors sizes will fit, but heck I'm in my 30s!
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