Gloomy Friday

What's a girl to do on Gloomy Good Friday?

*This* girl woke up with a sinus headache and congestion. Fun. Fun.

Looked out the window and what did I spy? Rain. More rain. *sigh*

After some meds, the headache became a dull roar and I decided to be productive. The area under the kitchen sink has been bothering me for a quite a while.


How much crap stuff.... What exactly was under there??? Well let's see....


Regular Flashlight - needed new batteries. I broke the flashlight when trying to change batteries. (Good goin, girl)

6-Volt Flashlight - actually works!

Cuttlebone

2 Bags of Bird Food

1 Container of Bird Food

Millet Sprays

2 Nectar Sugar Concentrate Packets - for hummingbirds

Dog Food

2 Fire Extinguishers - one was empty! Why was I keeping it???

Baby Shampoo

Dog Shampoo

Softscrub

Ceiling Fan Cleaner - Didn't even know I had this. Maybe I should try using it on my ceiling fans. What a novel idea!

Easy Off Oven Cleaner

Dish Soap

Cleaning Erasers

Mr Clean

PineSol

Lysol Disinfecting Spray

Resolve Spot Carpet Cleaner - not just one, but TWO!

Cascade Dishwasher Packets

Barkeepers Friend

Spray Bottle of Purple RIT dye - from last year's fabric dye-ing adventure

Miracle Grow Fertilizer

Renuzit Air Freshener

and lastly.... a HUGE container of matches.

How OLD are these??
I haven't worked at the Holiday Inn for 25 years, and it went out of business at least 10+ years ago. Do these matches even work?

Yep!
I guess I'll keep them.

With a little PineSol fumigation and re-allocation of items, and I ended up with a more spacious sink cabinet:


After a job well done, some lunch was in order. Some stir fry sounded good...


I just threw together a bunch of veggies I had in the fridge that needed to be used up. Not bad for a "throw together".

Finally.... Some stitching. Started the second mailart piece.

Another Four(th) and Potential Disaster Averted

5:00am - Crawl outta bed with the good intentions of getting my aerobic workout in before having to haul myself to work. Even put on my new exercise outfit (which btw, is size SMALL! Unbelievable.)

5:10am - Celeste insists that she needs to go outside for potty. *sigh* OK, if you must...

5:11am - I see it snowed last night. Another 1/4" on the driveway. (So much for the Fat Burning Pilates aerobic DVD.) No rest for the weary, eh Shove?

6:05am - Back in the house from shoveling... or rather, scraping the driveway. Shower and start getting ready for work.

If you're not familiar with my mode of operation... I'm a multi-tasker. I do various things (usually household chores) while getting ready for work. Today, while the flat iron was heating up, I decided to touch up my pedicure... in the living room, while watching the Today Show.

Left foot.... done. Right foot... Pinky toe done. *O-M-F-G!* Ack!! I knocked the nail polish bottle off the table. Red nail polish. It hit the carpet, bounced, splattered about 18" across the floor, and then spilled and made a puddle about the size of a baseball card... before I could grab it and stop anymore from coming out of the bottle.

Mottled white/gray/black berber carpet with a huge nail polish mess right where everyone could see it! Nail polish all over my hand from grabbing the bottle. My mind was racing: How do I get this cleaned up with the least amount of damage/mess??! My first instinct was to use nail polish remover and paper towels to blot up as much as possible. While doing that, names of carpet cleaning places ran though my head... Who could I call to clue me in on how to clean the carpet?! Needless to say, I was NOT a happy camper.

After I used all my nail polish remover, I grabbed Goo Gone and read the bottle. "Do not use on carpet. It may loosen the backing." I rationalized with the bottle: What's worse? Having to replace the carpet because of the big red mess... Or, having to replace the carpet because the backing came loose? Would it really matter if the backing came loose if the mess is in the middle of the floor? I took the gamble and used GG very sparingly with an old towel and rubbed and rubbed until every bit of polish was gone. The stuff cleaned it all! I was in disbelief!! It took a long time, but I couldn't tell that I'd spilled polish on it.

After work, I am going to use some Dawn dishwashing liquid on the area to clean up the oily residue from the GG. Then I'm going to shampoo the area. Hopefully, no one will be able to see what I did.

I did manage to get some polish on the front of the sofa and it wouldn't come out, even with the GG. So I don't know what to do about that.

7:50am - I left for work. What a way to start my day. LOL

My Newest Cleaning Buddy

After being on backorder for 3 months, it finally arrived. Btw, don't EVER order anything from i-kitchen.com! I had to call and call and call about my order. The last 3 times I called, I got the runaround as to when the item would be shipped. Each time they told me a week. Normally, I wouldn't care if the item was on backorder, but 1) They took my money out of paypal immediately, which meant they had my cash for 3 months! 2) They kept giving me the runaround as to when the item was actually being shipped.



Anyway, here it is... The Steamboy Steam Mop.

The water tank holds 3 cups of cold water. I used ONLY 1 3/4 c. to do my kitchen floor. No chemicals whatsoever. The floor was just as clean or cleaner than using a regular mop, and there was less time for the floor to dry.

After reading good reviews about steam mops and how well they clean, I was still a little skeptical, but I took the plunge anyway. I am clearly happy with how it works.

Here's what the cleaning pad looked like when I was done:

Nasty!!! It's made of the microfiber cloth and is machine washable. The mop came with two so while one is in the wash, I can be using the other. I may order a couple more, just to have on hand.