A couple days ago I had to go pick my sister up from the airport. My sister is a very clean person so I had to clean out my car and give it a bath. It wasn't horrible but it could use it.
I first vacuumed out my car and I have not mastered the speed of vacuuming. I had to use 2 dollars. AND I moved the girls car seats and it was um ya gross. Nothing gooey or grimy just lots of crumbs.
We moved on to the do it yourself car wash! For two dollars I had four minutes to make my mini van beautiful! First the presoak, which after halfway through I decided I could get away with just doing this to wash my car. I decided to be good so I threw on the soap and then the foam brush. My girls loved the foam brush because there was tons of PINK to cover the car with.
While foaming the car I saw I only had a minute and a half. I put in another dollar, its all I had left in quarters. Now was time for the rinsing. I must be a perfectionist but those darn bubbles would not come off! I made it around to the front of my car and the sprayer turned off! I didn't hear any beeps! Stupid car wash, not warn me when I'm out of time. So I had to go get two more dollars just to turn it on.
I put in the two dollars for four more minutes. I went to grab the sprayer which I did not put back in its holster. I wasn't the smartest person for doing that. It had whipped itself around and underneath the van. I started to pull on it and it didn't move. I pulled harder and it whipped out and turned in circles making its way back under the van. It was like trying to catch a wild animal! I slowly worked my way up the hose as it kept spinning. I had to jump over the nozzle once or twice than I grabbed it! I came out fairly unscathed. I finished spraying off the van and saw I had more than two minutes. What was I going to do for two minutes! I turned it to the tire/engine setting and sprayed one tire then I said forget it and drove away. Now I have a clean car. HOORAY!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Hmmmm, sort of glad I moved.
things that have happened in my neighborhood since I moved.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=5832428
I also heard about a break-in in that neighborhood that involved two little girls.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=5832428
I also heard about a break-in in that neighborhood that involved two little girls.
My personal vendetta
Travis was going through our boxes in the garage and he said he found a casualty. I heard this news on the phone. My first reaction was " EW EW EW A MOUSE THROW THE BOX AWAY!!!" than I thought about it and asked what was in the box. It was the girls dresses I had been looking for since about a month after we moved all our stuff there. I took a breath and told him to save it and I'll go through it.
Well its been about two months now since that phone call. I finally got enough courage to go through the box. I opened it and found droppings but I prevailed. There were a couple dresses that the mouse had eaten but most of them survived. The top of the box was the dresses and I found where a lot of the clothes I had been looking for were. I pulled out a couple things and then I saw it. THE MOUSE!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!
I was outside and ran around the trailer five or six times squealing. I called Travis and he said he would take care of it when he came home. But then I would be thinking about that mouse ALL day. So I decided to take care of it myself. I walked back over to the box and looked at it then ran around some more squealing. (this is not my proudest moment, I thought I was braver). I found a caulk gun and decided to use that to move the mouse into the bag. I tried to shove it over. Its tail moved from me touching it so I round around the trailer some more, squealing.
After about five or six tries I finally got it in the bag and in the trash. Then I decided to toss the rest of the box. I couldn't handle it anymore. The dresses are what I cared about anyway. The funny thing is there was a small part of me that thought the mouse was cute because it was snuggled up in the clothes asleep. well dead.
Well its been about two months now since that phone call. I finally got enough courage to go through the box. I opened it and found droppings but I prevailed. There were a couple dresses that the mouse had eaten but most of them survived. The top of the box was the dresses and I found where a lot of the clothes I had been looking for were. I pulled out a couple things and then I saw it. THE MOUSE!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!
I was outside and ran around the trailer five or six times squealing. I called Travis and he said he would take care of it when he came home. But then I would be thinking about that mouse ALL day. So I decided to take care of it myself. I walked back over to the box and looked at it then ran around some more squealing. (this is not my proudest moment, I thought I was braver). I found a caulk gun and decided to use that to move the mouse into the bag. I tried to shove it over. Its tail moved from me touching it so I round around the trailer some more, squealing.
After about five or six tries I finally got it in the bag and in the trash. Then I decided to toss the rest of the box. I couldn't handle it anymore. The dresses are what I cared about anyway. The funny thing is there was a small part of me that thought the mouse was cute because it was snuggled up in the clothes asleep. well dead.
What's been hiding in your oven?
The appliances we have for the basement were previously used at my inlaws. They have been sitting in storage for about 4 years now I think. I was excited to finally be able to cook because I was tired of cereal and pb&j. I turned on the oven to preheat so I could cook my frozen lasagna (I know not much better).
It started to smell funny to me. I've never used a gas oven before so I went upstairs to ask my inlaws if they would come down and see if it smelled funny to them. They said it was fine. I thought they were crazy because as soon as they went upstairs the smell became A LOT worse. I really didn't want that smell to stick to my lasagna. I turned off the oven, opened ALL the windows and cooked the lasagna in the microwave.
I told Travis about my little endeavore and he decided to investigate. He found that a mouse had been living in the drawer underneath the oven! No, the mouse was not in there but there was a ton of droppings. He cleaned it out and let it run on 500 degrees for awhile. with all the windows open.
After all that I was still paranoid to use it so I bought some heavy duty oven cleaner. It made it look almost new! the scary thing is I don't know if that smell is engraved in my head or if it still does smell but I think I smell it still when I open the oven.
It started to smell funny to me. I've never used a gas oven before so I went upstairs to ask my inlaws if they would come down and see if it smelled funny to them. They said it was fine. I thought they were crazy because as soon as they went upstairs the smell became A LOT worse. I really didn't want that smell to stick to my lasagna. I turned off the oven, opened ALL the windows and cooked the lasagna in the microwave.
I told Travis about my little endeavore and he decided to investigate. He found that a mouse had been living in the drawer underneath the oven! No, the mouse was not in there but there was a ton of droppings. He cleaned it out and let it run on 500 degrees for awhile. with all the windows open.
After all that I was still paranoid to use it so I bought some heavy duty oven cleaner. It made it look almost new! the scary thing is I don't know if that smell is engraved in my head or if it still does smell but I think I smell it still when I open the oven.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Dress ups or things to come???
Shali and Savanna love to dress up in their costumes. 90% of them are Fairy costumes because Shali has been a fairy 3 years in a row now for Halloween.
The other day Shali had a friend over and they went straight for their dress ups. I was laughing so hard at what Shali came up with. She came out wearing the undershirt to one of her fairy costumes which has one strap broken. (I know I'm lazy for not fixing it but I hate to sew.) And for the bottom, it is one of her ice skating skirts. Flimsy and short short, well because you wear it ice skating. AND of course, the plastic heals. She looked like she was gloing clubbing.
She was very creative at coming up with another costume so everyone had one. Savanna likes to wear her supergirl costume. What she's holding in her hands is a little apron that she got for her birthday. She likes to wear it on top of her costume.
Their friend came out with a costume on backwards.
It reminds me of when Celine Dion wore a tux backwards to the oscars.
http://entimg.msn.com/i/gal/Undressed_Oscars2004/CelineDion3_350x435.jpg
But atleast she is modest.
The other day Shali had a friend over and they went straight for their dress ups. I was laughing so hard at what Shali came up with. She came out wearing the undershirt to one of her fairy costumes which has one strap broken. (I know I'm lazy for not fixing it but I hate to sew.) And for the bottom, it is one of her ice skating skirts. Flimsy and short short, well because you wear it ice skating. AND of course, the plastic heals. She looked like she was gloing clubbing.
She was very creative at coming up with another costume so everyone had one. Savanna likes to wear her supergirl costume. What she's holding in her hands is a little apron that she got for her birthday. She likes to wear it on top of her costume.
Their friend came out with a costume on backwards.
It reminds me of when Celine Dion wore a tux backwards to the oscars.
http://entimg.msn.com/i/gal/Undressed_Oscars2004/CelineDion3_350x435.jpg
But atleast she is modest.
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