Happy St. Pat... Spring Cleaning Day!

Do you ever have those projects that aren't planned but stem from one tiny little mishap and change the direction of your entire weekend?  Since we moved into our home (in January 2011) the drawer under the stove has been slightly off the tracks.  Every time it is opened it falls crooked when it's closed again.  It's one of those things that drives you crazy at the time, but you quickly push it out of your mind because the stove is usually already turned on and hot and you need to get the skillet on it before your face burns off.

This weekend, after a full day of work, Tom had had enough of the drawer and pulled the entire thing out.  Unscrewed the hinges banged on a few sides and fixed it.  While the drawer was out we found the remaining macaroni noodles that had spilled a few months back after a late night of "spirits" and vacuumed them up, along with a disgusting amount of dog hair, a random cheese doodle, and some other questionably disgusting items found only under your stove/oven.  I then grabbed a bucket and sponge and washed the floor under the oven and around it's base.  What a nice feeling to know the underneath of your oven is nice and clean.  It will really make me sleep better at night...NOT!

 That same evening I needed to go to the store for eggs and ice.  Two items.  I ended up coming home with 3 bags of groceries and no ice.  Tom was annoyed to say the least as he had been waiting for the ice since I left and stormed out to go buy ice saying, "Tomorrow we are fixing the ice machine!"  Another little thing in our home that has never worked since we moved in.

So the next morning I woke up to the refrigerator pulled out to the middle of the kitchen and Tom telling me to see if water shoots out a tiny pipe.  This fix started the next round of macaroni noodle clean up, dog hair sweeping, and another round of sponge and bucket cleaning behind the refrigerator.  Then just as I thought everything was complete the water from the tiny pipe starting shooting water all over the freezer not just into the ice area.  We proceeded to pull everything out of the freezer give it a good rinsing off, clean the drawer bucket in the bathtub and organize the entire freezer.  By the time this ice machine project was complete we had a perfectly clean freezer, a bucket of ice, and a spotless area under and behind the refrigerator.

No dust bunnies here!

All the food from the freezer in the sink, and the freezer bucket clean!

With all the cleaning happening I'd forgotten to eat any breakfast and around 3pm was quite hungry.  With the kitchen torn apart I couldn't very well make anything to eat so I pulled a muscle milk out of the fridge and decided that would be good enough.  As I was drinking it I noticed this on the back of the bottle...

Although a donut sounded delicious the thought of crying myself to sleep sounded too depressing.

Lastly, remember this guy from the holidays???

He now has a forever home hanging on the wall of our garage.  He protects my car at night and watches over Tom while he tinkers on things (yes things because I'm never really quite sure what he is tinkering on).

Well I hope you all enjoyed your St. Patricks day more than the Spring Cleaning Day we had.

XO XO,

My Kitchen Is Cleaner Than Yours Is (for today at least) Molly

Tiny Morsels

I overslept today.  A simple sentence with many ramifications.  Oversleeping in my life equals waking up in a burst, running around with dogs chasing you because they think you are playing a game, sweating, 15 minutes of vigorous activity logged on Bodymedia, looking like crap for the entire day and a headache that can't be minimized by massive amounts of coffee.  Oversleeping basically ruins my entire day.  I called my mom on my way to work and told her I was pretty sure my outfit was illegal for church work.  Leggings with a shirt that I anticipated to be longer but really doesn't even cover my butt and boots.  It's like Julia Roberts in Pretty Women except I'm  not a prostitute or on Rodeo Drive.  Oh man, how I would love to be on Rodeo Drive right now rather than looking at more snow falling.

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Kim told me I was having a good bang day Sunday so I took a picture for all of you.  If this is what good looks like I don't want to see a picture of me on a regular or even a bad day!  YIKES!

I'm so serious about my bangs.

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Easter is coming and I couldn't be more excited.  We (Tom, Eric, Kim and myself) will be heading to good ole' Des Moines for some rootin' tootin' fun.  Yes tootin' will probably be a major source of the fun :)  My parents are very excited to have us and I am even more excited since I haven't seen them since Mexico.  Although my Mom would beg to differ and say she is MORE excited but really it's not a competition.  I'm also excited to see Ann who will be home for Easter.  But to be honest I'm a little worried that Ann and Kim are going to become besties and squeeze me out.  They have A LOT in common.

 

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I worked out everyday last week.  EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.  I logged my meals.  EVERY.STUPID.THING.I.ATE.  I gained a pound.  *#&^!&*#*  I think my body is in shock.  It's like where are all the jellybeans???  Dried coconut and peaches are not the same dammit!

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Last night I had a run in with a jalapeno.  I made Jalapeno Popper Chicken.  Everything was fine until I cleaned up.  Somehow I got it all over my left hand and it burned until I woke up this morning.  It was like the Alicia Keys Song "this girl is on fire" except it was "this hand is on fire!"  I once heard that milk helps if you eat something spicy so I poured the rest of our slightly expired milk on it and that helped for a bit.  I think Addie also accidentally ate a small piece that had fallen on the floor because she proceeded to drink 2 bowls of water and was still panting all night (this is my guess as to why she drank so much and was panting but it is not confirmed nor will it be).

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The title of this post is making me crave chocolate.  Doesn't the word morsel remind you of chocolate???  Or is this just my in-shock body talking again???  It also wants me to tell you about how we saw dark chocolate covered peeps at Wal-Greens and how I didn't buy them so to retaliate my body made me trip and fall outside.  Stupid chocolate peeps.

 

XO XO,

Setting my alarm tomorrow Molly

Trouble in the Bubble

You know those nights when you have something specific to do, but it's not until later and there is nothing to do before hand so you play a game?  Yeah we didn't either until a few nights ago.  We had plans but not until later and both of us were just sitting around so we decided to play a game.  We pulled out "Trouble" which Tom apparently used to dominate with his brothers, based upon his "special" whacking skills and continuous winning.  I could have cared less if I won.  I was more concerned as to why the weird guy from "The Big Bang Theory" was stuck inside a bubble on the cover of the box with a dog.

 

I feel like there's more than trouble in the bubble.  The dog looks like its thinking about attacking or just went to the bathroom and "Big Bang" guy looks like he just spit out the dice, which could be a serious chocking hazard.  Good thing there is a choking hazard warning.  Also this picture seems like false advertising.  I mean when I opened up my box and there was no guy or dog stuck in the pop-o-matic bubble most of my excitement flew out the window.  Don't get me wrong I played anyway, just not with quite as much enthusiasm.

XO XO,

Trouble in My Bubble

Where's Molly????

My mom sent me this picture recently.  Can you find me???

 Nope not the one that looks confused or the one with the creepy eyes.

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There I am!