Spic & Span

I initially intended to spend today outside doing some much needed yard work.  However when I saw what the temperature was going to be, I changed my plans.  Too hot for doing yard work!  Instead I did a lot of work inside.  Specifically-cleaning.  And boy, do I mean cleaning!  Peter had to run out and do some errands so I started with a deep scrub down of the kitchen.  All appliances, walls, cupboards, floor and windows included.  When Peter got back he joined in on the cleaning by attacking the bathroom.  I dusted the entire house and Peter followed with sweeping all the floors.  It feels really good to have everything clean.  I even did some laundry, changed the bedsheets, cleaned all the ceiling fans and managed to squeeze in a few episodes of "The Office" in between :)  Peter thinks I'm a little bit OCD about cleaning, but I just can't explain the feeling of having a nice clean house.  

T-fal has passed the test!

Tonight for dinner I made some yummy chicken lo mein with veggies.  It was pretty simple and tasted good so another successful recipe that I just made up haha.  I was also planning ahead and boiling enough chicken for tomorrow's dinner as well so that when I got home it'd be a quick 5 minute fix and dinner would be ready.  Well Peter and I came in to watch some episodes of "The Office" from our DVD collection and got completely enthralled in the show that we totally forgot about the extra chicken we had boiling.....until Peter smelled smoke and then I was like UH OH.  I asked him if he thought the stove was on and he said no we turned it off (referring to the burners used for tonight's mea-which were off).  We got into the kitchen and it was completely clouded with smoke.  All of the water in the 5 quart pot had cooked up and the chicken was burnt to the bottom.  We opened the door, turned on the fan to draw the smoke out, and then poured cold water on the pot.  To much of the surprise of both of us, the pot literally wiped clean.  All of the burned on chicken, chicken fat, water, etc. just wiped off!  I was worried at first because of how bad it looked, but after washing it out, you wouldn't even know this little incident happened!  I'm glad because I love my t-fal and use this pot all the time.  It's good to know that t-fal won't let me down haha.

Good News & Bad News

Good News: Today I got to sleep in and just relax a bit after waking up.

Bad News: I had a 9:15 AM dental appointment.  

Two hours later, I was done.  And it didn't hurt...at least not yet.  I'm glad I had a bite to eat when we stopped by our house on the way to work.  Peter had lunch and I just ate a little bit, still being very numbed up.  We also used my free milkshake coupon at Chick-fil-A the way to work so I had that.  About 20 minutes after arriving at work, I had a throbbing pain in my mouth where they had done the work and took ibuprofen right away.  The throbbing gave me a headache and what was supposed to be a short day felt like a long day.  The pain has subsided now, thankfully.  I'm just glad that I only have 3 more appointments and all of this work will be done!  I haven't had a whole lot of teeth worked on, it's just everything they do is 2 or 3 appointments for the same tooth.  So my next appointment will finish up these 2 teeth I had worked on today and then two more appointments for the last tooth and then I'll be on to only 6 month check ups!  I won't know what to do with myself.