Jul 04 2010
Following God’s example
On the seventh day He rested, and since I was not feeling all that great, I decided to follow His example and spent as much time as possible in bed, curled up with a book.
However, no rest for the wicked, and some things did get done:
- Made pot roast for dinner. Got a whole new level of hate going for our slow cooker (Rival Smart crock pot). Whose bright idea was it to couple power level and timer together? Apparently, Smart means a choice of 4 hours on High, 6 hours on High, 8 hours on Low, or 10 hours on Low. If you want, say, 4 hours on Low, you are SoL. To add insult to injury, the Low temperature is actually pretty high, and if the cover is on tight (which is not as easy to accomplish as you think), whatever it is you are cooking starts bubbling. I felt like I had a cauldron, not a crock pot. The only solution to this is to carefully position the cover so that it is open a sliver, thus letting the extra heat escape. I am amazed the pot roast turned out at all. So, any suggestions for a better slow cooker?
- Just in case, figured out what I wanted to buy at IKEA, and how to get there from O’Hare (Google maps totally suck at giving good directions to it, we know that from bitter experience, so the figuring out took a while).
- Drove to Chicago to pick up Bill.
- Bill was feeling up to it, so we stopped at IKEA on the way back – made it there 15 minutes before the store closed. After some mad dashing around, got all the items we wanted to buy: a shelving unit and some boxes for the entrance, two packs of cups for the kids, hand rings to add to the collection of things which hang from the ceiling in the family room, and two sets of paper boxes to store kids’ artwork and other mementos (in “blue” and “flower”). Good thing we didn’t have a lot of time to spend there, because there is so much stuff in IKEA that we would like to have….
- Drove back to the Falls.
- Unpacked Bill’s suitcases and took them to the basement.
- Decided to do some laundry (not my brightest idea).
- While waiting for the laundry to get done, wrote another book review, for N.K. Jemisin’s “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.”.
And now laundry is all done, and it is time to go snuggle up to my husband and fall asleep :-)
6 Responses to “Following God’s example”
Glad the pot roast turned out well. You slow cooker doesn’t sound very useful. I have lots of recipes that want me to cook them for 6 hours on low, not 8 or 10.
Fun stuff at IKEA. I like those cups you bought.
Accomplishments for yesterday:
1. 1.5 loads of laundry (the second load just went into the dryer, so it only got washed yesterday). After two weeks of soaking, all but one of Beth’s shirts are now stain-free.
2. Played with the kids for 2 hours in the backyard. Even got daring enough to put on my swimsuit in case they got me wet (which they did).
3. Finished shopping list for Woodman’s
4. Printed coupons to go with aforementioned shopping list
5. Picked out new dressers since Leigh wants hers back.
Yay for the power of two-week-long soaking!
IKEA has lots of fun stuff. Want to go some weekend? :-)
I know they have lots of fun stuff. It’s just that I don’t really need any “stuff” right now. Like the cups, don’t need them. Eric’s big on not buying things we don’t need, so if I want them I’d have to pay for them by myself. I’d rather by my skirt and other bellydancing things that I want to get.
Eric has the right idea :-) We needed the cups because the boys use them all the time, and we did not have enough.
That’s how we ended up with so many sippy cups. Eventually I’ll probably have to buy more regular cups and I’ll be keeping IKEA in mind.