Or a typical day in the life of Annie...
So the epic battle of WeeBee vs. toddler bed continues. He likes the idea of the bed. He loves to jump into it and get tucked in. He just doesn't believe in staying there. The problem is, he doesn't want to be held until he falls asleep either. I've been spoiled by having him in the crib - nine days out of ten I could put him in there after a bedtime story and he'd fall asleep on his own. Now he wants to pull out his toys, play with the door, read story books in the dark, and knock on the wall. I'm guessing that if I walk him back into his room enough times he'll eventually get bored, but then again, who knows.
On to more exciting things...I thought I set my dishwasher on fire today! I had finished loading it up with the breakfast dishes and turned it on this morning as usual. A little while later I went back into the kitchen and I thought I could smell something odd. (Contrary to what this blog implies so far, my house does not always smell funky!) At first I thought it was rotten food, which didn't make sense as I had taken the garbage out that morning. Then it started to smell more like something burning, but I didn't have any appliances on besides the dishwasher. Naturally I started having visions of opening it up to find melted plastic all over the place, even though I hadn't put anything out of the ordinary in there.
As it had reached the dry setting by this point, and there wasn't actually any smoke spewing out, I decided to go ahead and open it. Everything looked normal, but the burnt smell was definitely coming from there. Of course, as I'm trying to get a better look, WeeBee keeps trying to pull out the rack and grab utensils and just generally confuse matters further. Finally, I discovered the culprit - a piece of fish skin.
I'm not an authority on dishwasher parts, but this particular model has a coil that runs along the base - I'm assuming it must release heat for the dry setting. The other night we had fish for dinner, and when I had stacked the plates a piece of fish skin must have gotten stuck on the bottom side of one of them. When I loaded the dishwasher I never noticed it was still there, and at some point it fell onto this coil. Fast forward to the dry setting, when the coil starts to heat up, and you have recooked fish skin! Which, in case you were wondering, smells even worse than slow-cooked kidney beans. I got as much of it off as I could, but I'm going to have to take another look later - it was rather difficult to do while WeeBee was investigating.
On a good note, I figured out how to get most of the stains off my coffee pot, just by using salt! After three and a half years, no matter how much I washed it with soap and water, it still looked sort of grungy. I had looked online for ideas, but everything seemed either way to time consuming or I had tried it already. Then I remembered hearing that you could get tea stains out of a mug by using salt, and although I couldn't remember the exact details, I figured it was worth seeing if the same worked with coffee. I sprinkled salt on the bottom of the pot, ran 10 cups of hot water through the machine, and let it sit there until it was cool enough for me to handle. Then I poured about half the water out, added a little more salt, and set to work with a regular kitchen sponge. Two minutes later, I had a sparkly coffee pot again! There are one or two spots that I think are beyond all hope, but other than that, it looks brand new. So at least one thing went right today. :)
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