stuff done: Friday-Sunday
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edenfalling1. Paid my November rent.
2. Bought groceries, including another batch of Halloween candy. I still don't think I have enough.
3. Boiled fourteen eggs. (I have added a hard boiled egg to my standard breakfast of toaster waffles, applesauce, and black tea -- the meal now contains fruit, carbs, protein, and caffeine, which I think is a pretty solid start to a day.)
4. Did an hour of final prep and set-up for the community dinner and music night the youth group cohosted with the church music committee. Once the dinner was on solid footing, I made my excuses and headed home because I was not really feeling the people thing on Friday.
5. Called my parents to check in. They were about halfway between NJ and Dartmouth, where they were going to watch the Dartmouth homecoming football game. This is not as utterly random as it sounds! You see, my cousin Ben is now a freshman at Dartmouth, and he plays football. (JV, not varsity, but still. I think he might have some kind of athletic scholarship?) So my parents figured they'd go and show support, and get in a bit of family visiting time as well since Uncle Charles and Aunt Ji-lan were obviously also in Dartmouth for the weekend.
6. Extensively cleaned my stove. I started by going after the drip pan around the back left burner (which has been a problem for a while, because it took me a couple years to realize my cheap-ass teakettle leaks and I used to keep it filled with water while it sat permanently on that burner) and then it occurred to me that actually the whole top of the stove lifts up and I vaguely remembered the area underneath being so much of a disaster that the last time I checked on it I'd flinched back in horror and left the issue for another day.
Well, it was another day, and I checked again, and it was even more of a disaster than I'd remembered.
It is not a disaster anymore. I went after it with my vacuum cleaner's hose attachment, with steel wool and SoftScrub followed by a rag (three times), and then with the vacuum again to suck up the grit I'd knocked loose but hadn't been able to lift out with the rag. I wouldn't say it's really clean -- there were some patches of baked-on gunk I just could not loosen, not without spending another half hour scraping at them -- but it no longer makes me afraid for my life to turn my burners on. So that's nice. :)
7. Took my peppers back outside Saturday morning, since the weather was no longer awful.
8. Bought box wine.
9. Bought gas. (On my way home from the liquor store, I noticed that the Tops on Rt. 13 was selling gas 8 cents cheaper than the Tops on Triphammer Rd. And since my 10-cent per gallon loyalty discount applies at any Tops store... hey, you do the math. *grin*)
10. Facilitated the youth group on Sunday morning. Later emailed the church office manager about setting up a listserv for the youth group.
11. Made use of a Subway buy-one-get-one-free coupon to get lunch and dinner in a single transaction, on the last day the coupon in question was still valid. Occasionally I am good at logistics.
12. Prepped for Halloween. I don't know if I'll be able to leave the office early tomorrow, so I have arranged with Downstairs Neighbor S that I will leave some stuff in the foyer of the house, which she will place out on the porch around 5pm and/or when the first trick-or-treaters arrive. I mixed all my candy into a big wicker basket (which I usually use for collecting empty bottles to return for the bottle deposit) and made a little 'TAKE 1' sign with a picture of a jack-o-lantern on it, which I have taped to the back of a folding chair; the candy basket will sit on the chair seat.
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13. Changed my linens.
14. Applied a second coat of ScotchGard to my black dress boots, which will hopefully render them at least semi-waterproof.
15. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish and took the resulting compost out to the bin.
16. Repaired a mug whose handle broke when I dropped it about two weeks ago, and the lid to my casserole dish (which also broke when I dropped it two weeks ago; I was having a very clumsy couple days). The mug is perfectly functional again. The lid is... less so. The ceramic was very crumbly where it didn't have glaze to hold it together, so there's a noticeable missing wedge, and the pieces have very sharp edges.
If anybody knows a material I could use as filler, that would be awesome. It doesn't need to be oven-safe -- I only use the lid as a cover after I've baked stuff, either to keep it warm for serving or to protect the contents in the fridge -- but it does need to be waterproof and preferably mold-proof as well.
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[[link to Tumblr post A, for when the embedded images inevitably break]]
[[link to Tumblr post B, for when the embedded images inevitably break]]
2. Bought groceries, including another batch of Halloween candy. I still don't think I have enough.
3. Boiled fourteen eggs. (I have added a hard boiled egg to my standard breakfast of toaster waffles, applesauce, and black tea -- the meal now contains fruit, carbs, protein, and caffeine, which I think is a pretty solid start to a day.)
4. Did an hour of final prep and set-up for the community dinner and music night the youth group cohosted with the church music committee. Once the dinner was on solid footing, I made my excuses and headed home because I was not really feeling the people thing on Friday.
5. Called my parents to check in. They were about halfway between NJ and Dartmouth, where they were going to watch the Dartmouth homecoming football game. This is not as utterly random as it sounds! You see, my cousin Ben is now a freshman at Dartmouth, and he plays football. (JV, not varsity, but still. I think he might have some kind of athletic scholarship?) So my parents figured they'd go and show support, and get in a bit of family visiting time as well since Uncle Charles and Aunt Ji-lan were obviously also in Dartmouth for the weekend.
6. Extensively cleaned my stove. I started by going after the drip pan around the back left burner (which has been a problem for a while, because it took me a couple years to realize my cheap-ass teakettle leaks and I used to keep it filled with water while it sat permanently on that burner) and then it occurred to me that actually the whole top of the stove lifts up and I vaguely remembered the area underneath being so much of a disaster that the last time I checked on it I'd flinched back in horror and left the issue for another day.
Well, it was another day, and I checked again, and it was even more of a disaster than I'd remembered.
It is not a disaster anymore. I went after it with my vacuum cleaner's hose attachment, with steel wool and SoftScrub followed by a rag (three times), and then with the vacuum again to suck up the grit I'd knocked loose but hadn't been able to lift out with the rag. I wouldn't say it's really clean -- there were some patches of baked-on gunk I just could not loosen, not without spending another half hour scraping at them -- but it no longer makes me afraid for my life to turn my burners on. So that's nice. :)
7. Took my peppers back outside Saturday morning, since the weather was no longer awful.
8. Bought box wine.
9. Bought gas. (On my way home from the liquor store, I noticed that the Tops on Rt. 13 was selling gas 8 cents cheaper than the Tops on Triphammer Rd. And since my 10-cent per gallon loyalty discount applies at any Tops store... hey, you do the math. *grin*)
10. Facilitated the youth group on Sunday morning. Later emailed the church office manager about setting up a listserv for the youth group.
11. Made use of a Subway buy-one-get-one-free coupon to get lunch and dinner in a single transaction, on the last day the coupon in question was still valid. Occasionally I am good at logistics.
12. Prepped for Halloween. I don't know if I'll be able to leave the office early tomorrow, so I have arranged with Downstairs Neighbor S that I will leave some stuff in the foyer of the house, which she will place out on the porch around 5pm and/or when the first trick-or-treaters arrive. I mixed all my candy into a big wicker basket (which I usually use for collecting empty bottles to return for the bottle deposit) and made a little 'TAKE 1' sign with a picture of a jack-o-lantern on it, which I have taped to the back of a folding chair; the candy basket will sit on the chair seat.
. 13. Changed my linens.
14. Applied a second coat of ScotchGard to my black dress boots, which will hopefully render them at least semi-waterproof.
15. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish and took the resulting compost out to the bin.
16. Repaired a mug whose handle broke when I dropped it about two weeks ago, and the lid to my casserole dish (which also broke when I dropped it two weeks ago; I was having a very clumsy couple days). The mug is perfectly functional again. The lid is... less so. The ceramic was very crumbly where it didn't have glaze to hold it together, so there's a noticeable missing wedge, and the pieces have very sharp edges.
If anybody knows a material I could use as filler, that would be awesome. It doesn't need to be oven-safe -- I only use the lid as a cover after I've baked stuff, either to keep it warm for serving or to protect the contents in the fridge -- but it does need to be waterproof and preferably mold-proof as well.
. [[link to Tumblr post A, for when the embedded images inevitably break]]
[[link to Tumblr post B, for when the embedded images inevitably break]]
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Date: 2016-10-31 06:29 am (UTC)http://www.lakesidepottery.com/Pages/Repairing-restoring-ceramic-porcelain-china-pottery-lessons-tutorials.html
Would be this stuff but it's a local product:
http://www.selleys.com/adhesives/household-adhesive/task-specific/porcelain-repair/
Looks like any two part epoxy will do.
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Date: 2016-11-03 05:19 pm (UTC)