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Archive for May 1st, 2008

What is your most dreaded thing to clean in your house?  For me, it’s the bathroom.  Second on that list, though, is the microwave.  I hate it.  While I cover most things when I microwave, NO ONE ELSE does, so my microwave is always a mess.  Because I have next to no strength in my arms anymore, it’s such a struggle to get it cleaned – it usually takes at least 15 minutes of scrubbing to get it clean.  Yes, I KNOW I should just do it daily, but I forget.  Another thing on that list is DISHES – hate doing dishes – but ya know, have to anyway. 

In any case, when I was notified that I’d won a prize in Miss Ann Thrope’s raffle that she threw in conjunction with raising money for Lisa, and then found out it was dish clothes and scrubby things, I was like “oh sure – something to make me wash dishes… loooovvvvelyyyyy” lol  Seriously. 

But then I got them in the mail yesterday.  The kids immediately took off with them and played with them most of the day (yes, I’m a cruel mom who doesn’t give her children toys – just weird household cleaning items in the hopes that they’ll clean something).  Hey, it was safe for the baby to play with them so it was a plus for me!

Today, however, I opened my microwave and realized that with my parents coming this weekend, I really needed to clean it or I’d hear the dreaded “Dawn Marie!” from my mother, along with her scornful face (yeah, I’ll pay for that), hands on hips, wanting to know if I was brought up in a barn.  SO, I went and grabbed the new scrubby thing, wet it and put some dish soap on it to see if I could get the worst stuff off first, before spraying the microwave down with some sort of cleaning solution.

Here’s what I found out.

THESE THINGS ARE MIRACLE WORKERS!  In 5 minutes – FIVE – I had my microwave clean from top to bottom.  FIVE MINUTES!  My arm had only started to get tired!  I didn’t have to use chemicals and it’s SPARKLING!  No scratches, either! 

Here they are, in all their really beautiful handyworked glory.  I am so not kidding when I say I ??LOVE?? these things!  Each scrubby thing came with a dishcloth, and those are getting worked out next when I go down to wash the dishes.  I know – you’re totally jealous, aren’t you?

Seriously, though – I don’t know how she made them, but they’re truly fantastic.  You need some.  You really do!  I’ll bet if you email her, she’ll be happy to sell you 2 or 200 They’re only a buck fitty.  I can’t believe I just wrote my first product review about a dish rag. But I really do love it!

Quote of the Day:
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
–Kahlil Gibran

Dancing with the Stars

It was no big surprise to me when Shannon Elizabeth got sent packing last night.  She just doesn’t HAVE a dancer body and no amount of padding was going to help that.  Her partner, Derek Hough (brother of 2x winner Julianna Hough) is an excellent choreographer, but he can’t help her shake hips she just doesn’t HAVE.

It sucks that Christian de la Fuente will need surgery to fix the ruptured tendon arm injury he incurred on Monday’s show – and I think he’s nuts to take the chance of making it worse just to stay on the show – but what do I know?  But is a mirror ball trophy really worth it?

Finally – Def Leppard? Really?  While I am a DF fan, do they REALLY mesh well with a ballroom dancing show?  Eh… not so much.

Big Brother 9

Adam Jasinski is a jerk.  He was a jerk throughout Big Brother 9, and to see him win the big money was a big disappointment.  His comments, early on in the show, cost CBS some sponsorship money and cost Adam his job.  I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he found out he’d lost the job.  Granted, $500k is a lot of money, but it’s not enough to retire on – so what’s he going to do now? LOL  What a dumbass.  And now he may be hedging on giving the $100k that he promised to donate to charity because when he promised it, he didn’t know he’d lost his job.  Jerk.

I’d hoped that the fan vote would give the $25k bonus to Sheila or Sharon.  They’re the only 2 that really deserved anything of the final 4.  Still, it went to James, the porn star, who probably won’t squander it on the crap that Adam & Ryan had planned to blow theirs on.

Survivor #609983

The only good news about this season is that Jeff Probst has signed up to do seasons 17 – 20 = yummy.  Otherwise, who cares?  They’ve changed so much about this show – the “luxuries” allowed, the same challenges repeated over and over – blah.