Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Accomplished so far

  • Laundry (half done and still going)
  • Ironing (put on hold--sorry Gremhog, I would have totally taken you up on your offer but the iron has a problem.  The ironing board has a little holder for the iron with some little rubber dots the iron rests on.  Over time the rubber has left a small residue on the iron.  It's leaving marks on my white sheets and I can't get it off the iron.  I've tried scrubbing, acetone, hand sanitizer--for the alcohol, it's all I could find--anyway, does anyone know how to clean that off?  AND, don't worry, I never iron bedding but some of the little boys pillow cases have some quilted/embroidered animals on them and won't lay flat after washing and I pulled the bed skirt off the guest bed to wash it finally.  It's from my college days and has some battenburg (sp?) lace on the bottom, you know that stuff crumples like a beast in the wash.  That's what I need to iron.)
  • Will to the doctor--just a virus, nothing to do but wait it out.  
  • Mailed the rebate cards
  • Finished the final grouting--and here I have to just interject, I had a BRILLIANT moment last night.  I only had to grout a small seam where the tile on a horizontal surface met the tile on a vertical surface.  I didn't want grout anyplace else so I completely taped off all surrounding areas and then, here's the genius, mixed the grout, stuffed it in a ziplock bag, snipped off a tiny corner, and squeezed it out like frosting.  It worked like a dream with very minimal clean up.  I love it when I'm smart.
  • Blogged :)
Now I'm off to pick up the dry cleaning (but thanks Bridget, I'm finding out about the home pick-up), buy the last hardware to hang the drapes, return some items, get a few decorations for my newly finished bathroom, and hopefully find little Moo some pajamas.  Gotta go. . .

4 comments:

Christie said...

Thank you for not ironing the sheets. EVER.

I think you should use that dirty iron as an excuse to only dry clean everything. Say you don't have an iron and so you can't do it.

Annie said...

You're the little engine mom that could! I have a list but I've been ignoring it for the last day or two.

Bridget said...

I like reading that you accomplished something. Makes me feel like maybe there is some value to my day. Even though I am home with a sick child and have done absolutely nothing.

Susan said...

Buy a new iron. I LOVE new irons. Want me to pick one out for you? and why would you dry clean things that can be washed? I don't get it.

GooGone?

IronGone would be better and then get the new Iron.