Being underemployed is great, especially when the dishwasher decides that it has to go on strike. (Do you hear the scathing sarcasm??!?!? No, well that's ok cuz I don't think it really exists.)

Yes this AM the dishwasher ran for 2 hours and when I opened it was , the darn thing was a furnace and there was no water. Obivously no water had been in it since the soap was lying in a sad and helpless pile just below the door from which it entered.
This is what happens to plasticware left in a dishwasher/kiln.

Now my entire 3 hours of "free time" has been utterly consumed and the children will be getting off the bus shortly after I finish the clean up.

So I did not get to the store or get the house cleaned. There is always tomorrow. :^)

And then next week we have my mother-in-law arriving. Let's hope the dishwasher decides to hold on for a few more weeks.

Maybe the refridgerator will decide that it is ok to make ice again.

Someday we will cabinets that are affixed to the walls and such. That will make the dismantling of the kitchen to reach appliances much much more difficult.

Now if anyone needs a handyman on call.... don't call me... please

Ahhh and there go the neighbors to the bus stop. Ariverderci

*update* so the evening after dinner went like this....
rush to library to pick up books on how to raise crickets. 2 for me and 2 for ross. lars picked 4 different kind of books.
then to michael's for polyfill and a necklace that ross must have for school tomorrow for his plastic hands. turns out he doesn't need them for class just wants to wear them tomorrow. so now he has gold plastic bling with one red and one white plastic hand.
petsmart for cricket food. which prompted lars to inform our cashier that we have two pets a cat named pixie and a cricket who's name is jimmy b.. Our cashier then questioned me as to the veracity and number of pet cricket(s?) we have. I informed her that yes we have a cricket as a pet and it is only one because that one found it in a cricket "egg".

then to michael's 4 bags of polyfill, some iron-on velcro, a plastic necklace and then to wegman's for milk (again), kids toothpaste, sugar cookies and somethign else.

then home.
the day is over. i need to sleep.