reflecting on my day

7:45 am - dragged my tired bod out of bed.

8:30 am - as driving to church, i was cold, wishing i'd had the time to eat a warm brekkie before leaving.... but a red light intervened, and God miraculously made tim hortons unnatturally DESERTED, and i went through in less than a minute, i'm sure!....

8:40- get to church for practice 10 minutes late.....

9:00 - buzzing on my coffee !!!!!!!!

11:30ish - todays message was awesome....

2:00ish - stopped in at wallyworld to wish tan a HAPPY BURPDAY!!!!!!!

.... a quiet afternoon.... visited with tan and her friend teri for a coupla hours.... came home.....

.... and here is where my day got....er.... stuck.

i put a can of soup in a small pot on the stove, one of the 'waterless' pots (whatever that means?!) i got from mom's stuff... turned on some music in the living room..... sat down on the couch to play sudoku for a few minutes while i waited for dindin..... and completely forgot about it.

after i don't know how long, i smelled a wonderful aroma and thought, who's cooking? ME, DUH!!!!!! *whack* run into the kitchen to see the pot wonderfully bubbling over, all over the stove, from under edges of the lid..... so i turn off the heat, move the pot to another burner (it was definately cooked!) and cleaned up... kinda. then i got out a soup bowl, took the pot to the sink, and went to lift the lid, but.... it was STUCK. totally immovable. i tried with my hands to pry the lid off the hot pot, thought maybe i should protect myself, and got a towel to cover any splatter when it opened.... reamed on it over and over again, with all me muscly muscles, and NOTHING! not even a micrometer of movement!!!!!

[.... and i wonder why i don't cook often? even when i'm hungry, i'm not hungry enough to remind me that i need to eat, and hey, i gots me some food on the stove......potentially a disaster in the making, lol! (i've been known to forget a fully cooked tv dinner in the microwave - for hours! - before i remember to eat again! 'hey, i'm hungry, i'll put a dinner in the nuker... hey, where's that 'penne pollo' dinner, gone, it was here last time i looked? ok, i'll have rigatoni alfredo instead..... go to put it in the microwave, and there is the awol penne pollo....)!!!!]

anyhoo, pot lid cemented on, i called tanya, to see if her or her chef hub would have any ideas.... tanya said try a knife - didn't work. bill said to twist and pull... nope. dagnabbit!

finally i have a brain wave.... maybe it's not 'burnt on' stuck, but 'vacuum' stuck.... so i put the pot on the stove again..... tried the lid every few seconds. and after a couple of minutes, there was enough steam pressure to 'unvac' the lid, and i had a burnt smelling soup for dinner.

it tasted good, tho! :D

but the adventure wore me out, and i lazed around for a coupla hours instead of packing.

then i finally did something i intended to do all winter, cut down the felt lining of my winter boots. fini! accomplishment!!!! ....but now i have felt bits all over my kitchen floor. gee.....

....so to run away from the mess, i gathered and carried upstairs the laundry that has been sitting on my kitchen table for about four days - ('i can accomplish that, even if i don't accomplish cleaning up my mess yet....') - thinking i would start dinging out my closet, and actually get on with packing. or at least make packing easier.....

i take one look at my closet, confusication sets in, and i retreat to reading blogs, and finally posting. relatively longwindedly.

the life of a single gal, eh?

what a day.