When servicing the hot water heater in your home, always remember to ensure the tank is COMPLETELY empty before unsealing the gasket around one of the heating elements.
Ensuring the tank is empty will prevent gallons of 140 degree water from gushing out all over your basement floor. And your bare hands and feet.
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Some people can’t stand the smell of coffee in the morning. I’m not one of those people. If I don’t have my coffee in the morning I become difficult to deal with. Sometimes I’ll drink coffee all day long if I feel drained enough. If I ever am fortunate enough to have my own office you can be sure this item will be somewhere on my desk. How cool is this? A desktop coffee maker!
It doesn’t use any of those silly unique single cup coffee packs, it just uses regular ground coffee! It comes with 2 mugs too so you can keep the caffeine going all day long. I can just imagine it now, no having to get up and go to the break room to get my fix all I have to do is flip the switch and wait a minute. Plus you get the added bonus of the lovely aroma filling your office.
It could even bring a few inquiries your way from fellow coworkers. =o) So what if you have to hit up the bathroom a little more often?
At $34 for the coffee maker and two black cups you can’t go wrong. Personal desktop coffee maker? Yes please.
Saturday evening after a very LARGE meal courtesy of Applebee’s Carside To-Go. Today is my father-in-law’s 51st birthday and to celebrate we went to visit and had dinner with them. I ate too much. Anyone who has seen any recent pictures of me knows that I do that frequently. I had some roasted turkey ciabatta sandwich and some boneless wing things. Too many of them. Haha. My father in law isn’t the big celebratory hulabaloo type person, though I do really think he enjoyed the company and the meal.
He does love to cook, and he uses only cast iron cookware and so as Christy and I were on our way back from Scranton last weekend, we ate breakfast at a Cracker Barrel somewhere in the middle of PA.
(Note to self: Learn to make chicken fried steak)
Browsing through their store, we found a small piece of cookware that could probably be used to make cornbread. (He makes really GOOD cornbread). So we got it. Along with some of those Chunky candybar thingies that I’ve never had and are very hard to find. (Cracker Barrel had them…go figure). Those are his favorite and I spotted them in the middle of a candy display in their store.
Tomorrow is party #2. Christy’s grandpa turns 80 and there’s apparently a huge bash at my inlaws for him. I’ve been requested to make something for the occasion since it’s been said I’m the ‘gourmet’ cook in the house. I’m not sure I deserve that title. If randomly throwing ingredients together and hoping it doesn burn yet cooks enough not to be raw defines ‘gourmet’ then ok, I’ll accept the title. Anyway, I’ve picked out what I want to make tomorrow morning and I’ll share the recipe if it turns out well.
We watched You, Me and Dupree tonight for our family movie night. First time I’ve ever seen it was actually funnier than I expected. Christy thought so too. Brae didn’t quite get all the humor but he laughed pretty much whenever we did.
Right now though, I’m stuffed and exhausted. I’m going to waste some more time in the world of Azeroth because, as you know, it’s my favorite place to be other than with my family. (I rhymed. w00t!).
I’m taking Christy to see Rascal Flatts up in Scranton this weekend partly to atone for a past ticket theiving transgression.
OK. I was a assface and stole tickets to the show years ago from her. She married me anyway, and now I’m trying to make up for it.
So why did I choose to take her to the lovely and exotic destination of Scranton, Pennsylvania? Dude, because it’s SCRANTON! Didn’t you ever watch Home Alone where the mom is trying to get back to Kevin and lands in Scranton and John Candy and his polka band drive her to Chicago? YEAH! SCRANTON!
Honestly though, it’s a little get away for us. We’re driving up Friday night, staying in a Comfort Suites, spending the day Saturday, seeing the concert that night and driving home late Sunday morning. I thought it would be nice for us to go away for a weekend, and compared to the Tweeter Center in Camden, Scranton should look like Vegas. Lol.
I’m excited. The only part I’m nervous about is the actual drive up there. Christy doesn’t do well in car trips. Or boat trips. Or trips period. She likes having her feet planted on the ground. It’s only a few hours. Maybe I can keep her distracted long enough to not notice she’s been in a car for 3 hours. =D
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