Kitchen Appliances

With school just around the corner, 3 kids going to school this year, and a set of triplet babies to get ready, I decided we needed a new routine. Here is mine.long
5AM - Hubby wakes me up, puts a cup of coffee by me bed, and leaves for work. I turn the TV on and watch the news while I sip my coffee.

5:30AM - I get out of bed and into the shower.

5:45AM - Bella wakes up and gets ready

6AM - I dry my hair (it is a dry and brush style) and brush it. Then do my make-up (just a little), and get dressed)

6:30AM - I start breakfast

6:45 AM - I change and dress the babies that are up (usually all 3), put them in their highchairs and give them each a bottle.

7AM - Bella eats breakfast and Cami&Aidan wake up and go potty.

7:10 - Aidan and Cami have breakfast and Emmi&Nate have baby cereal.(Gabi doesn’t eat solids)

7:25AM - Bella grabs her stuff and stands by the door.

7:30AM - Bella’s ride arrives and she heads off to school. The twins finish eating, so do the triplets.

7:40 - C & A head upstairs to get dressed and brush their teeth. They brush their hair, make their beds, and put their dirty clothes in their hamper as well. I clean up the kitchen while the babies swing.

8AM - If the rooms are clean and the backpacks and them are ready, they may watch 10 minutes of educational TV or have 10 minutes of free play.

8:10AM - Structured play (blocks/coloring/etc)

8:20AM - C&A grab a milk box from the fridge and hop in the car with their backpacks. I get the triplets and their bags in the car.

8:30AM - We head out the door.

8:40AM - We arrive at pre-school. As the class mom, I go inside, help with any last minute needs, and I’m on my way by 9, when school starts. If we have any errands or somewhere to go, we do. Otherwise the triplets and I go home and go about our daily routine.

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2PM - the triplets and I head out to go get C&A

2:20PM - we get back home. C&A sit down at the table for a snack and small craft, the triplets are usually napping or swinging. I unpack lunch boxes and then go to sit with C&A. We talk about their day and go through their backpacks. All papers and assignments (they go to an advance pre-school, but just simple assignments like read this book) come out. Papers are signed and put back in their take-home folders. Assignments are done and put back in folder. Folder goes back in backpack and backpack goes up in room.

2:45 - Bella gets home and makes herself a snack, gives me papers to sign, and does homework.

3PM - Bella continues with homework and C&A go play. Then we go about our day.

4:30PM - Daddy gets home and I start dinner.

5:30Pm - Dinner is served.

6:30PM - After dinner chores are done and then play time.

7PM - The triplets get bathed and in pajamas, while C&A shower or bathe themselves (hubby checks in on them in the other bathrooms) .

7:30PM - C&A are in jammies. Then we grab their backpacks, make sure all papers and needed things for the next day are in. Bella does the same thing. Backpacks go by the door on hooks. If a jacket is needed that is hung up along with any hats or gloves that may be needed.

7:40PM - While hubby keeps the triplets happy, the other 3 kids and I go into the kitchen. They each pick out a veggie, a fruit, a main entree, a snack, and a little treat. The veggies are washed/cut up and then they put them in bags, same with the fruit. Most snacks are in individually packed, otherwise we put them in plastic bags. The main entree is prepared and put in a container. The treat is gotten ready. Refrigerated things go in the lunchbox/bag and in the fridge. Other things go on the counter. The kids then go to the pantry or fridge and pick a drink. Drink choices usually consist of small Propel, small Gatorade, milk box, juice box, or small bottle of juice. They take a small water bottle and out it in their backpack, then head up to their rooms.

8PM - All kids pick out an outfit for the next day, including shoes and accessories. The outfit is set out by their bed. While C&A brush their teeth, Bella takes the shoes downstairs and puts them by the backpacks.

8:10PM - C&A get a story in C’s room, then off to bed for the both of them.

8:20Pm - The triplets get one last bottle, new diapers, and off to bed.

Then, I do any cleaning that needs to be done and Bella, hubby, and I watch TV/talk until 9. Bella then goes to bed. I finish cleaning. Hubby and I are in bed by 10. he goes to sleep and I watch a little TV or read.

What’s your schedule. Sorry it’s long, I often write way to much.

We are looking at buying a fixer upper. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. A living area, dining area breakfast area, kitchen, entryway and finished basement. We wnat to fix it up and flip it over time and make some money. It is a foreclosure in a nice older neighborhood.nothing fancy. But the kitchen is a small corridor style kitchen. We were thinking it would be allright if we found a place to put some built ins in the breakfast room for cook books or something. And used granite counters and stainless steel appliances and real nice cabinets. What do you think.

I’ve never done a yardsale before. A friend and I are setting up at her house.her neighborhood is doing a community yard sale, and we have a prime spot, right on the main drag close to the entrance on the right hand side. Here are a few things I want to get rid of:
- a full set of dishes (not too expensive, every day set from Target).should i try selling as a set, or individually.
- a few wall pictures (again, from Pennys or something)
- picture frames
- books
- DVDs
- Never, or slightly, used Candles (Party Lite, Yankee)
- a floor lamp that still works
- Purses (from dept stores, not designer)
- Pots and Pans
- Kitchen ware (serving dishes, gadgets, etc)
- Suitcases

I think that’s most of it. Probalby some other small items too. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Also, should i price stuff individually. Or put stuff that i want to price the same together. The least time and effort is the best for me, LOL.

I have a brick wall in my kitchen (dark reddish brown brick), it’s a little over 3 feet wide and goes from top of my ceiling to bottom of the floor (little over 8ft tall). I’m looking for some decorating suggestions on what i can to do “dress it up”. One of my friend’s said i should hang a picture on it. It looks really cool, but at the same time I do feel i should do something with it. If anyone can give some suggestions, that would be great. I don’t know if this helps but it is a large kitchen, with black appliances, black rug on floor and wooden cabinets. Thanks.

Is the large “whale-tail” shaped object on the back of the ship a fashion or advertising piece, a stylized chimney/exhaust for the engines and/or kitchens & boilers, an observation tower, radio equipment, or what.
Yahscrew won’t let me reply or rate answers. I understand smoke stacks on old steam ships, and how many sailing vessels also have fossil fuel engines, even now.

Thanks for the responses and good luck to you.

Ohio Burger King Worker Takes Bath In Utility Sink

XENIA, Ohio - Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it has parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in the restaurant’s utility sink. The nearly four-minute video, which was posted Thursday on MySpace.com, shows the unidentified employee taking the bath to celebrate his birthday.

The worker, who refers to himself as “Mr. Unstable,” appears to be naked.

Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said two employees involved in the incident were fired and another quit. She declined to identify the employees or say whether the man who took the bath quit or was fired.

The sink is used to clean large pieces of equipment, said Greene Health Commissioner Mark McDonnell. Bacteria or viruses on the skin could have potentially contaminated equipment, but there have been no reports of any customers becoming ill.

McDonnell said he dispatched an inspector to the restaurant, but at that point the restaurant had sterilized the sink.

Miami-based Burger King, the nation’s No. 2 hamburger chain, said in a statement that it also disposed of all kitchen tools and utensils used in the incident and is retraining the staff in health and sanitation procedures.

Xenia is about 15 miles east of Dayton.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_fe_st/odd_fast_food_worker_bath;_ylt=AnYVOTbVh93uFfDNGNky6GntiBIF

My GF works in an office and every so often one of her colleagues will find it neccessary to email the whole office with a patronising ‘reminder’ to make sure the fridge is clean and the cutlery washed up. The emails are usually written in a style of moaning or complaining.

I run a successful retail store and if I found any of my employee’s wasting there time writing such pointless rubbish I would want to know why they haven’t got anything better to do.
If my staffroom gets messy, we all clear it up equally from time to time, we all know we’re as bad as each other.

Does any one else get sick of these ‘moral high ground’ employees who think it’s there job to reprimand people over such trivia.
Get a grip about Health and Safety.
No-ones going to have their arm severed or die painfully because a couple of cups haven’t been washed up.
I’m fed up of all this ‘health and safety’ nonsence. There is no rule in health and safety regulations that says cups must be washed up and cutlery dried.

Are you lot the type that think it’s dangerous to change a lightbulb at work.

Why aren’t you getting on with your job instead of poncing around typing up emails.

I would seriously discipline someone over it for wasting company time.
Do you know what you all have in common. You’re all female. It doesn’t surprise me you all pay as much importance to how clean the kitchen area is to how the business performs.

Personally I don’t care (and neither do my staff) if there is a whole sink full of washing up to do AS LONG AS WE ARE MAKING MONEY - THATS WHAT WE’RE THERE TO DO.
Mikar - IM GETTING REALLY FED UP - IM NOT SAYING ITS GOOD HAVE A DIRTY KITCHEN (IVE ALREADY SAID IN THE QUESTION THAT THE KITCHEN WHERE I WORK IS CLEAN - BUT WE DONT FEEL THE NEED TO WASTE OUR TIME SITTING DOWN AT THE COMPUTER WRITING EMAILS TO PATRONISE OTHER PEOPLE WITH - IF THE KITCHEN IS DIRTY ONE OF US WILL CLEAN IT UP WITHOUT COMPLAINING (MYSELF INCLUDED) I AM POINTING OUT THAT SOME MEMBERS OF STAFF AT MY GF OFFICE HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO -SHOULDN’T THEY BE GETTING ON WITH THEIR WORK.

My husband and I are getting ready to demo and remodel a kitchen that should be in the Smithsonian’s American History museum, and we’re trying to decide on appliances. We don’t have a lot of money to spend but we’ve found two brands that sound good. We’re stuck between GE and Whirlpool.Lowe’s and IKEA carry the Whirlpool appliances and they’re pretty comparable in price, but Home Depot and Sears carry GE. GE CleanSteel sounds interesting but is that line and/or brand any good. Any recommendations for which brand would be the better buy. We want to buy a set of appliances from the same line so they all match and look good together. Please help.

So, far I have this: [You don’t have to read all that. hahaha. I’m just showing you.]

Awe.
The clock had just turned 11 and I was finally opening my eyes. Dad normally wakes me up much earlier inventing new toys and gadgets but not today.
He had gone on his monthly 13 mile bike ride. He did this for no particular reason, just to make wind and visit as many junkyards as possible. As a matter of fact, visiting a junkyard was what inspired him to do this monthly bike ride every month. He said someone had thrown out a scale that was still stuck on 13 pounds and lying next to a bike.
When I woke, I took it upon myself to walk down to Edwin and receive a free breakfast consisting of two booberry muffins and a tall glass of milk. I waved to mom, who looked as if she was going to pass out from all the business, and left for my own journey. The journey back to my house.
Once there, I figured why not just be lazy the rest of the day and paint something. I went into my room and grabbed my paints, a fresh canvas, and water cup. The water was dirty from the last time I used them, so I wondered into the kitchen to clean it out. My father was standing there washing the dishes even though we had a dish washer and when I called out to him he seemed skittish about it. He had bags under his eyes and looked restless. I proceeded to lead him to his bed room assuming he was tired from his bike ride. He did manage to finish quite quickly. I laid him down, finished the dishes, and headed out for the backyard.
I felt a need for change, so I passed up the patio table and kept walking into the trees. I had always wondered what sort of nature dwelled in my backyard but had never gone to investigate it.
I was probably walking for a good ten minutes when I saw a old but rather peaceful looking tree house. It seemed sturdy but broken, painted but chipped, small but airy, peculiar yet not strange. I decided I would make a painting station there and climbed up. When I reached the top, the only thing I found inside was a teapot and dust.
I painted for 4 hours, and suddenly became very tired. I blew on the floor attempting not to become dusty myself and laid on the ground.
As soon as this happened a puff of dust flew in my face but it didn’t make me sneeze just momentarily disgusted. I started to doze of a little but decided I didn’t want to fall asleep in a dusty tree house. When my eyes opened everything was gone. All I heard as the sound of people’s voices, cars rolling by, and children laughing. A bubble popped on my forehead and I turned around looked up and saw the face of a girl standing before me. She smiled and said “Hi.”
Then and there, I realized I was no longer in the tree house, I was in a another city, town, world.
I chuckled then proceeded to faint.

But I can’t figure out how to add detail and where.
What are some tips to creating a longer story.

(c) Leah Moore.

I found out yesterday that I may have preeclampsia and I find out on Monday or Tuesday with all the testing they did if I do. I am 35 weeks along.

My problem is my husband. He leaves for a construction job at 5:30 am and gets home around 8 pm every night. I usually (about 4 out of 5 nights) have supper cooked and the house clean. I usually try to relax on the weekend because I watch our 21 month old daughter all day.

He never does anything around the house during the week, and I can understand with all the hours worked why. The ONLY thing I ask him to do is to clean up after himself and clear off the table to the kitchen after supper while I give our daughter a bath. He also puts her to bed every night because it’s the only thing he really gets to do with her on a daily basis. The thing is he DOES NOT do what I asked of him. He leaves his clothes EVERYWHERE, he leaves his dishes (including sharp knives) on the couch if he eats when our daughter is in bed, he piles the dishes ON the table with food still on all the plates and I’m quite tired of finding all the stuff I’ve organised all messed up. He doesn’t lay out his clothes the night before, he’d rather walk into the room about 5 times to find everything he needs and he makes his lunch at 5:30 when he’s sopposed to leave at 5:35 in the morning. Wouldn’t it make more sense to make it the night before. He claims he works hard.

On the weekends he goes into his ‘work area’ in the basement and fiddles with crap until HE’s done. Meanwhile I have to clean the cat litter out or it’d get done MAYBE once every 3 months. I also get to take the dog for walks because he’s to lazy to the the thing out. I don’t want the dog and it’s HIS dog. When he does clean, he throws everything into a box, or the sink and expects me to sort it all out. I find tools, nails and other odd assortment of junk that is easily accessable to our daughter.

3 times this week he has asked for help to make his lunch because he’s running late, meanwhile he’ll lay in bed for another 10 minutes after the alarm goes off. He gives himself 20 min to get his shit ready for work, shower and make a lunch.

Personally I’m getting VERY tired of cleaning up after him like another child. I tell him that I can’t do it being 35 weeks pregnant and that I can’t handle it. I get told that he works hard and so should I. I find taking care of our 21 month old easier than him. Also it takes me about an hour a day to clean all the crap that he doesn’t that he could do in a matter of minutes for himself. That hour a day could give me MORE time with our daughter.

When I do clean the house spotless and organized, he’s good for about a day then something slips. On the weekends he NEVER cleans anything, but will cook and leave me a pile of dishes to clean up. On top of that he doesn’t do diapers or spend time with our daughter. I’m starting to wonder if being a single parent would be easier.

Thanks for listening to me. :S
LOL it’s spotless because I clean after she goes to bed sometimes. It’s only like that until about 3 hours after she’s up and then it’s all downhill from there