I started this post over a week ago and due to family illness, a birthday, and a blizzard that crippled the region, I was forced to set aside blogging and sewing.
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Norah had to stay home from school for a few days because she came down with a gastrointestinal virus – AGAIN. This is the second occurence of this vile illness that we have experienced in the span of two weeks. Apparently, parents are sending their kids back to school too soon. The problem is so bad that the school nurse sent email instructions on proper hand washing, hygiene and guidelines for returning kids to school after an illness.
While cruising the internet for color pages to print for Norah [yes, I am a brilliant and perfect parent who never lets her child consume simple sugars or watch television], I came across an ad for dishwasher detergent with a link that promised to provide techniques for proper dishwasher loading. Well, WHOA! Hold.The.Phone. [There are some who believe that my dishwasher-loading-skills are sub par.] So, what a treat to stumble upon these instructions, and better yet, they included: *wait… for… it…* . . . an illustrated diagram! I was beginning to feel things were really turning around for me.
The instructions were very detailed yet succinct; laying out each step so that should you fall off the face of the earth and lose all domestic capacity, you could jump right back into dishwasher loading and not skip a beat. They were also very positive and reassuring, never using “you” statements to point out your loading flaws, which I found very comforting. Instead, they soothingly relayed what damage your mislaid dishes could pose to the energy efficiency of the dishwasher, your priceless Tupperware or, God forbid, THE environment. The instructions even went as far as to advise not to put forks and knives handle-down in the utensil basket, in order to prevent any unintended impalement during loading. Good to know. Not long after I’d settled into the soothing guidance of each step, I soon realized that these are the exact procedures I use for loading! Okay, well, most of them.
I was speaking to a client on the telephone the other day and she kept telling me: “Keep it simplestupid. Just keep it simplestupid.” She wasn’t calling me stupid [which is what I keep telling myself], but providing instruction regarding the work she requested. It took every bit of restraint for me not to remind her that she was requesting this from a law firm.
Gotta go – time to take Norah’s temperature and heat up some canned soup. If I have time, I’m going to unload the dishwasher!
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