Comments on: How Do You Do The Things That You Do?

By: Dana~Are We There Yet

Dana~Are We There Yet — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:10:37 +0000

Okay. 277 comments? I’m clearly blogging about the wrong stuff. And also, since I feel compelled to comment, the crazy, it is catching.

1. Our household of 7 has two loads of laundry each day. So, in a way we’re always caught up in that the two prescribed loads get done each day. In another way, we’re never caught up in that there is always laundry in the hampers. Lookee there. A whole paragraph and I managed to not answer the question at all.

Moving on.

2. On the silverware, I prefer knives with handles up and other pieces with handles up. I also prefer wearing a size 6 and vacationing at George Clooney’s Italian villa. But, to quote philosopher Alan Jackson, here in the real world I’m happy if whoever’s doing the dishes manages to get the silverware IN the dishwasher and keep the Polly Pockets OUT.

3. Last night, I thawed 8 boneless, skinless chicken breasts and put them in my Pampered Crap..er..Chef stoneware deep dish baker. Then I mixed a can of golden mushroom soup, a pint of sour cream, an envelope of onion soup mix and about half a cup of cream and poured it over the chicken, covered it in foil and baked it. I called it Chicken Surprise, we ate it over noodles and nobody went to bed hungry. So, yeah, I wing it in the kitchen. Chicken. Wing it. I slay me.

One of these days you’re going to learn to close your comments before I get to clearing out my feed reader.

By: Nelson's Mama

Nelson's Mama — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:15:53 +0000

Getting caught up on my reading!

1. Laundry is always a work in progress…and I HATE it! I have a 17-year old that is worse that having a baby, if an item of clothing touches her body, it MUST be rewashed! Luckily she is becoming a laundry queen.

2. Silverware goes up and down because Martha Stewart SAYS SO!

3. I wing it in the kitchen a lot

By: LooneyJen

LooneyJen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:34:36 +0000

1. When my family decides that they want to be naked 24 hours a day, for the next 30 days, I will be caught up. Until then? I hide cookies in the laundry room.

2. Since I’m usually throwing my utensils into the dishwasher in stealth mode to prevent infiltration from the 13 month old or help cleaning from the dogs, it’s whatever way they land. Preference? I like them clean, I don’t care.

3. I tried to experiment once. I think we had to throw the pan away due to an overabundance of burnt on cheese. Just sayin’

By: Lori at The Davidson Den

Lori at The Davidson Den — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:47:08 +0000

1) Is this even POSSIBLE???
2) Handles down. Because, otherwise, the peanut butter- and avocado-smeared spoons (though NOT a combination of these) would never come clean.
3) I always begin with a recipe (because I have absolutely NO original ideas swimming around in my head) and sometimes customize it based on my mood and/or ingredients on hand.

By: Blogaroni and Dees

Blogaroni and Dees — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:13:56 +0000

1. Laundry is always an ongoing process for my family of five, which I’ve had to just concede to and be reluctantly OK with, but my guideline is that the hampers NEVER get too full that they don’t close completely. Really, though, I’m so OCD that I have to do at least a load a day. So rarely does the laundry get out of control. But I kind of dig laundry, truth be told, so it’s not a big “chore” for me so much as therapy. :0)

2. Handles go down on all of my silverware. It just seems like the service sides get cleaner when they’re up?

3. I cannot cook on the fly. Ever. I MUST have a recipe! Perhaps it’s the OCD I mentioned in #1? :0)