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Well, if you want to do the basement, or the garage, or the shed....

The bad news is that despite trying really, really hard to push the kitchen (dining and mudroom) floor into the basement, it wouldn't budge. The good news is that now I have no more physically demanding cleaning to do (hooray) (at least until spring), so I won't be too sore and exhausted to figure out this routine. Tomorrow is my day off from cleaning, so I'll see if I can't force myself to try out a few things and make a plan. I appreciate the nudge. My life is kinda weird right now - every day except Sunday feels like Saturday, and while I have a morning and evening routine that's working, it's difficult to motivate myself to do useful stuff (other than clean) in between. (Which is partly why I decided to start with cleaning - I'm happier in a clean, empty house - the cleaning has already improved my mood, but the emptying will have to wait until spring when I can have a yard sale or something.)

Mine is a drawer that is part of the unit - fits under the vast majority of the oven and will hold several pans.

Well, you might still be a slob, but spaghetti sauce does seem to have a way of traveling weird places.

Last I heard, one of these pennies had not been accounted for, thus, I always check all pennies I get, just in case whoever has it is too dumb to know it, and the last penny makes it into the wild. (No, I have no hope of it ever finding its way to me, but I still check.)

This could be your reward(s) for sticking to your weight-loss / exercise / nutrition plan(s). Maybe at a certain pre-set point you get to buy (some) of the materials, at another preset point you start construction, etc. Maybe you get to do a couple different ones if you meet certain goals? Just a thought. Nothing but support and good will from me (regardless of how long success takes).

Today's lesson is that that drawer under the stove is in fact easily removed, but if you remove it, you'll wish you hadn't.

This is excellent advice. Somehow spaghetti sauce always ends up in places you couldn't have imagined when you started eating.

This is a good reminder for all of us: I imagine all of us have reacted in ways other than how this scripture teaches. I appreciate the reminder to apply this principle broadly.

You should know by now I can't resist opportunities to be snarky1. Benefits of exercise: 1) You turn the heat down, so you save money (in winter). 2) You're too hot and sweaty to want to make or eat food, so you lose weight. 3) It's an excuse to turn the volume up until the windows rattle. (If making the windows rattle doesn't make you happy, you're listening to the wrong music.) 1I'm pretty sure the only thing I got in trouble for as a student was being snarky.

That. No one has any right to expect access to your home. If you don't want to talk to them, don't.

I'm thinking this is more a discovery, and that the life lesson is something about finding your people in the last place you'd think to look for them. Or maybe that one should search all cultures for metalheads before assuming they don't have any. So, where are you off to next? Nepal? Iran? Maybe Tahiti?

That made me laugh out loud.

Today's lesson: You can't hear the stove beep that it's up to temperature if the music is cranked up loud enough to rattle the windows. (When you realize this, it's wise to turn it (the music) down before the beep that indicates your food is done cooking.) Please feel free to share your lesson for the day - I'm sure we all have them, things you just have to experience yourself (at least a dozen times), things you plan to remember next time, things your parents never told you (or if they did, you didn't hear it because the music was too loud).

Hope floor scrubbing === calorie burning! (Or do calories from outside our normal dimensions not count?)

Is it so hard for you to comprehend that it's not about whether / how / what the world learns of sacred things, but of whether one will obey instructions from a prophet?

Irrelevant.

Not a stain - an unfortunate sequence of years which resulted in utter indifference toward the kitchen floor (it was just too much to deal with seriously). So now I'm cleaning years of dog & husband off the floor. Today's tools are making a quick job of it. I should finish scrubbing today and put a polish-like thing on it tomorrow and call it done. Sweet! 5x the ice cream!

Hanker is the newer of the two, by a century or so. I think we're going to need some new words to play with. Or you are. Once I'm done reading the latest round of new posts, I'm headed back into the kitchen. (No more dogs. Loved them to death, but no more dogs.)

This is also correct and the software supports it. I've never tried to see how many people I can add as companions, but "more than 3" appears to be correct - and I have companionships of 3, and one husband & wife companionship (perhaps it's the Elders who have this, or the ward, or something - really not sure exactly how to qualify that companionship - I entered them in the system, but he's an Elder, so...).

I looked up hankering and handkerchief and there's no relation - not that I really expected one - hankering is assumed to have come from "hang" in some way, which seems reasonable. I guess I'm off to the kitchen... Sigh.

And it's always bothered me that it was "neapolitan" not "neopolitan". But it hasn't bothered me much, because I don't actually like neapolitan ice cream. So really, if my hankering1 for ice cream were strong enough, I'd probably just go get a milk shake with bits of crushed up Heath bar in it. 12There's a word. Do you suppose it's related to handkerchief? And if so, hmmm. 2Apparently you can't superscript a superscript, but really, I much prefer superscripts to ever-increasing numbers of asterisks. I'm trying to help it break free of asterisks. I now have two options - round umpteen of scrubbing the kitchen floor, or going to look up the origins of "hankering" and "handkerchief". Guess which one comes in first. Go ahead, guess!

Best threadjack ever! (Except now I want ice cream. )

That option exists, including in the software (often, the Church software clarifies the rules, because the business rules have to boil down to 0s and 1s ). I think two of the things preventing this as the norm, at least for now, are the desire to include youth (I could see this resolved simply as the entire family ministering together), and the number of adult members without a spouse (more difficult to resolve without generating even more feelings of exclusion). Also, when women minister to women, the interaction is very different from when men minister to women (or really, from when a man is simply present), so there may be a net negative effect were the former eliminated. (No idea why there's never been a men ministering to men program - probably something innate to maleness.)

Not cool. Contrary to the current living prophet. I think I'll accept his interpretation, as quoted in the lesson.