I have always been a big fan of sandwiches. If i had time, i'd make one everyday for baon! And my love for delis also made my mind create super sandwiches of different hams and sausages in my head.
When you think about it, you practically spend as much time in your kitchen as you do your bedroom -- and it can get just as messy. Follow our easy plan to keep it looking more fab than frat-house.
Clean Weekly:
- Appliance faces: Use a mild cleaner or make a paste of baking soda and water to clean. Dissolve grease on the stovetop with a sponge soaked in white vinegar.
- Microwave: Soak the turntable in sudsy water while you wipe up interior splatters. Or try a steam clean: Fill a microwave-safe glass with 2 cups of water and either 1 teaspoon of vanilla or a few slices of lemon. Run on high for 5 minutes and wipe the sweet-smelling interior clean with a paper towel.
- Countertops: Spray on an all-purpose cleaner (or run disposable wipes over the surface) and let it sit 10 minutes.
- Sink: Pour down several quarts of boiling water to flush out grease. Follow with 1 cup of white vinegar and scrub the basin with baking soda.
- Floors: Wash tile or stone floors with 1 cup vinegar and 1 gallon of water. For icky grout, mix 1 Tbl. bleach and 2 cups warm water. Scrub with an old toothbrush.
Clean Monthly:
- Oven: If you don't have a self-clean oven, sprinkle salt on the residue while the oven is still warm. When it cools, scrape it up with a spatula and wipe clean with a cloth. Got stuck-on crud? Use a nylon scrubby sponge dipped in soapy hot water.
- Fridge: Wash the interior with a solution of baking soda and warm water, about 1/2 cup of baking soda for every gallon of water. Clean the drain pan and vacuum underneath the refrigerator.
- Garbage can: Hose it down with hot water; then spray with a disinfectant.
- Cabinets: Wipe them down with 1/2 cup white vinegar or a solution of 1/4 cup liquid oil soap and 1 gallon of warm water.
- Dishwasher: Run a complete cycle with an empty machine (just detergent) for a clean, deodorized space.
Fight back against the clutter with these ten simple tips. 1. Create a space just for your mail. Designate a spot and make sure there's a garbage can nearby so you can chuck all of the unwanted stuff. 2. Designate an inbox and outbox. These can be wall pockets, a leather box, or a pouch that hangs off a knob on the back door. Your outbox is for what goes out with you the next day. 3. Place a catch-all container near the door. Place your keys, sunglasses, parking pass, subway pass, etc. in this spot. They'll be easily reachable when you're heading out. 4. Have a main bin. You can put your bills, stamps, checkbook, and a pen inside, and place it on a bookshelf for easy access. Just make sure the lid is on when guests come by. 5. Get as many bills and statements online as you can. Download your credit card bills and bank statements and back them up on an external hard drive once a month to reduce the chance of identity theft. 6. Have mobile file boxes to keep your paperwork organized and handy. When mail comes in, either file it away or shred it. 7. Keep a paper shredder for safe disposal of paperwork with personal identification information. (You can get a good shredder for as cheap as $30.) 8. Deal with your mail on a regular basis. Don't get overwhelmed every month -- look at your schedule and pick one day a week to spend half an hour going through it. 9. Purge your files once a year. If you aren't sure about throwing away something, ask your accountant. The IRS has three years to audit you, so you can probably get rid of files older than that. 10. Designate a place for magazines and catalogs. This can be as pretty as it is practical. Forgo the sofa-side bin and go for a wall rack, your favorite mags can be affordable wall art, and more importantly -- contained!
We have bean meaning to change Taal's feeding bottles since Nov 2008. When it comes to personal things, i sometimes get too attched to it which makes it hard for me to let go. Especially when i have been using it for a time already. That's why even if i had issues with Playtex' nipples and the vent-aire seal, i still hanged on to it up until last weekend.
Sometimes i feel so down that it comes to a point that i question my commitment to our relationship. I become unsure if i will survive this "forever". Then I start to question what forever means. Our forever may mean years. or months.
The world does not owe me anything. So i should stop always feeling like it does.
Here are four biblical reasons not to worry from About.com Matthew 6:27-29 Worrying is destructive to us in many ways. It becomes a mental burden that can even cause us to grow physically sick. The energy that we spend worrying can be put to much better use in prayer. Here's a little formula to remember: Worry replaced by Prayer equals Trust. When we keep our eyes focused on God, we remember his love for us and we realize we truly have nothing to worry about. God has a wonderful plan for our lives, and part of that plan includes taking care of us. Even in the difficult times, when it seems like God doesn't care, we can put our trust in the Lord and focus on his kingdom. God will take care of our every need.Worry is an emotion in which a person feels anxious or concerned about a real or imagined issue, ranging from personal issues such as health or finances to broader issues such as environmental pollution and social or technological change. Most people experience short-lived episodes of worry in their lives without incident; indeed, a moderate amount of worrying may even have positive effects, if it prompts people to take precautions (e.g., fastening their seat belt or buying fire insurance) or avoid risky behaviours (e.g., promiscuous sexual relations or cliff diving). However, about one in four people, have chronic worry, an anxiety disorder which requires professional treatment. Chronic worry can cause heart attacks, high blood pressure, ulcers, gastrointestinal problems, muscular aches and pains, skin rashes, eczema, respiratory problems and asthma.[citation needed]
Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don't work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. (NLT)
Another opportunity to express my creative juices... The boss asked me to make an invitation for his daughter's birthday. Made a photomosaic as an invite. Thanks to Andrea Mosaic's free downloadable program. Would not have opted for the photomosaic if not for their program. The program's very easy to manipulate, it wont take a day to learn the nitty-gritty of their interface. The processing though of the outcome may take a while, depending on the size of file and the number of tiles, both of which you will specify before creating the mosaic.
The morning trip to work was spent trying to remember my dream. Which made me look up its interpretion and which lead me to this site . Some FYIs re dreams from that site. 1. One-third of your lives is spent sleeping. 2. In an average lifetime, you would have spent a total of about six years of it dreaming. That is more than 2,100 days spent in a different realm! 3. Dreams have been here as long as mankind. Back in the Roman Era, striking and significant dreams were submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation. 4. Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because you do not remember your dream does not mean that you do not dream. 5. Dreams are indispensable. A lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder. 6. We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night. 7. Blind people do dream. Whether visual images will appear in their dream depends on whether they where blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses. 8. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost. 9. The word dream stems from the Middle English word, dreme which means "joy" and "music". 10. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women. 11. Studies have shown that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake. 12. Dreamers who are awakened right after REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than those who slept through the night until morning. 13. Physiologically speaking, researchers found that during dreaming REM sleep, males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow - no matter what the content of the dream. In fact, "wet dreams" may not necessarily coincide with overtly sexual dream content. 14. People who are giving up smoking have longer and more intense dreams. 15. Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until the age of 3 or 4. 16. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming. 17. Nightmares are common in children, typically beginning at around age 3 and occurring up to age 7-8. 18. In a poll, 67% of Americans have experienced Deja Vu in their dreams, occurring more often in females than males. 19. Around 3% of adults suffer from sleep apnea. This treatable condition leads to unexplained tiredness and inefficiency. 20. Research has shown that the house is the most common setting for dreams.