{"id":120,"date":"2007-11-14T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T23:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-11-14T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T00:08:07","slug":"caption-thisand-other-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/caption-thisand-other-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Caption This&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;and other crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took this picture last night while Jon and &#8216;Siah were playing on the TV room floor.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Everytime I look at it I see another\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;caption&#8221; , so I thought we&#8217;d play a little game.<\/p>\n<p>What would YOU caption this picture with?<\/p>\n<p><center><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2197\/2023805465_b7f986e40b.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" \/><\/a><\/center>And now for the &#8220;other crap&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2253\/2024608964_51217db43a_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" height=\"160\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 160px\" \/><\/a>Xandra&#8217;s glasses just popped off her head last Saturday and threw themselves onto the kitchen floor in a fit of rage.\u00c2\u00a0 So we had to make an &#8220;emergency trip&#8221; into Langley to the nearest &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lenscrafters.ca\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/home%7C-1%7C11152%7C10052%7C\/LensCrafters\/Lens_CA\/Home\/LensCrafters_Home_Page\">Lenscrafters<\/a>&#8221; and picked up these beauties.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Just in case you can&#8217;t tellthe difference between these ones and her other ones&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0(<em>don&#8217;t you all pay close attention to the eyeware of my second child?!?!?!?!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Her last pair was red, and rectangular.\u00c2\u00a0 These ones are black on the outside, pink on the inside, and more oval-ish than rectangular&#8230;&#8230;She&#8217;s just so cute, and thanks to the Healthy Kids program &#8211; the glasses\u00c2\u00a0only cost us $45 dollars.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazing, eh?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m totally jealous as I&#8217;ve had the same pair of glasses in the time she&#8217;s run through 4 pairs, but I&#8217;m hoping that I&#8217;ll be getting a new pair in the spring after I have my next eye exam.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds thrilling, doesn&#8217;t it?\u00c2\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t you glad I shared that sweet bit of info with you.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0And one last bit of crap to throw at you (<em>ha ha ha ha ha, I crack myself up.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m easily amused, can&#8217;t you tell?<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have any idea what happens when you put a bar of Ivory soap into the microwave?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p><em>I didn&#8217;t either until Monday afternoon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking into health<strike>(y)<\/strike>ier alternative&#8217;s to chemical cleaners for both the house and body.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a lot you can do with baking or washing soda and vinegar&#8230;.both very safe, and quite cheap&#8230;..and I LOVE ME SOME CHEAPNESS!<\/p>\n<p>I came across <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blulow.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/homemade-liquid-hand-soap.html\">this recipe for liquid hand soap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It calls for a bar of Ivory soap\u00c2\u00a0(<em>I believe it&#8217;s the smaller bars<\/em>) and 3 cups of water, a pot and some essential oils.<\/p>\n<p>I only had a larger bar of Ivory, but\u00c2\u00a0 figured &#8220;<em>What the heck!\u00c2\u00a0 More is better, right?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also figured that instead of &#8220;shaving it&#8221; to melt it down\u00c2\u00a0like it says to, that I&#8217;d just leave it in one lump and&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;instead of cooking it on a pot in the stove, I figured that I&#8217;d just huck it in a measuing cup with some water in it, to melt it down.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t following the recipe AT ALL&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;so basically I was following a recipe for a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>I put the measuring cup with 3 cups of water in it, and the large bar of Ivory soap into the microwave, and turned it on maximum power for 5 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured that I&#8217;d check on it after a few minutes, as give it a quick stir or flip the bar over or something&#8230;..&#8217;cause seriously, what could go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!\u00c2\u00a0 Famous Last Words.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what I opened up the door to after 3 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><center><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2284\/2023803535_e4f1a5d6cc.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" \/><\/a><\/center>At least it didn&#8217;t all blow up inside the microwave&#8230;.It foamed up hard, and crawled up and over the edge of the measuring cup and over and down on to the plate, and kept on going.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The kids were thrilled with my science experiment, and Jeremy wanted to stick it back in and make it foam some more.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure it could be salvaged, so I didn&#8217;t want to put it back in anymore.It was hard, and crumbled easily so I dumped the water and what was left of the soap bar\u00c2\u00a0 into a larger container, and then crumbled the foam into the bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, IT WORKED!I have enough mixture for 2 containers of liquid hand soap that smells like lavender Ivory soap.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite thick, and works wonderfully.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s enough with the rambling for now&#8230;.don&#8217;t forget to caption the picture of Josiah.<\/p>\n<p><em>ps. Sorry if you got a million copy&#8217;s of this post.\u00c2\u00a0 I was having some &#8220;issues&#8221; with spacing and kept trying to fix them&#8230;all the while thinking that I would be annoying some of you&#8230;.if you were annoyed &#8211;<\/em> <strong>I&#8217;m terribly sorry<\/strong><em>, and if you have no clue what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;&#8230;..just go on with your day and have a\u00c2\u00a0nice life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this picture last night while Jon and &#8216;Siah were playing on the TV room floor.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Everytime I look at it I see another\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;caption&#8221; , so I thought we&#8217;d play a little game. What would YOU caption this picture with? 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