what a day.
first, i had some old bananas and decided to make banana bread, but my oven (which i was planning to use for the first time) is mysteriously smoking. it smoked once, i turned it off, fanned out my kitchen, investigated. the thing is spic and span. not a drip of old food anywhere. there’s nothing in there capable of burning. so i turn it on again and…more smoke. so now i have a pan of banana bread batter with no means of cooking it, and i have to call maintainance to figure out what’s wrong with my smoking oven.
second, i spilled nail polish on my carpet. dammit! i had no carpet cleaner, and my attempts to clean it with other types of household cleaner made it worse–something in the cleaner reacted with the green-tinted clear nail polish to turn the stain red. hey, i never said i was good at cleaning. so after more cursing, i had to run to kroger to get some specifically-for-carpets cleaner, come home, and soak the carpet. i got most of it out, but if you look closely, you can still see the stain. i guess i was asking for it when i moved into an apartment where 95% of the floor is carpeted and didn’t immediately buy carpet cleaner. {sigh}
i guess it’s just not my day. but i know what will make it better: baseball. so off i go. jason and i are going to see the astros play the pirates. yay for baseball!
