A Productive Week

Everyone knows that if you live in Los Angeles it is essential to have a car. Some of us try our best to live close to most of what we need so that we can walk or minimize the carbon emissions required to visit our favorite groceries. Other brave souls explore the horrible, illogical, tedious, dirty, slow public transportation system. I drive my car. I drive my car everywhere. Sometimes I walk to the grocery store. We have a Trader Joe’s, Vons, and Ralphs all within easy walking distance. So, it is no small thing that I turned my car over to the dealer for a whole day in order to have some minor cosmetic issues handled. This important task ultimately ate a good portion of two whole days this week.

On one of those days, as was previously mentioned, Boo Boo Busters came to the house for a consultation. Among the many projects, Jason, our consultant advised me to undertake, was the task of removing our pot rack. This may not seem like a huge deal, but in order to remove the pot rack, I had to find a new home for the pots. It was my great fortune to have already been in the process of wrapping my mind around deep cleaning my kitchen. I decided to undertake a purge of all of my kitchen cabinets the very next day.

It didn’t happen during the day, my precious little one came down with an ear infection and would not let me take a step away from him. The little I did accomplish during the day was accomplished with him clutching to my pant legs. He’s so amiable, that as long as he was touching me, he wasn’t upset about the pain in his ear. I think I’ve gotten away from the Boo Boo Busters story. I purged the cabinets in the middle of the night. It wouldn’t be safe for the kitchen to be half done the following day, so I determined to finish before morning no matter what. In the end, it didn’t take as long as I thought it would, I was done with what I neede to do by 1.

5 bags of garbage and many moons later, I finished the project. I discovered I have plenty of room for the things I actually need and use on a regular basis. I found a space for my pots and pans and still had empty shelves left over. While it may be ambitious, I also decided that a biannual check of expiration dates is essential to a cleanly kitchen. Even though I was alone in my kitchen, in the middle of the night, I was embarrassed to find spices and seasonings which read, ” Best if used by 2003″ in my cabinets!

After my late night purging fest, Boo Boo Busters returned to install the items we discussed. This morning, Micah learned that the cabinets and drawers in the kitchen don’t open anymore. He cried with frustration when he learned some of his favorite things to dump on the floor were no longer available to him. He has quickly learned there are still things he can play with in the kitchen and I am delighted to be able to encourage him.





~S

PS – I’m pretty sure that the supposedly caffeine free diet pepsi I had earlier this evening was not caffeine free.