It’s been the craziest week. If you know me (which I hope you do if you’re reading my blog!) you know that I like to stay at home and do homesteady things, not run around town like a chicken with my head cut off, as I did this week. We have been out of the house every day this week, for two dentist apointments, renewing my driver’s license, picking up a box of misc. stuff from Freecycle, buying a dishwasher, meeting our friends for Bible Study, and last but not least, picking up a half a cow, all frozen and packaged and now happily housed in my freezer (hence the cheezy title). (I feel very “harvest home-y” knowing that my freezer is stocked for the winter, and we won’t have to brave the cold winter storms to get food for us all – although I suppose that’s only true if we live on meat alone, but let’s not quibble over details!) 
So today I am committed (or perhaps I should be committed! Ha!) to staying in my pajamas all day so I’m not even tempted to leave the house. Hopefully this will also help me finish making the bushel and a half of apples in my basement fridge into the canned apple sauce, apple pie filling, and jelly I’ve been planning to make out of it since I picked it two weeks ago! Ack!
Oh, and I almost forgot to talk about the joy that is my new dishwasher! Our old GE that came with the house finally died its slow, painful death, and I’ve been doing all of our dishes by hand for the last few weeks (driving me in desperation to buy Palmolive dishwashing liquid, because my hands were so unbelievably dry!) (did you know that non-functional dishwashers make great drying racks for handwashed dishes? I do now!)
Anyway, I digress. Last night we went to Amundson’s Appliance and picked up a nice, shiny new Bosch dishwasher for my birthday present. This of course means that I am now one step closer to being as cool as Kirsten, since she has a Bosch dishwasher, too Amundson’s just happened to be having its big “Gumball Sale” and I got a yellow gumball, which meant that I got $30 (there were $10, $20, and $30 gumballs). And they gave it to me all in $2 bills, “so that every time you spend one you’ll think of Amundson’s Appliance!”
And it’s true, I did!
Now I just have to get Peter to install my exiting new birthday present before everyone arrives for Punkinfest next weekend . . .
And before I close, I want to say a big THANK YOU to my sister-in-law Debbie for watching my kids through all of the dentist appointments and DMV runs this week. That made everything so much easier!
