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Actually, my IQ on the Simon-Binet scale is 128 last time I checked, which only qualifies me as "Superior". But I'll keep trying. :)

It is currently 11:54 a.m. Milwaukee time. I have been to the grocery store, fed my daughter breakfast, mailed some bills, done one load of laundry, and am now baking sugar cookies for the band members and artists for tomorrow's show. The recipe calls for the butter and shortening to be mixed with an electric mixer for 30 seconds to get the smoothest possible mixture. I do not own an electric mixer - not a fancy one, anyway - but I do have a hand-held battery-operated hand mixer that my mother gave me, circa 1972. Said mixer has been in my cupboard collecting dust for at least two years. Needless to say, the battery is dead.
So I was going to improvise using my blender. The only problem is, I can't get the f$£%ing jar pitcher thingy to lock into the base. I twist, I turn, I literally STAND ON TOP of the base and use my entire body weight to try to force these two stubborn pieces together.
Finally, after nearly severing off three of my fingers on the blades (yeah, that's why it says, right on the jar, "DO NOT SCREW BLADES INTO BASE WITHOUT JAR ATTACHED"), I figure out that the little blade attachment thingy is supposed to rest on the INSIDE of its counterpart, not up through the bottom as I thought.
Put the blade attachment thingy on the INSIDE, screw jar into place - VOILA.

And it was at this moment, ladies and gentlemen - I will have you know - that my daughter, my intelligent, well-rounded, brilliant, beautiful, and amazing four-year-old daughter (did I mention how smart she is? 'Cause she's smart. Which makes her a reliable source) - at this moment, she turns to me and says,
"Mom? I think you're a genius."

*bow*
*bow*
*curtsy*

Yes, this is as exciting as my life gets, and I'm very happy with that, thank you very much.

Posted by stephanie at February 11, 2005 12:00 PM