Saturday's shopping and weird items
Sep. 3rd, 2005 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyWe actually left the house today, oh my. This afternoon we loaded up the kids to go run some errands. First we went hunting for a couple books - we called around first, the regular bookstores were disappointing, but Lonestar Comics had both Serenity: The Official Visual Companion and the paperback of Serenity. I'm glad ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenite thought to call there.
On the way there we stopped at Bed, Bath and Beyond to get some kitchen stuff. I guess that's the Beyond part. We needed to replace the kettle, the bottom of the interior lining has gone all rough and I don't think I should use the old one anymore. Got a nice one that whistles, that should be interesting. We also replaced the toaster oven, which was a bit overdue. I'd started to say we were replacing it before it caught on fire, but actually it HAS caught on fire several times, we're replacing it before it catches the rest of the house on fire. The new one is shiny, definitely a family size one - two interior levels, I mean the thing has little metal racks like the regular oven! And they pull out and go in the dishwasher.selenite has been informed that I expect they'll *always* go in the dishwasher after making hotdogs. He's the one that found it, and a very good find it is.
We saw a couple of odd items. I was looking for new oven mitts, and saw these weird Orka mitts
These are silicon heat-resistant oven mitts. I searched and found an image that showed the tag - take a look at the 2nd picture from the top. If you can't make it out, it shows the person PLUNGING their hand with the Orka mitt on it into a boiling pot of pasta.
This is reminding me of the family definition of a 4-wheel drive - a vehicle that lets you get stuck MUCH farther from help. It just looked like a disaster waiting to happen, especially when you plunge your arm in JUST a little farther than planned. Oops.
Oh, just let me make it clear, we did NOT buy any of those. We did get me two nice new hotmitts, with some rubbery grip stuff and they're shaped more like puppets than a standard mitt, should do nicely, and will not tempt us into rash, stupid acts.
Then there's this sucker.
Power Sentry Home Electronics Multiple Outlet, it said on the box.
I walked up to Karl standing there and staring at this thing with a very odd expression on his face. I looked at it and said "Omigod, it looks like Cthulu and a surge protector had a night of wild sex and this is the result", or words to that effect. The look on his face changed to a different odd expression, and I said "You just feel better knowing it's not just you seeing that, don't you?"
We did not buy any Elder God SquidStrips, either, no.
Anyway, after that we did groceries, and then came home. And were utterly exhausted. I think we're still not over that stupid tummy bug yet. Well, the stuff we looked up on what Mom thinks it was said that it took weeks to recover, and some days would be better and then you'd feel worse again. We were so wiped out. Now we've all eaten, put the kids to bed, and had some quiet time, and are doing better.
selenite thought to call there.On the way there we stopped at Bed, Bath and Beyond to get some kitchen stuff. I guess that's the Beyond part. We needed to replace the kettle, the bottom of the interior lining has gone all rough and I don't think I should use the old one anymore. Got a nice one that whistles, that should be interesting. We also replaced the toaster oven, which was a bit overdue. I'd started to say we were replacing it before it caught on fire, but actually it HAS caught on fire several times, we're replacing it before it catches the rest of the house on fire. The new one is shiny, definitely a family size one - two interior levels, I mean the thing has little metal racks like the regular oven! And they pull out and go in the dishwasher.
selenite has been informed that I expect they'll *always* go in the dishwasher after making hotdogs. He's the one that found it, and a very good find it is. We saw a couple of odd items. I was looking for new oven mitts, and saw these weird Orka mitts
These are silicon heat-resistant oven mitts. I searched and found an image that showed the tag - take a look at the 2nd picture from the top. If you can't make it out, it shows the person PLUNGING their hand with the Orka mitt on it into a boiling pot of pasta.
This is reminding me of the family definition of a 4-wheel drive - a vehicle that lets you get stuck MUCH farther from help. It just looked like a disaster waiting to happen, especially when you plunge your arm in JUST a little farther than planned. Oops.
Oh, just let me make it clear, we did NOT buy any of those. We did get me two nice new hotmitts, with some rubbery grip stuff and they're shaped more like puppets than a standard mitt, should do nicely, and will not tempt us into rash, stupid acts.
Then there's this sucker.
Power Sentry Home Electronics Multiple Outlet, it said on the box.
I walked up to Karl standing there and staring at this thing with a very odd expression on his face. I looked at it and said "Omigod, it looks like Cthulu and a surge protector had a night of wild sex and this is the result", or words to that effect. The look on his face changed to a different odd expression, and I said "You just feel better knowing it's not just you seeing that, don't you?"
We did not buy any Elder God SquidStrips, either, no.
Anyway, after that we did groceries, and then came home. And were utterly exhausted. I think we're still not over that stupid tummy bug yet. Well, the stuff we looked up on what Mom thinks it was said that it took weeks to recover, and some days would be better and then you'd feel worse again. We were so wiped out. Now we've all eaten, put the kids to bed, and had some quiet time, and are doing better.
