Finish this sentence.... "The other day, I was in my __mykitchen___, and I noticed this __gross, disguting chocolate fountain__, my only thought was, "why do I still have this hanging around my house?!?"
***Caution this is really more a gross guilty confession than some weird object I just stumbled on in the house. ***My oldest daughter's birthday was a week ago and we had a chocolate fountain instead of a cake. The fountain was a huge hit, as well as a huge mess (it was all over those girls- we had to put bibs on all of them!). Anyway, it was a sleep over so clean up seemed to happen only when the herd of girls left the upstairs to create havoc in the basement. So while I was trying to clean up the chocolate fountain and other messes wouldn't you know our sink broke! When ever I pulled on the tap water shot out AT MY FACE from the tap and no water came out of the faucet. So I put the big huge mess aside and thought, well I'll deal with it tomorrow.
So fast forward a few days, by Tuesday Derek had fixed the tap using his regular MacGyver/Eagle Scout techniques of a spare part and a tooth pick, so the tap is good for now (until the handy man comes later this week), however the chocolate fountain has been sitting, messy in the corner of our kitchen for a week now. Eww Gross! I know!
Here's the set backs with the clean up:
A-Have I mentioned before that I'm pregnant and get sooo sick and smells are just wacky right now (I know like I've mentioned it a hundred times at least)! So just smelling the chocolate makes my stomach wig out and me run in the opposite direction.
B-Derek, poor guy usually picks up kitchen cleaning duties (refer to A for the reasonings), but bless his soul even his MacGyver/Eagle Scout skills can not handle the complexities of cleaning out a chocolate fountain, which brings me to reason...
C-Chocolate fountains are so DANG hard to clean--what was I thinking when I decided to use it for the party. Oh well, at least this guilty confession makes me want to stick a clothespin on my nose and jump right in on cleaning that sucker down.
Wish me luck!
21 comments:
okay, i have to say that the story of your chocolate fountain is pretty funny. i hate that you're dealing with the whole pregnant-mom-odor-thing. that was a bad time for me, too.
go macgyver/eagle scout!! impressive skills.
Good luck!
I'm still laughing about the MacGyver toothpick thing :) I'm going to have to share that one with my hubby (who has a secret desire to be MacGyver and make a bomb out of a piece of chewing gum!).
i know EXACTLY how you feel! when i was first pregnant with sophie, it was ethan's birthday and he wanted a pink cake (i know, i know) and after the party it sat in a cake container for weeks and weeks, because the combination of the color of it and the smell of it put me over the top and i'd start to gag just thinking of opening it up to toss the leftover cake out. scott had to come to my rescue on that one -- and i had to be out of the room, because at that point it was starting to go moldy. so you're doing much better than i was!
I love how handy your husband is. If only you had more toothpicks you could build an entire house beside the one that you currently live in with the chocolate fountain! Good luck!
If that had happened to me during that stage of pregnancy I probably would have just thrown it away. :) Good luck my friend.
I linked to your blog thru Lelly. This is a great SPT! I have a chocolate fountain, and agree...they can be sooo messy! Good luck getting it cleaned out. Maybe Macgyver can assist. :)
LOL! Oh my, that was funn! And I am laughing at Elizabeth's comment! I am notorious for throwing tupperware away if I find a long lost container of leftovers in the back of the fridge and don't care to know what it's contents once were. But tupperware is cheap...I probably would have a good internal argument about what to do with a chocolate fountain.
Ha! I would probably want to throw it out too! I did one for Isaac's first birthday and it took a couple days for me to work up the courage to clean it! Good luck! Have Sophie start it, then you finish :)
Thus why I wanted to clean the darned thing the right way when using my own broken sink :) I should've read the instructions before attempting to clean that beast!
I'm impressed you were up to throwing a sleepover birthday party for your daughter. You get the prize for the fountain. I don't know if I'd attempt that one on a good day. Can't wait to see you in March!!
Hey, I could use a good laugh.
oh, i love those things, but the cleanup is a pain.
Bucky!! It is good to hear from ya. I was inspired by your page. I love the picture of your girls at the top. So cute. How have you been? I like the song too. It is one of his non hits but I like his music.
I didn't know you were pregnant! What are you having?!! I can imagine how you felt with being sick and food. oh, it makes my stomach churn. haha
ok, i'm such a moron. i realized this week that i never sent you your gift! i promise i am mailing it this week. i'm so sorry!!!
Hi again Derrick and Katherine!
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Bucky, I know you're due soon. Hope all is going well. Please post a picture of the new cutie. I'm dying to know what you're having.
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