Clever Idea (264/366)

Hermione: Now if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled.
Ron: She needs to sort out her priorities!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2001.

TIME:  1:41 PM
PLACE:  Work bathroom
SUBJECT:  Sink

Today was my day to move to our new Home Office building.  It’s very nice.  It has that new car smell too.  One of my favorite things is these sinks in the bathrooms.  Automatic faucet – ok, we’ve all seen these – well and good, but look where the soap dispenser is…IN. THE. SINK.  I don’t have to make any extraneous reaches when washing my hands = just a little twist of the wrist to the right.  AND it keeps water from puddling on the counter.  How clever is that?

Bubble Solution (148/365)

“If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate”

Stephen Wright (American Actor and Writer, b.1955)

TIME:  9:07 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen
SUBJECT: One-gallon container filled with homemade bubble mix

I’ve mentioned before that StellaDella is quite the bubble fiend.  Unfortunately, she is also a big bubble spiller – I had just bought a large container of bubbles the other day and they lasted about 15 minutes before they all hit the ground.  I found this idea here along with a homemade bubble recipe.  SD thinks it is the neatest thing to lift the faucet and let the homemade bubble mix pour into a cup.  She can also pour any unused liquid back into the container when she is done.  The bubble mix (I used the one that called for glycerin) is working quite well.  Now we’ll have to try making gigantic bubbles using a bubble maker made out of straws and string.