The baking lab will be open for biz today

In my maybe never ending battle to find the right cake configuration for me, I ordered shallow cake pans and they arrived this morning. I have no idea how much batter goes into each pan and google can't find it for me. So, I think today, I'll make a cake and figure it out - trial and error.

This morning, I got a wild hair to see if I could get my microwave cleaner than the house cleaner did. OH yeah baby! I have the grime removal touch!! I boiled vinegar in there a couple of ties and then hit it with my Mr. Clean spray and got all up in there scrubbing and I did a MUCH better job that she ever did. Go me! (Also I added a weekly cleaning to the chore chart.)

Sometime in the middle of the night a cat who's name I will not reveal, got up, had a little snack (leftovers from his dinner) and then proceeded to pull out the drawers in the hall storage unit and dump one on the floor. I believe those broken paws are healed.

This morning, he's trying hard to find something to get into trouble with. BUT, when I went out on the terrace to get something, he did not even think about making a move out there. And, he's still very snuggly.

This is our first Monday in a month that we have not spent at the vet. It's lovely. We have no plans and no where we have to be. We have food and there will be cake. Our life is good. And the birds are not taunting us.

A lot of nothing, now I need a rest

I had nothing on tap for today. But, now it's nearly 2 and I've been going non stop so far. My neighbor sent me a note that she needed a notary. This is the same neighbor who helped me with the cat tree so I was delighted to return the favor. So I hurried to clean up Biggie's drawer mess and wash and dry and put away the dishes in the kitchen and the yarn on the table and some amazon deliveries. Then she sent another note saying she read the detail and learned the signatures do not have to be notarized after all.

At least my house was tidy! So I decided to try out my new cake pans. They actually worked out better than I thought.

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Then I decided that my back up car phone situation really wasn't going to work but that my 6Pro was dual sim so why not switch my MintMobile to an esim and then pop in the Twigby sim. One phone on both Verizon and T-Mobile networks for a flat $20 a month. I'll take that. Worked great until the MintMobile esim didn't work. Chat revealed that "we've had problems with the Pixel 6 and esims". And their service had already canceled my regular sim. Nice. Oh well. He's sending me a replacement sim overnight. And then I went to Reddit and see that many others had tried this before me and failed. Not at all clear why I didn't go to reddit first. Ugh.

Oh well.

Oh and i also got a new phone holder for the car that also charges it wirelessly so I installed that. It actually works better than the Google wireless charging stand here in the house.

Biggie is trying to get into trouble. I think it's time for a little kitty diversion.