how to jury-rig your kitchen

you use alot of these:

truly, when we agreed to install the much negotiated for new IKEA kitchen appliances, we had no idea what we would be uncovering. after all, my office (where i sit and type this all out) was also going to be a kitchen, until she changed her mind halfway thru the project (which is why i have a bare wire sticking out of the wall near my monitor - or the capped off water pipes from the shared bathroom wall).

and the landlady? stuck us w/ the IKEA delivery bill. wtf? i dunno how she managed it, cuz *I'VE* never been able to walk outta there w/out all my ducks being paid for!

but that's neither here nor there. we just didn't expect to see wall plugs or multiple extension cords connecting everything together. i guess we should have expected nothing less than the cobbled together mess that we did.

but the filth.

oh. my. gawd.

we had to scrape it off of the counter here with a knife, it was so grimy and gooey and gross.

no wonder the rat man came by last week. yech.

i guess i should be grateful. i have a new (if but still INCREDIBLY small) kitchen. and since we discovered all the grime, we had the opportunity to CLEAN it. (see?  there's my silver lining!!)

varkendaughter wants to bake, now that we have a proper oven (jury-rigged as it is).

so we're makin' cookies!  and then we're going to eat them on the floor, cuz it's clean enough now.