A Success!

Jason cooked dinner tonight and though it was a bit late to get on the table, it was tasty. He made inside out chicken cordon blue and a sweet tangy dressing for some mixed greens. Things might have gone more smoothly if we could get fresh chicken at the commissary, but I didn't want to make two trips to get stuff for dinner. So with a not so quick water thaw, things came out just fine. I think he almost enjoyed himself.

In other news I almost burned down the house today.

Yeap, I almost burned down the house, you read that right. This morning I was getting ready to go to work and finished the last of the ice tea. I had 20 minutes before I needed to go so I popped the kettle on the stove to make up a new batch of tea so it would have time to cool and could go in the fridge when I got home.

I then remembered I needed to take Alex in and get her lump looked at today. So I finished getting ready and headed right on out of the house. I spent a good 4.5 hours there and then came home. Just as I pulled up the street heading towards the house I remembered what I did.

In a panic I drove around the bend and found the top of the house unburned and was a little hearted. I hurriedly parked the car and burst into the house and breathed a huge sigh of relief as Mao gave a heartening Meow for me. The house did not smell of gas and the stove was off. But it looked like as if the kettle boiled over and thankfully it had not burned out the bottom of it. It mostly looks unscathed.

Then I proceeded, like a fool, to test the stove. House could have been filled with gas and here I am trying to light the damned thing. I then thought better of this idea and ate my lunch being grateful the house was still intact. After lunch there was a lot more playing with the stove and checking the gas. I assumed my pilot light was out but damned if I could figure out how to light the thing.

So I called the housing company and asked them to send someone, and they did. The polite Japanese man then walked outside to the back of the house and pushed the button to relight the pilot light. 30 seconds later, it was lit and fine. Had I been better at reading Japanese I am sure it has directions on the silly box. I need to work on my Japanese, I have been saying this for quite sometime now.

So this fiasco of course threw off my day and I didn't get as much done as I had hoped. I did get the kitchen clean though and that is something. Tomorrow is another day and I will just get it done then. But today, today I am grateful for a good dinner and the house still standing.