Month: June 2011

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Cleaning My RV Fridge

In a fit of unusual efficiency, I decided to clean my RV fridge while dinner was cooking. The two activities took exactly the same time!

a lovely clean fridge

I discovered, after three years of annoyance, that the door compartments are removable! DOH!

To clean the fridge, I partially filled one of my sinks with very hot water, a drop of dish soap, and a glub of vinegar. I used a microfiber cloth to clean all parts of the fridge; door compartments and door, walls, shelves, and vegetable crisper.

I defrosted the fridge recently so I didn’t have to do that or worry about the freezer. I did replace my boxes of baking soda to absorb odours and dampness. I finished by running an old toothbrush around the door gasket and hinges.

A single person really shouldn’t be allowed to have a fridge this big. Aren’t I lucky? 😀

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Is It Okay If I Collapse Now?

Rarely in my life have I been as tired as I am tonight. It’s a bone deep kind of exhaustion brought on by an excess of work and worry. I’m presently getting exactly as much work as one person can possibly handle, but it’s too late to eliminate worries for June financial deadlines. I have a bill looming in exactly a week and I still have no idea how I’m going to tackle it. Monday is my deadline for transferring PayPal fees and their landing in my bank account in time for Friday, so hopefully a huge miracle will happen this weekend… I think I’ve done my share of hard work in the last two and a half months and have earned a miracle.

I’m therefore wondering how the heck I am managing to be so happily creative and productive these days.

I just landed a new transcription client whom I hope will help me solidify the base for my business. I’m putting a lot of energy into transcription, which I think I will do better with than translation, so I completely rewrote my professional website this week.

I’ve also renewed my interest, and hope, in affiliate marketing by trying out lens making at Squidoo. It’s fun, creative, and has introduced me to a whole new audience.

And somewhere in all of that, in stolen moments of time, I’ve somehow managed to learn how to read all 46 of the basic hiragana kana.

I transcribed from 4PM to midnight yesterday, barely slept a wink, transcribed from 8AM to 5PM today, and then went to deliver fliers for three hours. So, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go collapse now. 🙂

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A Seasonal First

WHEW. It got HOT today.

I opened every single window and hatch in the rig as well as the front door, but the more the day marched on, the more Miranda felt like an oven and the cats drooped. I finally shut everything tight and put the AC on low (remember, I’m on 15A). Even at that setting it is a real miracle, having taken the temperature in here down almost ten degrees in less than a half hour. I’m going to run it for a bit longer. The cats are very grateful! I started up the AC and went to the library, where the unit is located, to make sure it was running, then came back to the study to find both cats staring up at the cooling vents very gratefully. They have perked up, had their dinner. and are now napping comfortably.

When I did my big rig clean last week, I made a point of vacuuming all my vents and the AC unit, so it’s clean, purring, and not spewing out clouds of dust!

If it was just me in here, I would probably swelter before putting on the AC, but the two little souls who share these living quarters really need it, so I put it on for them. I’m glad I can provide that for them.

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An Electricity Quiz

Hypothetically speaking, what would happen if a sleepy person got up one morning, decided it was cold, turned a heater on full blast, and got to work microwaving and toasting her breakfast?

If you said “That person would blow a breaker” you are correct!

This time, it was a shore power breaker. I can’t find the breaker box in the garage for the plug to which the rig is connected, so I haven’t had any 120V power all day. What a hardship! Not. 😀 I charged my computer through the inverter and it’s been so sunny that my batteries are fully charged.

I love not having to rely on shore power!