Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Why I Love March Madness

So....for the last three years I have been at Cedar Ridge Academy (though it feels like a lifetime) I have done a March Madness competition.  The students can fill out a bracket if they want...they get points for predicting each correct win and the points possible increases as the rounds increase.  The last two years I have done decently well...top three.  This year my bracket is REALLY screwed up....like I picked Gonzaga to win it all and they are gone kind of screwed up.  Am I little bit frustrated that I might not have decent points and the kids might beat me pretty good? Yes! But I am reminded this year of why I love March Madness to begin with.

Florida Gulf Coast
Goodness....NO one predicted that they would go this far.  But these guys are amazing basketball players! (see the videos for some sweet highlights)  They play it to just have fun and they beat Georgetown (a #2 seed) and San Diego St. (#7 seed).  They are the first #15 seed to go to the Sweet 16--how awesome is that!!!




LaSalle
Okay so in my mind the teams that played into the tournament must not be that great or they would have been in the tournament on their own.  Maybe its cuz I don't completely understand the bracket formulas with strength of schedule, record etc.  And they are a #13....so not a great shot. But this team had to play in....so naturally they won that then they had to play Kansas State...a #4 seed.  They beat them to face #12 Ole Miss. In the last seconds they win the whole thing!!! Their first time winning back to back tournament games since 1955.  That's pretty sweet history in the making.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2013/3/24/4143426/la-salle-ole-miss-2013-ncaa-tournament-scores-third-round

These two teams are what makes the tournament the coolest thing ever to me. Best weekend for sports!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

My Pinterest Cleaning Tip


How to clean stove burners

This weekend I decided that I was done with the greasiness of my stove burners and the drip pans underneath needed new foil.  Last time I decided this I spent a lot of time soaking and scrubbing.  This was must have been around the time I got started on Pinterest...not sure but like later that day I saw a pin that told me about how to not have to scrub burners.  So I went back to those pins...and found out that they use ammonia.  A lot of other pins say the same thing.  I don't have ammonia--and I have always felt that it was a dangerous chemical.  So I went looking for other pins.  The baking soda ideas that I found actually worked decently well.

I went to: http://www.ehow.com/how_7016474_clean-stove-burner-drip-pans.html  This website talks specifically about cleaning the drip pans.  Now, I didn't have the patience to wait overnight today--I wish I had known it yesterday but I let them soak for a while and it actually seemed to work well enough.  In terms of the boil the water--this seemed a little bit strange since I had the whole stove taken apart.  I do however have an electric kettle that I used to boil the water instead.

I also went to http://www.repair.com/c/range-stove/cleaning/how-to-clean-stove-burners.html This website talks about the actual burners.  This uses a paste with baking soda. I really didn't know how to make paste...so for the rest of you out there not sure either--the more soda to less water the better.  And I mean like a very small amount of water!! A pastry brush worked really well to "paint" the paste onto the burners and the caked on really well to come out pretty clean.

So there's my cleaning advice for your stove--$1 baking soda box at the store.  Not only is it easy and cheap--but it doesn't smell funny like chemicals do the next time you turn the stove no matter how much you rinsed!