Art was created by Hands

In all 3 places that Blake and I have lived since being married, we have been greatly blessed with todays modern conveniences. i.e.- washer/dryer, dishwasher, microwave.... that might be it. Because we are aware that a lot of places don't offer the washer and dryers or microwaves, and sometimes even dishwashers. (At least not in Rexburg). So to have them in our apartment has been a great blessing.

Now in this post, I'm not going to talk about art. But except maybe the art of cleanliness? About a week and a half ago I was doing the dishes and realized that we were out of dishwasher detergent. Sad day, that meant that the whole pile of dishes in the sink (that takes about 3 days for us to accumulate to fill the dishwasher, because 2 people don't use THAT many dishes) now had to be done by hand. I suppose this was okay, because I don't have anything else to do while Blake is at his internship and I'm home alone. Blake had been gone most of the day for some convention sort of thing about health. And when he came home, I told him, we were out of detergent, and that I had to do the dishes by hand. He then said to me, "You know what I learned today? That the toilet is often more clean than the kitchen sink, so I hope you disinfected it too." He then mentioned that it should probably be done several times a week. Ew, gross right?

So I've been doing the dishes by hand, out of laziness to go to the store and buy detergent. How pathetic. But after I had been doing this for a while, I've been learning, that our dishes are actually probably more clean when washed by hand than by putting them in the dishwasher and having it do the work for me. Now I don't know about everyone else, but I do like to eat off of clean dishes. And I don't know if it's the fact that our dishwasher sucks, or if I'm just going through that "nesting" thing people talk about, but I'm liking having "cleaner" dishes. After doing the dishes by HAND I'm able to disinfect the sink, so that maybe our kitchen sink can be cleaner than our toilet. Not to mention, the dawn with Olay in it, smells delightful, and also helps keeps my hands feeling nice, and soft. (pruney with the water, but that goes away.)