Region 1 Versus Region 2, bath time, washing machine soap and blasted bacon.

We got a DVD player at a store downtown and I scored us a 28" Samsung Television off the Tori site for super cheap - and they delivered it. I'm pumped!
We asked the fellow while purchasing the DVD player if it would play North American DVDs and European - he had no idea. That's okay.

My colleague advised me on how to hack the DVD player and set it on Region 0.
Region 1 = North America
Region 2 = Europe
So! I was in a dilemma as Taneli lent us their massive DVD collection which contains both Regions.
Unfortunately the Region 0 option would not work - however now we know how to program it to either Region 1 or 2 - and be able to have the best of both worlds!
I was also advised my colleague that Blu-Ray doesn't contain Regions - so they're universal!

So tonight may be an Indiana Jones fiesta - as I haven't seen a full Indiana Jones movie - EVER.
We've watched Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou? and the original Austin Powers.

I'm also going to try and bathe V�in� twice a week - on Sundays and Wednesday evenings. Since our last bath time was so successful without a single tear - I am going to tempt fate and see if he can handle being bathed twice a week. It's not like we expose him to many people or visit anyone (now that Taneli and his family are gone for awhile) - but with the dogs licking him all the time and licking themselves - well it only makes sense.
V�in� seemed to enjoy the freedom of being able to look down at the water - or up at us by standing in the tub (with Tim's assistance of course).

Still plenty of snow in Finland and for those of you that read about the shooting in Espoo (pronounced Es-poh not POO) - it does not happen very often! And Espoo is nowhere near us.

The other day - I did a massive load of laundry which mainly consisted of V�in�'s cloth diapers. Those get washed everyday or every second day - depending on how many he went through. I think this was a 2nd day washing - well I forgot to add soap. I was so sure I did - but I must've emptied his bucket of diapers into the washing machine and put laundry soap and water into the diaper bucket...and not the washing machine.
I was so upset as the clothes started drying in the living room on wire racks - and the living room started smelling like dirty diapers. I lost it. So - we were already on our way out the door to pick up the DVD player and so on - so when we got home I re-did the load...making sure to add an extra capful of liquid soap.
Today - I did a load of laundry and I did put soap but the clothes still came out smelling a little like dirty diapers. I was so confused! Tim looked at the washing machine and there's a little blue strip of plastic that acts as a bit of a trap door for the detergent. So if it's pushed down then the soap has no where to go. Or if it's properly lifted up - then the soap is dispensed properly.
The instruction booklet is in Finnish by the way. Anyways - so we figured that it must've jiggled closed from the spin cycles - as I have never touched the blue plastic trap door before and Tim rarely touches the washing machine.

I'm going to cut out nuts for awhile - which makes me very sad as Jessica cleaned out her cupboards and gave us bags of nuts (Tim can't eat them at all due to digestive issues)...as well good-bye cheese (even though it's lactose-free - I'm still getting contraction-like stomach cramps)....and good-bye bacon.
This afternoon - I threw a tantrum. I got splattered on the face again but I didn't even cook the bacon! I got Tim to, and I cooked the eggs. Then when I went to drain some of the fat out after his eggs were safely on his plate - I got a shot in the face of bacon fat. I was livid. I refused to eat the 4 strips that Tim put aside for me and refused to cook my eggs in that pan - despite the fact that Tim drained the remaining bacon fat into a tin can.
If I didn't wear glasses - I'd get a shot of bacon grease in the eye...every time I cook bacon - even if I wear a long-sleeved shirt and long PJ pants - I still get splatters on my hand and face. Which hurt a lot. And no- I'm not hanging my face over the pan.
Probably a good thing I'm saying good-bye to bacon - I mean yes with breast feeding - I'm burning 500 calories a day so I'm not concerned about the weight gain part - as I was only allowing myself no more than 3.5 strips. But I had a single strip of bacon yesterday morning and V�in� has had an upset stomach ever since.
Someone suggested the microwave - I am not one for bacon cooked in the microwave. Just tastes weird - maybe it's me. Or the texture isn't right.

I prefer to cook bacon on the George Foreman...which wouldn't work here unless we had an extra converter. That and I gave it to a friend as a gift.
There's no splatter, the fat is all drained away into the little plastic tray...it's crispy....and nobody gets hurt.