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How many of you have filled your dishwasher, put the soap in, attached it to the kitchen faucet (we have a portable dishwasher), turned the dishwasher on and left the room?

Well, that's what I did this morning and I was very happy to have made it all the way to the dishes by 10am. Some days one thing after another happens and by the time I make it through my routine to the kitchen it's a lot closer to lunch time than breakfast time. Anyway, when the dishwasher was done I returned to the kitchen to turn the water off. There's no need to be taking up the sink faucet if the dishwasher is just going to dry for a while.

Only, the faucet was already off. I had run the dishwasher without water. You can imagine my great feelings of intelligence. Had I ruined our dishwasher? It was a birthday present to me this year so I wouldn't have to hand wash all of our dishes with three kids running around under foot. I really didn't want to go back to hand washing dishes. I left some messages on msn for Sir telling him what I had done, and decided to re-run the dishwasher -with water this time. None of the soap had been spewed out into the sink, so I figured it was lost somewhere inside the dishwasher and the best way to sort it all out was to let the dishwasher rinse itself in a second wash.

Of course, the dishwasher started on it's water-enhanced wash without any complaints and I waited with my fingers crossed to see what would happen. It's done now, and the dishes inside are clean. It ran as if nothing abnormal had happened. Hopefully I didn't ruin anything this morning, but I guess only time will tell.

So, this boring post was just to express my great relief at probably not having to hand wash my dishes while I can barely reach the sink over my stomach. And I didn't see the need to bore you with a dull picture of my dishwasher.