How Did I Not Know...

So I am not sure if I learn something new every day, but this weekend I did. 

I was at my parents' house and the girls wanted a baked potato for dinner.

In my mind I was thinking there wasn't enough time to bake one so I wasn't sure how it was going to happen, but it did. 

When I went downstairs to get a drink I noticed that the microwave was beeping signaling that something had finished cooking. 

I went on with my business and went back upstairs to finish watching Mean Girls 2 because I am actually 12 years old. 

The wheels were turning in my head when I discovered that the girls really did have a baked potato for dinner.

I am sad to admit that hours later, while replaying my day as I was trying to fall asleep, it clicked.

A vision of the microwave popped into my head.

Was it possible??

This button that says "Baked Potato" that I see a 19487 times a day bakes a potato???

Ya'll, I have been baking potatoes in the oven for over an hour. 

Hello, 21st century bake your potato in the microwave for 4 minutes, where have you been all my life?

Oh yeah, my bad....
it's been in my face all this time. 

So this has been my new favorite discovery.

Turns out everyone knows about it.

Everyone does it. 

Apparently they forgot to inform me. 

Maybe because it seems to be a pretty straight forward concept. 

Just a guess.

For the record, I do use the "popcorn" button.

That's the only one though.

Now that my eyes have been opened to what these magical buttons can do,
we will see what other adventures I may find myself on.

"Dinner plate", "Frozen Pizza", "Frozen Vegetable"...
I see lots of excitement in the near future.

As you can imagine, we had baked potatoes on Monday night, we are having them tonight and we will also be having them tomorrow night.

I bought a 10 lb bag. 

This is quite the deal in the Smelly household.

I apologize for such a lame post for those of you who have previously been enlightened to this wonderful button. I know I haven't blogged in like a week and this may come across as a sad comeback. I have found myself in a blog rut again, and well this is the best I could come up with for the moment. So I think the rut is pretty self-explanatory after reading this, right? 

Stay tuned for tomorrow's post on "Favorite Choice"....

Kidding. I think