Yikes!

Have you ever heard of the "Magic Bullet"?

It's a special kind of blender that looks like, (you guessed it!) a bullet. We just bought one the other day, and it's really handy for making smoothies and such. I like to drink a smoothie per day, and the bullet is very nice because it doesn't make a huge mess like a regular blender.

Well anyway, the Magic Bullet comes with a little recipe book, and earlier today my mom and I decided to try a iced mocha recipe out of it. But instead of using coffee, (We aren't coffee drinkers, except for an occasional Starbucks) we used a powder that tastes and smells like coffee, but doesn't have the caffeine. (I'd tell you what it is, but I forgot what it's called)

We put the ingredients into the bullet, and thought it looked a little full, but we were sure it would be okay, and not spill over or anything like that.

Wrong.

I was just about to turn it on when the doorbell rang, (of course) and Mom went to see who it was. I waited for a minute, but she didn't come back, so I figured it was somebody we knew and it would be okay if I started it up. I pushed it down and locked it on, and the bullet started to work on making our mocha.

Now, you need to understand that the magic bullet doesn't have an on/off switch. To turn it on you plug it in and push down on the jar thingy that has the ingredients in it. You can either keep holding it down or twist and lock it into place. I, of course, locked it.

It was doing fine for a moment---then, poof!

Mocha began pouring out of the lid and down the bullet onto the stove, then onto the floor. I, of course, panicked and tried to unlock the thing, but that only made MORE mocha come out since I accidentally pulled the lid off. I finally gave up and pulled the plug---just as Mom headed back into the kitchen.

Now, I wasn't in any trouble or anything, since we didn't know that we could only fill the bullet half as full as we just did, so we both got to work cleaning up all the mocha. I was almost done cleaning the floor when I noticed a little line in the middle of the bullet, that said, FILL MAXIMUM.

Great.

So that was my little event for the day, besides cleaning my room. (I was having a hard time writing with my room being a wreck!) Oh, and just so you know, I'm not discouraging getting magic bullets, they really are great.

Just make sure you know where the FILL MAXIMUM is!!!

*mikayla

P.S. For those participating in NaNoWriMo, they are encouraging everyone to try to complete at least 15,000 words by Monday. I'm trying my hardest, but that's a lot of words! =/