Potatoes and other assorted good things

I had a giant baked potato for lunch yesterday! (Note: By the time I posted this, it was the day before yesterday.) Russet potatoes are super cheap, and I was really impressed at how well it turned out. I just washed it, poked it a few times with a fork, then put it on a plate, microwaved it for 5 minutes, turned it over, and microwaved it for 5 more minutes.
Then I cut it in half, with every intention -- sadly foiled (not, please note, tinfoiled -- no tinfoil in the microwave, unless you miss thunderstorms so much you'll resort to creating lightning in your microwave) -- of digging a little hole in each half to stick some butter in. But like I said, that didn't work out. The potato just fell into quarters. But eh, it worked. I just put the butter in between the quarters, dumped a little handful of cheese on and the last of my bacon crumbles, and microwaved it for another minute to melt the butter and cheese.
It was great! The skin actually tasted really good? I didn't see that coming. And that's nice, because potato skins have a lot of nutrients in them.

In other news, I roasted a head of garlic!

You can do that in the crockpot, which is weird. The taste was really good and really interesting, but it turns out that after I mixed it with butter and tried to put it on bread, the texture and I didn't get along very well. I can't quite place the problem -- it might also have been the bread, which was made from dough that had maybe been in the fridge too long and had definitely been overwatered/oiled by me and therefore had its own texture issues. Anyway I may try the garlic again sometime, and then maybe cook it into something so I don't have to deal with the texture and can still get the taste.

And probably best of all, I have now completely cleaned my bathroom for the first time. I swept and mopped the floor, sprayed down the toilet with a bleach dilution and wiped it down, and did the same to the sink and shower. I washed the floor rug and hand towels, and I bought new hand soap and a little candle, and the whole space just looks all nice -- with the academic mess of books and notebooks and pieces of paper strewn about the rest of my house, it's really the nicest space I've got. I am a little concerned that I will come back from my break to find the ant infestation raging again, in which case I will have to have another war with them involving huge quantities of Comet, because I was all focused on packing and failed to properly consider my gramma's recommendation to put Comet out before I left. But I will keep my fingers crossed that they don't keep ignoring the traps, or just stay away.

Gramma and Papa and I took my vacuum, which we're hoping to fix. The belt seems to be missing, and I've been using the hose attachment to vacuum the entire floor, which is somewhat less than ideal.