2:29 pm - turn on oven to roast walnuts and bake muffins
2:33 pm - notice house filling with smoke - check oven - discover a spill on the oven floor that is now burning
2:35 pm - decide to try 25 year old oven's cleaning setting for 1st time. Turn knobs to "Clean." Attempt to lock oven door that has never really locked before and PRESTO - door magically locks tight. How exciting!!!! Ignore directions about using timer, since timer has never worked before. Set another timer for 2 hours.
4:35 pm - turn off "CLEAN" mode. Attempt to unlock oven door. Notice that it is jammed, try lots of wriggling, shaking, fiddling. No success. Repeated previous two steps several times.
4:40 pm - give up trying to open oven door, put away walnuts, and think what a good thing it is to have not defrosted the blueberries from the summer
4:55 pm - Prepare to cook waffles - search pantry high and low - find no syrup
5:05 pm - run out to grocery store for syrup so as not to disappoint Emma who has already been promised breakfast for dinner twice with no dice.
5:30 pm - cook dinner, but without using oven to warm waffles
6:20 pm - clean up dinner, put away syrup in fridge and find a full bottle of syrup in the refrigerator (where the 100% maple must be kept) Endure comments from Scott and wagers about how many bottles of syrup I'll run out for before I remember that since going all natural - some things must be refrigerated. Have a good laugh.
10:45 pm - sit down with Scott to discuss Emma, house remodeling we're in the middle of, budget, and tomorrow's schedule and suddenly remember that if I am to have dinner ready for the after work - get ready for AWANA rush - I need the oven door to open.
10:55 pm - trudge downstairs to fix oven door and continue to work with greater and greater consternation
11:30 pm - begin to laugh hysterically at the thought that after paying for some home repairs and painting, 4 digits worth of car repairs, some plane tickets, some BIG medical bills and more and more and more...we might also need a new oven this month just because the lock is completely busted
11:35 pm - EUREKA - Scott gets the lock to release! I get to hear a "whatever you do - please don't lock the oven again!" We have a laugh
11:36 pm - open the oven door to discover that it looks the same or worse than before.....and now it's sticky!
ps - just to prove I'm not slovenly - I quickly took a picture of the inside of my microwave - see how pristine!
No computer enhancing or retouching here
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You can't PAY for experience like this!
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