And send the old ones off in big moving truck. I think I've mentioned before that my oven was extremely unreliable. I mean, I had to adjust temperatures multiple times while baking, and always started off at least 50 degrees above whatever the recipe called for. This has been going on for at least a year and was probably starting to go bad from the day we moved into this house. Unfortunately, we didn't notice it until after the warranty was up on the house OF COURSE. So I've just been dealing with it. Sometimes begrudgingly, but generally its been bearable.
Well last week I went on a little adventure up to Virginia and then North Carolina to visit one of my favoritest people, and since I didn't want my husband to wither away and die while I was gone, I made him some casserole type meals that he could pop in the oven and heat up and have enough to eat for a few days and take as lunch. I left on Tuesday morning and arrived in Virginia on wed. evening. I'd only been there a few hours when I a get a call from a quite distressed Sean saying the oven does not work. Hes been walking the dog for 20 mins and its only 160 degrees!
Woah bowl me over with shock. Our oven sucks?! I'd never noticed... The problem with the oven was in fact SOOO bad, that I needed to go into town the next day and pick out a new oven. Trust me I'm not complaining... I've wanted a new oven for a long stinking time. I just think its very funny and not at all surprising that the first time Sean is cooking on his own and experiencing first hand the difficulties of our oven its IMPERATIVE that it get replaced before I get home!
I got home late Wednesday night, and spent most of yesterday reclaiming the house... unpacking, doing laundry, washing dishes, picking up all the things that were left in the most "convenient" places regardless of how bizarre it made the house look etc. Today, I think all the driving and being away from home has caught up with me because I'm having a hard time getting off the couch (so much so that I just went to homedepot.com to find a picture to post instead of walking into the kitchen to take one) but I'm really excited to go introduce myself to my new range. It has many exciting new features that the old sad one did not, and I'm even more excited to set the temperature and hopefully not have baked goods that are burned on one side and clearly slanted toward the front of the stove.
Today I see coming out of the oven at the very least... banana bread, and lemon tart. I haven't even decided what I want to make for dinner!
4 comments:
sounds like Emily and Jeremy with their dishwasher, lol :)
it is all pretty funny, but I'm glad you got a new stove and oven.
I baked on tuesday evening the cup cakes were long gone before you came over yesterday. A few got eaten before the icing went on wednesday, but I iced them Wednesday morning, and they were long gone wednesday afternoon. I did have the chocolate peanut butter bar in the fridge, I just forgot to offer it to you, sorry. plenty still here, stop by tomorrow.
YEAH!!!!!! I know how frusrating that old monster was. I am so happy for you. Now you know...when you need another new appliance just go out of town and make sure it's one that Sean uses!!!
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