Saturday, August 13, 2011

Another one bites the dust

You may recall that a few months ago our fridge died on us.  Then our stove died.  Well, now our microwave crapped out. 

Yep, that means 3 of 4 kitchen appliances have bit the dust in the last six months! 

You don't realize how much you use your microwave until it's gone.  Yesterday I was baking and the recipe called for melted butter so I popped it in a glass bowl and threw it in the microwave.  Only to be reminded that the MICROWAVE DOES NOT WORK!!

This was shortly followed by a stream of curses that would have made a sailor blush (thankfully the kids were downstairs).  Then I thought: "now how the he!! am I supposed to melt the butter?!?!" 

Luckily I'm not completely inept, and I just threw the bowl into the oven.  So what should have taken 30 seconds ended up being a 5 - 10 minute exercise in patience.

I'm not sure what I did to anger the appliance gods, but at this point in time I'm ready to sacrifice a small child in order to save our last remaining appliance - the dishwasher.

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