Why is it that we are so close to the end and everything seems to fall apart?
I have to say that I am over a lot of things recently. For instance, my oven. Granted, I do live in a rental so I could have possibly gotten this fixed, but it such a pain to have to deal with our landlord/rental agent, that it hardly seemed worth my time to get this fixed so close to moving out. Now after trying to bake five simple pork chops for almost an hour, I am tempted to have an "office space" moment with the stupid thing. It has been on the fritz for a bit now, but it's becoming a pain in my side. I just want to eat dinner, is that such a hard thing to ask. Oh, of course, that seems to be the answer at hand, "Yes"! It is refusing to cook things as it should. So now here I sit, ranting on my blog, about the annoying inconvenience.
And then there is the dryer. Oh the dryer. This unfortunately belongs to me, so there is no one but myself to pay for this faulty machine. When we moved here from AC, Doug did want to pay to have a gas hook up installed in a rental property. At the time this made sense. Now I think I have spent more money in electric bills, than it would have cost to install it, I regret the decision. We traded dryers with my sister in law so that we could have an electric. My nice, large capacity, gas dryer is long gone. In it's place, a smaller, electric one that takes up to three cycles these days to dry clothes. That is, if it doesn't decided to stop for no apparent reason.
All the while, we are so close to moving and major shortage of cash, so I am stuck. Stuck in this impending Hell of machines that refuse to see my point of view. I just want dry clean clothes and dinner on my table. I suppose I should be thankful that I have the clothes or the food at all, but it is hard to see that, when suffering from my lack of "status quo"
PS. Thanks for being such a trooper to read my babbling annoyance at the modern day technology!
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It sounds like you dryer vent needs to be cleaned out. We just went through this. Once we got the dryer vent cleaned out, our dryer worked as good as new, drying clothes in one cycle. As for the turning off, that could be that the dryer is overheating internally because it is not getting the air that it needs. This is also solved by getting the vent cleaned out.
ReplyDeleteJust my $.02.
so it sounds like we should have something that does not require the use of your oven for dinner while you are baby-sitting. and I guess that you are right in that you should just be happy that you have those things to complain about in the first place. :-)
ReplyDeleteI know you don't want to hear this but after 36 years of keeping house there is only one thing to be sure of...something will need to be fixed all the time and you just hope that it doesn't break on the weekend or a holiday. Love you, Sandy
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