I finally made an appointment to get a new battery for my phone. Forgot my list for gift ideas was on my phone, so wandering the mall wasn’t productive. (I did see a big gumball machine at Macy’s tho.) Checked back in at the Apple Store to pick up my phone and told it was ready, go have a seat. After 20 min of waiting, I asked one of the employees who were standing around how much longer. Apparently some issue with the check in process not notifying the people in the back.
Also Costco food court was out of straws. I waited a bit to ask if they were totally out but the one person at the counter was busy and I’m looking around, no one had straws in their drinks.
The bad idea logic revolved around this thing being too expensive. If I want something, price isn’t really the deciding factor. What else y’all spending your money on if not the things you want?
food, cell phone, HELOC payoff for the renovation that happened last year, braces, life insurance, utilities, medical bills, sports fees, clothes, paying off the air conditioning system that failed a few summers ago, mental health copays, gasoline, critter control, tax preparation, graduation announcements… you know, the usual.
Costco doesn’t have straws any more. They’ve replaced them with a type of ‘sipping’ lid.
Source: Spent five minutes looking for straws before someone informed me.
I made an appointment at 11am today to get my oil changed. This place doesn’t do it while you wait, and the office and waiting area has been closed since COVID.
Hadn’t heard from them by 5pm, so I called. “They are working on it now. I’ll call you shortly when it’s ready”
So, my “replace the kitchen backsplash and add a couple of electrical outlets” project has had its first catastrophe. They broke a critical fitting on my gas range. It’s old, and I don’t know if it can be replaced. The general contractor is reaching out to his friend at the appliance repair shop tomorrow to find out.
The stove is old, but I love it. It roasts incredibly well. And I make roasts most every weekend except when it’s really hot out. And it has a configuration that’s out of fashion (a large oven on the top, and a smaller one below instead of a warming drawer) and last time I looked, which was less than a year ago, there wasn’t anything on the market in that configuration. I mostly use the small oven as storage space, but about twice a year, when I host Thanksgiving or New Year’s Eve, it’s really nice to be able to use it.
Two-oven ranges on the market today seem to have a small oven on top, and you have to bend over inconveniently to use the full-size oven. I honestly have no idea what people do in the small oven. A single sheet of cookies? I guess I could make cornbread in a small oven. But I routinely cook a large-ish whole bird, or use all 3 racks to make cookies, or…
report too, isn’t it??? Yeah, I thought so.
