[Sca-cooks] just grousing

[Mike Newton]

Kateryn, I feel for you BUT our Van's computer and fuel pump decide to die
at the same time last weekend. It will cost us $450 to fix it all. luckily
we only have the Rent and Gas bill to pay this check about $250  we might
have a couple hundred left over. We also live in Iowa, in a farm town before
you all die at that second number. It could be worse we could live in NYC!
:)

Thorbjorn
Rokeclif,Northshield,Middle Kingdom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debra Hense" <DHense at ifmc.org>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] just grousing


> Boy, when things fall apart - they fall apart past in my life.
>
> I just quit the second job because I was all caught up on my bills and
> no longer in danger of falling behind - due to a promotion and payraise.
>  When what should happen - my upstairs toilet stops working - after
> replacing all the insides except for the low-flow portion - have
> determined it is the low-flow portion which means it will be cheaper to
> just replace the whole toilet than to bring in a plumber.
>
> My oven thermostat seems to have quit working - it goes into overdrive
> - ie: blackens everything in 20 minutes. Thank goodness I had most of my
> christmas goodies already baked.  But, I burned my bread and my two pies
> this weekend that I was taking to our potluck yule court.  The bread I
> could almost understand.  I was busy, I might have messed up on the time
> I put it into the oven, I hadn't remember to set the timer.  But, the
> two pies I was watching like a hawk when the smoke started appearing in
> the oven vents.  It took days to clear the burned smell.  My daughter
> and I ended up stopping at the grocery and taking bread, butter, and
> some darling oranges instead. I just don't feel like a cook without my
> oven.
>
> And to top it all off - this morning I discovered my chest freezer was
> defrosting everything in the freezer.  I rescued two roasts of meat and
> the two ducks by moving them into my refrigerator freezer (after taking
> out the christmas cookies that hadn't been eaten yet and my flour).  I
> took the veggies over to the neighbors to refreeze in their freezer.
> But, I ended up having to cook the corned beef (crockpot), 3 pounds of
> thick-sliced bacon, and I thin-sliced the chuck roast, will marinate it
> this evening and cook it up for stir-fry which we will be eating all
> weekend.
>
> I need a roommate who can fix things - a plumber/electrician/carpenter.
>  I even have the spare bedroom - which is large (15x14) and has two
> walk-in-closets that I'm willing to rent in exchange for hours spent
> fixing this place up.  Only problem is:  I live in Des Moines, Iowa.
>
> An extremely disheartened Kateryn who wishes she hadn't quit that
> second job now.
>
> Signing off soon to go home and see if unplugging  the freezer for half
> an hour and replugging it back in fixed the defrost problem.  I left a
> cup of water in the freezer - if it refreezes - I fixed the problem.  If
> it doesn't refreeze...
>
> Catch up with ya all when I read the digests on Monday
>
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