New Oven!
I have a stove again! Or, I guess technically a range. The terminology is weird to me. Anyhoo, I have a lovely fancy new "black stainless steel" Samsung stove that has a convection oven and five burners, which I guess is a thing now. The middle burner is extra long and designed for a griddle. I would have paid extra for an all-mechanical knobs stove, one where the oven is also controlled by knobs instead of a digital display, but you can't get that.
Of course there is a problem. The hole in our floor for the gas pipe is too far away from the wall, and so that stove is sticking out an extra four inches until we can hire someone to come in, saw a hole in the floor, and adjust the gas pipe.
Because of the pandemic, I've heard that appliances have been tough to order and get in a reasonable time frame, but because of 4th of July sales, the stores have ordered more stock in advance. With that said, my first choice (by a hair) wouldn't have been delivered until the end of July, so we went with the second choice, which I'm still very happy with. I can COOK again! Dinner tonight will be Mennonite sausage and...hmm...maybe cornbread? Have to fire up that oven to let it burn off residual fumes for a bit first.
I think I might keep the electric teakettle out, though. It's nice not producing as much heat and getting hot water pretty darn fast.
So this huge semi pulls up in front of our house on our quiet residential street, and the neighbor's out and he sees that we're getting a stove and he says, "Oh, I thought it was mine. I'm getting a washer today." We laugh, the delivery guys carry in the stove, and then they go to their next appointment--next door. Yes, the neighbor's washer was in the same semi. LOL.
Let's see, what else. I sent out invitations for our 4th of July party. We have no idea how many people are actually going to show up, but we expect it to be pretty small. Some people still aren't okay with socializing in groups, especially with unvaccinated kids. And we basically didn't socialize at all during the depths of the pandemic, so all social connections feel kind of weird and tenuous and awkward, and that's just from our side.
Tuesday morning I went to the coffee shop and working on revisions. I like the idea of dedicating one day a week to *just* writing, as much as is practical for a parent. I do work better when I have a longer chunk of time to sink into things. I didn't do a great job of maintaining that focus last Tuesday, but I'll try again next week. I'm thinking only essential household chores, minimum effort dinner, no social media, working in the evening instead of relaxing. I'm probably going to be crappy at managing this, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, aim at the moon and maybe you'll land on top of a mountain, etc. Originally posted at https://cloudscudding.dreamwidth.org/1137965.html on Dreamwidth.org.