soooo much to do

[mamajoan]

Well, in between getting work done, I've been, uh, getting work done. I'm still nowhere near ready for the cookie party, but at least I made some progress. I cleaned the bathroom, which was desperately needed. I cleared all the stuff off the kitchen table and did a ton of dishes. I looked through my supplies and made a shopping list.

Yet to be done: clear off kitchen counter (which I seem to be constantly doing; it's a clutter magnet!), wipe down counter and oven and table, sweep and mop in kitchen, grocery-shop, mix approx. 6 batches of cookie dough, get extra table from upstairs, get cookie cutters from upstairs (kinda important), tidy up living room and front hallway somewhat. I think that's about it. Maybe.

Oh, and I also have to figure out where, or whether, I can get another oven rack in the next two days. My oven inexplicably only has one. This is a problem precisely once a year -- on cookie party day. I wonder if my mom's oven racks would fit in my oven. I wonder if my mom would let me take away one of her oven racks. I wonder why the hell my oven only has one rack.

But now, I just have to put the laundry in the dryer and then haul ass over to mom's for dinner. Diiiinnnnner. Me huuuuuungry. Augh! So much to do! *flail*

Comments

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

By the way, I can bring two airplanes and a moose if you need. No no! Cookie cutters! Your house is too small for a real moose.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I like how you imply that my house is just the right size for two airplanes!

[nonethewiser.livejournal.com]

Is your stove 'apartment-sized', perhaps?
The compact ones often have only one rack... it's bizarre.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

No, it's a normal-sized stove/oven. I measured the racks last night and then my brother measured the ones in my mom's oven and hers were actually a teeny bit smaller than mine.

I think probably the previous owner just removed the other rack at some point, who knows why. It's actually possible that the other rack is hiding in the basement somewhere.

too late to be useful

[auntfaintly.livejournal.com]

You can probably go to the manufacturer's website and find out if you can order another rack. A few years ago Sears was supposedly putting the manuals for all appliances online womewhere, so it might be findable there as well.

I have replaced those inside the door shelf rails (technical term: front pick-offs) in my ~6yo fridge *multiple times* via Maytag's website. Note: don't buy their fridges, because if you actually keep stuff in the door shelves, the thingies will break at the drop of a hat, the warranty on parts is only 90 days, and they will not do anything for you when you complain that you are replacing them at your own expense for the 2d time in 6 months.

Re: too late to be useful

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, my oven is so old that the company that made it no longer exists. It appears (based on some frustrating google adventures) to have been subsumed into a company that doesn't make ovens for consumer home use, just for large industrial use -- e.g. restaurants and the like.