In case you were wondering
Everything in my house pretty much remains broken, and it sounds like I almost blew up my oven trying to clean it, too. See, I thought that if you used the cleaner spray stuff and then it didn’t work you could use the self-clean mode and it would (at worst) create a poison gas. Turns out it might explode. Luckily I turned off the self-clean mode when brown smoke started pouring out of the oven. Cleaning the oven is apparently more of a summertime project.
In other news, the kitchen drain is still clogged – going on 4 or 5 days with no dishwasher or kitchen sink now! And when I had to rinse some things off in the bathroom sink, it started leaking again at the base – whoooooo hoo! I love home ownership. I now have my under-sink cabinets standing open, in hopes the heat will get in there and thaw some stuff out, but realistically I am looking at that drain staying clogged until next Monday when it gets at least back in the 30s. I am going to run out of dishes before then, and it’s very cold to go out for every meal. :-\ I am also now afraid to run my washing machine, in case it shares some drainage with the kitchen/dishwasher, all that stuff is along the same outside wall and I really don’t want to clean up any kind of drain overflow. Dirty clothes, dirty dishes, dirty oven, standing brown water in the sink – it’s truly awesome to be me.
The good news is that the car might actually be OK. The guys here said that the not changing gears on the hwy in this weather is actually normal and kind of a feature? Apparently the car is running in a lower gear in order to heat up faster? This is caused by condensati0n and the car being Korean (/nod) That’s what they said anyway. The fact that it changes gears after awhile, not dependent on my speed, is apparently a good thing. It just means it will get back to normal when it’s warm enough to burn off the condensation. I don’t know. I don’t care really why, just as long as it’s not going to blow up or stop running. The whiny noise when I brake can apparently be solved by “Turn[ing] the radio up.” And the car not wanting to start yesterday was b/c I let the tank get under 1/4 full when it was buttclenching cold outside. So perhaps the car is doing OK. It’s hard to tell, I am only a girl.
The bad news is that this weather is very hard on chihuahuas, and Bruiser isn’t responding well to it at all. She’s having a hard time, her heart can’t take getting out in this cold. It makes me very sad to see, so I am trying not to think about it. The other two are just assholes who don’t like to get their paws cold and prefer to pee on my bathroom rug.
That’s all the news in my fucked up little corner of the world.
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