I have no idea what’s wrong with these kiddos! They just don’t like our microwave oven. I mean, gosh! It’s only from 1987 – hahaha! Ok, truth be told, they don’t like any of our kitchen appliances …and more truth be told, neither do I! If there’s one thing this house has provided us, it is lots and lots of stuff to make fun of and carry on about!

Back to the crazy microwave – this thing does the funniest (oddest) things to our food. You have to be very watchful and careful and also quite ready to just completely throw away your popcorn when you’re making microwave popcorn. Let’s say you pop it for 3:33 (that’s the time we used in our microwave when I was growing up!) …and it doesn’t get all the way popped. So the next time you put it for just 3 minutes. And it burns! Less time – and it burns!! Or better yet – man, this one really baffles me – you put it in for some amount of time based on your last experience, and it not only burns it, but, it also doesn’t cook it! What? Yes. It’s the funniest thing! The bag puffs up a little bit, to maybe about half an inch – so you know that popcorn is not popped! But on the bottom layer – it’s burned! Isn’t that just the craziest thing?!

It’s just nuts. And the dishwasher is just as nutty. And the oven, oh gawd, don’t get me started on that damn thing! Bake cookies at my house? Yeah, pfft – good luck with that one! You can make dinner, without much trouble – but, baking – nah. That doesn’t turn out so well. And the refrigerator is like an old lemon car, falling apart here, there, and everywhere. LOL

The kids and I went digging around, looking at every corner of these things looking for the years they were made. I think I found a 1987 on the oven, as well. It’s kind of hard to tell, because, of the way the numbers are – it might not really be a 1987 at all. But if it is, I think I figured out that the man who built this house – the only previous owner, went on a ‘fix up the house’ shopping spree in 1987 and then was such a penny pincher, that he never did upgrade anything. I’m surprised, really, that the appliances aren’t older than they are. From the picture we’ve pieced together of this man, he was not really a ‘spender’. I bet that year he just found some really good shopping deals and went for it! Or it might have been that his wife put her foot down. I can ‘see’ the conversation in my mind.

“John, we’ve lived here for twenty-six years now! These appliances need to be updated! You’re just being silly! Now let’s go compare shopping prices and see what we can find! I’m not going to live with these rickety things anymore!”

He was so into football and his army buddies, that kitchen appliances just were not on his list of priorities. I know a guy (kinda well) who doesn’t like to spend money on needs *ahem* – he’d much rather spend money on wants. I was just explaining that to his son the other day. Maybe John was like that, too.

One thing that I know that he did, in fact, try to update – is the plumbing. From what I’ve been told, he had multiple people out here that tried to fix it. And I’ll tell you what – if there’s one thing that makes me move out of this house faster than anything, it’s gonna be the plumbing. The showers here just plain SUCK! When I was at a hotel last week, I just stood in that shower and enjoyed. every. single. minute. of it!!!! And then I took another – and then I took another!! Hahaha!