So I worked 148.5 hours of overtime last year. This has not led to me having a clean house and now I feel overwhelmed with trying to get everything in order. I also wasn't feeling very creative. I got very behind on replying to comments and haven't read any of the fic gifted to me in a long while. I'm trying to get better about balancing things, but it's difficult. I didn't pick up any overtime for about a month and that seems to have helped.
My washer broke last year and considering how old the washer and dryer were it was time to replace them. I got them financed and paid off a month early. Then my stove broke. It's old. It was my grandma's stove. I've been telling my dad for a few years that I thought it needed to be replaced. I was proud of paying off the washer and dryer early and was trying to decide what my next home project would be. One of the rooms needs new carpet, the pets have destroyed it, or replacing the stove. My dad was pushing for me to pull the carpet up and seeing what it would cost to refinish the hardwood floor underneath. Apparently my grandparents carpeted it because my grandpa's great dane gouged it so that sounds like it was going to be a project. Then the stove died in a drama filled fashion so that answers that question. I was cooking a steak while in my pj's because I worked that night. The stove gave an alarm that meant the electronics weren't working right. Then I realized that the oven door wasn't shutting all the way. Smoke started coming out of it and it seemed to be getting hotter. I got my steak out and tried several times to shut the oven off but it wouldn't shut off. There was a small fire that I'm not sure how I got out. I nearly call the emergency number. I called my dad while I was trying to pry it away from the wall. Thankfully he was working from home that day and could just walk up. I got it away from the wall and unplugged before he even got to my house. He looked at everything and was all why didn't you use the breaker box when I was scared to even leave the kitchen to crate the dogs. So we went downstairs and looked at the breaker box and yeah that's not labeled like it's supposed to be so he couldn't tell me which one was the stove for sure. The stove is till kinda in the middle of my kitchen. I've cleaned behind it. I was using my favorite oven mitt, which sadly got burned and had to be thrown away.
So I'm looking at stoves. I'm confused as to why they need to have a wi-fi or voice activated feature. I know I'm getting electric, but am not sure what kind of stove top I want. I've been encouraged by friends to get the cheapest one I can, but I have the money that was budgeted for the washer and dryer that I can use to pay off a stove so I think I'm going to shop around first before making a decision.
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