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Beep, Beep, Beep and My Scattered Thoughts At 5am

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Why can’t they make things that don’t beep with every push of a button? It annoys the heck out of me. Am I alone?

Seriously. To turn on my electric heater when it’s chilly in the morning, I have push a button and it beeps. If I have to change the settings, it beeps with every push of a button. Why? The infrared heater in the living room has the loudest beep ever! You can hear it all over the house! Why? Do they think everyone wants to hear it say, at 3am? Our propane heater doesn’t beep, but its button has an extremely loud click! Why?

My fan beeps with every touch of a button. Why?

My air fryer automatically starts at 15 minutes so if I only want to cook something for 5 minutes, I have to push a button 10 times. It beeps 10 freakin’ times! Why?

The same thing happens with my Instant Pot. If the last time it was used it was set at 40 minutes, and this time I just want to set it for 10 minutes, I have to listen to it beep 30 damn times before I get it down to 10 minutes! Why? Is that really necessary?

Let’s not forget the microwave. Every push of a button summons up another blasted beep. And when it’s finished, it decides I need to hear 4 more beeps, as if one beep isn’t enough to let me know when it’s done. Why? I get 10 beeps with the Instant Pot when it’s finished, and 8 beeps with my air fryer! Why?

My breadmaker has its beeps, too. Why?

If the answer to WHY is that the maker wants you to know that it’s working, that’s just stupid. Why, you ask? Because there’s a digital display on those things and that should be enough for a person with a half of a brain to see that they have turned the appliance on or off, or changed the settings. Good grief.

Why can’t all my appliances be like my crock pot? It’s quiet as a mouse. Not a sound. And it doesn’t even have a digital display! I turn a knob to turn to put it on high or low, and to turn it off. Simple. Gotta love simple.

Nothing is simple these days. All we get now are beeps.

Beep, beep, beep.

What’s Eating Aunt Debbie?

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I’ve eaten at 3 different Mexican restaurants in the past month or so. Only one of them was worth going to again. I’ve eaten a lot of Mexican food over the years and no, I’ve never been to Mexico or Texas, but holy crap. When the refried beans don’t taste like beans, the enchilada sauce is like tomato sauce, and the rice tastes dirty, I won’t eat there again. I can let go of the fact that the salsa may have way too much cilantro or the tortilla chips weren’t perfect. I know that restaurants have bad days. I know there are different regions of Mexico so each restaurant may have different recipes… Maybe I’ve become too picky or my palate has just been spoiled over the many years of eating at a Tex-Mex place that has closed down. All I know is that I know what tastes good to me…

Looking after Dad has been especially difficult this past month. He’s been forgetful more than usual. His gait is unsteady. He has fallen twice. His blood pressure goes high mid-day even though he takes his meds. He sleeps in his chair off and on all day long. He’s not sleeping well at night. He sleeps some but it’s not restful sleep. I worry. I stress a lot.

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired and frankly pissed off to no end, of this political shitstorm! Trump is an asshole, plain and simple. Every single person he has in his entourage is an asshole. You have to be an asshole to follow an asshole. He has no morals. He wants what he wants. He is the biggest narcissist this world has ever seen. He wants to change our government to the way he wants it to be. He wants to destroy everything we have and everything we know. I could write all day about Trump and still not cover everything…

Our washing machine is being stupid. It washes fine. No problems with a load being clean. The problem is that it doesn’t just beep (a tune) when a load is finished. It decides in the middle of the night to beep off and on as if there’s an unfinished load in the machine. It needs to be serviced before I beat it to death with a baseball bat!

Well, that’s what’s eating me today. Not sure about the rest of the week. Haha. Have a great day, friends.

aunt-debbie

A New Washing Machine

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We’re having a new washing machine delivered tomorrow. Our old one is just a little over 2 years old. It’s a Whirlpool and I hope to never own another! It wasn’t ‘top of the line’ but it wasn’t junk either! You’d think it would last longer than 2 years! Our extended warranty had expired by just 2 months! Coinky-dink? Doubt it. I think they purposely make appliances to last about 2 or 3 years or so to get you to spend more money! It’s my fault we got that particular washing machine. I HAD to have the machine that matched my dryer. The dryer was relatively new at the time, so why not get the match? Right? Ugh.

This time we got a 3-year extended warranty and a GE. Again, not ‘top of the line’ because seriously, why the hell should we buy ‘top of the line’ when they won’t last much longer than the others? In my opinion, the more gadgets or the more advanced any appliance is, the more apt it is to have problems, so I tend to gravitate toward simpler appliances. It’s a nice washing machine, with a larger, stainless steel drum and different options for water level, load size, and it even has a special soak cycle for heavily soiled items. It can’t get here soon enough because I have laundry backed up and in the way!

I was reminded while reading an old journal entry of mine, that the machine we had prior to the Whirlpool was replaced just a few months before my youngest sister came to visit. There’s history of my sister being a jynx – so when that washer went haywire it wasn’t really a surprise because we knew she was coming! This time, she said, “I swear I’m not planning a surprise visit!” It’s a good thing because the things that have gone wrong in the past would astound you! That’s a post for another day!