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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-09-18 02:30 pm

When somebody has somebody and somebody wants someone new

We are now waiting, for the second day in a row, for the arrival of the promised repairman who will cause our oven to light again instead of making a sad repetitive clicking noise and filling the kitchen with the smell of gas. (We're not sure if it's a pilot light problem or what, because one burner actually lit at the same time, but we decided not to blow ourselves up finding out.) Last night was an epic misadventure in pizza-ordering and the night before that I made dinner in a toaster oven. This has really put a wrench in my plans to bake a lot of apples now that the weather is cool.

1. I learned only recently that hooded eyes are an anatomical feature, not an expression. I should have been picturing generations of mysterious characters looking more like Lauren Bacall.

2. I am impressed by just how much lovebird-ness this artist got into human form.

3. This poem by Richard Michelson is a knockout: "Forgiveness."

I am still sick. It's pouring rain. I just wanted the repairman to show at noon so I could go back to bed. I maintain this is not an undue thing to ask of the universe.

[edit] The repairman showed! The gas valve is broken. We can use the burners because they're on a different line, but the oven is kaput until further notice. Our property manager says it will be taken care of. If I can't bake apples, it's not my autumn.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-09-18 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope the repairman shows up and fixes the oven soonest.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-09-18 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. Those birds are like a feathered Punnet square.

Is there some sort of time-related communication from the repairperson or property manager you could at least hold over their head and rant about?
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-09-18 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I posted my comment and promptly fell asleep on my spouse's chest for 20 minutes. I came back to endorse this course of action for your own evening.

If it gets to be October and your oven isn't fixed, there are buses and we have an oven and we have *shudders* pickyourownoutdoorappleorchardsintheoutdoors. You may go and take Spouse and Godchild and it will be seasonal and heartwarming and then you can catch a hockey game.


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[personal profile] selkie 2018-09-19 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
From my pit of resentful awakeness: weekend October 21 clear on Child’s calendar. You? Travel mildly subsidized, late-birthday celebration obvious. Arrangements by separate telegram as wanted/req’d. Send Kleenex stop.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2018-09-18 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad the repairman showed, but sorry that you have to wait for the oven to be fixed. I hope you get your baked apples soon.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2018-09-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've poached pears in wine and sugar; I wonder if poached apple would be any good as a stopgap? Even if not quite the same.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2018-09-19 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
If you try it, I hope you report back! :)
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2018-09-19 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
( Also offers oven )
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[personal profile] chomiji 2018-09-19 01:45 am (UTC)(link)

Thank you for the birb link! That is adorable in every way!

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[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2018-09-19 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
I really liked that poem!

You can sort of bake apples in the microwave. It's not a perfect substitute, but it's not bad. (Once lived in a student flat with two rings and a microwave....)
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2018-09-19 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Once feeling lonely for a honey cake, I microwaved apple slices, some almond meal, some butter and some dried raisins in a bowl. 30 second intervals until it was done.

Pretty good! Not baked apples, though.
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[personal profile] boxofdelights 2018-09-19 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a woman in Unnatural and Accidental who goes to see her ex-husband -- she's dead, but he doesn't know it yet -- and he says, "I'm sorry for everything."

"Everything, huh?" she asks. There is so much contempt in that 'huh'. "That's a lot to be sorry for."
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[personal profile] boxofdelights 2018-09-20 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I would love to hear what you think of it. I could send you a DVD, or, if you can get it from the library or something, I'd sponsor a review.