| Tuesday, January 30, 2001 Dear Kate, Nothing like that Snickers bar you couldn't pass up at grocery store checkout, or the cute little do-dad at the accessory store's counter that you just had to have, or that thing you bought that was so cheap you couldn't pass it up. Like the $1,000 stove, marked down to $299, which you just happened to notice while shopping for car stereos. Haven't we all done that? Gone shopping for a car stereo and come home with a $1,000 stove, marked down to $299, that was a floor model in the clearance section of the appliance showroom? No? "Honey, I have a surprise for you," says Joe on the phone to me while I'm still at work, late into the evening. "We got another cat?" I ask. The tile is down in the foyer? We're leaving for Hawaii tomorrow? I rattled off several guesses before he told me about his little purchase. "Guess how much?" he asks. "$200?" I figure. "Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!" He was ticked that I guessed so low. But I knew he wasn't going to tell me he got it for $800. Joe doesn't part with money easily, so I knew it had to be a really spectacular deal. I think the whole thing is kind of funny. I'm not angry at all, though I can't help but notice he is making a habit of buying things like toilets, dryers and stoves without my input. THAT bugged me--but only a little. I figure we aren't going to get around to really redoing the kitchen until 2005 (he says in a year or two, for the record). So for what we paid for this thing now, we could always change it by then. Thing is, the stove we had was perfectly fine. The kitchen in general is the last room in the house that I'm complaining about. But the new one is pretty cool. It's a black Whirlpool "Gold" self-cleaning 30-inch "Accu-bake" gas stove. It has a window into the oven, so when I turn the light on I can see in. The one we had didn't have that. And I like that feature. (The little things life, I tell ya.) And perhaps my parents will take our "old" one, which is about 35+ years newer than the one they have now. Mom uses a magnet to hold up the now-handleless oven door, and a pot holder to open it. Well, I suppose that's about it for today. Sorry I've been missing in action so much lately. |
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