Q: What is worse than a sink full of dishes?
A: The adjacent dishwasher that you bought ELEVEN months ago and never hooked up.
I'm really resisting the urge to put vise grips on it .
(You can take the girl out of Ohio, but you can't take the Ohio out of the girl.)
A: The adjacent dishwasher that you bought ELEVEN months ago and never hooked up.
If anything screams pathetic (well besides the broken hot plate knob, more on that below), THIS is it. The excuses for not having hooked up the dishwasher were sort of justified at first, but got more and more lame as the months stretched on. First it was that we are waiting on the garbage disposal (slumbering comfortably in its box in the basement btw) which was waiting on the sink, which is dependent on the countertops, which was dependent on both availability of a large soapstone slab and cold hard cash. Well, wouldn't you know it, when big slabs came in, the money was gone. :( So now here we are many, many months later with plywood countertops, a $30 Home Depot sink, no garbage disposal and a very sparkly virgin dishwasher.
Le Sigh.
I guess some people call it "nesting" when pregnant women get a burst of energy in their 2nd trimester, but I don't think that is what I have. (Marc says we've been nesting in this crack house for +2 years now.) For me, it is more about exhaustion and using my pregnancy as a way to get Marc to cave in on things I want to do. So I put "hook up dishwasher" on my pre-thanksgiving list and presto! from 8pm-10:30pm last night it happened. I wish it had been more "plug and play", but the work included installing a new water connection, a plywood boost on the floor, re-rigging our drain situation and drilling the crap out of the cabinet side-wall. When it was all said and done, I shed a tear, and I'm not even blaming it on the hormones.
Of course, no good deed goes unpunished. As soon as we get the dishwasher working, the trusty "temporary solution, turned 1.5 year cooking device" hot plate gets broken. I twisted the knob too hard and it just kept spinning. Then I accidentally swept up the little broken piece with the shop vac before we had a chance to super glue it back into working order.
So goes my life.
You can turn the metal part with your fingernail to turn it off and on, which I'm sure we will continue to do for another 1.5 years until we get the real gas cooktop (again dependnet on big slabs and big money.)
I'm really resisting the urge to put vise grips on it .
(You can take the girl out of Ohio, but you can't take the Ohio out of the girl.)
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I've had my stainless steel lined dishwasher about 11 years now & love it. FYI, if you don't already know, run a cup of white vinegar (by itself) through a wash or rinse cycle every once in awhile & the stainless inside stays shiny new looking.
ReplyDeleteAnd ROFL, I immediately thought of vise grips when I saw the pic. Hmmm, didn't realize it was my Buckeye upbringing kickin' in.
PS - Love your blog!
we didn't have a working dishwasher for about .5 seconds before we went out and bought a new one. i cannot live without a dishwasher (well, i can, but i also tend to eat out, use plastic plates, anything to avoid doing dishes)...
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