Conspiracy Theory

All the household appliances are conspiring against us! First the furnace wouldn't work. Thankfully we have a handy neighbor who helped us fix that one. Second the washer kept filling with water but wouldn't drain. I had to bail it out by hand (come to find out it wasn't broken I was just shoving too many clothes in there). Next the dishwasher quit (already elaborated on that in previous posts). As if that wasn't enough I tried to use the printer the other day and it wasn't playing nice. I decided to just turn it off but it went into shutting down mode for a couple hours. I couldn't even get it to turn off right! The icing on the cake was when we were heating up the oven to bake a pizza and all of a sudden there were sparks coming from the bottom of the oven. The heating element had gone out. Swell. Thanks to Pam and Richard we were still able to bake our pizza. So after a weekend of looking at Consumer Reports and chatting with our friends at Lowe's we have a dishwasher ordered and a heating element part on it's way in the mail. So no baking or dishwashing this week and to add to the drama Jason had to turn off the power to the dishwasher (because it's not hooked up and there's a live wire and on and on) so my toaster has to be plugged into a different outlet, my disposal isn't turned on and I can't use my light above the sink. Oh well.