Our kitchen has large windows on the west side so that the sun pours in them in the afternoon and early evening. The kitchen is a good ten degrees hotter than the rest of the house for most of the day and twenty degrees hotter if I've been cooking.
We used to run a large window air conditioner in there all summer even though we have central air just so we could stand to be in there cooking and doing our schoolwork.
Last summer we had our central air unit replaced. The guys replaced the duct-work coming into the kitchen and swore we wouldn't need the window unit any more. So now the AC vent in there blows hard. Hard enough to blow napkins off the table. Hard enough to cool off a hot meal on the table before you take your first bite.
So between having the early evening sun in your eyes blinding you and having the AC duct blowing your napkin away and making your food cold, dinner has not been very pleasant lately.
Today I decided to fix the problem by moving the table.
Now the deep freeze is in the middle of the room unplugged. The table is shoved against the wall where the freezer used to be and the vent is still blowing on it. I don't know if it's out of the sun or not since it's dreary and rainy here today. There is no place to put the cat's table. Yes, we have a cat's table.
My back hurts and I'm sick of moving furniture. Nothing works.
I looked for a photo of my kitchen to go with this article and there aren't any. Probably because my kitchen looks to awful to be photographed. I did find one that happened to be taken in the kitchen but not of the kitchen. See, I have to have a place for all our school supplies too. That's what's in the bins.
And now that I've found this photo, I am reminded that I need to get over to the fairgrounds and pick up this years handbook and entry forms.
Plus, I'm like a single mom this week. Shannon gets off work and goes straight to night school for a class he has to take for work. Otherwise I'd make him put all the furniture back where it was so we could plug the freezer back in.
I'm considering putting the table in the family room where the computer is and moving the computer into the kitchen. But I don't think it will work. The hutch over the computer is taller than those little knick-knack shelves are high. I think. I wonder where the measuring tape is. Still, we could eat outside of the kitchen that is still hot from cooking the meal and without the sun in our eyes. And I could use the computer without the TV blaring 10 feet way in the family room. Does Home Depot have computer desks? Does Macy's? A new computer desk will be necessary to make this work.
Or maybe a new table is what's needed. A smaller, round one. Yeah, that's the ticket. Does Home Depot have those?
I'd love to get the cat table out of the kitchen. Mainly because their litter box is under it. That's nasty; to have a litter box in the kitchen.
So give me ideas for my kitchen. We use it for cooking, eating, and school. And the cat's stuff. There isn't much hope for moving much of anything to the family room. The family room is also the office and home to all our bookcases - more school stuff. I think we need a school room. Which means we need a new house.
Maybe I should move the washer and dryer out of the utility room and put the cat table and litter box in the utility room. Then I have to hire an electrician and a plumber to make a new place for the washer and dryer. Maybe in the master bathroom. But then I'd have to move the toilet out. Maybe to the front yard. People do that.
Maybe I could put the bookcases in the hallway. Too bad my husband bolted them to the wall. And then where would I sort the laundry?
It's simple. We've outgrown our house.
And it all started because I wanted to move the table. Now my day has been eaten up and I'm worse off than before I started.
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Not this one. I think I'll go to Lowe's and get a new vent thing to screw on there. That should be easy.
I wish. No way the budget can take a hit like that though. I cook from scratch at least half the time.
You're right, Kimberly. I better not get rid of the cat table.
I'll think of something. I need to get back in there and do something so I can plug the freezer back in.
I'll get photos when I'm all done and the kitchen is all clean. I discovered that the housekeepers have not been cleaning under the deep freeze. Yuck!
The cat table is somehow disturbing to me...maybe because I've never owned a cat.
I just noticed that it is 7:30 and dinner was scheduled to be a roast that cooks for an hour and a half.
I planned to plug my roaster oven in on the deck and cook the roast out there so I wouldn't heat up the kitchen but it's pouring down rain and if I start the roast now we won't be eating until 9:30 counting prep time on the veggies that go with it.
I'd go get McDonalds except I look a mess and probably smell bad by now. I guess I'll feed the kids ham sandwiches and strawberry yogurt.
Almost every piece of furniture we own is dragged to the middle of one room or another. The housekeepers are gonna have a hard time tomorrow. I'm going to tell them to put it all back.
Hoped for the best. It's full of food. As long as no one opens it I'm okay for at least 24 hours.
Meanwhile, please get an extension cord and plug your freezer back in just to keep your frozen food safe???
It's a continuing education class for Access 2003 (level 1), and the contractor/teacher of the class is an interesting sort. I'd swear she's an unschooler if she hadn't touted her credentials during an hour of the 3 for this first night of the class.
I sure hope we can get more time to actually do some work Wednesday. It should be noteworthy to say that the teacher was easily aware that I wasn't just another ignorant bastard that had never touched a computer before, which is why I'm guessing she spent so much time on other subjects of discussion during classtime, skipping the "I never touched a Microsoft Office product before" BS part of the class.
That is so funny because my mother's answer to every problem I have is to get rid of the cats. If my toilet was clogged, her answer would be to get rid of the cats. I can't wait to tell her we've decided to get rid of the children.
I said I had a cat table, too, although we only have one indoor cat. I said it was the same cat table you had.
I said I had too much room in my house and didn't have a solution for you and I was sorry. I said the proof was because my cat table sits beside my beer refrigerator.
Or, maybe I was hallucinating.
This totally is If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
I wouldn't want the litter box in my kitchen, either. The cats' litter boxes (they have two) are in the basement. Historically, if I haven't had a basement, the litter boxes have been left in either bathrooms or laundry areas.
One day you'll have to come visit. Please promise not to start teasing me about Monk-isms if you do...