Microwave on Crack

My family was around Friday and Saturday morning after we came back from the Upper Valley Thursday night. They spent a lot of time cooking yummy food (and cleaning my kitchen) which means we have a clean kitchen and lots of yummy leftovers.

My sister was making caramel popcorn which is quickly becoming one of her signature dishes because it is soo soo good. It uses microwave popcorn. So my mom and sister are in the kitchen and the microwave stops. It just goes dead, nothing on the screen, buttons do nothing, we test the outlet it's fine, it's just dead. Great. (We bought the thing in June). I go upstairs to my neighbor Ester and ask to use her microwave (bringing pumpkin chocolate chip cookies as a bribe) and she says sure, but she doesn't own a microwave. I give her the cookies anyway. Fine. So my dad decides to show us how you cook popcorn on the stove like Jiffy Pop when he was a kid. This proves moderately successful although I leave to look up microwave repair places on the internet.

This morning I plug in the microwave one more time just to see and so that I can show Denis, and it turns on! It works fine. Did the microwave need a break? Does it just not like popcorn? Is my entire family crazy? I'm really glad it works, especially now that we have all these leftovers to reheat. I hope this was an isolated episode.

Shopping Find

Friday we went to the mall (that was stupid, too many people, but we saw where Denis works). I found a pair of jeans for $20! At the Gap, which is usually not friendly to people with hips. I rarely go shopping, it's ever rarer that I buy new clothes, I don't think I've bought a new pair of jeans in two years. I missed an entire jean-style going in and out of fashion (the low-rider thing), maybe it's still in, whatever. Anyway, my new jeans are bringing me much joy!