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Well, it wasn't what we were really looking for. We were looking for something to make toast. And grilled cheese sandwiches and the like. It didn't keep good time; the clock was about 7 minutes faster than anything else in the kitchen. It took ten minutes for three slices of toast (I think that was more my fault; I didn't realize that the temp had to be turned up to 450 F to do toast and nowhere in the instruction manual did it say that!). I don't know how long it took to toast Rick's bagel because he gave up on it and ate it, semi-toasted, meaning....warm. He wasn't amused. I baked a casserole and, after the 30-minute time period, it could have gone at least another 15 minutes or so. I baked a cake in it and at 350 F, what normally took about 45 minutes to bake, took not even 30 minutes in the toaster oven; the streusel on top of the cake was burned into the cake. And, at that point, Rick said, "Enough!" And we took it back. We bought a cheap toaster and let it go at that. FWIW, the toaster works beautifully. (I was looking for something that would bake a cake in the summer without having to heat up the regular oven. And then Rick said to me, "Dear, you have a double oven; why don't you just use the smaller oven to bake your cakes?" I guess the answer to that is because I'm a idiot and don't think about it.) So that's the story on the toaster oven.
- Breakfast for the kids, 3.25 miles on the treadmill, made the bed, grabbed a shower (I was going to stop at the library on my way into work this morning, but there's a real sleet storm outside and I didn't want to deal with it.)
- Go to the library at lunch. I also must go to the place where Rick's mother got her hearing aids to get some batteries for her.
- I have the county planning commission meeting after work this afternoon.
- Must grab a few groceries.
- Scoop the boxes
- Rick's mom's Kindle Paperwhite should be coming today....I'll have to figure out how to use it so I can show her! (We got it for her as an early Christmas present.) And we also have to figure out how she can keep somebody at the nursing home from stealing the thing (I hate to be pessimistic, but well, things do disappear sometimes).
- Try to stay awake long enough to watch Lucifer at 8:00.