It's Only Wednesday...What a Long week!

When I woke up this morning, I was surprised to find out it is only Wednesday. Now, do not get me wrong. I am always running out of time to get things completed, but the exhausted I felt this morning had me wondering how it was only Wednesday.

On Monday, I had a VERY long day of going to appointments. The headache I developed on Monday night reminded me why I try to avoid long days. Yesterday, I spent seven hours getting caught up with YouTube comments. I have been too busy and too sick to keep up with the numerous messages. I really need to get someone to manage my social media accounts...but that will probably not happen. I cannot pay anyone to help me. I am not monetized and will likely never be monetized. Plus, the person needs to be someone I deeply trust because he/she will have access to all my accounts. And also, the person cannot be very sensitive to negativity because the comments I receive can be very mean and down right awful.

The exhaustion from spending that much time replying to comments really wore me out. I slept long and hard last night.

Today, I had another appointment. The trip took longer than expected, but nonetheless, I was back home fairly quickly. Then it was off to edit a YouTube video. 

I like to stay ahead of my YouTube videos. I try to have a week or more worth of videos ready to go, but of late, I have been getting very behind due to the demands of social media. So, tomorrow's video is actually a video I filmed today and edited today. That is a rarity.

Now, I need to finish some social media correspondence and start thinking about a video I should film tomorrow. With having two YouTube channels, I have to produce two videos a week. I am not sure how much longer I am going to be able to do that. I am running out of energy to keep up with everything.

IT WORKS!!! The Miracle Oven

A week and a half ago, I tried to take a shower. However, the water was cold. I reset the water heater several times, but the water remained frigid. I took a fast shower and got out of the freezing cold water as soon as possible.

I then went to use the stove and oven. The stove worked fine, but when I turned on the oven, the burner on the stove went down to almost nothing. I wondered if we were out of gas. This sometimes happens when the gas tank runs low. I pushed aside the though and threw in a few sweet potatoes into the oven. I went to bed and forgot about the event.

A few days later, I tried to use the stove. The burner flames were very low. When I attempted to turn on the oven, the stove burners went out and the oven refused to ignite. I groaned. We must be out of gas. I asked my family member when we last received a shipment of gas. I was told we received gas earlier this year. My family member then inspected the gas gauge outside. We still had 55% left in our tank. Not knowing what else to do, the gas company was then summoned.

Praise be to God, the gas company was passing through our area. About 30 minutes after calling them, a work crew was at my home. They inspected everything. They could not find anything wrong. A worker came inside the house and saw the issues we were having with the stove and oven. There was definitely an issue with gas not coming into the house.

The work crew dug up our gas line and replaced it. Over three hours later, our stove worked! And as an added bonus, the water heater was now working too! Hallelujah.

A few days passed, and then I tried to use the oven. I turned the knob, but nothing happened. I turned it off and tried again. There was no clicking sound. My heart sank. I fervently prayed and tried a few more times, but nothing happened. I immediately thought the igniter must have suffered damaged when the oven did not receive enough gas earlier in the week. I did not want to call a service crew to replace the igniter. The gas line cost $1,000 to replace and getting a new igniter would be another $500. I decided I could use a slow cooker, air fryer and stove top for our cooking needs. And indeed, using this combination did satisfy all our needs.

This week, I was apprehensive about the oven not working. Thanksgiving is in a few days. I was slightly panicked because we really needed to use the oven.

Today, I had an appointment and then had to hurry back home to meet my respiratory therapist for her monthly visit. When I was rushing into the house, I meant to turn on a stove burner to heat up some water. In my haste, I turned the wrong knob; I grabbed the knob for the stove. I raced to go to the bathroom. When I went back to the oven, I screamed! The oven was working!!! I could not believe my eyes. I opened the oven and sure enough, it was heating up! Not to waste our oven's new found life, I threw a few butternut squash into the oven.

I started praising God and dancing around the kitchen! I was thrilled the oven was working again! I gleefully started singing, "The oven is working! The oven is working! Praise be to God!"

Happy Thanksgiving!

P.S. I am sorry this blog post is late. I meant to post it last week, but Blogger abruptly stopped, and I was unable to get this posted to my blog. Sorry for the delay. I hope you and yours had a fabulous Thanksgiving!