Good help is hard to find.

After a fair bit of denial about the situation, I have come to realize my dear microwave is fading fast.  I've been loathe to admit it, what with good help being so hard to find, but after 11 years the key pad is pretty much junk.  It started with the 2 5 8 0 column which begin to be spotty in its cooperation with entering numbers.  That came and went for about 4 months before deciding to work since not working didn't stop me from punching around on it. Then it was the 1 4 7 column which kicked out about 3 months ago.  The 1 recently came back to work but then the start button died today.  I'll work with a lot of things but when the start button goes, it doesn't much matter what else works.  We've been making do with the one touch buttons.  As far as the microwave knows we've suddenly gone on an all potato diet.  Shawn went out today to purchase a replacement.  Apparently food and houses aren't the only things that have been supersized since  2000. Doesn't anyone live in small spaces?  To get one that is big enough to fit the bottle sterlizer in we have to puchase a monestrosity that is 5 inches bigger than our current model.  5 inches in my kitchen is a fair hunk of counter real estate.  I'll live with fewer watts and a few minutes longer in the cooking phase ( I'm not trying to power a time traveling Dolorean with it, for goodness sake) but it looks like my options are 1)big enough to cook a Thanksgiving turkey or 2)barely big enough to cook a microwave meal.  Dang it, I don't like either of those.