Tuesday, October 21, 2008

the wee hours

Kittens for Obama/Biden

Cute kittens for Barack Obama - if you won’t be swayed by Colin Powell, be swayed by Bunny & Carlo.

 

Saturday, October 11, 2008

evening

“Just Cupcake’s”???

What’s wrong with this picture?  How much will it cost to fix?  Wouldn’t it be cool if this society really existed and we could get membership cards and everything?

I have a toothache right now or I’d really rant about this.  Is it “Just Cupcake’s Empty Building”?  “Just Cupcake’s” sign that maybe they shouldn’t open a cupcake store so close (within blocks) of another cupcake place that already exists, and on the same street, yet?  How many people do you think saw the sign before it went up (from the owners to the makers of the sign to the installers of the sign) and had no clue that there was anything wrong with it?  Five?  Ten?  Too (punny, huh?) many, I’m thinking.

 

evening

Okay, so the fridge didn’t have to be replaced, but…

Being charged over $200 (we know now because we have the old part) for replacing an $11 part is a bit much.  Don’t you think so, Sears?  So, let’s see, what Sears products we’ve had die or need replacing while we’ve been in this house - the dishwasher (we bought a really nice one, and when it stopped working, the repairman said it wasn’t worth fixing - some computer part, I think, so we bought another new one from Sears and it sucks), the hot water heater (it stopped making hot water, which I know must be ever so difficult a job for an appliance), but luckily, it was under warranty.  Yay!  Right?  Yay?  No!  The warranty didn’t include the service charge and the “upgraded” part it now needed.  It was like $300 or $400.  I can’t remember.

Today’s appliance death….the microwave.  Well, I guess it’s not considered dead if it microwaves when you OPEN the door, rather than when you SHUT the door, but it seems kind of dangerous to us.  We have enough problems without being microwaved.  Although, come to think of it, we haven’t always had this microwave, and I haven’t always been sick.  Coincidence?  I mean, I’m sure a microwave didn’t herniate my disk, but it could’ve caused other problems, no?  It’s always cooked at least twice as fast as any other microwave.  We just thought we’d finally gotten a decent microwave, but perhaps we just finally got a microwave that cooked at whatever speed would get it done fastest, so it could go back to lazing around on the counter.

Maybe there’s something wrong with the electrical systems in us - they’re shorting out everything we come into contact with, and it’s happening more and more often.  Freaky.

Monday, October 06, 2008

late evening

C’mon life, hit us harder, we’re not quite down yet

Last night, we discovered that our freezer wasn’t, um, well, freezing things.  Okay, I admit it, I’m addicted to Kool-Aid (a variety of flavors) mixed up in little bottles (mini Gatorade empties) and I put them in the freezer.  That allows me to have icy-cold drinks throughout the day, and at some point, they’re slushy, which is my favorite.  Anyway, the freezer wasn’t freezing my bottles.  The fridge seemed fine, so we thought.  We figured we’d be okay without the freezer half of the refigerator/freezer combo because we have a big ol’ chest freezer (how do big, or even average-sized, families manage with such tiny fridge/freezer appliances), but when we woke up this morning, we realized that it was the whole she-bang.  And really, why wouldn’t it be, it’s us you’re talking about.

We’re still a bit on the lucky side (it terrifies me to say that, because we don’t have any “other” shoes to drop) because we have a little fridge upstairs that we’ve always just used for drinks & condiments (oh, weren’t we livin’ high on the hog, with a “drink fridge”?) because we generally eat dinner upstairs by the tv, so as to stay away from the big dogs.  So, where you eat yer dinner, ya need yer condiments ‘n beverages, right?  Anyway, we can dump some of the drinks out and put some of the stuff from the regular fridge into the li’l one.  It does change the errand of grocery shopping to just going to Target to pick up some paper products and maybe some cereal.  We’d buy some frozen stuff, but the big freezer is still all full of raw cat/dog food that we got from SuperZoo.  Speaking of SuperZoo, I still have a bunch of products to review, like Nature’s Variety raw food, Wagatha’s (kosher!) cookies,  Breath-a-licious bones , Dr. WooFrs pet treats,  fruitables (pumpkin & blueberry - the most fabulous smelling dog cookies so far), and more…  I’d like to make this blog at least 50/50 appliance failure vs pet food or snack treat reviews from SuperZoo.