Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Monday, October 06, 2008
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.
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Holy shit, you guys. That sucks. Lucky you had the small fridge standing by, but still…suckage. I hope those dropped shoes get picked up soon - enough bad luck already!
roro on 10/07 at 10:13 AM -
I’m so sorry to hear this! I don’t want to sound all Pollyanna but it might not be as bad as you fear. This happened to me some years ago, at a point when I could afford even an extra $10 about as well as you can right now. It turned out to be the compressor and I got a refurbished one for $40 which my dad installed. Refurbs were available in plenty because I have the most common Kenmore fridge known to man. Please understand that I can’t say anything about how long ago that’s been or how well it’s worked since, lest I curse myself.
Helly on 10/08 at 03:48 PM -
Remember back when you put a link to Miranda July’s website and her upcoming book? I bought it recently and read it and loved it! So, thanks.
Nancy on 10/10 at 06:58 PM -
Helly, in one way, you were right. It wasn’t as bad as we feared. Also, if we’d known anything about refrigerators, it would’ve only cost us $11 to fix. Alas…
Nancy, glad you liked the book. Now that Leigh-Ann and I have brand spankin’ new library cards, we should be able to read almost everything that strikes our fancy. Libraries have gotten so modern since I last used one (about seven years ago) and you can do so much online now - find the book, have someone get it off the shelf for you, have it waiting for you near the checkout at the library, where you can check out all by yourself. It’s cool.
Roro, we’re trying to pick up those shoes faster and faster, but shoes & gravity seem to work against us.
Flippy on 10/11 at 02:42 AM
