I sloppily just grabbed my now cold cup of coffee and dribbled down my chin when I realized it was no longer warm.
Since I haven’t showered yet and am wearing a beat up old sweatshirt I just wiped it all over my sleeve. I’ll take a shower when I am done with this piece and put on a clean pair of jeans and a different beat up old sweatshirt.
I was playing solitaire (free cell) with my legs up on my desk while watching the snow covered road tricks its drivers as they turn the corner and slip.
I am tired this week with the multi flexes of weather. My sinuses are plugged and my ears hurt.
Whether it be snow or sun it needs to pick one and stay that way.
I have been cleaning my office out. I moved here on July 1rst 2008 and the boxes arrived a week later. I made those boxes go away and put them away but when Joe moved here in November of that year he brought with him more boxes and I gave up.. Too much.. So those boxes sit here and taunt me.
Today and tomorrow I will throw what is in them away and save what’s important..Most of them are Joe packings.. I have a way of packing so they are taken out and put away where they need to go.. These were drawers of my desk in Seattle dumped into boxed and taped shut.
A few months back I told Joe the fridge wasn’t shutting correctly. He kinda jerryrigged it so it would hold out a few more months. I am usually the one that does that but frankly this fridge came with the house. And I frankly didn’t give a damn about saving it. Bad me.
The freezer downstairs actually has that Velcro you use to keep kids from getting in the fridge as an extra device to keep it shut.
On Tuesday morning the jerry rigging was finally getting to Joe and he said we should consider a new one soon.
He had to go work at Jack’s school so I got dressed and drove to the local appliance store. I walked in and told them I was not gonna be a big sale but a sale none the less if the price was good. They were friendly and not salepersony.. Good sign.
I explained to Daryl the barely 30 lease manager who took me over to scratch and dent that I don’t care if it’s entirely kicked in.. As long as it works. I DID NOT want an icemaker or water pouring device and I put the bugger out in my mudroom in the back of the house so ugly didn’t matter. Granted my mudroom has tile and is sealed it’s still a mudroom. He agreed as he has one too and he keeps his Samsung fridge out on his..
I did Look at his Samsung as I am kinda partial to the reviews I read on them and it has a cool pizza slot.. But alas it only holds four pizzas.. I hate side by sides anyway. But I did like it.. And at 950 bucks was a pretty cool deal.. But it has a water pouring device and an icemaker.. Neither of which I want.
So I found a nice Frigidaire that has a couple hundred knocked off in black with no Ice maker and no Water pouring device and took some pics and went home to think.
On my way out the door the nice lady at the desk in the front explained they were having a giveaway contest and if I said some silly things and went on a scavenger hunt in the store I could win prizes.. to be a good sport I did.. Didn’t win anything though.
Other than the I made an ass of myself silly thing saying way. No it was kinda fun.. I am just shy doing that kind of thing. And I whispered the silly phrase back to them.
I came back later to buy the fridge.. I was exhausted and barely even remembered my phone number. I almost gave my Seattle number. As I gave the address and advised them to send the guys to the driveway and the back door the woman at the desk behind me piped up “You live in Arlo’s house”
After I paid we started yapping about the house. She had been here many times and her church had a bunch of Arlo’s old recipes she would get for me to try. Apparently he loved to bake and cook.
Small world or small town.
The bummer of buying a new fridge is emptying out the old and ugly one. It’s not as easy as one might think. On Tuesday night I took everything off the top of the fridge and removed my large magnet collection.
On Wednesday I was able to take out all the food in the fridge.
They called to say they were on the way and I then removed the multitude of popsicles in the freezer and the few Butch’s frozen pizzas I have left that I am saving for a special occasion. Or pure hunger.
Maia of course opened the front door for them cause they didn’t know which was front or back and I had to keep Chester from running out to greet them and Gretschen from just plain eating them. Then they came to the back door and took part the old one to take it away.. Under the fridge was what I call the fridge monster stash. Every magnet or kids pics that has fallen in the two years it has been on the back porch has fallen under there never to be seen again. Also were random old photographs that had fallen and a business card I have been carrying around for 8 years from the Skagit river resort in Marblemount, Washington.
http://www.northcascades.com
I love that place..
Now I had moved the Fridge into the mudroom 2 years ago because it was kinda like a 2001 obelisk in my kitchen and it really had no home or wall and was just kinda in the middle behind a door.
So it was there awhile.. And I am a bad cleaner.. I never cleaned under it.. I guess I should do that more. After they were gone I sat on the floor going through the treasure unearthed form under the old one. There was Joe’s Sherman Hemsley autograph I got him one year when I met the guy at a state fair, a pic of Maia with my Dad’s dahlias and about 25 various magnets.
The room is all organized now. The fridge’s are back home on the new fridge.
And today I was soooo happy I didn’t have to fight to get the damn thing to close.
Life can be good if we take the time to enjoy little things we take for granted. Like cold food.