So Merry Christmas Eve to me! The In-laws came in town. I have 2 sets. I love them both, but in very different ways, as they are very different types of people. I often wonder how they originally got together, the parents of my husband that is. Although I am glad they did, because if not there would be no him...but still for those who know them you often have to wonder...well that is not the point.
The point is...that the In-laws came in town today for Christmas. So thankful to have them here with us while Wes is away protecting the rights of others. When I arrived my father-in-law was in the kitchen messing with my dishwasher.
The dishwasher has been down and broken for oh, I don't know, maybe 8-9 months? Died around March and has been hit or miss with the working thing since then. I have just been doing the dishes and dealing with it until about a month ago. When the washing machine starting having fits, which was just a few days after the grout smell wouldn't wash away, the dogs had eaten the remote, Kercher had dropped a lamp and made some dents on the new hard wood floors, the trap door to the fire place broke, and well, a whole other plethora of crap, and I said I had had enough doing dishes. I was getting the d*mn thing fixed.
So I called The Repair Guy. Literally, that is the name of the company. A nice man named Marcello showed up and fixed the washing machine. There was a whole sock in the drain. Yea a whole navy blue, 6-7 T sock stuck in the drain. And since my husband and I are pretensions snobs when it comes to buying appliances we have the beautiful ridiculously expensive front loading machines that save you a ton of water and electricity but make a major dent in your credit card when you first get them. Since the sock was stuck in the drain the machine couldn't sensor the drain properly and would just cut off. It has worked perfectly since the sock was removed.
Then we move on to dishwasher. I am elated that I may actually have a working dishwasher after the visit by the Repair Guy, but I am sadly mistaken. The control panel on the machine has died. It will be $300 to fix it and you have a $1200 machine. I have a WHAT! A $1200 machine. So I am thinking, well I better fix this thing. I email Sailor hubby and of course hear nothing back. The part has arrived and the Repair Guy will be back in a few days with the part. A few days pass, he comes, opens the part, it is black. All the appliances in the house are bysiek. I am not sure why anyone picks that color. That odd off white color that never really looks clean. But whatever the people who we bought the house from obviously liked them and so we are stuck with it (well we have a white microwave because they don't come in bysiek and luckily you can't tell it is a different color form the oven). So the repair Guys takes out the control panel and tests it out anyway just to make sure that is all that is wrong, and there you go, water in the dishwasher. Ahhhh, I can hear the angels sing. He says he will re-order the part in the right color and I will have it before Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve day comes. No part. The Repair Guy calls. The part did not get shipped. It will be after Christmas. I will be washing Christmas Dinner dishes. Oh the joys. The good news, work is only half a day! So yea! I get off at two, grab the kid and head home to see the in-laws. Bill is checking out the dishwasher and asking me all about it. I felt like I was being grilled or interrogated. Hey, I didn't murder the dishwasher on purpose it just broke! Finally he spills the reason why he is playing 20 questions with me!!! They want to buy me a new dishwasher!
OH MY GOOD LORD! Best GIFT ever! I got a Yurman bracelet from my parents and still told people about my dishwasher 1st! They took me to Lowe's Christmas Eve afternoon and let me pick it out and everything. Like a kid in FAO Schwarz, but for the big people, the section of Lowe's were all the appliances are bright shiny and new. You know you are getting old when you get excited about gifts that plug in. But who cares!
Bill says, don't look at the price! Look at the features! Really! In my head I am thinking you shouldn't tease me you know. My husband has been out to sea for 3 months this is the closest to an orgasms I have gotten in 112 days and yea I am counting!
So I pick one out. The stainless steel version is about $530, I order it in white. The microwave is white. I see a new oven that we can get in white for under $400 and we are taking the fridge with us when we move...so there all the appliances are new now! And no more looks like someone smoked in your house for 40 years. The new one will be in on the 7th of January. Since they only stock it in stainless and black and since I refuse to buy another $250 microwave we will be going with white (plus my house doesn't warrant stainless steal appliances). SO I am beyond excited!
Well today, today I get a call from Lowe's. My new dishwasher has been backordered! I guess more people want white then Low's had anticipated. It will not even arrive until the 27th and then I will have to make arrangements with the installer at that time. So I am bummed. But seriously it has been broken since March/April I feel pretty confident that I can make another month.
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