Because I am a firm believer in the law of attraction (i.e. what you focus on, you get more of), I really couldn’t allow myself to talk about the month of December, which turned out to literally be a caper wrapped in a riddle with a side of circus-like pandemonium. Now that I am officially out of the apparent vernal equinox that broke everything in my general vicinity, I must describe it because frankly, the amount of broken stuff was completely AMAZING.
It started when the dishwasher in my house started acting up over Thanksgiving. Maybe the delicate Swedish design isn’t really capable of handling Thanksgiving-related dishes, I don’t really know. Anyhow, around December 4th, it just turned off, and wouldn’t really turned back on. Perhaps the fact that I didn’t get worked up about this aggravated the refrigerator, because on the 5th, it froze everything, then blew out and also wouldn’t turn on. Like, nothing. Just a flicker of the display screen, and absolutely no coldness at all.
Since I think the man who owns my house (which we opted not to buy last year, thank GOD) paid $3,000 for this refrigerator about two years ago, I’m sure you’ll be SHOCKED to hear that it has a fancy computer, and can’t really be plugged into wiring from the 1920’s that isn’t even grounded.
I really, really don’t want to recount my many phonecalls with Sears trying to get it fixed. Let’s just say Sears didn’t impress me the way I thought they would, and in fact, every person who came to fix my “on strike” kitchen appliances (six visits in total) had a different story, some involving the part being on back-order, some who thought that Sears no longer worked on that brand, and one who may have committed insurance fraud.
Because the appliances in the kitchen had revolted, during the month of December, many of the other things in the house decided to stop working as well. Maybe it was the holiday. One by one, the internet went out, then went back on. Then the fax machine just….stopped, then started again. Then there was no dialtone detected (after which Stephan said….”does the Tivo not work? That’s it– we’re moving.”), but then it came back the next day. The only thing that DID work was a brand-new computer that I bought December 1st to replace an old laptop that had been mysteriously going dead multiple times per day for six months. By the way, I have now added the declaration “I create a smooth and tranquil existence” into my daily routine to ensure that nothing like this happens again. Cause seriously, after awhile, it was funny.
Anyhoo, last Wednesday, the last part finally came, a Sears guy showed up, and now the fridge works, and then, as if everything else in the house is somehow connected to the dictatorial rule of the expensive refrigerator, like magic everything else started working again– poof!. So, in honor of the new year, everything in my house works again. Hurrah! I never thought I’d be so happy to see ice cubes again in my whole life. Also, I think I’m getting a $50 Sears gift card out of the whole deal, which is really very nice.