August 28th, 2008 by BlogRmom

Did you ever feel like you were spinning in a whirlpool? I swear… my life has had so many speed bump, I am RUNNING looking for that smooth road, just a few miles on it… Hell, just a LOOK at it and I’d be happy. The truth is the speed bumps have made me who I am today, but dammit, why can’t I get a PEEK at the easy road… JUST a PEEK?!?! Is that really so much to ask? Everyday is something.

Last night I headed to the gym at 5:30pm. I came home around 6:30pm with hubby and the kids. My hubby informed me the refrigerator was no longer working.  NICE! It wasn’t running and things inside it were starting to “sweat”. Lovely. He pulls it out to see if it’s unplugged or if we can see something. Nothing there. He goes downstairs to trip the breaker… Nothing… So he pulls it out more, it starts running. Weird. Pushes it back to were it should be, and it cuts out again with a CLUNK noise. So he pulls it back out to see what the heck is going on. It starts running again. Okay, this is annoying. It can’t stay in the middle of the kitchen floor. So he pushes it back slowly slowly waiting for it to click out. All of a sudden sparks start shooting out the back. DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!! I scream. “Get that fucking thing out of my house NOW!” He unplugs it. Grabs the electrical fire extinguisher and sprays the back… He calls his mom. She was not sure but said come get me and we will go to Home Depot. We need a refrigerator. We can’t not have one. I think she didn’t realize how bad it was. So we go to Home Depot. The man says “Sorry, we don’t stock any of the refrigerators.” Oh my goodness are you kidding me?!?!? He says it will be next Tuesday before we can get one. We can not get one elsewhere because we can’t get a high enough credit limit on a card and we don’t have the cash right now… so we are stuck… I say to him… “Can we buy a floor model? We need one tonight.” Seriously… who else goes to Home Depot a 1/2 hour before they close in a frenzy for a refrigerator!?!? He agrees. So we pick one out. It’s been the display for less then 4 months. Good deal. 1 year warranty and we can add 4 more years to that for $100. Good!! Good it. I call my cousin to come meet us with a truck to bring it home.  After an hour of trying to get it in the house, it’s in. My mother in law is here and sees the other one… She says “You are damn lucky that sucker didn’t burn the house down. I didn’t know it was THAT bad.” Oh nice… thanks… scare me some more…

So the new one is in and all hooked up!! We have an ice maker with crushed (YAY) and cubed iced and cold water. I love it. It’s side by side. I am so stressed. I am waiting now on the insurance guy to come and assess the damage to the wall, cupboard, and old fridge… our deductible is $250 so we may get some of the $$ back on the new fridge. I may not file the claim at all.  I called a few moving services this morning to take care of the old one to the appropriate disposal. So that will be gone tonight. The insurance man is on his way.

Will there ever be a light at the end of my tunnel?? Man oh man!!