UPDATE ON STUFF

The nasty respiratory stuff that Marty and I have still hangs on.  He is too manly man to lie down and rest.  So off to work he went all week.  I made the bed most days so I couldn't get back into it.  But I did "rest" a lot in the recliner.  I am doing some of the domestic requirements for continued civilized living: clean sheets and towels, doing the laundry, ironing (I thought about putting Vicks in the steam iron), some cooking.  No cleaning of course, I am much too sick for that.  I have been fighting this for 12 days, and have yet to be up a full day.

We have had the TV repaired.  It was less than we thought, still expensive.  But if we had to replace the TV it would have cost $$$$.  It was the lamp that went, they are good for 2-3 years.  Ours lasted about 5. So in one way we have been lucky.  As the repairman was leaving he told me the color wheel will go next.  Thanks Mr. Repairman.

Our Kitchen Aid stand mixer will also be repaired.  Again outrageous cost.  But to replace it would be almost three times as much.  We use it for so many things, not just to mix with.  The most use is grinding things up. When we find chuck roast on sale it becomes ground meat.  Much less fat and we know it is safer than store bought ground beef.

The Social Security checks should be deposited on Monday.  Keep your fingers crossed.

I hope to be well enough to do weddings this week and to help with the first graders. The weddings could be busy Tuesday. That is not my day but I plan to go in.  It is 1.11.11, this could be huge.  People love to marry on days with rare number combinations.

2011 can't come soon enough

Will 2010 never end?  If it can go wrong for us this year, it has.   Marty and I want it out the door so we can move on to hopefully a better year 2011.

A couple of minor examples of how the year has gone:  last night Marty was making ground beef from chuck roast he found on sale.  He is feeding strips of it into the grinder on our Kitchen Aid stand mixer. These are workhorses.  Suddenly there is this awful whacking noise.  It sounds as if a spatula is caught in the beater; except there is no spatula nor any beater.  This is not an old mixer, it's less than 5 years old.  People will Kitchen Aids, they last forever.  Not ours. So a trip 20 miles away to the only place in the Bay Area that repairs them is in our future.

Then the frosting on the cake, the big screen TV died.  It also is only 5 years old.  Tuesday it worked, Wednesday we tried to turn it on, nothing, just a flashing power button.  It says temp, lamp, timer. According to the troubleshooting guide that is not a good thing.  Next Thursday the repairman comes.