well, $89 is down the tubes. the fucking swamp cooler broke again. this time, it's kaput for good. and, to just rub it all in, our living room ceiling fan stopped working. what the fuck?! nothing breaks down in the three and a half years we live in the house, then two things break in the last two weeks we own the damn thing.
well, my wife is out purchasing a new ceiling fan, that i will be installing (somehow, as i've never installed one before) this weekend. the same guy who came out two days ago will be visiting our house again tomorrow to check out the swamp cooler. this one will probably cost us over $200. if the whole unit needs to be replaced we're looking at at least a grand. FUCK!
oh, and we called the damn home warranty company, again, and found out, again, that goddamn ceiling fans aren't covered, either. what the fuck?! what the hell is covered in this everloving home warranty? any and everything that doesn't break, apparently. once it breaks, it is no longer covered. that's just great!
i don't know if i can make it through this. i suppose i have no choice, but my god. i have three days left at work and, if the past week is any indication, they will be the busiest three days of my life. shit is going on the blink left and right, we aren't even fully packed, yet; and i'm still worried about moving all these heavy things out of our house. to top it all off, i start a new job in a week and a half. lord, this is way too much.
speaking of the heavy things, the thing i'm most worried about is a chest freezer we have in the basement. our basement is tiny, with five and a half foot high ceilings. i'm six and a half feet tall. we already have a problem. plus, this chest freezer is HEAVY! the two guys who moved it down to the basement for us (who delivered it from where we purchased it) were giant, mutant humans (they towered over me and were built like dump trucks). and they struggled mightily bringing it down the stairs. i have no idea how i (skinny, weak and built like a hand truck) and my friend (ditto) are going to haul this monstrosity up the stairs. i fear for our lives.
anyway, it's hotter than Hades in here right now and, without the benefit of any air circulation, it's stagnant and i'm beginning to give off a fetid stench. i need a shower and a new life.
3 comments:
j
Sorry about your woes, your man Murphy is a bastard alright
a little advice that may help - before forking out to repair any electrical equipment I usually smack it several times with a heavy blunt implement to see if that aids the machine in making up its mind to start functioning again – mind you it hasn’t worked as yet but it does make me feel better. Though I feel for you, I do honestly, I am now thankful more than ever for Irelands continually pissy weather partitioned by a bit of cold weather in the winter and a few sunny days in the summer where the vast majority of Irish people throw any caution about skin cancer to the wind, struggle to bare as much as possible to the sun and turn pink.
yours, not sweaty at all, Brian.
Oh, my God justin! That's awful. And here I go...kicking into Mom gear....The first house I sold in AZ....the day after we signed the papers...the fridge broke down! And the week after I signed the papers on my PA house...the faucet on the kitchen sink went crazy...and the woman buying the house had expressed to the realtor how much she loved the faucet in the kitchen!!!!! It seems to happen each time we move too.
The heavy freezer? Could you try to sell it to the people buying the house? That's what we did with the four ton John Deere my husband had for the huge lawn in PA. We didn't want to move it so we asked the people if they wanted it and they bought it for 500 dollars!
And on another note....Once, my brother-in-law dropped a Lazy Boy on my husband during a move! I'm not kidding...So be careful!
I'll send good, cool vibes your way.
And if you want...Bill has put in TONS of ceiling fans...We could call you and he could talk you through it?
:)
b mcg:
that's a good idea. do the Fonzie bit: smack it, see if it works. with my recent luck i'd put the entire house in the dark. ugh.
hey, i wish i could send you some of this heat. it's brutal today. my skin is sticking to itself. i'll leave the gory details out, but it's not good.
Kat:
thanks for the kind words, and i may just call you if i need some help with the fan. i'm hoping it's part of the electrical problem and there'll be no need to install and wire anything at all.
we need the freezer for the meat we have in it. we bought a quarter of a cow and have a ton of meat. so, we NEED the freezer. else, we would've sold it with the house. oh well. we'll get it out, i just hope i don't lose a finger or something like that.
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