Shit Breaks

Have you ever noticed that in the times when you really need your stuff to just work...nothing mind blowing, just keep functioning per spec... that it all starts to break?

Yes, I know that things break in transport, things break under stress and things break randomly when they get old. STILL...it seems like they break all at once and just when I really want for them to just work.

About a week after we moved my computer hard drive crashed. I had backed up a bunch of stuff, but not everything. Total bummer and MANY hours of re-creating my Quicken records. I am still in denial about tax stuff. I'm keeping the old, broken hard drive on the shelf as if it will one day miraculously heal itself and start dancing around, singing.

A while back Mark won a really great treadmill. After the move I re-assembled it and set it up in the garage with visions of running while looking out on the pour rain...and, yet, not having to be in the pouring rain. I tested it, getting my heart rate into target range for half an hour or so and left it feeling rather proud of myself. The next day Mark went to run on it and it wouldn't budge. All the displays light up but the rollers just don't move. No amount of tinkering has brought it back to life.

I think I've mentioned the Subaru's problems in past posts. It was a very weird problem involving oil lines breaking (no clue as to why) and only three of four cylinders firing. This was the most inconvenient and expensive of the "breaks" but did have the silver lining of moving up the purchase of our super-fab Tacoma.

I broke, too. My neck and shoulder muscles tightened up (again...no clue why) and limited mobility and sleep for about a month. A few massage sessions and hot tub soaks later and I'm back normal...or at least functioning per spec. ;)

Now it's the fridge. Total melt down. It was actually warmer inside the fridge than in the kitchen! I have never before had my frozen stash of Costco chicken thaw all at once. What a pain in the ass. It definitely could have been worse. [I repeat this like a mantra.]
First saving grace: Mom is staying at a cottage with a functioning fridge. I was unable to deal with throwing away all that chicken. Even at Costco prices it just added up to too much. I cooked it all and froze it at the cottage where my mom is.
Second: Some small piece of my memory survived the move and reminded me that Linda had mentioned something about an extended service plan. I sorted through the stack of papers generously left for us and wa-la...there it was...a service plan good through November. A call to Sears confirmed it. [Thank you, Linda!!!] Okay, so we live in the middle of the woods and Sears techs only come up once a week. A week's wait is better than spending the dough on a whole new fridge, so I schedule the appointment. The lady on the phone confirms that the visit and the fix should be free. Now that's in my price range.
Third saving grace: We are planning on having a little fridge in the studio so guests can have a little kitchen...and Mark can have cold beverages close at hand. So, like the truck the purchase got moved up a bit. During the wait for the Sears tech we have a mini fridge. Definitely not the capacity we are used to, but lets us have milk for morning cereal.

I would really like for nothing else to break for a bit.