Our yard spring 2010

I'm posting these pictures so I can remember what my landscape looked like when it was 3 years old. Not very exciting because I'm just archiving this :) It's a landscaper thing...

I laugh. Because if I don't laugh, I will cry. And I hate to cry. So I laugh.

After my last post about the broken stuff in my house, several other things have broken as well! Its just hilarious at this point! Allan and I just look at each other and say "Well, what's one more thing?" I guess not only are we supporting thieves these days, we are also supporting the repair men of America. The Goeser electronics: Job security at its finest. Who needs the bail out?

The list continues:

10. Central Vacuum. However, we did manage to get this fixed on our own, whoo-hoo! It was just really, really clogged. Thank goodness.

11. Our drawer in our kitchen island. The most ironic part of it is that our cabinet maker is now out of business. (Don't feel bad. He was a jerk who cheated us out of thousands of dollars for crappy cabinets that I could have built better myself. They look pretty though.) The even more ironic thing is that the part of the drawer that is broken isn't sold at any of the local hardware stores. So we have a missing drawer in our kitchen until further notice.

12. My sister rents our condo and she called and told us that the dishwasher was broken. Seriously. I guess it has moved on to our other house now. I didn't realize it was contagious!

Note to everyone: Stay away from the Goeser's electronics! It could break your electronic goodies with this crazy ruin everything that you own "virus" that is running rampant at our house! It has now moved on to the drawers in the kitchen. I wonder whats next. Hopefully, nothing! Knock on wood.

There is an upside to my blitching however!

We have fixed our fridge, it was a pretty simple procedure. We are supposed to vacuum the condenser every 3-6 months. Um yeah...lived here 2 1/2 years. So we vacuumed all the crap out and Voila! The fridge is fixed. I didn't realize that our fridge was a high-maintenance drama queen. But I really love my fridge so it is forgiven for making me panic.

I called Wolf about our broken oven and it is covered under warranty! YAY! Well, the part is anyway. We have to pay for the labor which is fine with me. Hopefully, its easy to diagnose and easy to install. Keep your fingers crossed!
I contacted Nintendo about Carson's DS and I got to send it in for free and they will pay to fix it too. Sending warm, fuzzy feelings to Nintendo for standing behind their product.

However, Sony gets the big middle finger! My laptop is 3 weeks out of warranty and they won't cover the cost of my broken hard drive. So if you want a laptop that only runs for a year and 3 weeks, the Sony Vaio is for you! As an added bonus: you can also lose all your pictures from Christmas! The best part: when you call to complain about it the person on the other line barely speaks English because of the fabulous outsourcing that big companies do these days. Long story short: Sony sucks and I will never buy another product from them! Join me in my Sony Sucks ban! It will be fun.

In other news, the white trash fest is over! We took the lights down yesterday. I made the kids help. You would have thought it was the end of the world!! Oh the whining that went on! I'm too tired, I'm hungry, I'm too little, I want to go and play with my friends, boo-hoo-hoo! You would have thought I was making them muck out stables or something! Spoiled rotten kids.

Does anyone else out there wish that when you were your kids age, your life was that rough? Caleb whines when he has to unload the dishwasher. I didn't have a dishwasher until I was like 12! If he had to hand wash dishes I think he might have a stroke. And I would have killed to have a DS, a Playstation (grr..sony) and an X Box. How about an MP3 player? I'm 32 years old and I still don't have one! Rotten to the core, I tell ya!

Good thing that they are cute and funny. If not, I just might give them away! But they would just bring them right back because they are too spoiled. So I guess I'm stuck with them. Yes, I know, its mostly my fault. But I choose to blame Allan.

Things that have broken in my house in the past week

1. Carson's DS (one month old)
2. Our oven (good thing I have 2, its only 2 years old)
3. Our fridge (2 years old)
4. My Laptop (bad hard drive, its barely a year old)
5. Caleb's X Box (bought used, only had for 2 months)
6. The kids TV in playroom (this is 8 years old and I don't feel so bad about that)
7. The lamp in our big screen (2 years old)
8. Our DVR
9. My sanity

If anyone comments and tells me that I should be grateful that I have these things, I'm sending you the repair bill that I can't afford to pay. I hope that your electronics are behaving better than mine!

I feel so accomplished.

I haven't been on here much lately. I have been reorganizing my house and it has been fabulous! I have cleaned out closets, cupboards and drawers. I still have several more to go but I am very happy with my results so far.
I have completely reorganized my kitchen. I have moved so many things that Caleb is complaining that he doesn't know where any of the dishes go. Well, I tell him, the kitchen makes more sense this way. Get over it! Its nice to not have little ones anymore. I can finally put Pyrex dishes and glass bowls down in the bottom cupboards. I am LOVING it. It is awesome!

I also attacked the linen closets and the game closet. I actually folded all the blankets, sheets, towels and tablecloths that had just been thrown anywhere that they would fit. When I was cleaning out the game closet, I discovered boxes that I had never unpacked. So, after 2 1/2 years I have officially moved in! I also organized all the games and threw away the ones that were missing pieces. It looks so great!

Then I attacked the boys' dressers. I took out everything and refolded them. I made sure that the clothes that I put back in the drawers actually fit too. I made a hand me down pile for Carson and a give away pile. I'm still working on their closets. This will be a huge project to do also. I have to decide which books goes to which kids bookshelf. And they have a lot of books! It will be tedious, I'm sure.

I also FINALLY have a formal living room. We used it as a storage room for a while because the furniture that we had didn't look right in there. But Santa brought me a new couch. It is my antique room with lots of family heirlooms. I'm sure people think its weird with all the old fashioned stuff but it makes me happy. I still have to decorate it but at least the boxes are gone!

The laundry room is halfway finished. It is the worst room in the house! Its where everything goes to die. I guess that's where you put stuff when there's no other place to put it. Basically, its a junkyard. I can't believe the stuff I have found in there. Like decorations that I had put in there intending to use them but they got stashed in some random cupboard instead. Or the silverware that goes with the china that we inherited from Allan's grandparents. The list goes on and on and will get longer, I'm sure.

I also detailed my car. It was such a disaster! It's either been too hot or too cold to clean it out. But with the weather in the 60's, I had no excuse. It looks so nice and it smells so good too. I really need to do it more often. But I probably won't because in a few months it will be too hot again!

But the craziest part of this whole thing is that you would think with all this organization that I would have taken down my Christmas lights by now. NOPE!! Yup, you guessed it. I'm the only person in the neighborhood with their lights still up. Well, some of them are up, some of them have fallen down. I'm becoming white trashier every day I leave the lights up. I'm fully aware that my neighbors are thinking this about me. But I have so many wonderful, organized spaces now! I'm sure that the lights will come down soon. If not they will finish falling and then I will pick them up! Either way works for me!