Current mood:

hungry

A Child Should Be a Fish
Aaah, not even a few hours go by and already another of my important machines breaks. Car is okay but my refridgerator bit the dust last night. I never liked the thing because like my fridge in Monterey, the machine was ancient and probably costing me a hunge chunk of my power bill. Crappy thing about the current one is that the freezer consists of a little metal shelf about the size of a shoebox hanging over the rest of the fridge so there isn't much room for more than a couple of things that can come in boxes like facon and Tofurkey. Apparently Randall's family had the exact kind back in Alabama.

Since Day 1 I've been fighting a glacier that regularly forms over the course of the day. The main reason is likely that the seal on the door wore out on the top corner (last resident probably opened the door by grabbing the corner instead of the handle). I stopped fighting for a couple of weeks and yesterday realized that I had icecles and that I couldn't get my bag of peas or anything else out because they were encased in ice. It took a lot of stuggling, but I was able to finally liberate everything and get rid of some of the ice. Managed to remove most of it and when I pulled out a big chunk I heard a pop and suddenly gas was flying out from somewhere in the ice.

I couldn't tell until this morning, but there's a little puncture mark on the side of the shelf where refridgerant is leaking (and the fridge is probably as old as me so it's the kind of gas that makes the Baby Al Gore cry). I knew it was going to be bad but I had no idea until I opened the door this morning and saw that the last of my home made pudding was submerged in water and that the shelf was effectively ive-free. Also, nasty rust-colored stain coming from the leak and dripping red stuff everywhere. Of course this all happens when I need to shower and get Reg and Sheridan, aka Los Malitos, into the aquarium for their vet visit.

Manager had a repair guy come while I've been out and if tomorrow's second opinion guy agrees, I'll get a new fridge! I'll be so happy if I can get a new one that's efficient and shiny. I'm still traumatized from the crap one in Monterey.