It's time.

I have lived with either kids or a husband (or both) for 24 years.  When Tim passed away I was worried about living on my own since all of our kids were adults. 

This week, my refrigerator went out.  I called a repair guy and by my description he said "I know what it is, it's your compressor".  Now I don't know much about appliances, but I know that's the main part of your refrigerator so when it goes out, it's very very bad.  By bad I mean expensive, of course.  The repair man (who I will no doubt hire for my next appliance problem) told me that with Amana refrigerators had a compressor problem, so instead of doing a recall or something like that, they extended the warranty on the compressor to 5 years.  He tells me to call Amana. 

I'm searching my brain for what year we got the fridge.  A couple . . . few . . . several years?  I call Amana and they tell me yes, they did extend the warranty but when she looks up the serial number she said if I didn't have the receipt, the estimated date they have to go with would put me 2 months outside of warranty.  So, I'm thinking what awesome place did I put that receipt.  This is a pattern of mine--take a really important paper and put it in a "special" place.  That special place turns out is not a logical place, because I never find it.  So by chance that I actually put it in a place that I would remember, I went up to my jewelry box and opened the drawer and viola, there was the receipt.  Simply amazing.  So I'm excited, the customer service lady is excited, I'm still within warranty, they'll fix it for free . . . on Friday.  So now I have throw away most of my food in the fridge, luckily I saved my freezer stuff before it thawed and put it down in my chest freezer.  

So when I was cleaning out the fridge and cleaning out the science experiments from the back of the fridge I decided that this is starting anew yet again.  As I washed the pan the kids made the rest of my eggs in and didn't wash, then the pan that I made them homemade chicken noodle soup in and loaded dishes in the dishwasher that I did not use, I thought "I will fill this refrigerator with only the things I like (once it's working) and then it's time for me to be alone in this house.  I knew this was right when I went to blog and my computer was dead because somebody used it and didn't plug it in.