7pm-Midnight
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9am-6pm
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2 electrical shock “fake-outs”
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3 trips to Sears and 7 trips to Lowes
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5 angry phone calls
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3 dishwasher (yes. Three…2 broken, 1 working)
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REALLY AWESOME FRIENDS that SAVED the DAY
= (drum-roll please…)
We have a dishwasher! Woo Hoo!
With the help of (our heroes) Jimmie and Kasey, (who will probably never speak to us again) we have a shiny new dishwasher and beautiful, mechanically cleaned dishes!
We got the new washer, and after a few hiccups, it was installed and ready to go.
Then it started leaking. Not from the installation. From the DOOR. Our new dishwasher was DEFECTIVE!!! I had to use my angry voice and call several customer service people at Lowe’s and Frigidaire (including one Frenchman that was impossible to understand), AND we had to disconnect and return the faulty one ourselves AND pick up the new one at another location, because it was a “special order”. It was ridiculous, but it is in…and I learned at lot in the process. Added Bonus: I am much less afraid of being electrocuted again than I was before we did this project, so I am grateful for that as well.
Jimmie, this officially counts as your home teaching being done for the next 5 years (or at least until I tile the bathroom. I need Kasey to teach me how to install a toilet! Um…please don’t stop being our friends…
3 comments:
well i have been wondering where you were. now that i know you were hiding under your dishwasher(s) and not ignoring me i feel much better.
umm answer your phone much?
So happy you are back and so happy you're not electrocuted.
Jimmie is going to be so emabarrassed that you talked about him on your blog. Just last night he said he didn't want to be on anyone's blog, except mine. :) Wives have special privileges!
Glad you've come out from under that pile 'o dishes.
The only thing you forgot in your post was the fact that YOUR dishwasher trumped OUR water heater. ;P
That's okay, showering at work gives me incentive to arrive before anyone else does, and I need all the motivation I can get to get out of bed earlier! And now that I know how fabulous my 'day 3' hair is...
You know I'm teasing, right?
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