Merry Christmas everyone! Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Read on for a funny video of Julia and Sharon “singing.”
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Stuff about home, me, whatever.
I’m making another attempt at adding an inline video. Here goes…
Update: I’ve tried on a few different PCs, and it comes up on this page pretty randomly for me. However, it appears on the post page all the time for me. So click the link below to continue on to the post page…
I just wanted to take a moment to comment on an experience we had last week with a repair tech from Sears earlier in the week.
Our ice maker had stopped working in our 15 month old fridge. Naturally, the warranty was for 12 months. A repair tech came out, fiddled with it for a couple minutes, and amazingly came to the conclusion that the motor was shot and needed to be replaced.
Why was it amazing? According to Sharon, he never actually looked at the motor.
Then we found that that a replacement would run us about $240. Thanks, but no thanks. It takes a whole lot of inconvenient manual ice making to add up to $240. So we paid the $60 for the visit (all of ten minutes), and he left.
Later that night, we heard an odd noise come from the fridge. It was familiar, and Sharon and I just looked at each other. Water had started to fill the ice tray. A little while later, we heard the familiar crash of ice into the bucket. Apparently, the motor wasn’t shot, like our repair tech had told us.
Now I admit, the ice maker still doesn’t seem to be perfect, but it is making ice, and it’s most of it is making it into the bucket. Some of it still gets stuck on it’s way down.
At this point, I don’t think we are going to deal with Sears again if (when?) something happens to the fridge. And I would be hard pressed to actually get another appliance from there again.
So, in closing, many thanks a lot Sears for trying to sell us something we didn’t need!
(BTW, thanks to The Consumerist for popularizing the term “Blogobitchin.” I’m not that creative to come up with something like that…)
[tags]blogobitchin, Sears, Refrigerator, Customer Service[/tags]
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Julia has discovered the wonders of the Christmas tree. She was also very helpful in pulling out the lights for Sharon.
I think we have a few good things going for us right now. First, the tree didn’t have a whole lot of low hanging branches. I think Julia will have a hard time pulling the tree over. For that matter, the kitty will also have a hard time knocking the tree down. Second, Sharon placed a bunch of presents around the base, so Julia won’t be able to get into the water reservoir and splash around. That’s what the kitty’s water bowl is for.
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One Month…
It’s been a month already since we lost Ken. And it’s still painful to think about it. I think about what could have been, had he come here for Christmas, or if he decided not to ride that day, or if he even left a minute earlier or later. I know it doesn’t do any good to dwell on those “what-ifs,” yet I do it anyway.
I’ve finally looked through some of the pictures I got when I was there. Some of them are in Ken’s gallery. There are more pictures I need to look through, and hopefully will have them up here tomorrow.
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It’s official. We’ve known for over a month now that Sharon was pregnant, but have sat on the news until we went to the doctor for an ultrasound to make sure everything looked okay. Sharon went to the doctor today for an ultrasound, everything looked fine, and she’s nine weeks along. The due date is tentatively set for July 3, 2007, but with the issues that came up with Julia, we’ll be scheduling a c-section a week or two before that.
Ideally, we wanted a little bit more time between having kids. There will only be about 17.5 months between and we would have liked it closer to two or two and a half years. This still works, at least they won’t be several years apart.
So here’s to starting off another baby on this site. I hope I still have time for writing to this site after July…
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Ken Bastone
I haven’t been able to post anything for a while now, and am just feeling up to it again.
On Saturday, November 11, Ken (my brother) was killed in a motorcycle accident. I’ve created a page for him, separate from this blog.
I’m still struggling to deal with the situation. It was overwhelming to see the entire community come to mourn our loss and to celebrate his life. Ken always lived life to the fullest. I was told (and reminded of) many stories that gave everyone a good laugh.
You’ll see a new heading at the top of the screen for the separate page on Ken. I’ll update that with whatever you want to send me. I’ve got some pictures I need to sort through, but would love some more pictures.
Julia “celebrated” her first Halloween by dressing up as a fairy. Sharon made a wand to go with the costume, which Julia proceeded to hold on to quite tightly.
We only went to a few houses, at which point Julia really wanted to get back home. We then gave out less than half of our Halloween candy. (What gives? We even had full size candy bars this year, none of that snack size crap.)
Anyway, here’s some pictures of Julia’s [tag]Halloween[/tag] Adventure.
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[tags]Pictures, Photos, Julia[/tags]
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