Come on April!

In the future we will be referring to March 2010 as "The Dark Period". Many things happened this month that I have no memory of. So under no circumstances should you ever bring up anything that I said, did, or agreed to during The Dark Period. Got it!

One thing I do remember is buying Larry a car. Remember how his car was going to cost more to fix than it was worth? So we traded it in on a new-to-us car. We actually got $2,800 for it as a trade. So we made the right choice there. The new car is a Chrysler 300. It's an '06 but it only has 30,000 miles on it. They said it was a trade in from an old man. It's the ever coveted "little old lady from Pasadena" car! Except in this case it's the little old man from Sun City. We got it for $2,000 under blue book, put some money down, and traded in our worthless piece of junk. Our payment is $50 less a month than the old car.

"Payment?!" you exclaim, "Didn't you say you weren't going to take on any new debt in 2010, wasn't that one of your resolutions?"

Yes, I did say that. But I'm considering some other financial options right now... so back off.

But anyways... I got sidetracked there. April 1st is going to be a new beginning around here. So bite me March!

That's how I got my M16A2 combat rifle.

I was half way through an intersection yesterday when the car in front of me comes to a complete stop. The driver gets out. Holds up one finger to me to say "hold on a sec". Goes around to the front of her car and picks up a huge machete off the road. She shows it to me, and we both just shake our heads. Then she puts it in her car and drives away.

True story.

McDonalds... here I come.

It was a crazy week. So crazy that on Saturday we realized that the deep freeze had been unplugged since Tuesday. Whoops. We lost two huge trash bags full of food. Then we went to Costco and spent $200 filling it back up.

Then on Monday night at dinner the ice machine wouldn't spit out any ice. Larry opened the freezer door and water was dripping from the ice maker. Not just a little water. A waterfall of water. At first I thought the ice machine had broken. But wait... then why the water? Wouldn't that just mean no ice? No, this is water... as in melted ice. As in not cold! Crap.

So I went to Walmart and got two thermometers and put one each in the fridge and freezer. Sure enough... warm.

I know what you're thinking. "Hey Ashley, didn't you just buy that fridge like a year ago?" Yes. Yes, I did... thanks for noticing. But it's not under warranty so it doesn't matter.

I called Sears and they sent someone out. A man larger than the fridge itself came out and looked at it. Not fixed it. Looked at it. He will be back Friday to actually fix it. We will be living out of two coolers until then. Cause there is nothing I like better than having everything I take out of the "fridge" dripping wet with ice water.

No No No... What's better than everything being all wet is when the little foil top on the yogurt kinda opens and water gets in it and then everything is covered in a nice yogurt water. THAT'S THE BEST!!!