2021 $TRESS
NOvember (Bundle) by Little Butterfly Wings & Studio Basic
Journaling
Can you spell stress with a large dollar sign? $TRESS, I can.
The saga started about two weeks ago when our television started blinking and the picture became somewhat striated. The TV was 12 years old so I guess we should not have been surprised that we would have to replace it. Black Friday was coming up, so we felt lucky that the timing was right. We did not even have to research TVs as our son-in-law was buying one for his new house and had done the research. Yay Costco for the TV special.
Last Friday, it was time to do laundry and the washing machine gave up the ghost. It quit and locked itself during the first load of the day. It is a front-loader and the door locked. We called two repair places neither of which would attempt to fix it. Dave could not open the door and even bought some special screwdrivers to no avail. So, we studied the washing machine ratings in Consumer Reports. At Home Depot, we paid the big bucks and replaced the set since the dryer was getting hotter and hotter too. They won’t be delivered until next week, so I’m pretty sure the load of laundry in the locked washing machine is history. Lucky us, Black Friday is coming up.
Tuesday, as we were gearing up for Thanksgiving, the dishwasher decided to stop running. Dave got out the shop vac and sucked out the standing water inside it but he could not get it to start again. It was completely dead. Back to Consumer Reports, back to Home Depot but lucky us, Black Friday is coming up.
Are you getting the theme here? We’re not done. I have been trying to get my old monitors to connect to my new computer but could not get the connection to work on the older one. After trying six different cords with various configurations (I’m sure Amazon was happy with me returning 6 different cords) and days and days of trial and error, my tech support, who were here for the holidays, determined that the old monitor just wouldn’t work with the new computer. Back to Costco but, unfortunately, the darn monitor wasn’t on the Black Friday sale!!
