and innnnnnn.... and ouuuuuuut......

well... I've made it to the middle of the day of the middle of the week.


surprisingly... no specific motherhood challenges today as much as life in general.


got all the father's day and birthday cards bought... which feels good to have that monkey done. Granted, I still have to fill them all out and send them away, but at least they're bought. $47 at hallmark... and it's not Christmas... yowzer. I was thinking we'd get off easy for Father's day cause both of my grandfathers are dead, and Troy only has one still living... but I guess the birthdays (and graduations and baby showers and baby births) negated any dead savings. oh well... what goes around comes around!


so then Booger and I went food shopping... they had a sale on slimfast so I bought 8 six-packs.... I know, I know... can you say ridiculous??? but still... the stuff has been working... (slowly... but it's been working, so why mess up a good thing??) .....got all sorts of other stuff, too... and then even more stuff on top of THAT.


so as I was pushing this cart back to the car, I was honestly thinking how awesome it is that we have the beer fridge in the garage.... not that it's always filled with beer (though I suppose by the way I talk you'd think I had an IV into the stuff...) ----but seriously... the extra fridge is handy. it really helps me only go major food shopping every three weeks or so... cause I have extra stocking room.

Granted, freezer space becomes a premium when mom and dad come down and make pier-dogs... (I'm talking about pierogies.... I just call them pier-dogs...).... which... by the way.... has only happened ONCE... in Nevada.... so I've been feeling a little slighted. ----perhaps this summer I can convince Mom it's in her best interest to come and bring/make the magic of Pier-dogs to Casa Johnson.

but I digress.


So here I am, $230 of groceries later.. thinking how nice it is to have the extra Fridge...


Yes, Operator??? Can you get me Murphy??? We need him in Carrie's life on the double!!!


This is so painfully obvious... but wouldn't I be a nickel on a dog's ass if there was something wrong with the fridge when we got home. Oh yeah... freezer stuff defrosted and everything... son-of-a-NUTCRACKER!!!


So now I have a screaming child (or should I say hungry-tired-ass-hurting-screaming child???) and a shitload of groceries that will NOT all fit in the regular fridge....


*sigh*

so I looked at the fuse box, and did all the stuff you're probably wanting to tell me to do... turns out there's something wrong with the outlet itself... and the reset button associated to said outlet.

scream scream scream...... YES RHENA.... I KNOW YOU'RE STILL THERE!!!!!


so I said screw it to the food, fed the babe... changed her, milked her, and introduced her to my friend THE CRIB. ......ahhhhh... silencio.


ok... so yadda yadda yadda.... we have no extention cords that are three-pronged and long enough to plug the fridge in elsewhere, so I packed up a cooler with whatever ice that was in the in-the-house fridge.... and got pretty damn creative with my fridge packing. (read that slowly... I said FRIDGE packing... not fudge!)


so right now things are being chilled and frozen again.... but the fridge looks like we're going to be bunkered down for a year. oh well... I did my job... Troy said he would look at it when he gets home. I asked if he wanted me to call someone (like I said... there's something jacked with the outlet itself, and my NON-electrician ass is NOT going to try to play Mr Wizard....) but he said no... *he'll* look at it when he gets home.

2 bucks says he tells me to call someone tonight.....