May 30, 2007
One of those days
Well, I have done a lot of things today, but it seems my list barely has a dent in it. I finally called the eye doc for J. He has an appointment in August. Crazy that they are that far out, he must be the only pediatric eye doc here. On the other hand, B's well child check up is next week, so no problems scheduling that.

I ran a few errands this morning, seemingly forgetting to put a few things on my list, so I may need to go out again tonight, we'll see. I have set out to make an apron for J's teacher as a thank you, and it seems to be going very slowly. I cut it all out and went to change the laundry to find that the dryer seems to not be working. It makes a noise but doesn't spin. Now we have had the dryer for almost 9 years, but still. It has progressively gotten slower and slower over the years. So I took all the laundry upstairs and hung everything up to dry over the bathtub. Now I wouldn't mind having a clothes line, but right now I don't. And we have a ton of laundry, I think I do at least a load a day, and could maybe do more. I am thankful it was just clothes in the dryer, who knows what I would have done with sheets or quilts, I would have had to load everything in the car and taken it to the laundromat, that would have been an adventure I suppose.

Anyway, after hanging everything up I googled the problem to see what it was. Maybe the belt. Then I went to get all the serial numbers and such off the dryer. For kicks I turned it on, and it works. So now, I need to see if it works only when empty, this is of course a bit risky, as I may end up with another load of wet laundry to hang up in the bathroom. I would love for it to have been a fluke, but like I said, the dryer has been slowly dying for the past few years.

After an hour of messing with all this, I still only have a cut out apron, that needs to be ready to send to school tomorrow, so it may be a bit of a late night. I would start on it now, but we need to eat and take off for baseball practice. So it may be a while before I can get going on it again.

Really, I would like to just sit and close my eyes for a few minutes, but if I drift off to sleep, I am sure I wouldn't really want to wake up until tomorrow, and that would just be torture wouldn't it. Ahhh, it has been one of those days. My advice to anyone is to spread out buying all major things. All our furniture, appliances and cars seem to be going belly up at about the same time, and they are all about the same age, and all very far out of warrenty. Replacing and/or repairing them all at once gets a bit expensive.