RIP

The list of dead items today in Casa P:


Do you know what that is? It's our ice maker. It's been dead since the summer. I am too cheap to pay the repairman to come out to deal with just a dead ice maker. But now, we have another dead appliance:


The dairy dishwasher is not working. And that, my dears, is tragic. It's a portable one that we hook up to the sink at night. And it's not draining. I jinxed myself-my sister wanted a recommendation for a new portable dishwasher, and I'm all like "We've had ours for six years and never had a problem", all cocky like. Not two months later, the sucker isn't draining. So the repairman is in my kitchen dealing with it. And he's then going to figure out the ice maker issue. We don't mess around with dishwashers here. For those of you who have the space, and keep kosher, thus needing two dishwashers, I still highly recommend this one. It was not expensive at all, and in my typical immediate gratification way, bought it at Abt and had them load it in the back of my van, and made Benjie and his dad drag it up the stairs after I backed the van onto the front lawn and up to the front steps. Which also brings to mind when I drove the enormous green beast as opposed to my civilized little Sienna and put a sofa in the back. And then my friend Karen and I, all Lucy and Ethel like, dragged that sucker into the house. It only got stuck in the front door for a short period of time.





What is this dead item, you may ask? Why, it's Dovi's extremely expensive feeding pump. Why is it dead (or currently temporarily dead, we're hoping it revives itself, lest I have to call for service on it) you wonder? Lesson to learn: It is not a good idea to forget the delicately calibrated feeding pump in the car overnight. When it is below zero outside. The pump will not be happy. It's currently wrapped in a kitchen towel trying to revive itself.





Uh oh....yes, Finny Two seems to have met the same untimely death as Finny. Like Elisha said, Finny was a good fish. He always listened. He did seem to be slightly less agoraphobic than the original Finny, but he was very naughty when it was time to change his water. He is currently lying in state in his little tank, covered in a kitchen towel, stinking up my kitchen, waiting for Benjie to come home to flush him down the toilet run a Finny Two Memorial Service for the children.

Don't come here. It's not safe for anyone.

But on a happier note, I paid $4.49 at Jewel for my groceries. Thanks to my insane cereal endeavor last week. Anyone who mocked me, top that.