When it rains

Lucky me..... It spews bleach and soapy water.

Life has been awesome lately around here. Nothing spectacular has been happening. I have just been enjoying the little things and going with the flow. Happy is as happy does, I guess. If I were a dog I would be a big dopey dog that is happy chasing its tail. Is that strange?

So, Tommy is in now, the middle of an emergency trip to California to see and help his mom, who had a pretty bad car accident. She is just now seeing all the after effects and finding the injuries that should have been checked, but that is a whole different post. With that, we decided to take advantage of the trip and send Brinkley with Daddy. Jax and Pudgie are holding down the fort here. Or, as Daddy says, "spying on Mommy."

I made the deal with Jax that he could stay home from school as long as he kept the little Pudge man busy so I could de-clutter and do early spring cleaning around this monster-mess house. Goodwill is going to love us this week!!

Wouldn't you know it...... fate had to intervene in all my plans. Five flippen minutes before Tommy is ready to embark on his Daddy and Binky adventure... my washer starts spewing bleach and soap water out of it. I just stood there. Staring..... aimlessly. I was not even mad. Not sad, NOTHING. Just aimless staring.

I bounced down the stairs, walked into the kitchen and matter-of-factly told Tommy that the washer was spewing water everywhere and I was buying the new Cherry red LG steam washer we had researched when the belt in the dryer broke. I was totally kidding. I had no idea what I was going to do with a broken washer, but I am confident enough that I could figure it out and get through it on my own. I probably could fix the thing. Actually, I know I could.........

Needless to say, Tommy looked up and said, "are we getting the dryer too?" So much for trying to shock him into a purchase. Such is life around here. He is my ultimate consumer.

Thankfully Tommy was just happy that I was not going bonkers over the whole situation. No yelling, no screaming, no tears. That, and the fact that I have wonderful neighbors who let me wash the load of laundry that was starting to stink from sitting in a washing machine all afternoon made everything worth smiling about!

All's well that ends well. I don't even get that quote, really. I don't know why I even wrote that. It doesn't really make sense. Ok, anyways....

With that.. my lovely little cherry red LG washer will make its debut in our home on Wednesday. The frugal flugalbinder in me is holding off on the dryer (mainly because they would not be able to deliver it until February 6th.)

And really, do the washer and dryer really need to match? Maybe since she is soooo pretty I will start to actually like doing the laundry?

Nah.. never gonna happen, but one can wish!




How sad of a woman am I? I really thought that I didn't have to have a matching washer and dryer. I was not going to be crazy anal about mismatched items and I was not going to let myself lose sleep over it. At 3:30 a.m. on Friday morning, I ordered the dryer. I was almost physically sick over the thought of two different kinds of machines in my laundry room... and then I couldn't sleep knowing that they were going to be two different colors. CRAZY, I know. Thankfully Tommy just laughed and asked how my redecorating is going in the laundry room. I have to paint it for it's new tenants. And, I get to paint it crazy since no one ever goes in it....... I am going for Cherry red and black zebra!!!!!!