Thursday, August 26, 2010

Anyone feel like riding on my roller coaster?

What?
‘My roller coaster’ is ‘my’ metaphor for 'my life'.
But to be honest who here cannot say that they do not have ups and downs in their own life, huh?
But since the end of June, a week before my birthday to be exact we seemed to be being tested once again on our character in handling difficulties. Boy we should be some characters by now and many would say they sure are!
Not as grand or upsetting as in the life and death arena here; just financial expenses that we had not planned on, but who does plan on additional expenses really?
Do you recall the broken air-conditioner and exploding hot water heater with flooding included?
And yes, of course my optic neuritis and the acquisition of finding the manageable price for those IV infusions that we could pay for without selling our first born grandchild, which to date has not even been seen on either of our sons’ horizons, well that’s another story…
This morning it was our nearly six year old Sony WEGA Trinitron 37” , for us our big screen TV, well it was around a thousand dollars when purchased with the insurance money from Hurricane Charley in replacing one of the many furnishing items that were swamped at the time of our home being flooded inside. And so it was a nice replacement at the time, and today it died. But this time Hubby would have been correct to say it was ‘just a little dead’ (the movie the Princess Bride, quote from Billy Crystal’s character), since it was quite fixable so Sony at their 800 number said.
You see, Hubby who is quite capable in repairing nearly everything and anything, and so he gave it a go, several times before he felt the need for intervention.
And that is why he did eventually call Sony’s ‘800’ number not defeated but wondering what was up?
What was happening every-time you used the remote or even went up and manually turned it on it immediately turned itself off!
First he tried the batteries in the remote and because the darn thing, TV, weighs exactly, would you believe, 165 pounds, he couldn’t exactly take it out and open it up, that was really the main glitch. I bet though if he could he would have found the problem just like that! (My fingers just snapped!)
It’s in our beautiful breakfront bookcase situated just perfectly within its home for the last nearly six years in our living-room.
And we really thought they would need at least two men to fix the thing just to move it!
But Sony gave us the name of a local legit repair service not too far from us and they have been around for nearly forty years.
The man called just before he arrived by around one-ish this afternoon, and did the job in no time at all even vacuuming the dusty TV and surrounding area, how embarrassing!
The part was only about forty-five bucks the service call was seventy, and the labor, oh boy the labor, I only wish I got paid like this when I was IN LABOR, it was nearly one hundred and fifty bucks for less than a half hour’s work!
When I come back in my next life I think I will come back as a TV repairman!
And sadly this is the first of our expenses that I did have to put on our charge card, which I just hated!
Hubby assured me it will be paid in full when it comes in…hmmm, you know me the X credit manager, and I better be able to pay it!
The man told Hubby that the part has a ninety day warrantee at least.
But the gentleman who happened to be the owner said the TV was better than most of the newer ones and was worth fixing, and he feels it should last another ten years!
I sure hope so, who knows when we will have this bad Karma again and ten years sounds like a good respite from all this, it does seem to happen in waves though, huh?
The newly fixed TV is being watched by Hubby right now as I write this, and from here sounds to be just fine, but this ‘worry wart’ has the ridiculous concern that either once we pay the bill from our charge or dare I say when those ninety days are up, let’s say on the ninety-first one it will again go to that TV place in the recycling bin in the dump or excuse me really be recycled due to its untimely demise! I sure hope not to either.

On that TMI of concern, but you all know me by now…
Happy night to all and all try to count those blessings, happy thoughts, happy thoughts happy thoughts, my new mantra, OK and we will too!

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