2-7-14

7:10am

Yet another day of no school for Columbus City Schools

due to unplowed side streets and unshoveled sidewalks.

This makes day 3 of no school.

And I think we are now 2 days over the 

allowed calamity days.

The temperature outside is -1 degrees.

The wind chill is between -10 to -15 degrees.

Brrrr!  

Well I have another day to figure out what to make

for lunches for the boys.  

Thank goodness I have enough spaghetti leftover

from supper last night to give them for lunch.

Hubby didn't need a lunch today because

his boss is buying pizza for them.

You don't think about stuff like this until you

are broke then the littlest things affect you.

I had carefully planned out all meals to make it

from one paycheck to the next.

Did I expect 3 days of school closing back to back...no.

The last time they had this many days off in a row

we had a wind storm and no power for 3-7+ days.

Gotta be able to hobble along for another week

til payday.  They say hubby's bonus will now

be on next week's check.

I got a letter from hubby's work about

his income verification to send to the hospital.

It had been corrected from where they made

a mistake on it about his hourly pay.

This has been such a pain in the rear.

And it gets better.

Hubby gave his boss the letter I received in the mail

from the hospital to show them what he needed and why.

Well, his work lost that letter and never returned

it back to me.  AHHH it's never ending.

That letter had all the information on it about

my hospital account.

3:30pm

So I decided to clean off the fridge top to bottom.

I had so many boxes of plastic wrap, aluminum foil,

parchment paper and boxes of assorted bags on top.

I find all this stuff in vacated apartments.

I put them all in my pantry closet.

It looks like I have a brand new fridge now after wiping

all the dust and gunk off the top and sides of it.

Then....I decided to clean the grill on the bottom front

of the fridge.  I thought, I'll just take it off and wash it 

in the sink.  Ha ha not so simple.  I took a glance underneath

the fridge after removing it to look at the coils.

They have never been cleaned since we got the 

fridge a couple years back.

Oh my goodness, dust bunny convention on steroids under there!!

So I'm laying on my side on the floor with a sweeper nozzle in

one hand, a dryer vent cleaner in the other

and moving a flashlight laying on the floor around with my chin.

After about an hour I finally got them cleaned.

The fridge should run a little better now

hoping it will save a little on the electric bill.

You should once a year clean your fridge coils

especially if you have furry animals!

My cat's food bowls are by the fridge and I think

all their hair was sucked up underneath there!

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