Yes, it has happened

 

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It's true when they say things happen in three's.  I wonder who came up with that?

So it started with my dryer.  I have an LG model and as per the specs:

"Each cycle will give you perfect drying results thanks to Sensor Dry technology which constantly analyzes the internal humidity levels and adjusts the drying time accordingly"

Now that part of my dryer seems to have gone kaput, and I am having to use my regular none sensor drying function.  Hubby thankfully is an electrician so he has looked at it and has ordered some part, which will probably total over $250, but which is cheaper than getting someone out to fix it and have to pay for their labour and the parts.

The next thing to happen is my fridge started turning off by itself, for no reason at all!!  Things came to a head last Wednesday when hubby got up to go to work and discovered that the fridge wasn't working and came and told me at 4:30 am in the morning.  Suffice to say I wasn't impressed at being woken up at that time.

It was enough to spur me on to see about someone coming out to look at it.  BUT, we finally had a stroke of luck with this as when I looked at the paperwork, would you believe that the warranty ran out on the 7th of December and I called to set this all up on the 6th.

This is not the first time I have had issues with this fridge, the ice maker rusted out within a couple of years of buying the fridge.  It's a KitchenAid fridge and I spent over $5,000 on it.  Piece of advice to everyone, avoid KitchenAid appliances they are not worth the money.  However the $700 I spent on extending my warranty will be, as I would reckon this repair will cost that and more, as we (hubby!!) are thinking the main circuit board will have to be replaced.

Update on Fridge: the repair guy came on Monday stayed 15 minutes, took photos and said he would order a circuit board that should arrive next week.  There is a leak in the back, took photos of that and said he would ask around to see if anyone had any idea what might be wrong????

So based on that someone will be back next week; so fingers, toes and everything else crossed that the fridge doesn't stop working before then!

Then the third thing happened on Sunday our toaster broke.  Luckily that is only a $25 replacement, as I ordered a cheap Black and Decker model with great reviews off Amazon.  I wanted a Smeg one but couldn't justify paying over $200 for one; been there done that with buying top of the line things😉

So there you go, three annoying and expensive things that have happened to us just recently!

It could be worse I guess, not sure how though?

Seriously!!!

If we didn't have bad luck we would have no luck at all.

This past six months it has been one thing after another within the family and it's all starting to catch up on me.  Why?  Well I now have shingles..........

Luckily this is not the first time I have had shingles, so I sort of know what's what with it.  The last time I had shingles was the beginning of April, 1984.  Right before I gave birth to our son.  Caused quite a kerfuffle, as it's not something they saw in the birthing unit every day.  Add into the fact it was right around my body where my bra strap would have been and they weren't even sure if I could breast feed our son or not.

It's in the same place as last time, and so far like last time, it's not painful but awfully itchy.  So on Friday I had to drive down to our doctors office to have someone look at it so I could get some antibiotics. 

The cause of this is probably stress.  I am still coughing and bringing up phlegm. Oh well onwards and upwards as they say (((SIGH)))