You can take the title of this post both at face value and sarcastically. For two different reasons:
I skipped work Friday morning to go to the doctor for the first time since...I don't know...2008? I'm usually a pretty healthy type of lady, but I've been having some...ahem...issues that have gone on for way too long, so I sucked it up and went in. For the long and short of it, I'm absolutely fine. But I did scare Nate because his shift at work was cancelled so he walked up to my appointment with me Friday morning and I was in with the ARNP for about 45 minutes, but I was a new patient, so lots of questions and paperwork equal a longer appointment. He had no need to worry =)
Backing up, we were planning on going to Target on Thursday evening to switch out our coffee maker, which crapped out on Tuesday morning. I guess technically it crapped out Monday afternoon, but I already had my coffee for that day, so we didn't notice anything until Nate try to rewarm the extra coffee from the morning later that day...which just didn't work (and as a side note, this is the second of this particular kind of coffee pot that has crapped out on us for various reasons.) In any case, Nate gets ready to pick me up after work, goes out to the car and the back passenger window is smashed in. Awesome. So I walk home, we wander around in circles for a while before deciding we need to go out, anyway, to find a place with a vacuum to clean out the car, anyway. While trying to clear out the stuff from the car, we discover that our inverter is gone, as is a duffle bag, a bag of change (plus all the change in the change drawer -- mostly dimes, nickels and pennies,) flashlight, the remote for the radio, Nate's extra pair of glass (they have a prescription, what is anyone else going to do with them?)and the DUCT TAPE?! The fuse cover is off, but the radio hasn't been touched, and the faceplate for it (which we keep in the glove compartment) is still there. As is our tent, folding chairs, Nate's OBDII reader, rope and various other camping equipment, including our tent. What random items to take.
While we were cleaning everything out, we talked to a guy who had also had his car broken into and they'd swiped his fishing gear, but not his tent. He said that between Monday night and Tuesday morning, all the 4x4's that were parked on the bridge near our apartment had been broken into. Ridiculous.
At this point it's starting to rain, because we live in Seattle, so we decide to head out to vacuum out the car and find some new duct tape. We wound up at Target, anyway, and go a new coffee maker. After returning the old one, we sprung for a better (read: more expensive) type, with a timer and different strengths of brew. Fancy.
The other thing that crapped out on us was our free old-school TV that we got from Craigslist when we first got here. I turned it on one day and it was just a colored line in the middle of a black screen. Nate fixed it (first by taking the back completely apart and moving stuff around, and then by banging on the sides of the TV until the picture spread back out,) and that stuck for a while, but then it decided it didn't like being hit anymore and that stopped working. So the other thing we bought at Target was a new, 26" LED TV. Oh yes, it's awesome. Nate has already found things wrong with it, but he does concede that the picture is way better than he had thought it would be. But the USB port doesn't seem to working, so we can't upgrade the firmware like we're supposed to, according to Westinghouse's website. Ah well, you can't have everything work perfectly, can you? Oh wait, maybe that's just us...
So we have a new TV and a new coffee maker, but we still have to fix the window on the car. It's a balance, you see? No, I don't really either.
-C
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