We can start buying cheese again

The question my friends are asking me the most right now (besides "Do we have to wait until after football season to hang out again") is, "Do you have a refrigerator yet? Yes! Finally.

This has been one of the the biggest customer service hassles ever, but it has finally been resolved. But not without more craziness on Saturday. I won't bore you with all the details, but at 1:30 on Saturday afternoon we were sitting in the theater ready to watch Flightplan and I got a call saying the refrigerator would be delivered between 3 and 6. After the company had cancelled four deliveries prior to this, I was thrilled to know the refrigerator was actually on a truck making its way to us so I was willing to leave the movie early to go home to meet them. Besides, I knew Angela wouldn't mind being alone with Jodie Foster for awhile. ;) So I left at 3:00. At 5:50, I found out the delivery people had not been not able to fit our refrigerator on the truck that morning so they were waiting for a truck to return and they would send the refrigerator out to us sometime in the evening. I missed Jodie Foster for that? Why couldn't they tell me that at 1:30? So I left the house to go fetch Angela from Stonebriar and save her from another hour of wandering aimlessly through Dick's, and we went home and made nachos instead of going out to Gloria's or Cristina's like we had planned. Plan ruiner. The refrigerator was finally delivered at 7:45 that evening. We bought it on September 7th. We gave up our other refrigerator on the 12th so we had been buying bottled water and ice since then. Now I can get my skim milk on again!

I realized something Saturday evening. Angela is truly my better half. I was was stressed out and frustrated with the whole appliance-delivery process while I was waiting at the house alone Saturday afternoon and I felt like I might pop a blood vessel, but once I picked up Angela I became completely calm. Getting repeatedly screwed by an appliance store didn't matter quite as much. I always look for the deeper meaning in things--even in refrigerator debacles--and the fact that I am a complete loon when Angela is not around is the thing that became apparent during this experience. Actually, I already knew it but this just reinforced things.

The first half of Flightplan was awesome! Angela said the rest of it was great too. But then she would be excited about watching Jodie Foster watch the paint peel off the wall. Can't wait to see the rest of it.