Ice makers and other random thoughts

As a favor to a good friend I took video and still pics at her niece's baby shower. SP plans the nicest parties and is so creative with her ideas and decorations. The party was a beautiful celebration. Now I get to have the real fun and take all that raw footage and putting it together into a video story the family can all enjoy. It's time consuming and tedious but I love it.

Finally got the chandelier I wanted for my new dining room! Meijer had the light on display but it was never in stock. After talking to the department manager last week he said he would bring one back from another Meijer store and call me Thursday afternoon. No phone call. I called every day to catch this guy and he was never in the store! Today I went there to get the numbers off the tag so I could find the chandelier at another Meijer store. I walked into the lighting aisle and what do I see on the shelf? Yep...the chandelier. I was irritated and happy at the same time.

I've decided to sell my 27" inch TV and ET center. E is getting rid of her desk for a more functional, practical desk for her needs. I have several issues with my TV and ET center...as in I bought them with my ex-friend, you-know-who. Nice as they are I just don't want them in my new home. Instead, I'm going to mount an LCD TV over the fireplace in my new living room. This will allow me to put the furniture in the optimal arrangement for the shape & size of the room and will elimiate the competition between the fireplace and TV as the focal point in the room. Uh...I think I've been watching WAY too many shows on HGTV!!!

Oddly, the one thing KC and I bought together that doesn't bother me is my queen size bed. I guess because I did all the work to pick it out, get the loan, etc. And I paid off the loan, so I guess it feels more like it's mine. Although I DID pay for the TV all myself. Ok, I admit it, I'm gadget gal and want the new fangled TV because it's cool, sleek and can be mounted over the fireplace. And it will also be Jordy compatible.

I need the oddest things for the house. I need a toaster because I'm sick of the toaster oven which outlived it's usefulness as soon as I had the oven fixed. I need curtain rods, furnace filters, light switch and electrical outlet covers that are NOT chrome, a different light fixture in my bathroom becuase the one there screams cheap hotel room lighting, perhaps a floor lamp for the living room, and maybe a plant or two (just kidding!!!).

A not so odd need is an ice-maker in the freezer. Why on earth would someone buy a fridge...a major appliance with an equally major price tag...and not spend the comparatively insignificant little extra it costs for an ice-maker???? Why would anyone want to wrestle ice out of plastic trays and into a container, tote the little nuisances to the sink, fill them with water, get them too full, dump out the excess (a waste of water, I might add), drip water across the kitchen floor, slosh them into the freezer, wait wait wait for ice, and then repeat the process several times a week, year after year??? I have better things to do with my time! Like...watch HGTV! Of course the ice-maker does take up prime freezer space. So I'll get a small freezer and park it in the garage. Duh. If I were picking out the fridge I'd get one with a freezer big enough to take an ice-maker AND still have space for more than a half gallon of ice cream, the friut cake from two Christmas' ago, a bag of unidentifiable brown stuff and some concoction brewed up by a group of teenage girls at 3 am that I'm afraid might be considered toxic waste.

It's 2:30 am. I have a love/hate relationship with prednisone. This is the hate part. Breathing clearly is the love part. I'm so wired and tired at the same time that I'm punchy. Going now...