{"id":1576,"date":"2008-12-04T16:38:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2008-12-04T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:39:26","slug":"happy-happenstance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"Happy Happenstance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I left for my lunchtime hair appointment. I was exactly on-time, which is always a riveting moment and should be noted, since on-time has never been one of my strengths.<\/p>\n<p>My stylist greeted me with a slightly puzzled air &#8211; turns out, the appointment was for Thursday (in her book). I chalked it up to her pregnancy brain, because I never make plans on Thursdays, as I am often at a client meeting that can last an undertermined amount of time. This week, I wasn&#8217;t going, so I just told her it wasn&#8217;t a problem &amp; I&#8217;d see her tomorrow, and now I could go to CostCo and get a new mini-fridge for my office!<\/p>\n<p>You know, the old one-door-closes-and-a-window-opens thing? Or, make-the-best-of-it? So into the blowing cold wind &amp; tiny snowflakes I went. Walked into CostCo and saw my BFF Beth! She was there to pick up pictures, but they&#8217;d mucked up the print job &amp; needed to be redone. She didn&#8217;t have plans, so we cruised through CostCo together. I especially liked the part where I wrestled the enormous fridge box into my cart, telling her that while I knew she wished she COULD help me, secretly, I was hoping everyone around us would look at her with disdain for not helping her friend out. (She is not able to lift anything over 10# right now while recovering from a procedure.) (Obviously I was prepared to wrestle this by myself. She actually helped by holding the cart still.)<\/p>\n<p>I got a fancier, bigger model (of course you did, I hear my husband utter), but I had researched them on Consumer Reports, and they basically hated all those little ones. The brands of the bigger ones they did like still cost a bit over $100 online, just for the hated-little size. So, that was all the justification I needed, my fridge is the equivalent of hunting quail with an elephant gun, but whatev. CR said it&#8217;s good, and that&#8217;s all I need!<\/p>\n<p>Getting it in the car would have been easy, had the Murano been cleaned out. We purposefully didn&#8217;t get it seated in the cart, so it would be easier to offload. But I had to keep tilting and wedging the box in the hatchback area, and all I could think about was when I first moved here, and moved a 70-plus pound air conditioner into my apartment &#8211; by myself. That was a bitch and a half. People walked by me and watched me struggle then, too. Whatever. I am MIGHTY, dammit, and I am tenacious, and I am stubborn.\u00a0 I realized afterwards that some of the looks might have been because my shirt had pulled down and my bra &amp; a nice expanse of my bosoms were greeting the world cheerfully. Hm.<\/p>\n<p>After that, we grabbed a bite at the Westport Flea Market, and I was greatly amused to have my order called in song. (to the tune of Snoop Dogg\/Pharrell&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful&#8221;) &#8220;Jennifer&#8230;.. I just want you to knoooow&#8230;.that your food is doooone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new fridge is fantastico, if a bit overkill for an office fridge, but it actually keeps things cold (the other one conveyed more like &#8230; the notion of cool.) I actually had shards of ice in my Diet Coke this morning, so I took the temperature down a smidge. I like the ice, but I also put some apples in there, and I don&#8217;t want those frozen. Of course, I could put them in the crisper. Yes. I now have a crisper. Currently it holds the mini ice cube trays. For the mini freezer. Yes.\u00a0 Shush.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Twas a happy day. I did get my haircut today, it&#8217;s fabulous! I came back and ate my sammich from my new fridge &amp; need to figure out who has Diet Coke on sale so I can stock up. And then, tomorrow&#8217;s Friday! Yippee skippy! Cold weather &amp; knitting go hand-in-glove!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I left for my lunchtime hair appointment. I was exactly on-time, which is always a riveting moment and should be noted, since on-time has never been one of my strengths. My stylist greeted me with a slightly puzzled air &#8211; turns out, the appointment was for Thursday (in her book). 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