When the Lights Go Out.

and the power is on again/off again ..
.. you get plenty of time to do other things.

The house, however is a mess.

Easter tags for little gifties for our Mother's Group buddies and budd-ettes.

Labelled with their first initial.

Party hats inverted, filled with choc, chicklets, & ribbon replacing the elastic.

Green for boys, pink & silver for the girls.

Lots happened again today.

The S.A.D. was home ( my new name for the husband .. no .. not Seasonal Affective Disorder .... but Seasonally Affected Dad .. we used to see him on Fridays .. this is rapidly turning into a Tuesday affair. He's rarely available on weekends .. )

So S.A.D called Westinghouse and said the Thursday appt was useless. If we needed to hire a fridge due to them being unable to fix it on the spot, we were ratsh*t ( due to Easter ). He was on hold for a long time, but someone came out today and replaced the motor. Although the fridge was out of warranty, apparently the motor had a 5yr 'parts' warranty attached, so we only had to pay for labour.

The guy refused to charge it ( !! ). He shook his head and said 'this should never have happened'. Fixed it, and went on his way. WOW ! :)

In other news ... the fireplace .. which I have ( fortunately ) only lit up a few times, and not for long ... once for picturing in here, and maybe another couple of times to show people.
The reason I haven't used it is because we needed to be rewired, so the fan on it was unfunctional, and I didn't want to do the fireplace harm by using it without the fan.

Lucky. Lucky. Lucky.

Faced with calling the fireplace people again, I felt dejected.
Our electrician used to install these, so I asked if he wouldn't mind taking a look ?
We unbolted the mantle from the wall .. to find ... it was never installed properly. Dodgy city. PLUS, the electrical wire was left on top of the hottest spot, and had melted down to the wire. Now that we're having circuit-breakers installed, this would have tripped them every time, and left everyone scratching their heads in wonder as to what it might be.

Lucky they took a look. It's fixed .. but the 'finish and flush' of the fireplace is a bit wonky ( always was ) .. and parts of it I wasn't so happy with ( again, written off to being too fussy .. but it did cost us a LOT of money .. ) I found were because they weren't done right.

Unfortunately they have to do with gasfitting and other non-electrical things, so we are going to try again to get Agnews out to take a look.

I mean, we used the guys THEY recommended .. but there just seems to be no quality control, no box-ticking along the way.
The contracter had contracters who had contracters, and there was like a dozen unrelated guys filing through at any one time. No wonder mistakes are made !!
I've asked S.A.D. to call, because i'm starting to come to the conclusion that women wield no power. People listen to him.

Which is totally crap, because i'm at home, with the time to call and whine and wait on hold .. yet he is at work, elsewhere, and yet my results just don't cut his mustard. Or something.

Anyway, we had a cheery afternoon at IKEA after this.
The TV stand we wanted was out-of-stock, but should be in next week. We had a $1 hotdog each, and they were mm-mm-good :)