ARGH!!

I just filled the freezer with almost $200 worth of goodies from the local HFS and Trader Joe's, and the refrigerator decides to start dying on us!


So this week we have to head out to get a new refrigerator-freezer. The one we have in this apartment came with the house when the owner bought it about 22 years ago, and the tag inside says it was built in 1987, making it 24 years old.

In a normal household this would be annoying enough. But this apartment is so jam-packed with furniture, and has narrow doorways and an even narrower stairwell, that moving something this big out and in is going to be a big pain. 2 years ago we needed a new stove, and not only did they guys bang up walls up and down the place but gouged out a chunk of wood from my Bennington Pine shelf unit. The refrigerator is bigger, a bit wider, so that means we have to move furniture - about 1/4 of the furniture in the whole apartment - including my china closet and everything in the kitchen, from shelving units to the kitchen table itself. I don't know WHERE we'll be moving this stuff TO, since there's not a spare square inch in the entire place, but it has to be done.

And the fridge we pick has to fit in the weird tiny space the former owner carved out for the one in there now. It's in so tight you can barely fit a finger between the sides and the wall/cabinet on the sides. Hopefully the store has one the right size in stock.

Oh, and my husband has to fight with his boss to get 2 days off for furniture moving and the delivery itself. They usually ask people to work overtime at the end/beginning of the month and usually refuse to give days off unless it's a dire emergency. I think having a refrigerator reading 55 degrees and a freezer in the mid-30's is dire enough!

We can't even go buy one until he knows he can have the time off, so the soonest we can have one delivered is Thursday. I hope enough food stays edible until then. I already kissed all my frozen foods goodbye and put my non-frozen stuff in the freezer just to keep it cool enough so it doesn't go bad.

HELP!

At least now I can start from scratch and have only healthy foods on hand. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff I found buried in the back of that freezer!