Loni's Life

Is it hot in here? Ok, the birthday surprise that my Refrigerator gifted me was to stop working... I discovered this when I went to store my leftovers from Chili's birthday dinner.    Good thing I hadn't gone grocery shopping for the week yet; so on the fridge side I only lost some expired milk.   On the freezer side, I lost my whole Jenny Craig week and ice cream (booo!!) Then on Wednesday, I arrive home from work to discover the house is overly warm and the A/C has blown the breaker in the garage... so call the AC maintenance folks who had just checked the system on Tuesday. The AC maintenance folks came back on Thursday and basically said the compressor is shot; you'll need a new one; we'll have our sales group call you.   Fortunately, one of the negotiation pieces when I was purchasing this home was to have the Sellers pay for Home Warranty service to cover the appliances and the AC unit.  So I've got a Warranty work scheduled for this a...

There is a smoke detector chirping...so must pick up new batteries and recruit someone to fix it... See: Lesson learned.

Last Thursday, what I had intended to be a simple task of changing an AC filter during my lunch hour... turned into one of my dumbest moves of all time.    Ok, maybe that was just a little too much of Independent Me trying to be Self-Sufficient (I normally let the AC guy handle the filter change, except he was out of that filter size when he checked the system on Wed).     I had already decided to exit the attic as it was creepy and scary enough and I had been on the wrong side of the AC to change the filter anyhow.    I was making my way back to the attic exit when one of the cross boards snapped and I knew I was going to drop thru the floor (a 9-foot drop to ceramic tile).  The next thing  I knew I was calling Mama Cheryl to come pick me up and take me to the ER to get my head checked out. I obviously blacked out for a while and was in a daze... I left a trail of insulation pretty much all over the house; I had changed out of my pull...