When it rains, it pours

Good grief.  Like I really need more crap to deal with.  Seriously?!?!  I don't want this blog to become a woe-is-me, my life sucks, whiny blog.  There's enough of that in the world already.  Please just let me vent one last time.  In addition to all the crap I talked about in my previous blog, yesterday our fridge died.  Just out of the blue.  Yes, I know it's old.  Yes, it needed replacing anyway because I'm sure it was using a TON of electricity.  But NOW?!?  It had to die NOW?!  If you read my previous blog, then you know as well as I do that we have no way to get a new fridge just now.  Needless to say, I hardly got any sleep last night.  Hubby and I both posted a pleas for help on Facebook  and one of our friends has offered us the use of a fridge they have in their garage.....they THINK it still works.  (inserts nervous, maniacal giggle here).

I have my fingers crossed.  But for now, I have gone through my fridge and totally cleaned it out.  Everything that MUST be refrigerated (dairy products, mostly) are either packed in a cooler with ice, or sitting on our front porch (it decided to be winter today, which works in our favor).  Anything that said "refrigerate after opening for best quality", is now in the cupboard or on the counter (things like A1 sauce, parmesan cheese, bread, etc) .  We will be enjoying less-than-best-quality for a little while.  Anything that could possibly be frozen is in our chest freezer, along with extra ice (milk that didn't fit in the cooler, tortillas, etc).  I also filled some pop bottles with water and put them in the freezer so, in case we need to use this cooler method for a while, we don't have to keep buying bags of ice.  That could get expensive.  I was actually a little grossed out and disgusted with some of the contents of our fridge.  Old leftovers, almost empty sauce bottles, even a jar of applesauce that got shoved to the back of the bottom shelf, who knows how long ago, and has since become a lovely, green, fuzzy science experiment (ew!).  All of this simply went into the trash. I then unplugged the now-dead fridge.  Without its constant hum, the house was eerily quiet.  So much so that I had to turn the radio on.

I have no plan for replacing the fridge.  It will happen when we can make it happen.  For now, I am just going to continue on with my plan for catching up on the bills we fell behind on.  My plan went into action today, since today was the first day of my new job.  No I didn't replace my old job.  I am still working that one, 39 hours a week.  I get my health benefits and 401k at that job, and I love (most of) the people I work with.  I don't plan on leaving it any time soon.  This new job is an overnight gig, a few nights a week.  I know, I know.  "How can you do that?"......"You're going to overwork yourself."  Yep that's probably true, but I will make it work for however long I need it to.  They are aware that I may be working with them for just a couple months.......or longer, and they are ok with that.  You gotta do what you gotta do.  Today was just orientation, which lasted all of 30 minutes.  Tomorrow I begin my official training.  Once I am trained, they will put me on the night schedule.  Part of me can't wait for things to get moving, so I can get that first paycheck and start paying off late bills.  Part of me is nervous about how I'm going to make this all work.  But I WILL make it work.  I have to.