Category: Personal Blog

Half a bottle of wine.

That’s good for typing,right?
No real luck so far on the fridge replacement.
I got 2 responses but one was to say the fridge was taken( it was a free offer, so of course)
and the other is for a big fridge we probably can’t pick up anyway. We have all these moving connections since that used to be A.’s line of work.But they seem to be good for dropping stuff off at our house and never taking it away again rather than helping us pick up something we actually need.

I knew it.

A. decided that he was going to defrost our mini fridge today. We emptied it out and let nature take it’s course.Open fridge, warm apartment bye bye ice compacted mini freezer with broken door.
To speed things up we put pans of hot water on the shelf under the freezer compartment and I went to take the dog for a long walk.When I returned A. was at the freezer with one big old knife,scraping the ice away in a manner clearly warned against by practically everybody since the dawn of the non self defrosting fridge.
But he kept saying “I will I will” to all of my “be careful” ‘s and even though I was really apprehensive, he was getting much ice out… in fact it was nearly all gone…
D. came home and we chitchatted at the counter in the kitchen while A. scraped and scraped. Then, A. let out a wail and dove to the floor face down as a hissing noise and a cloud of freon began to pour out of the freezer. I yelled “is it poisonous?” as A. lay on the kitchen floor in shame.
Our dog was in danger I thought but no one answered me. I waited a few minutes and didn’t notice any of us turning blue or dying.
so I guess freon doesn’t kill, or at least not right away.
I immediately ran to Craigslist to look for mini fridges for sale. I found one
in Mid town for 75 bucks.
I also found a lot of folks selling fridges, full size ones, for really cheap.We had an odd set up: A big fridge and a mini one next to it.The microwave went on top of the mini and our collection of glad wrap and tinfoil,papertowl holder and other miscellaneous crap went on top of that.
We have no cabinets so this is a good compromise I guess.
But if we can get another fullsize fridge we would have a lot more room.There are 4 people living here so there’s hardly any room ever in either of the fridges.
A. is silly.

Interesting

A. did decide to come home–at nearly 4 am.
I wasn’t pissed.
We did talk during the day, very briefly.Our phone calls never last more than 7 minutes anyway so that wasn’t unusual.Not a sign that he loathes me now or anything.
I knew he was planning to stay in the studio in Dumbo all night and I had gone into the city to see my dad after all.
After seeing dad, I went to the supermarket on La Guardia Place and found a whole bunch of stuff A. likes a lot.He’s from Israel.I got him pickles and these tiny little yellow croutons which aren’t the big toasty chunks you and I are used to but very small,uniform pill like things.I got 2 containers.Now he has to make soup.
I came home and made some dinner which was good at midnight but not so great at 345 am.But oh well, he ate anyway and then asked me what that was about last night .
I tried to explain but it is so hard to discuss why you were mad when you aren’t any more and I could tell he was still pretty pissed about it.And so I didn’t really get very far with explaining myself before I sensed he was just going to be livid no matter what I said in my defense. I did slip in that he and O. wrecked the last bit of the movie I was watching by jamming too loud.He said it was the 1st time he and O. had ever played at the house(and see how well it went!)
I wanted to say that in the future it isn’t such a great idea but of course I am a pussy and I didn’t say it.
He hasn’t yet tied together how his brother-(our 3rd roommate)- plays his bass pretty much all the time he’s home-with my blow out last night… or that the water torture-esque riffing that comes from the brother/roommate’s room constantly drives the other non musician roommates (me and D.) nuts. Which is why for me it wasn’t the 1st time I’d been really annoyed by musical onslaught. I do not inconvenience my roommates or my boyfriend with my past times.Considering that 2 of my major ones are keeping this barn from actually looking and smelling like a barn(you try that-living with 3 undomesticated dudes) and finding nice things to eat for our dinners.
And lately I have been tied to the computer but I was working really hard to bring my dad’s website into 2006 standards and I had to learn as I went and it took a long long time.
Yes, before that I was studying CSS like an obsessed weasel,staying up ’til the morning(can I help it if I like to work when everyone else is sleeping?) and so wasn’t going to bed until A. was getting up…I know this is bad.Bad for our sex life and just bad for normalcy which strangely enough is important to A.
Eh,normal? What is that?
I lived alone for almost 9 years and got used to doing what I liked.I have really changed my lifestyle for A. but I can’t seem to adapt to his body clock’s pattern.I have my nightowl one and have had it all my life and I am not sure that I can change it. I told him I would if it meant he was going to leave me because of it .
But he said he didn’t want me to change.I guess he would like me to be the way he thinks I should be. But he needs to get in line!