Yesterday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for the poor ol' bank account. The photo above is the temperature in my house, as I type. It's gone up 2C since I got up to put the little fan heater on.
Because yesterday was the exciting day we installed a new ducted heating unit. The previous one spent the whole of winter just stopping. Every couple of weeks it would just decide it needed a break and just stop working. Dh is the only one who knows how to deal with the pouty attitude displayed by this appliance, that refused to fulfil its purpose in life. So we had a new one installed yesterday. By 6pm, when I got home, it decided it didn't want to work either. Maybe it thinks it is too good for this 20yo old house? The guy who installed it is onto the problem, so maybe by the end of the day we'll have heat. It is a whole 6C outside right now, so something bigger than a mini-sized fan heater would be wonderful.
On top of that, the TV decided to cark it yesterday too. It's like all the appliances have banded together to stage a mass protest. I expect the fridge and the water heater to join in the plan any day now. But the TV? It has been doing this weird thing where it just loses the plot and has a very loud, very fuzzy hissy fit, right after it gets turn on. It's a bit like a toddler doing the "dead fly" impression in a temper tantrum. After a few minutes, though, it usually settles down (unlike toddlers). Following yesterday's hissy fit, and taking its sweet time to decide to be turned off, it just wouldn't turn back on.
Today's jobs? Buy a new TV....because apparently there will be zero days on which there is no television in this house. This has happened before, the day Mr Busy scared a TV into refusing to turn on (he was 4yo and was playing with the on/off button; he (we) lost). Out we went and got a TV that day. Being here for Mr Heater man to come back and sort that beast out.
So here's the maths for this year:
new car for Miss Sunshine + new heater + new TV = no new kitchen any time this year 😭
The year began with such high hopes.
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