Bitter Sweet

I always feel better when I vent, so I guess this post is for me. I love being a homeowner. I love the pride you have in your home as you work to fix it up and keep it nice. I love the memories...but at the same time, I hate being a homeowner. What happened to mom and dad taking care of everything and not having a care in the world except when your homework assignment was due and what you were going to do for the weekend? Oh ya, I grew up. Blah! And with that comes responsibilities...

Let's start with our dishwasher...2 years ago (ONLY 2 years ago) we bought our dishwasher. She treats me good. I love how she looks in my kitchen (since it's the only decent looking appliance in my kitchen) and she cleans so good! But what I don't like is how loud she is getting. It was the quietest dishwasher I had ever heard when we got it. I had to stop to listen to see if it was running. Now, it lets our entire house know it's running....like it's lacking attention. Justin's torn it apart only to find nothing wrong with it. We talked to an appliance guy and we are now just waiting for the motor to seize up on us. Great.

Then let's move onto our washing machine. We had to replace it just over a year ago and when we did, it was a good option to get a refurbished one from Advanced Appliance. It was the same washing machine my mom had before she upgraded to her front-loader. But someone in our house (me) has a hard time keeping the loads at a reasonable size and weight. Sometimes it is to worth it to pack an extra towel or pair of pants in it to avoid ANOTHER load of laundry to wash and fold. Well, we had to get the clutch replaced on it again...yes again. The clutches that should last 3-5 years only last me less than a year...Yes, I am now doing smaller and more frequent loads of laundry.

Now let's move onto our air conditioner. 2 years ago it wasn't working and we had Barlow come and look at it. It has a leak in the hose so instead of replacing the part, we just had them try to seal it to see if that would fix the problem. It didn't and we had to have them come fill the coolant stuff up again last year...once again, I've used the wonderful cooling devise enough this year that it's telling me it wants a break...Looks like we'll need to call Barlow again.

Am I really that hard on appliances and technology? Man, I think these are the same things I vented about 2 years ago. But my lovely 15-year-old stove, refrigerator, and water heater is still working. As much as I wanted them to go out when we bought the house, I'm just hoping they'll hang in there for me for a while longer. I think I'll keep paying my tithing just to make sure things don't get out of hand.