Tuesday

[susandennis]

A lot of people feel strongly about their refrigerator configuration!  I get it cause I do, too. I just feel differently strongly.  I am now a lot smarter refrigerator-wise speaking.

While there seem to be a gazillion different kinds available, once you narrow it down to the width my kitchen allows, the number of choices go way way down.  I've finally gone back to my refrigerator roots and settled on a swing door, freezer top model.  I've had side by side and freezer bottom and, honestly, freezer top, full width just suits me.  There is no model - on the face of the earth - that has swing door, freezer top with ice and water out the door.  And there is only ONE model that has an out-the-door cold water model.  That just seems so weird to me.

I also made the giant decision to go black.  I really hate stainless steel.  I particularly hate it on the refrigerator. It seems like it's only job is to attract finger prints.  The rest of my appliances are stainless steel but all of them have major black areas so I am going black.  Plus, black (and white) is cheaper.  So I sent my guy at the good place a price - can we do for this - taxes, install, take away - total for this?  If he says yes, I've got myself a new fridge. If he says no, then I'll live with what I got.  All's cool.

And, yes, there are a lot of other places (Home Depot, Sears, Lowes) in Seattle and around - there are a bunch of places in the burbs - that sell fridges but I do not want to do business with any of them and cursory online look shows me there's not a lot of cost savings, if any, with any of them.  I do cherish living where there are so many choices!

It's a cool cloudy day with hope of some rain later.  Kind of a gift.  There is a rather big breeze moving The Tree That I Hate from one side to the other.  I may have to wear my light weight sweater today for warmth rather than just to cover up my ugly arms!

The laundry is laundrying and all is good.  I have swim class at noon.  I think I'll go in a little earlier and get some laps in.

Tonight there is a sold out soccer game at the football field and a Mariners game at the baseball field one block away.  I am soooo glad that I do not have to be out in the car after 4 this afternoon.  The Mariners game is the pristine match between the two worst teams in baseball on a weeknight so aside from the players and staff, there's likely to be no more than a dozen or so in attendance but the soccer game is a world qualifying game between the United States and Panama.  In other words a Major Fucking Soccer Deal.

I might love today's weather because this evening it will be cool enough to have the doors closed so the game noise will just be a joyful din and not interfere with my watching of the Mariners' loss.

The only other thing on the hit parade today is to tidy up for the house cleaner tomorrow.  Things are in good shape so that's really only a matter of a walk through to put away the few things that somehow didn't find their proper home.

Ooops LJ is having 'emergency maintenance'.  

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I so wish that The Astros hadn't become the worst team in baseball. It's been so long since they were good ... *sigh* ... Good luck with the fridge choice. It's really wonderful when there is a salesperson who really knows their stuff and also has the knack to be so personable.

[fyremaven.livejournal.com]

Isn't it weird how we get used to one refrigerator set up and stick with it? Or tend to, anyway. I never jumped on the stainless steel bandwagon having never liked the look. Love black though. Back in the day we had an "almond" fridge and maybe a white one thrown in somewhere but the last couple have been black. I prefer the freezer on the bottom deal and hubby loves the ice n water out the door so we always get that. I usually drink water out of the bottle room temp so i don't care much about the ice. In party situations it comes in really handy. And in the summer the dog likes to eat ice cubes so that makes it easy for his lazy mom to get him ice. :)

I've got Kiera today and she's home from day care with a little virus, sort of fever-like but the advil is helping with that. Just droopy. I will give her a treat later this afternoon and let her watch "Susan TV." :D

[rsc.livejournal.com]

In Gloucester, we have swing door, top freezer, and I kind of like that arrangement. In Cambridge, we have side-by-side, and I find freezer access awkward -- it's very narrow and there's a counter that's sort of in the way. In both places there are very tight space constraints that severely limit our options.

Both are white. That's what color refrigerators are in my universe.

(The Gloucester fridge has developed an annoying problem: something happened to the gasket on the main door and it won't stay properly closed. John ordered a new gasket but neither of us can figure out to replace the old one -- the instructions that come with it and the ones John found on the web tell you to undo some bolts that don't appear to exist on our refrigerator. In the meantime we're making do by using magnets to hold the door shut, but as a long-term solution that's unacceptable.)

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

I love black appliances, but I have a special place in my heart for the avocado green ones we had when I was growing up :)

[kayre]

With a top freezer, either the ice dispenser would have to be on the freezer door, or you would have to somehow route ice cubes through the refrigerator and then out the door. Not impossible but complicated and probably expensive and easily broken.

[kyrielle]

We have a side-by-side now. I like the ice out the door but honestly it's a bit of a pain, because if you don't use enough ice often enough it sticks to itself and then you have to dump the whole lot and let it make new.

I'd love to go back to top-and-bottom. But...I think I'm gonna stick with this one until my small-fry aren't so small. I don't want them trying to climb refrigerator shelves to get to what they want in the freezer. :D