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Who is freaking awesome?  ME!  I am freaking awesome!  Because not 25 minutes after I posted about my broken washing machine yesterday, I got all inquisitive and fixed that bitch up.  Yep.  All by myself.  See, there’s this collection drain at the bottom of the machine–oh.  We have a German washer and dryer, btw, and if you’re wondering, yes.  TOTALLY different.  In a better way!  Like, the spin cycle is faster than the speed of sound.  It sounds like a jet engine, no lie.  Clothes come out of there 75% dry.  Anyway!  Back to the drain!  It’s not a drain you have to drain, so much, but more like a wet lint trap.  Stuff goes there to die, yeah?  Not very often have I opened it up, because there’s never been a need.  But for some reason yesterday I thought, “Hm. Perhaps I shall open that drain.”  So I did, and I immediately regretted it, because all those gallons of water I talked about yesterday?  All came pouring out at once.  I was like, oh, GREAT, because WHO WANTS FLOODED ANYTHING?  Fortunately it stopped after only covering 1/4 of the floor, and when I reached inside the drain, there were things!  A lot of things!  90 million in Euro coin!  A safety pin!  And the culprit, a mini brass knuckle necklace (not mine)!  

What happens, is when the spin cycle is going, the water gets sucked from the inside washy part, and down this tube, bypassing the drain (which is more like a lint trap, remember?) before it gets sucked down the drainage pipes.  Well, inside the lint trap thing is a fly wheel, and I think that…well, I initially thought it spun the inside thing but I’m not so sure.  Whatever, it’s supposed to spin, but the necklace had become all wrapped up in it, and it couldn’t move.  Therefore the inside thing couldn’t spin, therefore the washing machine wasn’t working. I pulled out the necklace, put everything back together, then started my machine back up: VIOLA!  I am a mechanic!  However, although I have total faith in my mad mechanic skilz, I did all the laundry last night and today.  You know, just in case.

Today I had off, remember?  I got up, drank my coffee, took the girls to school, came home, worked out, ate, showered, and then ran errands.  I was home by noon, got my two papers written and turned in by 5, and then I made dinner while Taylor made the coleslaw John was tasked to bring to his Thanksgiving fete tomorrow.  Don’t ask me, I don’t normally think “coleslaw!” when I think about T-Day.  At least it was easy.

After this (or maybe tomorrow morning) I have to do the red beans and rice for MY Thanksgiving fete, and also I think I might actually…work on another (not due) school paper!  I know!  Who IS this person?

I had tennis tonight but I cancelled because days off are tiring.  I need to recuperate.

Tschuss!!