Mr. Fix-It: Friday Night Fun

We really know how to live it up on a Friday night. There are just times when you realize just how domestic you've become.

Poor B comes home to find me, on the floor with our steam cleaner on its side, trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with it.

We bought the Bissell 9500 Pro Heat 2x Clean Shot a few months ago and after not many uses, it stopped spraying the cleaning formula. We've tried cleaning it to make sure we didn't have any clogs to no avail. This was not an inexpensive machine and it's not been working for going on a month now. I was ready for the damn thing to be fixed!

So, without even changing his clothes, down on the floor with the machine B went. He too pieces apart, we called Bissell for troubleshooting, and nothing. Bissell referred us to a service shop. But that wasn't good enough for my Mr. Fix-It. He wasn't going to quit until that thing was working again.

Using the "tools of his trade"--oops, I left the flashlight out of that picture (and, see, still in work clothes)--he kept at it. It now works like a champ again. And it only took him two hours, which isn't really that bad considering.

Oh, and the culprit, clogged hoses. See, we chose not to upgrade the carpet when we had the house built. We didn't think it necessary. Boy, were we wrong. Word to the wise, if you have inside dogs, or children, ALWAYS upgrade the carpet. Between all the little munchkin hairs and the fuzz from the carpet, those hoses were good and clogged. And the troubleshooting had us check for clogs, but these clogs were in places they wouldn't normally be. So, the machine will be now be getting an even more thorough clean after each use from now on.

So, that is how we spent the first few hours of our Friday night. Don't we lead an exciting life? Now, B did get to go to his fave--Outback--for dinner after, so it couldn't have been all bad for him

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Criminals......"oh my damn!"

Hello all you people out there in blog-land. My name is Bill, and I am the other half of The "Bear-Den" .. if fact, that would be my last name. Any who... I have been nagged by my beautiful, (some would say better half)baby-girl Ashley to start blogging, so in order to spare getting on her bad side, (and having to camp on the couch), I decided to tell you about my GLORIOUS day! For those of you who don't know, I am an Adult Probation Officer, which is really just a fancy title for adult baby-sitter. "Oh my damn," these people really get to me sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I actually like my job, I mean aside from the 11 hour days, occasional threats of bodily harm, accusations of being "too mean," and of course having to go to court to testify against some moron who has already been on Felony probation for DWI-Repetition for the 3rd freakin' time, only to get put on trial yourself by the snake defense attorney. OOOOOOOhhhh sorry I had to vent for a minute, and in case you haven't noticed, I kinda had a rough day, oh and it gets better since I have to be in court all day tomorrow in a monkey-suit getting drilled by the defense attorney for failing to dot my I's and cross my T's, instead of being with my buddy Dennis at the office chilin' on Casual Friday wearing jeans and kicking back a little. I mean sometimes, I just feel like I'M LooSInG mY MInd!!!!!!!!!!! "Probation has had no psychological effect on me, no sir, no psychological effect on me at all.... "BIG-BIG DOGS LANDING ON MY FACE!" "DID YOU SEE THE SIZE OF THAT CHICKEN?" "WE'RE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD ASSHOLE!" Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!! ok, sorry,, I'm back now. Anyway, I think this is actually theraputic, I doubt anyone will read this anyway, but on the off chance someone does... don't worry, I'm ReALly nOt thaT KraZy!!!!!!!!!! Just ask Ashley! Good night all. If you want me to blog again, just let me know in the comments, and I will oblige! PEACE- Three-5!

BB

So, we're getting married.

Finally! After seven years, we have finally decided to just do it. It's probably silly that we've waited this long, but, hey, we're doing it now.

We are getting married on our anniversary, October 20. I figured we've had the same one for this long, why try to remember a new one? So, if anybody is checking their calendars, yep, that's a Monday. And how do you get married on Monday when the bride can't take more than two days off work at a time and you are giving yourselves about two month's notice? The JOP.

We've tried for a while now to figure out the whole "how to have a wedding" thing. I finally came to the conclusion that I'm just not up for the challenge. And we could wait some more to try to plan something and to try to save up more and more money, but we just don't want to do that.

It's really more us anyway, so it kinda works. Anyway, we're really excited!

And I'll try to make Bill post something. I don't think he's figured out the whole blog thing yet.

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