Thursday, August 20, 2009

First Day of School


As you can tell from the picture, two out of three were excited about today. Of course at 6:20 in the morning I couldn't blame Ryan for being unenthused! I am pleased with their teacher assignments and we made what I hope will be our last trip to Staples for supplies. It's still a little hard for me to believe that I no longer have children in elementary school!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Dishwasher saga

The guy came, told me we had hard water, run two cycles of "Dishwasher Magic" through an empty dishwasher on the longest, hottest cycle, and I'll be set. Oh, and that will be $151. I asked him why the last two guys couldn't have told me the same thing. Apparently because we have hard water, it builds up to the point there is a film inside the dishwasher, the spray arms get clogged, and it continues to get worse and worse in the drain, etc.; hence the reason the dishes were worse coming out than going in. He claims if you run a container of this stuff through every month that it will never build up and dishes will be great. And, most interesting to me, was never to use more than a teaspoon of dishwasher detergent in the dispenser. (This was the only comment all three guys had in common.) So, $22 later for two bottles, I had better have the most immaculate dishwasher in San Diego. You can be sure Sears repair will be getting a letter from me requesting my money back from the first two clowns who came out...and maybe this one too if it's not a success!

Tuesday

I've spent the last two days working at school helping get registration paperwork processed. It's been fun to see everyone again as the start of a new year is always exciting at an elementary school. I am so incredibly happy to be assigned to a class with a teacher/friend I adore - going to work will be such a pleasure every day.

I am still waiting for the dishwasher repairman who was to have been here between 1 and 5 today - geez, it's only 5:20 - love when they have no issue with YOU waiting on THEM. He'd better be able to find a solution or I'm going to paper plates! Stay tuned for the outcome ...

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Sunday night

Mark was kind enough to take the kids to the beach for a couple hours yesterday and I enjoyed some alone time which I really needed. They had a great time boogie boarding and looking for shells.

Once again the dishwasher is not working. I've had it serviced three times in the last year which is pathetic given it was rated #1 by Consumer Report (it's a Bosch). I will call the repairmen tomorrow and tell them it's still not right, give them one more chance to fix it, and if they can't will be on my way to Home Depot to buy a new one. Of course I could have had a new one by now! Washing dishes by hand (and we go through a LOT of dishes) is second worst to having the washing machine out of commission ... but at least they are clean.

Tomorrow I work at school for a little bit, pay a visit to the credit union to transfer signature rights to the new Foundation Board, and hopefully do something relaxing since school starts on Thursday. I did see one of the darling little guys from my class last year in the grocery store today so I'm a little more excited about going back and seeing all their cute faces!