Busy busy...

This week has been crazy busy...

Started off with the airconditioning breaking down. Then " why not get the window fixed at the same time " ( its been broken years ago now.. !)

So we find the aircon guys after some surfing the net on Sunday, and the Coolserve people sealed the deal just because they followed up our email request. The window was harder to fix. Not many people are intested in small jobs. Well.. thank goodness for the world wide web. Turns out the window fixing guy was actually employed by someone who did carpentry. So that led to the kitchen next for renovation.

1. The airconditioning:

Kaput. Dead. Amazing how stuff changes. In 5 years our model is 'old' and the pipes needed checking for leaks etc...
1 day to check that the compressor was dead. 2 days for the pressure gas test. Another day to get the new airconditioning system put in.
Not cheap either! Pressure test cost us $342, and the new system another two grand or so.

2. Window pane:

Broken by a freak wind accident that led to the window being slammed shut.
Getting it fixed cost us another $140!
Got plastic. Not going to face another broken window. It's in the kitchen facing the airconditioning ledge anyway.

3. Kitchen:

The idea was to shift our humungous double door refrigerator back into the kitchen. Of course it meant tearing apart the cabinets and shifting everything down half a metre. So we elected to install an oven while we were at it. So we got the guy to measure it out, went shopping pronto to find an oven to fit, all in the same hour. That's setting us back another three grand or so.

Hopefully everything turns out well... we're going to get quite a few credit card points this month.

That aside, I think Madison also caught Pa's viral thing and was ( is ) coughing and having somewhat of a runny/itchy nose. Thank goodness for chlormine.

Elizabeth had her first round of vaccinations too, and she did well... getting the full cocktail with pneumococcal and rotaviral vaccines too. Not even a real fever! Lucky gal.

The airconditioners are taking longer than I expected to get put up.. argh...