So Many Surgeries!!

 On such a nice sunny day, I should be out walking the neighborhood.  My enthusiasm for that has waned.  Mr. Cooper however, threw an absolute fit when he saw me put on my shoes, so a walking we did go.  Not too far mind you, but just far enough to come upon the house with the barky dogs who crawl halfway under the fence trying to get out.  We did a 360 and headed back home.  It was long enough though, and Coop was a happy camper!

The day would be full of surgeries.  These are never my forte ... but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.  First off, replace the old shower head with a new one touted to be the best of the best with the highest water pressure.  I was pretty suspicious of that since it came from China for $20.  They thanked me for my donation to the pandas.   ?????

The second surgery was to put this one back in the guest bath.  I stole it when mine broke.  So far so good.

And then I noticed the housekeeper wasn't doing HIS job.  I pushed the "get to work" button, but he procrastinated.  It seems he lost his internet connection (it may be too far away from the router) and showed an error message.  Yup ... blew his brains out.  

Surgery was required.  That's when I discovered there is a lever in the base that needs to be switched for him to empty the bin correctly.  I put it back together, held my breath and hit the CLEAN button.  Sure enough, off he went, mapping all over again.  Three times he had to go back to the base for some GO juice.  After 6 hours of work, I finally hit the STOP button.  The noise was just too annoying.  Hopefully he gets back on schedule.  I have to admit though ... he's doing a very good job of keeping the floors clean, even the corners.

Progress ... I worked on this puzzle for a bit since it has BIG pieces that are a little easier to find.  

That brought up surgery number four ... why is there a screw on the floor under the chair?  I grabbed the seat to move it and two more fell out.  What the heck?  Try as I might to be a good surgeon on this job, I failed.  This chair is from a rather expensive breakfast nook set, but must have been made in China.  Seriously, the screws have nothing on the bottom of the chair to screw into but a thin piece of cardboard.  

Well that was disappointing.  Having no idea how to fix this, I stuck it in the corner and brought out another one.  My first surgical failure.

Well actually there ended up being TWO failures.  I worked on this quilt again for a bit, only to find a string sticking out of my fabulous embroidery machine.  The only way to get it out was to remove the plate.  OH MY ... lint and dust was covering everything.  Surgery number five began.

I know, I know ... the sewing gals are saying NEVER TAKE THAT COVER OFF.  And they would be right.  I didn't take it off, I just moved it a bit and cleaned out everything I could.  When all back together, it would not sew.

NOOOOOOO!  I tried again and again, but it was dead on the table.  I gave it CPR for several minutes, but resuscitation eluded me.  I think I need to go back to Doctor School.  Oh this is going to be an expensive one to fix.

No problemo, I packed it up in its nice little rolling case (because it's so darn heavy) and made a call to the REAL doctor, over an hour south.  Luckily I actually got to speak to the Tech himself.  August was a sweetheart.  He made an appointment for me (though it's in two weeks) to drop it off early in the morning and wait for it.  I may have to stand on the street corner and sell something to pay for it though.

Then I pulled out my second fabulous sewing machine.  This is the one I kept in Arizona.  I knew it had even worse lint buildup.  This time I did NOT remove or loosen the metal plate, only the plastic one, and cleaned out even MORE lint.  I really should do this more often.

At long last, after the last surgery of the day, I was back in business, but by then I was not in the mood to sew.  Mr. Cooper and I snuggled on the couch and watched the first day of Rodeo Tucson.  This is the first year in AGES that I have not attended this rodeo with Patty and Dan.  

The cool part however, is now that I have a RECORDING Dish Network box, I can rewind and watch those amazing horses over and over.  

So today we'll see if Mr. Clean will vacuum again and if my shower will actually put out water.  It's the little things!!!  I might even sew for a bit.  I'm certainly NOT going to get groceries ... I'll be on cheap canned tuna and chili until I gather up enough money to repair the embroidery machine!!