Sometimes My Life is Just a Riot

About a month ago, I noticed that the bottom of my freezer, a side by side Maytag, was iced over.

We bought this fridge/freezer combo for one reason - it's wider on one shelf to allow for the storage of a pizza box. Not like we order pizza all that often, but I'm an easy sale and that option seemed really nifty.

Doing a Google search containing the words Maytag, side by side, ice on bottom of freezer told me that the something or another was clogged and needed to be cleaned. Right, whatever. I just scraped the ice out and went on my way.

Except that it continued. Every day, I chipped the ice out with a knife - big thick slabs of ice that glued the bags of veggies to the bottom of the freezer through the basket. I mentioned it to my husband, who decided that it would be a great idea to disconnect the ice maker and that was certain to keep it from leaking.

Except that the problem wasn't an ice maker leaking, but the aforementioned clogged something or another, and after a couple of days with no ice (for I am a pampered princess that must have her ice no matter what and cannot be bothered to remember to buy a BAG of ICE - so, so much work!)I threw a fit and made him reconnect it. He SWORE up one side and down the other that the problem would be worse than ever, but it remained at a constant.

We went this way for about 3 weeks. I asked him every day if he could PLEASE fix it, along with the big burner on the stove that doesn't work. But he works long hours and it never was a priority.

Until, yesterday at 5:30, as I was cooking dinner. Between the time I put a pot of water on to boil for ravioli and the time it took said water to boil, this became the view:

OF course we should empty the freezer into two large coolers that took up half of the kitchen floor. And then of COURSE the back of the defective whatever it was would need to be cleaned - necessitating the ShopVac - that enormous hulking monstrosity that took up the rest of the floor. And pulling the fridge out into the middle was necessary, and then everything that was everywhere needed to be put in other places. And, see that little head down in the bottom right corner of the picture? He thought it'd be a fine time to skateboard through the kitchen.

Because while I'm trying to get dinner made and served, homework completed, papers signed and lunches packed for tomorrow is the PERFECT time to repair the freezer. Especially when I found out that he got everything out of the freezer EXCEPT for my reserve container of Key Lime Graham Cracker Crust Ciao Bella Gelato - in reserve for when I desperately need a treat.

In other words, last night.

Comments

[Headless Mom]

Glad to know that mine isn't the only kitchen that looks like this. Uh, but my husband isn't fixing my freezer. Oops!

[addy]

Looks like mine this past weekend. I decided it had to be painted - now! Much better today. Good luck with the repairs.

[kyooty]

there is something in the air and it's causing all the males of the world to do everything backwards, upside down or off!

[UKCraftySal]

I don't know why the only time things can be fixed in the kitchen is when I'm in the middle of meal preparation, but I do know that this is a fact of life.

It's also the only time that seeds for the garden can be planted, watered at the kitchen sink and placed on the windowsill (whose contents need to be rearranged). Oh, and it's the only sink (out of 5 in the house) where dirty hands can be washed. It's just tough if I need the sink to wash salad!!

You're not alone!

PS did the freezer get fixed?!

[mm]

I have some beautiful pictures of my kids making Chrismas cookies at the kitchen table. It is just gorgeous. You would think I was taking pictures for Hallmark. And then you notice the Hot Water Boiler in the background, because that gosh darn piece of equipment chooses to end it's life every time at Christmas. As if we don't have enough stress at that most joyous time of year, lol.

[Brenda]

"Key Lime Graham Cracker Crust Ciao Bella Gelato"

Carmen, where do you get this locally? It sounds delicious! (I'm guessing Trader Joe's?)

[Kelly H]

We have this exact fridge but in silver and let me tell you, something very similar happened to us! The freezer was getting iced up and was too cold. Scooping ice cream was like trying to scoop out dried cement. Then we started to notice the fridge wasn't cooling as cool as it should either. How annoying is that? Freezer too cold and fridge not cold enough! We called Sears repair and all I had to do was tell the guy on the phone what kind of fridge we had and he knew exactly what was wrong. Apparently this model has a bad computer chip thingy (like my tech talk?) that dies on EVERY SINGLE ONE. I think it cost us $200 to replace too. Ouch. So, heads up. I'm hoping your hubby fixed your problem!

[Katherine]

Tony Hawk in the corner made my day!