My new fridge...

A couple of weekends ago, while I was still house and dog sitting, my lovely parents came down to visit me. They did two main things during their stay; they bought me a new fridge for my flat, and Dad got a toothache. The first of these was far more worthwhile than the second.

For the past two years that I have lived in my little flat, I have been sharing my kitchen with a rather unreliable and grumpy old fridge/freezer. We dont know exactly how old this fridge is, but it is older than I am, at any rate. There were several problems with this old fridge. The door to the freezer was not so much a door, as something heavy that would occasionally fall on your foot without any notice. The crisper drawer was another something heavy that would occasionally fall on your foot without any notice. As was one of the door shelves. These were slightly annoying features, but not so much of a problem as the fact that not only was the fridge grumpy and prone to throwing heavy objects at your feet, but it was also lazy. It could not be bothered operating at more than one temperature, so in effect, it was either all a fridge or all a freezer. Either both the icecream in the freezer and the lettuce in the crisper got frozen or nothing did. I can tell you from experience that lettuce, celery, and watermelon should not be frozen. On the other hand, it is rather important that the frozen meat stay frozen.

As I will be staying in my flat for at least another year while I do honours, my parent's decided that it was time I had a more cooperative fridge. Uncle Kevin kindly donated some money for the cause (he has been very generous lately, having also bought two big, blue, very comfortable arm chairs for some friends of mine). So Mum, Dad, and I went out on an expedition to the shops on Saturday afternoon to look around at what we could get. Armed with a magnetized tape measure (that kept sticking to fridge doors) and the dimensions of the gap between the pantry and the wall where my new fridge would have to fit, we set out to find the most suitable candidate. We very quickly found exactly what we wanted, only to be told that we couldnt have it. More precisly, that we couldn't have it yet. We were hoping to take the fridge back to the flat and set it up that same afternoon, so we were not very impressed with the sales man for telling us that we couldn't have it. So we found a new sales man, who said exactly the same thing, but that we liked a lot better. We then had to keep hunting to find the same fridge in a different place, a place where they would let us have it today, not in ten days time. We did manage to find the same fridge in a different place, but also for a different price. After talking to another sales person who was better than the first, but not as good as the second, we got them to adjust the price. Then all we had to do was pick up the fridge and take it home.

That was easier said than done. It wasn't so much bringing in the new fridge that was the problem, but taking the old one out. By this time, it was pouring with rain and we all got rather wet planting my grumpy old fridge in the middle of Ayden's driveway so that he could put it in his garage and store beer in it (yuck!).

Well, anyway, that was weeks ago. Until a couple of days ago, I was still housesitting, so it is only quite recently that I have actually gotten to know my new fridge. The freezer stays frozen and the fridge, unfrozen. Its a rather perfect arrangement. Today I did the grocery shopping and I was so excited about being able to store stuff in the freezer, that I bought a rather insane amount of groceries. When I got the groceries home and started unpacking them I was begining to think that they all wouldn't fit in my new fridge (which is an LG, by the way - just in case you were wondering) as it is rather small due to the size of the gap that it had to fit in, but it is so much more usable space than my old fridge that everything actually fit in quite easily, with quite a reasonable amount of space left over.

Yay, for my new fridge! Thankyou Mum, Dad, and Uncle Kevin :)