Our Stuff is Breaking. Like most of it.

My sister told me when she had been in her house for about seven years all of her appliances started shutting down.  Well, she was right.  All, okay that is a little pessimistic.  Quite a few things have broken in the past little bit.  The running list,  The garage door (that one went down a few months ago and we still haven't fixed it) the vacuum, both cars need new tires, and as of this morning, the washer. Dave still does not know about this one yet.  Oh and our mixer.  I am really not wanting to complain and am reading a book that tells me we can be  happy no matter what is going on and I believe that I am happy most of the time, but I have my moments.  This is one of them.  I have a new saying that I found.  I love it with all my heart and I tell myself it every time I feel like I want to complain.  here it is, Put your big girl panties on and deal with it.  I am going to have it framed and make it look really pretty and set it by my bed.  It makes me laugh and tells me to "buck up" all at once ya know? sure ya do. sure ya do.  Every time an appliance break and I don't know how I will function with out it, I have this annoying thing that happens and I think of like the pioneers and how they did not have any of these electronics and they did it.  I want to stick my tongue out at this thought, but then I think, true true and if they wanted a chicken sa-wich  ( I like to say it that way, it's a lot more fun ) for lunch they couldn't just stroll on over to Chick-fil-a and have themselves a chicken sa-wich. Noooooo, noooo.  by golly darn they had to feed and raise that chicken sa-wich from a chick and then go out and kill the poor thing and pluck it's feathers and pull the meat off the pet they had raised and then when their kids wake up the next day and say, "Pa, Pa, I don't see our whit chicken anymore, somthin awful's happened !!" and pa says, " your right son,  we ate white chicken for supper last night. "  Yep, that is the exact seen that plays out in my head every time I eat a chicken sa-wich and then I put my big girl panties on and deal with the appliances breaking down.  In other news I went to the mid-night showing of Breaking Dawn last night with Teri and had an amazing night full of laughter and fun.