It was quite an exciting and busy long weekend here! We did a lot of cleaning, hosting, celebrating and rearranging! There were friends, engagement celebrations, lawn games, yummy food, and tons of grilling. I hope that you and yours had a fantastic holiday weekend.
One of the most exciting developments was the purchase of our newest kitchen toy- a dishwasher! The last six months have seen nothing but hand washing dishes in the sink. Why, you ask? Well back in December over Christmas break there was a crazy freak thunder storm that caused much excitement in our house in the form of a power surge. The power surge caused our cable lines to catch fire, which did not cause as much physical damage as one would image. We lost all of our cable lines, which led to lots of cable company haggling, long hours on the phone, and headaches. While most of the damage from the surge was mostly mental, as I was afraid of every weird noise in the house for weeks!, we did sustain some monetary loss. Overall we were pretty lucky, losing only the Keurig and the dishwasher. Orginially we though we lost the fridge and washer too, however we totally lucked out! In all of the drama dealing with insurance, electric and cable companies we did not even realize that the dishwasher wasn't working until 2 days later! My dad, being the amazing HVAC, refridgerator, and electrical master that he is, came over to take a peek at the dishwasher. (Let me also say that he really helped calm our fears throughout the entire surge aftermath, providing electrical info and check-ups!) He pulled the sucker out and that's when we discovered that the guts of the dishwasher had literally exploded. During the second surge, we experienced a large popping sound followed by a foul smell, which we immediately determined was the circuit board of the dishwasher. While I'm writing this I'm wishing I had taken a picture of the mess that we found inside- but to do my best to describe it was a totally charred, burnt circuit board full of broken glass-like pieces. I think there was some talk of a capacitor? It all sounded like Back to the Future to me! Anyhoo, our plan then became to purchase the inner circuit board, which we located online for about $113. However after much research we discovered that the part was non-returnable and sort of gave up on the idea. Flash forward almost SIX months (I can not even believe it has been that long!!!) to this past weekend when snapped up this baby at Lowes-
We scored quite a deal with Memorial day sales. The dishwasher we chose was the Fridigdaire stainless steel. While the inner cheapo in me wanted to snag up the cheapest option, I opted for the next step up after some coaxing from J. It was originally priced at $399, however Lowes was having a 10% off sale on all purchases over $299. This brought our total sale to $359! Score! So we lugged our new baby home and quickly called dad to help install. Did I mention how amazing he is?! He came over and disconnected the old dishwasher and installed the new one in about an hour. I owe him a big one for that! Plus I got to watch some installation acrobatics!
There was not much that I had to do aside from opening the box and be the cleanup crew, when lots of not so yummy water came running out on the kitchen floor.
J helped out dad...
And it was so exciting that even one of our cats came out to investigate!
I think my favorite part was getting to see the dishwasher coozie blanket that encases the dishwasher. It's pretty cute for an appliance snuggie!
My dad explained that the point was to help muffle sound and insulate against the cabinet and counters.
Ahhhhh, no more hand washing! I love it! It had been so long without a dishwasher, J forgot and actually started hand washing the next day before it dawned on us both that we could load up the new toy! Mad shout out to dad for all the help! You ROCK!
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