1) New Refrigerator! - I might post a picture of my old refrigerator. I say "might" because I'll probably chicken out. When's the the last time you've seen a brown refrigerator? According, to the delivery men, maybe the early 70's, probably earlier. They took the grill off, and that thing had dust bunnies from before I was born. (I'm burning with shame as I write this).

2) Car Maintenance! - My car was making this weird noise on Sunday night. But when I was stopped at a light and stepped on the gas, everything was fine. It only happened when I was driving.

I thought maybe a night of staying still would miraculously cure it, but the next morning, I could still hear the weird noise. It wasn't until I could barely drive my car that I realized that the "weird noise" was the sound of a deflating tire. The AAA Guy found the nail that I had driven on. Who the hell is disseminating nails on the street? I still think that the owner of the SUV who tried to take up two parking spaces if it wasn't for me who squeezed into half of one (because my parking skills defy spatial logic) got mad and rammed it in there. Whatever, Mr. Parking Space Hog because I needed new tires anyway! Not just 1, or 3 (which, as I learned, is an impossible number of tires to buy), but four. Yes, I was driving on four bald tires. Who knew that gliding over a wet surface could be a bad thing? So, that nail helped make my car safer.

3) New Numbers! - After the tire drama, I decided to wash my car. I figured why put new tires on a dirty car? But, lo and behold, I couldn't pay for my car wash because my debit card had been deactivated due to fraud detection. (Is this a really boring blog entry?). Yes, someone in Maryland had taken $9.54 out of my account and I'm getting a new debit card. As I learned from my Bank People, if some Frauder decides to deplete your bank account...you have to make a case to get the money back. That's some serious bullshit, but at least I have a new debit card number.

Dustballs, parking space whores, random nails, and fraudulent people...are helping me upgrade.

Next: Computer!

Just for today, I can get new stuff.