If It Ain't Broke...

Well, it is broke. Everything is broken this week.

Our TV is broken...well, the TV service that supplies our channels anyway. We get TMF (music videos) on RTL7, CNN with no sound, and Animal Planet. John called to get it fixed and after that call we are now paying a monthly fee for...nothing. It's been two weeks and we still don't have the new box.

Our shower curtain is broken. Well, not broken, but desperately in need of replacing. Erin bought a replacement shower curtain, took the old one down, opened the package containing the fresh new curtain, and discovered that she bought a curtain that is too small for our shower. Soooo, we need a shower curtain that fits.

The buzzer in our apartment that opens the door downstairs to let people in is broken. Good thing we only live on the second floor 'cause we have to take a trip downstairs to personally let people in now.

The light in our bathroom is broken. It has been a few days now since the bulbs burned out. We are now bathing by the dim light that filters in from the hallway. We need flourescent tube lights for the fixture, which you can't find just anywhere, so this is the reason we are still showering in the dark.

Erin's computer at work is broken. The internet locked up and, because the operating system is not Windows, Erin does not know how to resolve the problem. Even after restarting the computer, the system will not allow her to use the internet. In the process of trying to fix said problem, Erin somehow managed to completely delete everything on her Evolution e-mail system so that it needs to be restarted, but Erin does not know the password for the host server. She could look up her e-mail via the internet....but the internet doesn't work.

Erin's parents are coming to visit on Saturday for the holidays. Hope they don't mind waiting for us to climb downstairs to let them in the door, taking showers in the dark without a shower curtain, and watching CNN while reading lips to try to decipher what is being said. Or they could just skip the news and watch Animal Cops to their heart's content. Welcome to Amsterdam, Mom and Dad!