Question:

Lots of purrs and gentle hugs, — Polonca & Soncek

Well, I’ve alluded to the things that have happened to me over the past year but haven’t told anyone yet what they were so, for catharsis… 1. August, 2003 – lost a very good friend to suicide 2. August, 2003 – quit smoking 3. September, 2003 – lost my little Percy (rescued persian breeder) to renal failure: cost for treatment beforehand $2,500

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Other, smaller disasters (the usual kind that goes with anyone’s life) were happening too, but these were the major problems – the things that completely wiped out our life’s savings and wiped me out emotionally.

I am so sorry, you’ve really had a bad year. Purrs for good things to start coming your way. — Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

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Thank you Polonca – the purrs that emanate from this group are very powerful!! Hugs, CatNipped

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Lots of purrs and gentle hugs, — Polonca & Soncek Well, I’ve alluded to the things that have happened to me over the past year but haven’t told anyone yet what they were so, for catharsis… 1. August, 2003 – lost a very good friend to suicide 2. August, 2003 – quit smoking 3. September, 2003 – lost my little Percy (rescued persian breeder) to renal failure: cost for treatment beforehand $2,500 <snip

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Other, smaller disasters (the usual kind that goes with anyone’s life) were happening too, but these were the major problems – the things that completely wiped out our life’s savings and wiped me out emotionally. I am so sorry, you’ve really had a bad year. Purrs for good things to start coming your way. — Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

Thank you Victor!  All the financial woes and material things were hard to deal with, but it was the loss of my three friends that put all the rest in perspective and made me realize what was important. I really appreciate the purrs – this group can be a most powerful source of good in the world and finding it again after all these years has helped tremendously in getting me back into living my life in joy without dwelling on the bad things that happen. Hugs, CatNipped

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<snip 15. May, 2004 – the transmission in my car went out in car stranding me in the middle of I-610 in the middle of rush hour: cost for towing, rental car and transmission repair $4,000

I guess better 610 than the beltway?  -bonbon

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Well, I’ve alluded to the things that have happened to me over the past year but haven’t told anyone yet what they were so, for catharsis…

<Snip bad year Hugs and purrs CatNipped, there is so much pain in the world, most of it hidden just below the surface. — Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat.

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So…. our dishwasher died. Kinda. It sprung a leak. Cheaper to get a new one, so we did. Got a great deal through employee discount on a GE discontinued model, about 40% off!!! We were able to get a fancy model for the price of a cheapo one. Bad news, delivery folks won’t install. Called plumber, they came and decided to take advantage of the fact that we had the delivery guy there and offered to uninstall the old one and install the new one for $350. I said, no thank you, I’ll do it myself. So we did. It only took two trips to Lowe’s, I’m very proud of ourselves…  Our weekend projects usually require at least 4 trips to the home improvement store to buy supplies… LOL! Anyhow, we have a spanking new dishwasher and the cats had a lot of fun with the box. Since we moved into this house in 2000 we’ve replaced the following: A/C unit, water heater for hot tub, washer, dryer, roof, and now the dishwasher. At least we now have nice appliances that should last us a very long time. — Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

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Wow, the nerve the ask $350 to install a dishwasher!  That seems really steep to me, but then again I’ve been living in Thailand for 3 1/2 years… Good deal on the new dishwasher though, it’s always great to get bargains.  And congrats on installing it yourself I’m a DIY’er through and through, from a long family history of DIY’ers  I just wish I could fix my own car…grrr…my car’s been gone for 5 days for an aircon problem and I really, really, REALLY need it today.  I’m enormously stressed because today is my last day to get stuff done for our trip to Canada and I can’t even get a hold of the mechanic who has my car!  His cell phone is out of order and I have no idea where he is even located because he always comes to the house to pick the car up and brings the car back to the house — Britta (stressed and bummed) Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that’s covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – So…. our dishwasher died. Kinda. It sprung a leak. Cheaper to get a new one, so we did. Got a great deal through employee discount on a GE discontinued model, about 40% off!!! We were able to get a fancy model for the price of a cheapo one. Bad news, delivery folks won’t install. Called plumber, they came and decided to take advantage of the fact that we had the delivery guy there and offered to uninstall the old one and install the new one for $350. I said, no thank you, I’ll do it myself. So we did. It only took two trips to Lowe’s, I’m very proud of ourselves…  Our weekend projects usually require at least 4 trips to the home improvement store to buy supplies… LOL! Anyhow, we have a spanking new dishwasher and the cats had a lot of fun with the box. Since we moved into this house in 2000 we’ve replaced the following: A/C unit, water heater for hot tub, washer, dryer, roof, and now the dishwasher. At least we now have nice appliances that should last us a very long time. — Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Wow, the nerve the ask $350 to install a dishwasher!  That seems really steep to me, but then again I’ve been living in Thailand for 3 1/2 years… Good deal on the new dishwasher though, it’s always great to get bargains.  And congrats on installing it yourself I’m a DIY’er through and through, from a long family history of DIY’ers  I just wish I could fix my own car…grrr…my car’s been gone for 5 days for an aircon problem and I really, really, REALLY need it today.  I’m enormously stressed because today is my last day to get stuff done for our trip to Canada and I can’t even get a hold of the mechanic who has my car!  His cell phone is out of order and I have no idea where he is even located because he always comes to the house to pick the car up and brings the car back to the house — Britta (stressed and bummed) Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that’s covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album So…. our dishwasher died. Kinda. It sprung a leak. Cheaper to get a new one, so we did. Got a great deal through employee discount on a GE discontinued model, about 40% off!!! We were able to get a fancy model for the price of a cheapo one. Bad news, delivery folks won’t install. Called plumber, they came and decided to take advantage of the fact that we had the delivery guy there and offered to uninstall the old one and install the new one for $350. I said, no thank you, I’ll do it myself. So we did. It only took two trips to Lowe’s, I’m very proud of ourselves…  Our weekend projects usually require at least 4 trips to the home improvement store to buy supplies… LOL! Anyhow, we have a spanking new dishwasher and the cats had a lot of fun with the box. Since we moved into this house in 2000 we’ve replaced the following: A/C unit, water heater for hot tub, washer, dryer, roof, and now the dishwasher. At least we now have nice appliances that should last us a very long time. — Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

Our dishwasher died too and has been replaced with a bright new model. Was a bit mean with the cats though – the man who delivered it was given the box to take away and dispose of, ditto with the old washer.   The new one makes little noise, unlike the other which sounded something like Niagara Falls.  We didn’t need to get ours installed as it is a free standing model and simply has to be attached to a couple of tubes. Bev — The email of the species is more deadly than the mail.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – So…. our dishwasher died. Kinda. It sprung a leak. Cheaper to get a new one, so we did. Got a great deal through employee discount on a GE discontinued model, about 40% off!!! We were able to get a fancy model for the price of a cheapo one. Bad news, delivery folks won’t install. Called plumber, they came and decided to take advantage of the fact that we had the delivery guy there and offered to uninstall the old one and install the new one for $350. I said, no thank you, I’ll do it myself. So we did. It only took two trips to Lowe’s, I’m very proud of ourselves…  Our weekend projects usually require at least 4 trips to the home improvement store to buy supplies… LOL! Anyhow, we have a spanking new dishwasher and the cats had a lot of fun with the box. Since we moved into this house in 2000 we’ve replaced the following: A/C unit, water heater for hot tub, washer, dryer, roof, and now the dishwasher. At least we now have nice appliances that should last us a very long time.

Whoa, I’m impressed that you installed it yourselves, though given what the plumber was going to charge I might have tried it too. Congrats! —— Krista

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Called plumber, they came and decided to take advantage of the fact that we had the delivery guy there and offered to uninstall the old one and install the new one for $350.

Good grief! A total rip-off. You could have flown Vernon over for cheaper than that & he’d have done it for you I am grateful I have my own personal enginner who can fix anything around the house. Cheers, helen s –This is an invalid email address to avoid spam– to get correct one remove fame & fortune –Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off–

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I’m impressed you got your dishwasher installed yourself!  But as far as repairs go, I shuddered when I read the roof part (we’re going to need that at some point — we have a shake shingle roof at 30+ years old). Christine

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – So…. our dishwasher died. Kinda. It sprung a leak. Cheaper to get a new one, so we did. Got a great deal through employee discount on a GE discontinued model, about 40% off!!! We were able to get a fancy model for the price of a cheapo one. Bad news, delivery folks won’t install. Called plumber, they came and decided to take advantage of the fact that we had the delivery guy there and offered to uninstall the old one and install the new one for $350. I said, no thank you, I’ll do it myself. So we did. It only took two trips to Lowe’s, I’m very proud of ourselves…  Our weekend projects usually require at least 4 trips to the home improvement store to buy supplies… LOL! Anyhow, we have a spanking new dishwasher and the cats had a lot of fun with the box. Since we moved into this house in 2000 we’ve replaced the following: A/C unit, water heater for hot tub, washer, dryer, roof, and now the dishwasher. At least we now have nice appliances that should last us a very long time. — Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

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I’m impressed you got your dishwasher installed yourself!  But as far as repairs go, I shuddered when I read the roof part (we’re going to need that at some point — we have a shake shingle roof at 30+ years old). Christine

Well, roofing is expensive, and doing it yourself is a holy nightmare. BUT. A crew of tanned roofers, sans shirts, and with or without tatoos, can be real eye candy. (Just trying to find a silver lining for you Sherry Sherry

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Congrats! You should be proud of yourselves! Best wishes, — Polonca & Soncek

<snip – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Since we moved into this house in 2000 we’ve replaced the following: A/C unit, water heater for hot tub, washer, dryer, roof, and now the dishwasher. At least we now have nice appliances that should last us a very long time. — Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

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I’m impressed you got your dishwasher installed yourself!  But as far as repairs go, I shuddered when I read the roof part (we’re going to need that at some point — we have a shake shingle roof at 30+ years old). Christine Well, roofing is expensive, and doing it yourself is a holy nightmare. BUT. A crew of tanned roofers, sans shirts, and with or without tatoos, can be real eye candy. (Just trying to find a silver lining for you

Unless they are the overweight, Budweiser-drinking, hair-on-their-backs, can’t-keep-their-pants-from-slipping-in-the-back breed, it would be nice. Especially if you have a large (& nice enough) yard to sit in and enjoy the view. — The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)

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