"Are You Grumpy?" YES!!!

Little Bryan loves to ask the question out of the blue..."Are you grumpy?" in his cute little sing-song voice. Normally he asks because I tell him "no" about something. (I know that my family members are saying "You NEVER tell Bryan no!" but I do...really I do!) My answer is usually no, Bryan, Gramma isn't grumpy... but if I were to be asked tonight, I would give a resounding YES.

The day started out well enough. Gabe spent the night and slept like an angel. Alana got here early to pick him up and invited me to go to Bloomington with her. We had a good time shopping for bargains and I was able to control my urge to splurge.

Things went downhill when I got home.

I went down to the freezer to get a roast to thaw, and the floor of the garage was slick with chicken juice, blood, and other gross freezer-type liquids. Everything inside the freezer was thawed, including the peach sherbet. The freezer was running and everything was slightly cool, but I didn't trust any of the food to be safe to eat. Everything went into the garbage can. I had three big beef roasts, a few t.v. dinners for hubby, four Cornish hens, a bag of chicken breasts, a bag of french fries, three bags of frozen mixed veggies with asparagus (yummy), the sherbet, a half of a box of frozen biscuits from Market Day, and so much more that I'm starting to get depressed all over again. It's hard telling how long things were thawed out.

We have a $500 deductible for homeowner's insurance, so we're out of luck with making a claim. I have a few ideas of what could have happened...I think Max was browsing and didn't make sure the door was closed. It's happened before on the upstairs freezer and on the 'fridge, so I wouldn't be surprised. That, or the evil garage gnome decided to play a trick on us!

I spent the better part of an hour cleaning freezer juices. It was disgusting. Thank heavens I had two rolls of paper towels handy! Everything had to be disinfected, and then put back together. Then I had to mop the garage floor because the meat in the garbage can leaked out through the split in the bottom, and the can was drug outside leaving a slimy trail, almost like we were visited by a gargantuan snail.

I turned the freezer back on and am hoping that I will go down in the morning to a frigid area. The side-by-side set is in good shape, and I just LOVE having the extra room for storing the pop, water, platters for parties, hundreds of cookies and hordes of meat. I'm sure that it was human failure instead of mechanical failure.

There's been a few other incidences tonight that have made my grind my teeth, but I won't bore you with all of the details. I'm not grumpy often, but tonight I definitely am. Guess I'll go suck on a few peanut M & M s and work on a crossword puzzle before I go to bed. I'm glad my grumpy day is almost over.

shel