Queen of the Obvious Rides Again!

Several things I have only figured out embarrassingly recently:

- In order to get to know other people well, spend time with them.  Make sure this time includes space to talk.

- Nobody knows what you like or what you spend your time thinking about unless it is directly observable or you tell them.

- Nobody knows what I need better than I do.

- If I don't tell someone that their behavior bugs me, they will never learn this fact.

- Things that I want to happen generally need to be done by me.

- I enjoy most activities once I am doing them, but I do not get anticipatory joy from hardly anything.  This includes things commonly considered fun as well as things commonly considered drudgery.

- A good way for other people to know about my human limitations, problems, weaknesses, etc is to actually admit to them.

- If people will pay $70 for an hour of my work and then do it a second time, I must not be bad at what I do and maybe I can relax about that juuuuuust a little bit.

- The amount of time in a day is finite.

- Doing things the same way every time you do them makes life easier because you don't have to think as hard and you can fine-tune the process of doing it until it is EXACTLY PERFECT.

I am embarrassed to say these things, except that they keep hitting me like great flashes of white light and enlightenment and then only about a minute AFTERWARDS to I realize how obvious they are.

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Our fridge is dead.  It died Saturday, and attempted to take us with it by trying to start an electrical fire.  Since then we have been using it as a large, doomed cooler, buying ice to keep the inside cool.  Putting the bags of ice in bowls so that the fridge would not become a lake: my idea.

Excerpted from email from our landlord:

Since I am  out of the country right now and wont  be back until about a week or so .

Could you please call a technician and shop around if possible.

Question: what do people think this means?  Are we supposed to call someone to see if it can be fixed or is truly dead?  Are we supposed to be shopping around for a new fridge or for said technician?  Does anyone KNOW a person who professionally fixes fridges or have any dead fridge knowledge they'd like to share?  It would all be appreciated.