Why I never get 'round to ficcing these days...

[feng_shui_house]

1) call a gluten-free food comp to complain (I'd ordered stuff from them last night & had a $10 gift card for doing an on-line survey for them but there was no place on the on-line ordering to redeem the gift card- which had come with a paper saying you *could* redeem it on-line)... tried 4 times, their phone was either off the hook or busy, so I went to the site & filled out a 'contact me' form.

2) Do laundry. (this actually went well, I only forgot it once)

3) Make gluten-free corn muffins (this worked out ok, too even tho I had to guess at the time & temp in the convection oven & give one pan full 5 more min than the others and they are kinda dry and gritty.) GF baking is not easy.

4) Fix the noisy ceiling fan in my computer room. This was... a 5 hour nightmare. Bro had thought the blades needed balancing so I tried the balancing kit - no change. So I googled & found rattle/click noise usually is 1) fan blade(s) not tightly screwed to the mounting. 2) Blade mountings not tightly screwed to the motor. 3) motor mount not tightly screwed to the ceiling. I tested them in order from easiest to hardest. Hardest was it. Had to take it all apart in order to tighten two of the three ceiling bolts. And then I couldn't get it together! Bro finally looked it over & found a mount had the wrong angle so he bent it with pliers. Finally get the whole thing together-- it's quiet, runs good... and one of the hard-to-get special size light bulbs is dead. WAAh... Fortunately ceiling fan in the little used living room is the same kind so bro suggested I steal one from it.

(Along the line I lost a washer, lost a screw, found a replacement washer, had to go through 3 flashlights before I found one that would work well enough to help me find the screw, found the screw, missed a step on the ladder-- that was fun going from 2 steps up to the floor...etc.)

Now am thinking to eat a couple more corn muffins and soak in the tub. Calgon, take me away!