Author: Christine

It always freaks me out when I hear about something very random two times or more in the same day. How does that happen? It’s just freaky. It happened to me not once or twice, but three times yesterday! That is just very, very strange.

Natalie and I went to see Jersey Girl yesterday. The Kevin Smith factor got us there, but it was different than his usual style. It was cute, it made me laugh, it made me get misty-eyed at least two times (yeah, not your typical Kevin Smith movie at all…), and it was just generally good. Matt Damon and Jason Lee made their required appearances – er, in the movie, not in the theater itself. Yeah, I wish. Anyways, it was a nice break in an otherwise very busy day, worth the matinee ticket price.

During the movie, the topic of the movie “Dirty Dancing” came up. Ben’s character quotes a line from the film to Gertie, saying “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” in his best Patrick Swayze voice.

Later in the day, I was at my parent’s house, and my Mom commented on how there are numerous planets lined up in the sky and visible to the naked eye right now. I got back in my car and Kymberlie called to let me know that she was on her way over to the house. In the conversation, she asks me if I knew that there are all these planets that are visible right now. What?!? I am amused, as I had just been talking about that three minutes earlier.

Kymberlie and I head over to Wal-Mart, and brought home the Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture game. While we played the game, guess what question comes up in the movie category? Not just a reference to Dirty Dancing. Oh no. That would just be amusing. There is actually a question in the game that asks what film has the line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” What?!? How random is that?!?

I immediately commented on the fact that that line was in “Jersey Girl” and it was therefore freaky-weird.

Later in the game, a question comes up about “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and the song that Cameron Diaz sings at the karaoke bar. Just to distract Kymberlie, and hopefully have a shot at winning the game, I ask her what the name of the song is from the “Lobster scene” in the movie – the one where everyone is sitting in the restaurant singing along. You know, “Each morning I wake up … I *mutter something mutter* makeup …” Bam! It comes to me. “I say a little prayer for you…” Whew! That has been bugging me for days. I thought I was going to have to rent the movie just to remember the song!

After Kymberlie left for home, I couldn’t sleep (what a surprise!) so I decided to read a few blogs. I could not stop laughing when I came across Natalie’s post asking for the name to the exact same song!

Three times in one day. Damn. That’s just weird. Is it just me, or does this happen to everyone? Quite the prelude to April Fool’s Day.

My life seems to revolve around appointments for service calls lately. The cable guy, the delivery of the fridge & the washing machine, the dryer delivery (they were backordered), the cable guy (who no-showed), the cable guy (who arrived between 2-4 as scheduled. Yeah!), and the delivery of a new fridge.

Yes, a new fridge. The first one had some relatively minor scratches on the front, but I knew they would bug me every time I looked at the fridge. Originally, they offered us a refund or a new fridge. We considered the refund, but then I realized just how much it would bug me, and the delivery of the new fridge was set up. We discovered later that the one we currently have has a tendency to turn off the fridge side every once in awhile – you will open up the door and the light won’t come on and you can tell it’s not running – so it seems we made the best decision after all.

Last night was yet another night of being wide awake way too late. Weeks on end now – I just can’t take it any more. I finally fell asleep somewhere around 4 am. At 8:30 am, the Best Buy delivery guys called to say they would be here in about 20 minutes. I was, of course, sound asleep. I ran around, got dressed, and emptied out the entire refrigerator, just in time for their arrival.

The delivery guy moved the current fridge away from the wall. He turned off the water line for the icemaker. He started to unscrew the water … and it started to spray everywhere. The water valve won’t turn off. Gah! I brought him towels, and he tried one more time – just in case he didn’t get it turned all the way off. No go. It still started to spray.

So the old fridge is still here, and now I have to wait for yet another service call from Vito Services – a local plumber to put in a new valve! Then they will bring me back a new fridge. Really, does the fun ever end?

Last week I had to call information to get the phone number for the Newman Center where I was baptized at NDSU in Fargo, North Dakota. Now, I realize that Fargo is not a huge tourist attraction or anything like that. But the operator that I got had no clue at all.

Her: “What city please?”
Me: “Hi! Fargo, North Dakota. I need the number for the Newman Center at North Dakota State University.”
Her: “What city?”
Me: “Fargo, North Dakota.”
Her: “What city? (With an increasingly confused tone to her voice.)”
Me: “FAR-go. Fargo. F-a-r-g-o. North Dakota.”

She never had a clue what I was saying. She gave me the number for a Newman Center in some other state. Great, real help there. Fargo. There was even a movie named “Fargo,” so how hard can it be?