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[thejunipertree]

Like a complete ass, I have managed to (possibly) ruin my vacuum by running over the cord while I was cleaning the living room rug. This does not bode well, which is entirely sucky because I quite like my vacuum cleaner. Even if I didn't like it, I don't have the money to buy a brand new one, those bitches are very expensive.

I had just finished menacing Howard Phillip, one of the ferrets, through the bars of his cage with the sucky-hose extension (something he loves), when I ran over the cord in a true Tara-style haze. Typical.

Tonight was spent cleaning the apartment. I rearranged the kitchen and cleaned up the living room. The dining table has been cleared off and polished, something I haven't been able to do in some time. I think now that my bedroom and the bathroom are 90% finished being redone, I'm going to start on the kitchen. I had plans this evening of dying the wretched white curtains I currently have hanging up, but I've run out of steam.

Unfortunately, I've got several bags of trash that still need to be taken out to the dumpster. And I'm not up for it. One, I'm tired and this is going to be a multi-trip trip. Two, the parking lot is icy. Three, my slide on platforms are upstairs in the Engineer's apartment and I'm far too lazy to retrieve them (and I'm not buckling on shit just to take out trash). And four, it's fucking cold outside.

I did pile it all by the front door, so I reckon I'll be forced to do this. My brother's already asleep, so I can't even ask him for assistance. Not that he could tear himself away from the siren lure of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which he has been playing for several days now.

Pretty soon, I think I'll be ready to start moving my own furniture into the apartment and re-doing the living room. O, eight-foot long leopard-print couch, how I have missed thee!

It'll also be nice to have new people over and not have them look at me funny because of the tiger and plaid decor. Granted, I would rather my mother still be alive and my hand not forced to do all of this. None of that can be altered, however. And I'm making the best of a shitty situation. So I keep telling myself.

I've got plans for eBaying quite a lot of her leftover belongings, like her rather sprawling collection of Boyd's bears. And the Native American collector plates (thankfully, not on display) and those thrice-damned bride dolls (also, thankfuckinggod, not on display). But, the times I've checked the general selling market for those sorts of things, I haven't come up with very promising results. I'll Freecycle it all, if I have to, but I would really rather get something for them. She paid a lot of money for that crap and it burns to think of just giving it away.

Damn. That reminds me.
A friend of hers called me on Sunday, to see how I was holding up, but I was at Borders when she called and I told her I'd call her back on Monday night. It's now late Wednesday night and I never called.

Wifty, air-headed mess. It gets worse every day.

Comments

[sinisher.livejournal.com]

Vacuums are pretty simple machines - whatever you did is probably fixable. If the cord was pulled into the rollers, it may have stopped the roller, causing the belt to burn and/or break or it may have damaged the cord to the point of stripping the plastic away and causing a short due to the wires touching. If you are able to pull the cord out of the vacuum, check it over for damage (if the wires are raw, just get some electrical tape and seperate/insulate them). If the vacuum still doesn't work or stinks like horrible melted rubber, take apart the bottom part and pull out the belt for replacement (and get rid of any other strings, hair or things caught up in the roller while you're at it). After you replace the belt and make sure that the cord is ok, if it still isn't working, then it might require more complicated surgery. However, it still might be cheaper to have someone look at it for repair than replacing it.

Ok, repair dork out.

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

It got semi-pulled into the roller, but only a little bit. I didn't burn out the belt (although I am also famous for doing that), but the cord got chewed up to the point where some of the wire is exposed.

[sinisher.livejournal.com]

If you are able to pull the cord apart a little extra and wrap each wire in electrical tape, it should be ok. If the wire itself looks damaged, you can probably just get the whole cord replaced for a lot cheaper than a new vacuum :)

[mrbadluck.livejournal.com]

vaccumes are simple beasts,,,,a chord is easily replacable as is belts and any of the little things that can snap when things get sucked into them,,,you can tape up a chord or pluck the whole damn thing out and get a new one at a hardware store for like 10 bucks. i fix that kind of crap all the time,,,,i guess im becoming my grandfather

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

I can tape up the cord and still use it with no ill effect?

[vivaemptiness.livejournal.com]

this might be interesting, i don't know?
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/wan/61318880.html

signed,
another wifty mess!

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link, but I don't think they're looking for the same stuff I'm currently stuck with. The bride dolls are those big (like over a foot tall) porcelain jobbies with fancy dresses and all that crap. And they're not old.

grr.
I'll be stuck with these for the rest of my life, I just know it.
And they're CREEPY.

[theepumpkingirl.livejournal.com]

i'm going to charge and bring my camera, if you want to take pics of anything, we can do that.