HAPPY DAY, BEAKERS! 
It's morning somewhere.
Lori, happy belated 99th birthday to your grandmother! Wow, she looks great!! Love all the flowers - the ones you sent her are spectacular! Glad you are feeling some better now.
My refrigerator has gone on the fritz. Boo. It happened a little over a week ago... it keeps things cool, but not cold enough. The freezer is working fabulously, thank goodness, and was full to overflowing with lots of stuff. It's keeping things in the freezer at around minus 10 degrees, or colder. So I have been using stuff from the freezer, bit by bit, and making meals that I can freeze leftovers in meal-sized reheatable portions that I put in the freezer - ready to reheat the next day. I ate all the stuff from the fridge that I could before it went bad, like eggs and cheese, and tossed what couldn't be saved or safely used. Keeping the butter in the freezer. The only items left in the fridge now are things that don't require refrigeration, but that I keep in the fridge anyway... like open flour, open pkgs of rice or pasta, dried beans, cereal, oatmeal, etc. It's only running about 48 degrees in the fridge since it broke, so that's too warm to keep items that really require refrigeration. It's working out as a great wine cooler though!
It's a bummer not being able to keep some things in the fridge that I usually would, and therefore doing without for the time being, but it's not the end of the world. I decided not to put any money into a repair since that fridge is 17 years old. I will shop for a replacement when I get closer to the bottom of what is stored in the freezer... I'm working my way through that bit by bit, and not adding a single item to it. Oh laaa, and this too shall pass.
