Note to anyone who knows me in real life: Pretty much anytime in the next few months that you hear me say, "Guess what!" with a crazed look on my face, you can guess that my freezer died and you'd have a pretty decent chance of being right.

Way back around Canada Day, it started making a funny noise. We weren't too sure about that, having never owned a freezer before, so we kept an eye on it to see if it was just working harder because of the heat or if there was a problem. We opened it one day to find things looking a little... soggy. Frantic fridge-freezer reorganization ensued, as well as a trip to my Aunt Kathy's to store some stuff at their house.

We phoned Sears, and they booked a repair guy. Well, the first one couldn't fix it. They needed to order a part before they could fix it. The second guy came a few days later and put the new part in.

We put some ice cube trays in and waited a few days... and it made ice! Yay!

And then we went back into the freezer a week later... and everything had thawed! Boo!

Another phone call to Sears, and another two service guys (the first one never has the tools to do any repairs... maybe they're sent to weed out the people who don't plug in or turn on their appliances before phoning for help), and our freezer made ice! Yay! And then thawed over the weekend! Boo!

So, it's the third time it's died since we got it... on January 31st. Yes, of 2006. Yes, only six months ago.

Seriously, at what point do they finally admit that repairing it over and over and over is not worth the time or money they're spending on it (not to mention my wasted time) and just replace the dang thing? I'm getting antsy to freeze some food for when the baby comes and I'm all sleep deprived and can't cook. Plus also, trying to clean a chest freezer that meat keeps thawing in with a seven-months-pregnant belly in the way is teh suck. (I have finally learned my lesson... we don't put anything in there anymore that doesn't freeze and thaw repeatedly very well. It's pretty much ice cube trays and freezies now. Which is kind of a waste of a 8.8 cubic foot freezer.)