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Have to spend some money today

September 4th, 2006 at 10:04 pm

I am so irritated with myself. I managed to spill an entire glass of water on my alarm clock. Of course, I killed it. Tomorrow is the first day of school for the kids so now I have to drive all the way to town and back ($9 of gas or so), buy a new clock ($10 to $20). Now most of the time I use cups with lids because I am a big klutz, but they were all in the wash and I figured I could be careful. Nope. Can't. Sigh.

There are other alarm clocks in the house but none of them function except as clocks anymore. I called my mother to see if she has an extra one, nope. Neither does MIL. Or SIL. My sister is down in Mt. Lake Terrace now or I'd ask her. So not much choice in the matter. Darn it and double darn it. Sigh.

Could I not have waited one more day to spill on my alarm clock? I have to go to town for a follow-up doctor's appointment on my kidney infection tomorrow so I could have combined trips. Sigh.

Okay, okay, no point crying over spilt water. What is done is done and now I must go make a purchase. Grumble, grumble, grumble. It wouldn't do to sleep through the first few hours of school, now would it? LOL

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3 Responses to “Have to spend some money today”

  1. spendless Says:
    September 4th, 2006 at 11:07 pm 1157411268
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    Bummer....sounds like my kind of luck. If you have a cell phone, it probably has an alarm feature. I've used an old cell phone that we no longer use for tcalls as an alarm clock only. Works fine, just needs to be charged....since I don't have it activated for calls, it's a free alarm clock.

  2. contrary1 Says:
    September 5th, 2006 at 02:33 am 1157423622
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    If we just lived closer.............this is the first year I won't be needing an alarm clock for the first day of school (or the rest of the year for that matter)..........you could have mine!!! But, I'm almost as far south as Mtlk Terrace!!!

    Did you try drying the innards of your clock with a hair dryer?? I had a cordless phone get wet once, as well as a regular phone and we popped the casing off and did the blow dryer trick..........both phones still working!!!

  3. LuckyRobin Says:
    September 5th, 2006 at 05:46 am 1157435202
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    Yeah, I did try to blow it dry. This clock I've had since high school and I really liked it so I tried to get it to work again, but no luck. Heck, I got it in 1984 when I was a freshman so I shouldn't begrudge it's death so much. That's 22 years of service.

    Spendless--my cell phone has no bells and whistles, no frills. It has a clock but I couldn't see an alarm feature and if I took it out of my purse, I'd lose it. Or spill water on it.

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