Shopping Spree

 Last week I wrote about our dryer woes. This week I'm wishing we had a clothesline in the backyard.

However, my husband and I went on what turned out to be a shopping spree at Abt, the local appliance mega-store. It is mega in the sense that the store is huge, but it's a local Chicago store, not a national chain. There is only the one store. I hadn't been there in quite a while and it has grown into a mall Besides shopping for all kinds of appliances and computer-related things, the store has become a sort of mall. There's an Apple store, a candy store, a luggage store... 

So we purchased a new washer and dryer which will be delivered on Friday. If I knew that the dryer would break down, I would have washed everything in sight. However, we getting along with what clean things we have. 

While at Abt, my husband also bought a computer thing to improve wifi reception in our house. We have dead spots that go in and out. In fact, I'm writing this from an on and off dead spot. That thingy was just delivered and installed this morning. 

Then, since there is an Apple store and I had been talking for months about replacing my Fitbit with an Apple watch, we bought an Apple watch. It had to be set up and linked with my Apple phone (do you see a pattern? I'm typing this on my Apple Mac) so the friendly tech guys gave us water bottles and sent us to the atrium to wait. The atrium has a fountain, an amazing sculpture thing with balls that drop through a vertical maze, and reclining arm chairs. If I had brought a book it would have been perfect.

All in all, quite a productive shopping spree. Then we went out to dinner to celebrate and recover.