Yes I named them...

When you get old, stupid things excite you. Like diapers being on sale at Costco, sleeping in until 7:30 am, gas being below $3 a gallon, and the fact that they made a movie about Transformers.

What really gets me going though? What really turns a no good very bad day into a day worth celebrating?

Appliances. Big ones. Fancy ones, ones with lots of options. Like "extra fast spin" and "antibacterial wash" and the ever amusing "steam cycle."

Seriously people I do a lot of laundry. Like more than 7 loads a week. So you can imagine my dismay when my 18 year old washing machine decided to go to washing machine heaven. Well, not really heaven because it wasn't totally dead - just dead enough. It would overflow into the hallway periodically and it would stop mid-cycle just for fun.

I have been begging the hubby for a new washer and dryer for some time now. After we had Joshua, the washload in this house went from reasonable to just plain ridiculous (this takes place in a short stretch of time for me, I am not very patient - shock.ing. I know.) So the first time the old washer overflowed into the hallway, I was like "sweet!" I can get a new one. My husband, the mule (read: stubborn) said, let's wait and see if it happens again. And it didn't. Not for like 3 weeks. Then it started this fun new thing where it would stop midcycle and not start again until you move the dial ever so slightly one click to the right, no left, then right, hold your breathe and wait...wait, crap. Anyway, as I complained ever so gently about the laundry situation, I felt as though my loving requests for new machinery were going unheard. Turns out, Hubby was all over buying new appliances, he just wanted it to be a surprise. Like, SUPRISE!!!! a new blender! Surprise!!!! A new weed whacker!!!! Do you see where I'm going here kids? When you get old - it will make you sad what constitutes a cool surprise.

However silly this may sound, it was a great present. He had the old ones hauled away and the shiny new ones put in place, all without me knowing a thing. Sad part is, it might be the first surprise he has ever pulled off in 10 years of us being together.

So the new washer and dryer - RAD and RAW (Ridiculously Awesome Dryer and Washer respectively) are in place and I feel like a giddy school girl. You would think I had won the lottery when I saw them for the first time. We actually sat there and watched the full spin cycle for the first load. We watched it people. Like it was going to do something entirely different than WASH CLOTHES. I think maybe just for a second we thought they might send the clothes to space, have them laundered there and then return them to our laundry room (folded of course).

When it was all said and done - RAD and RAW just simply washed and dried the clothes. But they washed and dried them in style. And this is why my husband, he hard rocks it.





I took some pics of RAD and RAW for your viewing pleasure. For those of you mom's out there - be careful, what you are about to see might spark jealously and malcontent with your current washer and dryer....don't say I didn't warn you.

Wait for it...







Wait for it.....







Ahhhhh yeah.