I have a new fridge and possibly a new friend.

Amazing what a chore yet is to move a fridge up and downstairs! I finally settled on Lowe’s and headed to Burbank. I found out they also charge $50 for delivery. Refusing to pay that I came up with alternate ides. I guess I might have paid it had any of the places I shopped been willing to deliver it during MY schedule. It seems to me when you give someone $50 they ought to be able to make it convenient for you. So I rebelled. I called to Darrell and Terry’s to ask if they had a dolly. My plan was to buy a portable freezer and a portable fridge, put them in my car and do it myself. Cindy heard me talking and picked up the phone. Cindy is staying with them because her and her daughter are there until her husband gets there with the other daughter. Cindy and I are both in the same position—we moved to California on a call from God and then got here and said WHAT THE HECK DID I DO?

Anyway, she said she knew that they had one and checked for me. Then she offered to help me! So I shopped, prayed and even comparison priced. I finally decided to buy the cheaper little fridge they have there. It was a GE but low priced because it was so SMALL! Yet it was a still a real sized one I could use. SO I called back to Terry’s and Darrell answered. That was weird. I was like, “Oh, hi! Can I talk to Cindy?” I think he was surprised too! So Cindy said yeah, she had a van that would hold it and I would be right there. So she came to Lowe’s and I bought the fridge. That is tough because you buy something that big and know you might leave in a year and go to a place with a new one and sell it for half the cost or something. But I needed it. So Superwomen came here and we manage to get that thing up my stairs with the little dolly. It was hard but we did it. Then there was the matter of getting the piece-of-trash fridge down to the garbage area where the recyclers will pick it up Tuesday (for $10). We could not do it. It was pathetic. My neighbor finally opened her door and basically ordered me to go ask the gardeners to help us! My neighbor has a daughter in her 20s and is a kind motherly lady from Texas. The daughter saw us later and joked that that was just her mom—she would stop a man on the street and say “help my daughter with her groceries!” So I asked them and they helped. I tipped them and they moved the fridge to where it will be picked up. And Cindy stood there saying “Susana we could NOT have done this!” Big dreamer lives on. Fact is, one way or another I would have been trying to figure it out alone.

The neat thing was that this morning before I left I prayed for God to show me what to do. No options were good with my being at work and the prices and delivery costs, etc. Meanwhile Cindy actually prayed God would use her today. It was kind of neat how we saw God merging our prayers.

Anyway, I now have a working fridge and less money! BUT I did get my insurance refund check in the mail yesterday from canceling my TX car insurance and that was half the price of the fridge so that helped. I am fixing to head to Wal Mart to return some stuff and then Trader Joe’s to grocery shop. I will hit Ralph's for the serious stuff tomorrow. I will actually be able to buy milk I don’t throw out this time!