Awwww. It's not really home unless it has something quirky about it. I say leave the door the way it is.

Go look at new refrigerators, they arent as expensive as you think, and it will be the first thing you get to buy without having to consult him, you can buy a plaid one if you want. Or call another repairman, you never know, maybe you now have good repairman karma and this one will show up.

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/ha_installation/article/0,2037,DIY_13868_2268473,00.html

If you can knit - you can reverse the way the door opens!

Love ya Laurie!

hmmm - well that link isnt very pretty! if you need help finding it - google "reversing refrigerator doors".

A lurker no longer....
If you Google "reversing refrigerator doors" a DIY site, complete with pictures, comes up and tells you what you need to do it yourself.... it should take about 20min. (Have lived alone for the last 40 years, and learned to fend for myself......)
LOVE your blog!

Ditto what April said! And I love the overlord. Very cute. Mine just knocked all of my books and papers off of my desk area so he could stare out the window...because the window perch is otherwise occupied. I am SO knitting a kitty bed when I get this sweater done...

Hi Laurie, I love your blog. I'm not sure, but I think you only need to take the doors off, turn them, and then flip the handles. Or maybe barter a cool/scarf for the repair?

I feel your pain -- the idiot who design my kitchen installed the mini dishwasher so that the door opens and ..... hits the front of the oven door (which protrudes just enough to stop the dishwasher door). So every time I go to load or unload the dishwasher, I have to hold the lower rack because it's now on a rather steep angle and will slam into the back of the machine if I let it go. Sigh.

Others beat me to it, but it is really easy to reverse fridge doors. Gotta keep that chilled bottle of wine accessible.

I would probably do a little dance around the fridge for the rest of my life before I actually got around to doing something like fixing the doors so they open the "right" way. Besides, dancing is fun! I was very bemused by the buy your own fridge thing when I was apartment hunting. I was like, me buy a major appliance? You must be joking. Luckily the landlady at our place was nice enough to buy the fridge from the previous tenant and didn't charge us for it. Love her!

yes, it's a little quirk about my house, something that makes me laugh when people ask about it ...

Just thirding (fourthing) everyone's suggestion to reverse the door. My mom actually taught me how to do it. If my mom can do it (the dear lady is not the handiest person around) you surely can do it.

I think this came out wrong. It wasn't necessarily a complaint...

Well, think of it this way. Keep tangoing around your fridge and then enroll into ballroom dancing competition! *LOL*

I'm sure there are enough people out there who are reading your blogs that will offer you help! How about those LUVLY (and weird) neighbours of yours! Hahaha....okay, I think I'm in a funny mood...just because it kinda became clear to me that there's no way I can rescue my relationship...and it's slowly going down the drain. *where's that bottle of red?* Take care!

I think you should leave the fridge doors exactly the way they are and reverse everything else in your kitchen. :-)

Love,
EverHelpfulDebR

Hell, I'm just impressed with how clean your fridge looks!!! :)

Our house is very old and very unlevel. SO if you put a shelf or anything level it doesn't look level.
If you make it level it looks dumb. If you can live with it do. Otherwise you may get stuck with doors on the floor or butt crack repair dude at the door.
He would fall deeply in love with you and stalk you forever.

This is also what next-door neighbors are for. Guys love to do stuff like this, especially for Southern belles. I know you weren't complaining about it, and you COULD do it yourself, but frankly why not get someone else to?

well, you don't *have* to reverse the doors on your fridge, but you most surely *can.* i've had to do it on almost every fridge in almost every apt we've lived in. also, to everyone out there on the internets, you can reverse the doors on many washers and dryers, too :)

I think a fling with a 19 year old Latin man would have been just the thing!

Hmmm, how oddly the mind works.

After reading your entry, I pondered your comment:

"That appetite we have for desire, it never leads to good when it's steeped in sorrow. This much I know for sure."

and mostly put the fridge story as preface for it, so forgive if I make my comment go in a different direction than "home improvement." Having been in your shoes, and succumbing to the desire, I agree wholeheartedly. It's not just desire in the sexual sense either, I just remember wanting anyone to see and acknowledge me and reassure me that I was not the monster that my X thought me. It lead to hanging with people who I didn't even really get along with/like/etc...bad times.

if you want to be seen - then you'll have to go find a guy at the local Ace (usually better than Home Depot) and ask some advice on how to fix that door. I bought a house five years ago and have been doing *major* repairs (and I knew NOTHING when I got in here) - my point is, those boys at Ace are smart and you can go in wearing the rattiest clothes and not shower for three days and they will run to help a cute girl like you. You don't have to tell them you have no intention of fixing the door!

And the LA fridge thing - when my ex and I got our place in Studio City, same thing - I had no idea. Why just the fridge? Who started that nonsense?

In much of the SF Bay Area, you also have to provide your own frig. It was a new one to me, but okay. The one that REALLY got me though was a friend of mine in LA told me she needed to buy not just a frig for her apartment, but also a STOVE. *boggle*

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AHA.. so we see the overlord in all his glory! But on the bright side.. all the dancing burns em calories..!
have a nice day
regards
g

When I lived in Guadalajara all the apartments that were in my price range had a room for a kitchen and came with the sink. I had to provide my own cabinets, stove & fridge. It was fun though!

I haven't reversed refrigerator doors, but I have done it with my dryer. It's really not difficult, but if you're uncomfortable doing it, there are all kinds of handyman services around who could do it on the cheap. Since you apparently work for a ginormous corporation, ask around for references and I'll bet you get a half dozen.

So.. THAT's what a refrig looks like... always wondered what was under all those magnets and papers...

I grew up a righty in a left-handed household, I didn't even know that fridges came with doors that open the direction yours does until I was like, twenty - sadly! Just to revenge my Mum, I now own a fridge just like yours, which she claims has the handle on the "wrong side" and which she curses every time she comes over - it's pretty funny!

I'm casting my vote with those who say flip the door yourself, after all, there are few things more satisfying than a home repair job well done, especially if no men were around to assist! Plus, then you can brag to any cute men you know that you're quite handy with tools....

I have a very good friend (who is also an original Southerner)and one of her favorite things to say is "It's better to be alone when you're feeling shitty, than to be coming from scarcity."

How often are we coming from scarcity - especially when it's male attention we seek? Learning how to not be coming from scarcity is the real lesson. Kudos to you Laurie for keeping that slightly busted fridge.

Hey Laurie-do whatever makes ya happy. To reverse or not reverse, nobody else can decide that for you. I love reading your stories every day, you are a wonderfully inspiring person. Thanks for bringing smiles to my everyday!

I need a backward refrigerator door. One that opens in instead of out... maybe then I wouldn't have so much in my refrigerator and I wouldn't be in it so much. Now the impediment is not my door but my big bum... how to get it out of the way.

Wouldn't that be an overlady, or Shwimbo?

The literature is full of the misdeeds of repairmen. Let us be thankful that you were left in peace with your cats. And now, through the miracle of the Internet, you can have a DIY Experience.

I can't show my cats this picture... So far they don't believe they can get up on the frige - and one of them truly is too chubby to make it, but the other one....

I agree with April, I like quirky in a home! But, if its driving you crazy, you can fix it! We have faith in you-(but we want pictures of the event :-))

i love that you have to do a little dance to get into your fridge. and of course your overlord.

Drew's comments reminded me of my mom who lives in Mexico. Not just cabinets, refrigerator and stove. Nooo. That would be too easy. You also have to supply lighting fixtures as there are just wires sticking out from various places in the wall and ceiling. The idea is that when you move, you just take all of this stuff with you.

It isn't that complicated to turn the door the other way though sometimes the various screws need some persuasion. You will notice that the place to put the handle and the hinge and stuff on teh other side will be covered with little plastic caps that match your fridge colour. There should be instructions in your instruction manual if you still have that. A chat to a guy at an appliance place might turn up some instructions otherwise. I urge you to go for it. I also recommend inviting some of your more practical girlfriends to help and hold your wine glass.

At least the doors on a fridge can be reversed! My parents had their kitchen redesigned a few years ago. After all the cabinets were installed we realized something...the microwave door opened the wrong way! Now you have to do the limbo to cook something in the microwave. And they do not make microwave ovens that open to the right. trust me, we've looked.

If I didn't know better, I would think I was looking at a picture of my own kitchen (except for the gas burners on the stove - mine is electric). Same window, same cabinets above, same everything. Our refrigerator had the same problem. My dh spend a half day fixing it - the refrigerator was old and the door was RUSTED to the one side, but he did manage to finally switch it. So as long as your refrigerator hasn't spent time in some storage unit where it had an opportunity to rust (we bought ours used so who knows what opportunities it had to rust - probably lived in a barn for a year or something for what we know...), the job should be quite easy. Seriously - if you can knit, you can change a refrigerator door.

My father LIVES for this very thing. Everytime he visits, he wants to change the way our fridge door opens. And we don't even have it in a restricted place. He just likes doing it. Weirdo.

But really, it can be done!

Yep, you sure can change a door. Just a warning though, I had one that the little switch popper thingy didn't want to line up correctly on when I switched the door. It wasn't a major dealio, I just disabled it and cleaned the fridge more often. Your owners manual should have information on your specific model, if not try contacting the manufacturer for advice before taking on the endeavor. It's fairly straightforward though, nothing to be intimidated by :) Good Luck, and please, post pictures!

You don't need no stinkin' man ( sorry guys!) to change that. Get some wine, a hammer and any other tools they might suggest on DIY. There's NOTHING like the feeling of empowerment a good fix it job can provide. Once.....in my backyard..... The chain fell off my zero radius lawn mower. ... I was such the ROCK STAR when I fixed it all by myself!! GO LAURIE!! GO LAURIE!!!

What *is* that about LA and the no apartment comes with a fridge thing? My whole Northern CA family was shocked when my brother first moved down there and said he'd had to buy a fridge.

Is it any more complicated for a landlord to take on that responsibility than a stove or a washer or a toilet?

Imagine if you had to buy your own toilet. (Although you might like the clean virgin-y no other butt germs unsoiled-ness of that!)

I didn't have a fridge when I first moved to LA until one of the neighbors was throwing his away and left it unattended in the parking garage. My friend Paul, upon seeing this, plugged it in, saw that it worked, and promptly STOLE it for my apartment. It didn't fit through the front door, so we had to take the door off. Oh no, not the fridge door, because that would have made sense. We took the front door off--a hydraulic door--at 1:00 am. It was a rusted piece of crap and the magnet to hold the door shut didn't work so we used Duct Tape to keep it closed, but I loved that refrigerator and kept it until I moved into a place that actually came with all the necessary appliances.

And I did have to change the door handles twice depending on the apartment. I was easy.

Laurie, never stop posting. You rock.

Drew, Dagny - pretty much all rental accommodation in Europe comes sans kitchen. In fact, nothing *but* the kitchen sink.

Ikea does a good trade here.

I thought I was the only one with a backwards fridge door....

I think the whole lesson here is.....you CAN do it yourself, but WHY should you when there a whole WORLD full of eligible (not that you WANT to get married again but..) bachelors who would love to do it for you. I liked the idea of going into Ace and batting your eyelashes to gain attention, but SURELY you know a young latin or not-latin cutie to call and offer a trade to....
Dinner would be the obvious or maybe a scarf or hat?

That pic looks so much like my upstairs kitchen (2 family house) that I had to go up and make sure you weren't there.

I kinda like the backward fridge

Wow - there are a lot of people out there who don't know you but care enough to take a few minutes out of their crazy lives to help you figure out how to switch your refrigerator doors. That's pretty damn cool.

Yeah, what bugs me is the fact whenever you show pix of your house (bathroom, kitchen) or work (desk), everything looks so FRIGGIN NEAT. Is that a southern thang? Or an OCD thang?

As a reformed chola - it was so refreshing to see another white girl know (and how to spell)what a cholo is! ;-)
It must be a California thang - I think people out-of-state think *cholo* is some sort of pastry.

Laurie - I love your blog! Keep your fridge just how you want it and keep on doing your happy fridge tango dance! It'll keep you young!

WHAT THE!?! all i see is white!!! no color, no quirky magnets! no color pppppppppaint on the wall! WTF? your soul is too colorful to live in such a sterile environment....PAINT!!!! DECORATE!!! just ask the cats...they will guide you...har-har...

Don't change your dysfunctional fridge. Because it generates such wonderful posts. These things generate grist for the mill.
When things go wrong for Laurie, WE get entertained...keep up the good work!

Um, could someone inform me as to what a "reformed chola" is? Or even, what a "chola" is? I live in Colorado and moved here from Illinois, two places where we seem not to have any "cholas." Or even know what a "chola" is! I am feeling ignorant here, folks! So I gaze into my knitting and ponder....What the heck is a "chola," folks???

Love your blog, Laurie! You bring me smiles every day! Pass the wine, please. Hugs, hugs, hugs.

"Chola" wonderer

The fridge door will remain as it is until Sobakowa is ready for it to change.

;)

ACK! I know the pain of downsizing your home and dealing with all the funky quirks of an **apartment**. I'm in the early throes of divorce, and I'm adjusting to my 600 square foot apartment (down from our newly purchased 1500 square foot super cute 1920's house). Some days I bemoan my shoe box sized kitchen (seriously - just me and my fish can fit in there). And other days I'm thinking, "Enh, so what? It only needs to fit me...and fishy". You're so fabulously clever and talented (I've been knitting for a year and am still on scarves that turn out to have multiple hourglass figures). I could easily have a girl crush on you, and no, that's not an invitation to experiment. Keep on bloggin'...you're sending out good shazizzle.

*provides a sideways glance*

Cholo- Mexican street gangster
Chola- female gangsta....

Hey Laurie...thought you danced the salsa...not the tango...

Im.just.sayin.is.all...........

Be careful before you move those doors. If it doesn't totally clear the cabinets and so doesn't open all the way, you won't be able to pull out the drawers because they'll be blocked by the door or by the shelves on the door. My fridge was set up like that and I had someone change it so now I have to do the fridge dance, but at least I can get at the veggies in the drawers.

Barbara

Hi Laurie ! I just stumbled on your blog after reading a reply you wrote on the Knittyboard, and I just wanted to express my admiration. You rock! I'm working my way through your blog (having some insomnia right now) but just wanted to let you know that I'm a Laurie too, I'm divorced too (almost) and my ex sounds like your ex kinda, but he didn't even want pets! Now I am happy with a cat! Your blog is great fun to read, and makes me embarassed of my boring one. And your cats are SO beautiful/handsome. You are amazing, keep on blogging and amusing us all!
best wishes,
Laurie
ps:just realized I'm ending all my sentences in exclamation points! I sound like a dork! How do you ever get time to read all these comments?!

yes, it was for the better he didn't show. Perhaps not as much fun, but for the better.
I have lived in a lot of military houses where we have to provide a fridge. The old fridges, in the dark ages, were much shorter, so a lot of the kitchens have no space for a modern fridge. I had one in my living room, once.

They don't give you a fridge!?! Dang. Now I have to figure out how to save even more money before I can move to LA.

A few months back you made a joke about Joseph Smith smiting you on my blog....and now he's leaving comments. Should I be concerned?

How to define cholos and cholas? Think Chicano and Chicana youth gangster/fabulous: DIY glamor made from your dad's work clothes, aquanet, homemade tatoos and tragic poetry.
Sigh. You can tell from the above sentence that I was always way too nerdy to be a chola.
Alison Anders made an okay movie about cholas called "mi Vida Loca." Check it out.

I think this is your best post ever.

will you be present tonight?

(i suggest bribing the gnomes into reversing it for you.)

My mom would accuse my brother of dressing like a "cholo" whenever he wouldn't tuck in his button down shirts...

But even in a suit, a cholo has this kind of attitude...and the hairnet and tatoos are good giveaways too..:P But yeah, it was said above, think Mexican "boys/girls in the hood." My cousins and I, well, except for one, all "played 'em on tv" with our big hair and cool eye makeup and really really tight tank tops worn under big lumbjack patterned shirts for the girls, and "wife-beater" white undershirts under the big old shirts for the boys, but you only buttoned those top two buttons. And don't forget the white athletic socks with the blue work-pants-turned-into-shorts look for the boys. But only one of my cagillion primos was a real "El Sereno Boy." And we all kinda feel bad about it.

What a beautiful little essay. Simple, elegant, and touching. A lot like Eudora Welty .. you should read "Why I Live at the P.O." ...

Honestly, a great piece of writing.

thanks.

Ah, but do you have a lightswtich that doesn't do anything? Those are my favorites.

I thought it was bad in Missouri, where you where apartments all came with appliances, but none o the homes did. Do you realize how many sizes of refrigerators there are? Well you find out fast in The Show Me State. That's one reason I'm happy to be back in Michigan, where everything stays with the dwelling.

I have to admit that Missouri doesn't hold a candle to Guadalajara. Sorry Drew!

Imbrium! HA!! In my circle, we call that the "Bayou Light!" "Somewhere in Louisiana, an alligator just got blinded by a flood light." HEE!

Hi - it seems that I am the ONLY ONE who didn't know about your site! I just read your About Me page and think your fantastic! The three things I've enjoyed about your site so far are:
1. cats!
2. Newcastle Brown Ale
3. sentences like, "To be honest, Republicans seem kind of dumb."

Yay!

very nice blog you have here, I enjoy reading very much. Keep it up sweetie.

What a beautifully written shot of words.

Wonderful entry, Laurie. I had to read it to my husband. Please don't ever think your "serious" entries are bummers...
xox

Laurie - your words are just beautiful. You have such a gift. Perhaps Mr X subconsciously realized that he was SOOOOOOOO not worthy of you? I'm just sayin...

Laurie, you have a gift, you are a wonderful and funny writer! Thanks for keeping me entertained. Good luck with the fridge. :)

I just noticed how far Soba must have to jump to get to the top of the fridge. How limber she must be! Of course, my kitty is almost 12 and just a wee bit, um, stout, so she isn't jumping as far as she did in her salad days. Still, my congratulations to the spry Soba. :)

Alternatively to reversing the door, you might consider just cutting a large whole in the middle of the door. I bet you could even figure out a way to drip milk through that whole in the door to give your cats a nice treat during the day while your away.

Just trying to think outside the refrigerator.

Hey, my mother's got the same deal with her refrigerator door--and she intentionally bought it that way. Go figure...

Your refrigerator reminds me of a camping trip I took with my two youngest daughters after I had been separated about a year.

We arrived home after a weekend of fun with friends and had to get all the gear back up to our apartment which was a third floor walk up. We carried only what we had to up all those stairs. The rest was hauled up over the front porch with a rope. The 16 year old boy who lived next door tried to make fun of me when I was hauling the roof top box up. I had it almsot all the way up to the railing of my porch when he finally offered to help so I wouldn't drop it! I had it over the railing within a couple of minutes then leaned over and yelled down to him....Who needs a man...I can do anything myself!!!

Fix the fridge, don't fix the fridge...just see how beautiful your life is now. You go where you want, when you want with nobody to answer to....Enjoy it!

Okay, so everyone's already said how you can reverse the doors. I have to say it again, and it's supereasy to do!

The hingey parts on the right side will fit where the handle screw parts on the left side are now, and vice versa. All you need is a screwdriver. Really. You can do it!

Beautifully written.

I came for the knitting content,
I stayed because you are hysterically funny,
and now, I delurk because this post is one fine piece of prose.

Just lovely...

I didn't even notice - am I totally oblivious or was I digging too hard for the wine?

You MUST be familiar with Miss Welty, n'est ce pas? I met her in college - I did a one woman show of some of her stuff and she came to our school for a seminar. Very lovely woman. Originally a West Viriginian. Hillbillies unite!

In addition to the very same problem with the fridge that you have, I also had an oven (same kitchen, mind you), which when opened, forced me to be either pinned on either side of it. And I couldn't be at the sink and have the fridge door open unless I wanted my arse in the vegetable drawer. This made baking for a living a wee bit more difficult than it should have. That was NYC living for you! Clearly someone was trying to BS a galley kitchen into a "chef's kitchen". HA. HA.

Oh, and I have that very same Ikea blue/green dot cardboard box!

I don’t know why this is reminding me of this – but I once went into the ladies’ room and the stalls were SO friggin small. On top of that, the door opened inward. I got out luckily, but I was imagining a very large woman trying to call 911 to get her out. The door was put on wrong.

This was a hysterical post! Love your blog!

That is so funny! When I rented this apartment (being refurbished), with the tiny closet of a kitchen with only room for a stove and 'frdge, they were just putting the last appliances in. When I finally took possession, I realized that the door opened the wrong way!! It was most inconvenient, to say the least.

Across the hall, a mirror image of my apt, they were still finishing the apt, and I noticed that MY fridge was there! So I talked to the caretaker about this, and they came the next day and switched them (taking everything in the fridge as well)! Hahaha....

But now, at least, I don't have to go out of the room to open the door to get anything out! The problems we have to put up with when we rent!!

I can't help but read all these very sweet comments about how to fix the door and think: Dudes! It's a metaphor!

I'm sorry. I just had to say it. . . .

If you don't want to risk changing the doors yourself, call the non-emergency number of your local fire-department. There's almost somebody at each station who runs a handy-man business on his days off! And they work for a city so they're usually on pretty good behavior!!

If anybody wants to read about cholos, Steve Cannell's Shane Scully's murder mysteries... Fast paced and set in the LA area.

Love your blog - unlurking to tell you one thing about your fridge. If it's that close to the wall and you reverse the door so it opens correctly... you will never ever be able to get the crisper drawer out if you need to clean it. Maybe you actually *eat* the vegetables in there before they turn into smelly liquids, but every few months I have to wrestle the WHOLE FRIDGE forward about a foot to open the door wide enough to get that drawer out.
Oh, and yeah, we all get that it was a metaphor, but since we can't tell her how to fix the actual problem, we'll all just tackle the fridge issue...

hey where did you go? are you out of town? i found your blog on the 11th, and then you stopped writing. i think that you are brilliant. you're so funny, and i have had alot of fun reading your posts. please come back! hope you're having fun where ever you are.

Aunt Purl? Come baaaaaack!

Where you at, Aunt Purl? Starting to get worried...

I only read two blogs, you can't leave us now!!!! *picturing Aunt Purl trapped in a knitted cocoon of Patton's" Chew your way out girl!

Now that delurking week is over, I finally feel motivated to come out and say hi, but now I'm wondering where you are? I found your blog a couple months ago and have really been enjoying your writing, your observations and your sense of humor. I hope you're fine and off somewhere with some excellent wine, good friends and a captivating knit.

Hi Laurie,

Hope everything's okay - this is rather a long break in the blogging action for you, and in addition to missing your posts, I'm worrying. Was the France trip sooner than I thought? Have Roy et al ensnared you in a tangle of plassard yarn and you can't reach the computer? Is it finally cold in LA and your fingers are too stiff to type? Any excuse is acceptable, just please send the A-OK.

Love you in a weird hetero, distance, nearly-blogstalking, non-knitting kind of way,
inge

Hi Laurie,

Hope everything's okay - this is rather a long break in the blogging action for you, and in addition to missing your posts, I'm worrying. Was the France trip sooner than I thought? Have Roy et al ensnared you in a tangle of plassard yarn and you can't reach the computer? Is it finally cold in LA and your fingers are too stiff to type? Any excuse is acceptable, just please send the A-OK.

Love you in a weird hetero, distance, nearly-blogstalking, non-knitting kind of way,
inge

What inge said.

Refridgerator doors (and dryer doors) are fully reversable. I just changed my fridge doors out last week after dealing with backwards doors for 2 months and it was an amazing experience. I did have to buy a $3 wrench with a weird star shaped end to do it, but other than that it was really simple and the joy I felt afterwards was unmeasurable. *robyn

i'm dying of random cat picture withdrawl.

help!

Laurie, I miss you and your writings terribly! I hope everything is going okay. I will tell you, my work days have been gloomy without my daily dose of Aunt Purl since last week. Post when you can! I can't wait to see what else you have to say :)

I really miss my daily dose of humor!! Come back, CAP!!

Purl, where you be at?

I sincerely hope all is okay, and that this longish blog absence is a sign of a burgeoning social life just overflowing with happiness!

From another worried-mom type reader...

CAP need more posts...S.O.S. .....where are ya?

You have got to come back!! I wake up and can't wait to read your blog (I work nights). I'm having withdrawls!!!!

Ready to poke me eyes out with my knitting needles...husband and kids driving me crazy. Need a good laugh!!!

Do any of you know anyone who actually knows Laurie? If so, call 'em up or email them and find out if Laurie's OK.

6 days without a post is a record for her. Makes me worry....

Yoohoo!! Are you trapped under something heavy?

Signed,
Selfishly concerned in Missippi

Laurie,
You are the best writer!!! You write down on paper what I hold close to my heart...

Ummmm... Laurie's Dad? I know you read her blog, do you ever read the comments? Is she ok? Anyone know how to reach one of the stores she posts about, maybe someone there has heard something? Ladies from Stitch N' Bitch?

Perplexed....
Jenn

Doesn't anyone remember that Laurie's mother is in town? Of course the ladies must be out and about, painting the town red, stalking stars at the Golden Globes, running down the latest yarn specials, and just hanging at Chez Purl. I'll just bet she'll have loads of things to report soon.

I found this on Jennifer's blog, www.SundayUndies.com, which gives us an inkling of what's been going on with our beloved Purl:

On Friday, Laurie and I tipsy-dialed France! Three times! To confirm our hotel reservations in March. There was A LOT of giggling involved. We've decided Marc, l'homme qui answered the phone, can't be anything but a devastatingly handsome and slightly smelly man.

Ya know you can change the way the door swings - so just do it! Actually, when I moved, the same thing happened, only I didn't have as little space as you have. My movers were friends who knew how to do this, and even told me how to do it, but did they do it? No! It took me about 2 hours to complete it (both doors - don't forget the freezer), but it was well worth the effort. If you can knit it, you can figure out that door(s).

So glad to hear Aunt P is likely okay! I've been worried, too!

totally blog stalking...
I checked Jen's blog too. There was CAP with her rosey red cheeks. Glad to see here having a good time without us.....;)

Hey, I'm in LA for a TV Critics Association gathering ... staying at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena .. it's okay.

Man oh man, do you know what a cab from LAX to Pasadena costs????? $64 plus tip!

(I actually got OUT of the cab when he told me, before we left, and found a shuttle. $15 plus tip, whew.)

chase

Nice story Laurie...

Keep doing the little refridgerator dance--it burns off wine calories...

From your picture, it doesn't look like there's enough room for the door to open correctly if you fixed it. This is from my in-laws' experience with this same situation.