Okay, so here's my 'here's your sign' moment.

About six months ago our ice maker just seemed to stop working. We knew it would cost probably about $900 to fix (because it stopped working when we first got it, and the repair guy told us we were lucky it was still under warranty or it would have cost about $900). So that's what we figured had happened now.

Well, since I don't really use ice, my husband had taken to buying bags of ice as he needed them. He's been doing it for six months now.

So apparently, yesterday at work, he noticed an on/off switch on the ice maker there. Hmm, I wonder if ours has one? Maybe if we flip the switch a few times, it will cycle it or something. So he comes home to test his theory... only to find that it was already in the off position.

So, wow, he turned it to 'on' and wala we have ice again. So glad I never called the repair man he told me too. That would have been an embarrassing visit--being charged $50 for him to come flip a damn switch.

Oh, on another note... my daughter asked if we had a CD player when she wanted to get a CD at the store. I said of course we did. Of course, she's never really listened to music from a CD player--we pretty much use our phones or their ipods. So, I pull out the CD player I have buried in a closet. It's a combination CD/radio/cassette player. She looks at it, flips up the antenna and asked what that was for. Then I told her which buttons worked the CD player and that the other buttons were for tapes. Her response: what's a tape?

When I showed her what one was, of course, she quirked her brow and looked at it askance and said, "that looks so old."