Warranty Issues/ Stay-cation Day 2

We had a decent day. We waited around ALL day long for the dryer repair guy to come and repair the mother board on my front loading dryer. This is the second mother board it has needed in the short 4 years that we have owned it. (I will say that I know the bird nest that was just removed from my dryer vent last week had something to do with mother board #2 going out!) Thank goodness for extended warranties. I have no idea about anyone else, but my family really does utilize the extended warranties we purchase. I guess that can be viewed as good and bad. Good, in that we had enough foresight to purchase the warranties. Bad, in that all that extra expense and trouble to get something repaired that should still be working perfectly anyway, right. I mean in that past week John has had to send his very expensive Sony PlayStation 3 in for repair because the power switch went out, the dryer needed a new mother board, we are currently contacting the warranty people because our 2 1/2 year "old" HDTV TV has a large green area on the screen (we have already had them replace the bulb once, my tire got a nail in it and had to be patched, and the list seems never ending. (am I made of money?? NO!) Today I was very aggravated that the repair people gave us a five hour block of time in which they would come over 8am-noon) and then decided to show up at 4:30pm. When I called to complain, the guy kept saying, "Well,the repair man is still coming today." As though I should be grateful that he was going to make it at all today! GRRR. oh well, it got fixed and all is well.
We finally got to leave the house at about 5:30pm. By this point John and I are reconsidering even leaving. The kids seemed tired ALREADY! We went ahead and went to Nickelrama. It's a little arcade in the area that had lots of games that cost anywhere from $.05-$.30 to play. Not to bad, but there is a $3 cover charge, up front. We all had a good time. Even Bryce enjoyed pretending to drive the race cars and watching all the people and lights on the games. Then we headed on over to Petsmart. Who needs the trouble and cost of your own pet when all you have to do is swing by this store and visit the cute little animals! Sure the kitty cats look adorable play fighting behind that Plexiglas wall. But one look to the side of them and you see that nasty litter box that no one wants to change and that Bryce would love to dig in, as though it were his very own sand box. or worse, his very own casserole ....yuck. Then two steps to the right of that is the infamous "scratching post." Guaranteed they won't only be scratching that post! Anyway, I do love animals....really. Just not in the house. =) (my poor children)
We ended the day at Cheddars. If I was rich I would hire...in this order...masseuse, chef, housekeeper!