Dishpan Hands

It looks like 2021may be the year everything wore out and had to be fixed/replaced for us!  On Christmas Eve, shortly after I'd loaded the dishwasher with all the wreckage associated with putting together a Beef Wellington, the wretched machine went haywire, and started to flood the kitchen.  Since then, it's just been squatting in the kitchen, smugly idle, waiting for the dim, distant day when a repair man might deign to show up.  This explains my bubbly picture for the day.  Now the kitchen faucet refuses to mix hot and cold water in such a way as to provide a tolerably warm temperature -- we are either scalded or hypothermic after attempting to use it. We've also had yet another flooding episode in the bedroom of our other apartment -- in the same exact place as the last deluge in June, with the same exact sort of damage to deal with.  Oh, and that bedroom shade repair?  It didn't last long.  The damned thing has relapsed.  Not a promising start to the year!