Treadmill part deux

So getting over my frustration at the non working treadmill, I decided to just use the elliptical. I got all ready and put on the music, got my water bottle and started pumping away. About a minute or two into the routine, my CD player started skipping. Now there is nothing that makes madder than having to listen to da-da-da-da-da-da-da for ten minutes. I find that getting off the machine to fix it every time it skips defeats the purpose so I usually try to just ignore it and let it move on. Only this time it didn't. Aggravated as I was, I used considerable self restraint at not kicking it out the door. I really thought about it. I pictured how good it would feel to shatter that piece of junk on the toe of my shoe and instead just pursed my lips and went on. Finally though I couldn't take it. I paused the machine and stepped over to the TV and put on some dance music and turned off the frickity frackity cd player. Then I got back on the machine and pushed the pause button to start it up again. Nothing. It wouldn't go. I pushed and pushed and then carefully pried off the button cover to see what was wrong, the whole time pumping my legs up and down slowly to keep the momentum going, even if absentmindedly. Well, the frickity frackity button had broken off inside. I frantically punched at the electronic pad below to no avail. If it was any other button I could have dealt with it, but the on/off button? Did it have to be that one?
So now, having only had a ten minute lousy workout I became totally overwhelmed with frustration. My poor husband didn't know what to do. It wasn't just that I now have nothing to work out with at all, it's that I really, really hate it when things break down or don't work the way they should. As anyone who knows me will attest, when things break, such as coffee makers or vacuum cleaners I tend to commit appliance-cide, usually involving a foot or a bat and a long, long throw across the backyard. But this time was different. I went up to my room and sobbed for twenty minutes. This was not just any machine, this was a very expensive machine, not easily replaced, and unfortunately will have to take it's place behind a long line of things waiting to be replaced around here, such as my water heater, my washing machine, my dishwasher, my microwave, my laptop, and my CD player. And it's not that these things don't work, they are just not working well. The water heater burst about three months ago, and was leaking but the leaking stopped. Miraculously it is still working fine, but I know that replacement is imminent. The dishwasher was never installed properly and though only three or four years old is rusting inside and the top level keeps coming off the tracks. I don't know what's wrong with the microwave, it just won't go off when you take the food out. The fan cycles are all messed up and sometimes you have to flip the breaker to get it to shut up. The washing machine is not spinning the clothes enough to get out the water, so I have to spin them two or three times. The CD player skips on every CD I own. The laptop, now that's one you thought would last a while. We've only had it two years. The screen is permanently having what I call an "epileptic seizure". There are wavy lines on it all the time and to get them to stop before you throw up you have to grab the screen at the top with your left hand and type with your right. As a matter of fact the computer I am on right now keeps shutting down and having to be rebooted.
I'm not complaining, because I am truly grateful for all I have, I'm just frustrated and feel a need to let off steam. The loss of my excercise equipment was just the final straw. I expected the treadmill to die, but not the elliptical.
*sigh* :(