Headaches, Broken Things, and Tickets

This has not been my most cheerful week. I usually never have headaches and the past week or two, I've had to take ibuprofen 3 times for headaches (compare with normally 3 times a year). I'm not sure if it's stress or if it's the colds I've had. On another note, our LCD tv (Philips)abruptly stopped working last week. It flashes a long red light and then two short red lights. Apparently, it's some sort of trouble shooting code. The problem is, Philips DOESN'T PUBLISH THEIR CODES PUBLICLY! So we have to pay someone to go "look up" the code to tell us what's wrong. Now maybe every other brand in the industry is the same way, but I think it's completely dishonest and lousy of them to not tell the owners of their products how to figure out what is wrong with them. I will never purchase from Philips again, rest assured. (not to mention that the tv was a mere 19 months old. We had our previous tv 10 years and we only got rid of it because we bought the bigger one and I didn't want two tvs in our home.) Our van hatch handle broke yesterday and now the only way to open the trunk of the minivan is to send out Husband with a screwdriver. We'll have to bring it into the shop next week, I guess. Our vacuum broke last week (because I whacked it because it had clogged up and stopped spinning again, even though I had just cleared it out.) And one of our kids stepped in a kitchen drawer and broke it. Our computer was not turning on but thankfully husband was able to fix it by removing some broken parts out of a USB port.
To make our week even better, we received a ticket in the mail courtesy of a speed enforcement camera, which accused us going 70 in a 55 zone (of course, that was when we were merging onto the freeway; we we're always going with the flow of traffic).
So I've been a bit grumpy. I hope my next post will be more cheerful.