I've been noticing some blogger friends are having, just like Alexander in Judith Viorst's book, rather a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
My day had a downer as well. The vertical blinds we special ordered finally arrived from Home Depot. We'd ordered roller shades also. The roller shades came a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, they were spring loaded and not loop corded like we asked. We had to reorder them. It takes 6-8 weeks to arrive in Hawaii. Sigh.
Now the verticals. We asked for an outside mount. Yup. It's an outside mount. But when Art put them up to look at them, he saw that the measurements they used was for an inside mount so they're TOO SHORT. Arghhhh! We went down earlier to Home Depot because they'd also forgotten to include some brackets in the shipment. NOW everything will have to be reordered. Special orders are a special headache!
The doors that we special ordered a few months ago also had to be reordered twice because of a mistake. Sigh........ sigh... sigh... Home Depot is very good about getting things reordered for you but it's frustrating to have to do it over and over again.
However, this evening two of my elementary school buddies picked me up and we went out for a bite to eat. So I'm cheerful again. Unfortunately, I had two glasses of ice tea and the caffeine is keeping me up. Sheesh! Ah well... there's nothing like being with your friends to perk you up 100%
Let me modify that a bit. It perked me up 99.9%. I'll feel 100% when our orders arrive correctly.
Monday, December 8, 2008
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Hurrah for friends!
ReplyDeleteWe live in remote wilderness, so shopping often means a drive of several hours. When we open the box at home and find something missing or broken or amiss, it's sooooo frustrating to know that we face that drive again to return it: especially with three kids in the car.
Good luck with the re-order! It would have been nice to have them in place for Christmas, but hopefully they'll be worth the wait and even nicer than you can imagine now.
Sounds as though you did have a frustrating day, don't you hate those? Ah, well, they do make us appreciate the fun and good things like lunch with friends, even if we do indulge in too much caffeine! Hope today is better! You really could relate to my disgruntedly Santa post couldn't you!
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ReplyDeleteand I thought those things only happened in France! Seems like problems with ordering are universal.
Friends are surely a blessing..
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Making the initial decisions and going through the ordering process are work enough without having to do it all over again!
ReplyDeleteI try to imagine a life with no To Do list anymore...
ReplyDeleteEven when hardtimes get you, isn't wonderful how much stronger we get. Theres always somenthing good in store.
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