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Oh hush...you're enjoying it...dancing down the aisles, indeed! :D

this is where im moving to http://www.city-data.com/city/Callao-Missouri.html

its so tiny.. i think we have more people living in my gated community than in the whole town...

If you're looking for me on Sunday, I'll be ass-deep in friggin snow, trying to shovel us out before I have to be at work on Sunday morning. Or maybe, I'll be sitting in front of my computer with a cup of cocoa, not giving a shit whether I make it to work or not... hmmmmmm......

I hate winter.

So last week I decided to get some Frrrozen Hot Chocolate gift sets from Amazon. My initial order was for 5. On Monday, I was contacted to let me know they only had 1 in stock. I told her to go ahead and send me that 1, and she told me they'd refund the charges for the other 4 and waive the shipping cost. So I ordered 4 more from a different Amazon affiliate.

I got two boxes today. One was much larger than the other. The small one had the 1 gift box I'd ordered. The larger one had the other 4... and two of them had broken glasses. I noticed the invoices showed the same company. Same order number. I looked at Amazon's order tracking page, and found that all my shipments have been listed as delivered.

Hold up.

The 2nd order I made from the other affiliate? I never received it. It was supposedly delivered today. Digging through the tracking info, I found the UPS tracking number. It was signed for by someone I don't know in Philadelphia, PA. I'm in central TX. Fired off an e-mail.

Went back to the invoices for the received packages, and fired off another e-mail to the first affiliate to get this crap straightened out. I don't know if this means they decided not to refund the charges or what, as I've gotten freebies before when businesses fudged an order.

Such a frickin' headache, and now I have a bunch of boxes taking up space that I can't toss or even start to wrap.

shoulda got the uranium hun ;)

Bleh.

I got a response from seller #1, which was a surprise since their customer support hours are listed as M-F only (which is repeated in the support rep's signature). They're offering me either a refund or replacement for the two broken items. I'd kinda like to not have to pay them for more than the first set, since I'd already ordered replacements from elsewhere after they told me they were cancelling 4 of the 5 in the initial order. The problem is that since they've already sent me the crap, how do I send the two intact boxes back without paying shipping charges? I doubt they'll pay for that. I may just be stuck with paying for these two.

frownysadmadface

Yay, I guess the holiday shipping stress is getting to them. They decided to just refund charges for all 4 of the sets they sent in that second package, with no need for me to return the intact ones. The second company apparently misfiled with Amazon, so they have the wrong tracking number listed. The correct one shows the package in transit and in Mesquite, TX. Things usually show up the day after they land in Mesquite.

Researching actual date activities is actually kinda fun!

And I'm probably making myself more excited and nervous about it than I should but, but fuck it all, I'm actually looking forward to it!

tweaking hard on caffeine. yes, caffeine. multiple cans of brawndo (it's got electrolytes!), some caffeine spray, some caffeine mints...

can barely walk. actually kinda surprised i'm typing. not gonna bother typing anymore though.

I've come to the conclusion that it's not Holiday shopping that I despise or even the traffic as people go from store to mall to store to wherever the fuck they seem to think they need to go next.

It's parking lots. I hate parking lots with a passion that defies logic.

I'm waiting patiently in line to leave this particular parking lot. Not in any great hurry, got some Christmas toons on, running through my mental list of "need to do" things. There is a T intersection in this parking lot - and people are being cool about it, letting things merge rather nicely. Until some bitch decides that she doesn't have to wait her fucking turn, so drives up the wrong side of the aisle, past half a dozen cars and cuts in front of the car in front of me. then starts honking her horn, as if it's going to help.

So I finally get to the exit for the shopping center. There are 2 lanes for exiting. One maked left turn, one marked right turn. I want to make a right turn, so I am i nthe right turn lane just about to pull into the space that a vrey nice woman has not only left me, but has waved me into. When a different bitch in the left turn lane turns right - and tries to pull into the lane I am already half way into. Then starts blaring her horn at me. Excuse me??? When did they change traffic laws to say that a person in a left hand lane EVER pulls into the far right lane when making a right hand turn (even if it's a legal right hand turn - which hers wasn't...)????

So now I'm trying to figure out how to remove parking lots from the whole shopping equation....

I'm a dumbass.

I had to go to the ER yesterday because they had an urgent problem for me to fix, which left me in the perfect position to hit up the party store for some tinsel (which HEB, Wal-Mart, Lowe's, and Home Depot don't have for some reason). This is half an hour away from home on zero-traffic days, but obviously this isn't the case and there are accidents causing huge delays on the highway (I'm not used to seeing cops actually wave cars on when they aren't blocking them, but the rubberneckers were being so persistent that they were in get-the-fuck-going-already mode).

I got my tinsel and some lunch, then stopped by a friend's house even though he's out of town for the weekend because I felt like playing with my Wii. I only have a few gifts to wrap with the tinsel, so I figured I'd get it done today (this is the dumbass part). Didn't bother leaving till long after it got dark.

I'm actually taking a breather right now. I didn't think shredding tinsel would take this long. Simple scissor job, right? Nope. The gold and silver ones were tied down in a coil and attached to a metal ring to make a Christmas tree spiral. That takes some effort to separate. Then I cut the flappy needles from the spine, which is difficult to keep from spraying all over the damn place, but I managed to get most of it into separate plastic bags instead of the carpet. I could've shredded it faster, but I didn't want any of the connections between needles to remain. Then the green ones were even more annoying because they had several dozen stars along the garlands that I had to separate before cutting off the needles.

So now I have red, gold, and green bags of needles that feel really nice when you plunge a hand in and sift through your fingers. The silver trees haven't been dismantled yet. At least I won't have to do any cutting for the bags of confetti I bought. I have yet to protectively cover the gifts since they don't have a factory shrink wrap packaging and I don't want the box labels/art to be illegible once the top layers come off. Not to mention the gifts are edible/potable... It's a bit windy to use the spray adhesive outside, so it'll be an adventure trying to spray these things in the living room without hitting the carpet. Damned carpet. I really do need to get back to searching for an apartment to do my projects in.

of the 15 people in my department, 3 of us are here this week.

So i'm bored.

but I was giving full internet for the week... thank goodness for yahoo games!!!

Of the 48-ish people in my office,
11? are here today. I think we had nine yesterday, and there's probably going to be even less tomorrow.

And yet we're busy as fuck.

Fyre, check out www.jayisgames.com or www.candystand.com for flash-based games (if you can)

woot! something new to do!!!! (read almost everything at the onion... *sigh*) tried to play Legends of Norrath, but the damn server apparantly decided to take the day off. been wanting to try that out, but don't want to take away from my real game time!! Thanks Mil!!

people are already trickling out for the day... and it'll be a fricking ghosttown round here tomorrow afternoon.

Ok so I'm in with several people at work for a "Biggest Loser" competition. 60 bucks a head and top three losers get some cash so it should be good motivation for me! (I love money!) Started on Monday. I have been very good for 2 and a half days now! I even had wonton soup today when I reaaaaaly wanted shrimp fried rice. That means it's OK to have my fortune cookie right? Have to eat it for it to come true, right?

WOOT! Good luck, Temp!!!! Oh you know almonds are a good source of low fat protein snacks that help fill you up but doesn't pack the weight on. =) Try those receipes I posted too - not the fat potato ones but the ones earlier - those are low carb, high protein and good for your heart, too!

I'm really really really really really really annoyed that your ex doesn't know when to quit.

Very. Extremely. Supremely. Annoyed.

Murphy's Law of Deployments:

Ryan leaves...

Brandie starts feeding the baby...

Twenty minutes after Ryan leaves...while still feeding...

Baby throws up all over Brandie...

Brandie sighs due to the fact the kid was the first thing to "break"

Thankfully she seems okay. Last thing I need is her to get sick, so I'm hoping it was just a one time thing.

my son used to always cry (colic) and spit up, We figured out after a couple weeks of it he was lactose intolerant :(

Luckily spitting up is usually fixed by frequent burping hehe ) ( though sometimes it gos right along with it lol)

Anyway, im all moved now.. mostly! Freezing and cold, sipping hot cocoa in my 58 degree house... were keeping it that cold cause were afraid of running out of propane atm and he doesnt have a job yet, so not sure when we will be able to refill the tank.

Its supposed to get down into the teens this week. which i know for some of you is nothing, but for a girl from the desert its pretty damn cold! Im used to keeping my thermostat at 79! hehe

my house is huge, which i like, yet there doesnt seem to be room for everything, my kitchen has like, no storage, and were living with my brother inlaw and his son til they find a place to stay. Once they finish the attic ( im saying itll be months and months, he says 6-8 weeks) we can move my bedroom up there, which now resides in my office//library.

The kids seem to like their schoool and their rooms, minus the hideous wallpaper, and are settling in pretty well. We have yet to see snow on the ground though, which they have been hoping for.

Good luck!! I accidentally lost weight over the holidays (had the flu) and now think I want to keep it off...and lose more!

Honestly, I don't think fortune cookies have very many calories at all. So you are safe eating one....besides as you say, you have to eat them for your fortune to come true ;)