I ordered my xmas presents in what I thought was ample time to get here before the big day. But I still haven't received most of them, and I am getting annoyed. In one case, the present is not available until February! Why advertise it on your web page when it isn't available until months later? Which, I should point out, wasn't revealed until the purchase was complete.
For one item, it was attempted for delivery yesterday "unsuccessfully". We were home at 4 pm, and checked the mail right away - nothing. At 5 pm C checked again, and this time there was a pkg., but not the one that is to be redelivered. I did get 2 copies of Consumer Reports, the extra for someone I don't know at an address I've never heard of. If that pkg. was OK to put in the box, why isn't this one? Anyway, we will be here all day today, so no excuses.
I am making slow progress on the cross-stitch which I started years ago. I am determined to finish it and get it into the trivet case, however long it takes. Before I start another, I want to see how the "Red line " product works to grid the canvas and makes stitching go faster. It hasn't arrived yet either.
OK here is the photo of the living room and the dining room, actually taken before the Great Flood in July:
Things are not quite in the same place now, but you can guess what havoc all the "stuff" from downstairs (where my bedroom is) made on this area. All that, plus in the garage for the furniture. The room had to be stripped to the walls for the carpet guys to do their thing; afterwards I offered them (2 of them) a tip for the very good job they did, but neither one would take it. I couldn't figure out any way to tuck it into their tool boxes, etc. So when I went to get my hair done (see the post below) I tipped the beautician $20 and I thought she would pass out. It is a little place, no appt. taken, if you want a particular stylist there is an extra charge, etc. But I think of it as "paying it forward". The rest will go in the kettles of the Sally Army. They have an anonymous donor that puts a $1000 bill in a kettle every year (the specific kettle is revealed to the main Army ahead of the time), isn't that neat? I wish I could afford that too. Donations have been going down every year as more people are unemployed. But of course DT is going to fix all of that, restore the coal mines that are closed, put all the coal miners back to work, happy days will be here again. Right?
T shirt for the day: "I've finally reached the wonder years! Wonder where my car is parked? Wonder where I left my glasses? Wonder where I left my phone? Wonder what day it is?"
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