Friday, December 29, 2006

Eeek!

This morning I come bounding down my stairs (okay, I'll be honest, I dragged myself down the stairs), looked out the window by my front door and there it was.....a dead frozen mouse......Eeek! Of course, I am just assuming he is frozen, I didn't actually touch him. I left the poor little guy out on the sidewalk hoping a bird or neighborhood dog will come buy and take care of the disposal for me.

Instances like these are when I think it would be nice to have a man in the household. Most men are great at pest disposal. For example....when I am at my parents house and I see a big spider I just put a drinking glass over it and wait for my father to get home. I have also used this technique on bees; it works like a charm. I think part of the reason I hate "disposing" of bugs is that it often involves killing the poor thing. I hate the sound of exoskeletons crunching or watching them try to swim in the toilet bowl.

Wish me luck tonight, hopefully my little mouse friend will be gone when I get home. With my luck, he will probably be frozen solid to the sidewalk and I will have to get my snow shovel to pry him free. Yuck!

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Large Department Store that Starts with an S Sucks

After becoming frustrated while trying to buy a mattress for my spare room I wrote the following letter to a certain particular department store that I will now never shop at again:

November 30, 2006

@$%&! National Customer Relations
3333 Beverly Rd.
Hoffman Estates, IL. 60179


To Whom it May Concern,

On November 9th I placed an order online (order #: XXXXXXXXX) for a sales mattress. I intended to use this mattress in my spare room for holiday guests. The day before my scheduled delivery I received a call confirming my delivery date (November 30), and I called the hot line to get my delivery time window as instructed. The morning of my delivery I received a call saying that my mattress was not in stock. I can’t imagine that you didn’t know this before my deliver date. I was told that the mattress would be available December 28th. This date was too late to meet my needs. I was also told that a representative from the store would be calling me.

I never received a call from the store. So I wrote an email to customer service. I received an email back telling me to go visit a store or call the support number. I called the support number and was hung up on when someone tried to answer. Then I called back and was disconnected during a transfer. I called back yet again and was told that you would wave the shipping if I were to order another mattress. I was told that I could not get a mattress for anything less than $499. While I was on this call I was looking at your website and saw a mattress on sale for $259. I do not know why this mattress was not offered to me. To be honest by this point I didn’t want anything to do with a company that is so incompetent.

I think it is important to note that you are still selling the mattress that I ordered originally on your website and that you are still saying that it is in stock for my zip code. Are you going to continue to bait customers with this item and then not deliver?

Regrettably my family and I (and anyone I can tell) will no longer be shopping at #$%&!.


Regards,

Sara O

FYI...I ended up buying a mattress from a little local company and it was delivered within three days.

Skiing Time is Here


I love skiing. This year I bought a season pass to Schweitzer Mountain. The mountain has been open since November and I have only gone up once. Loser.


I must go skiing. I hope to get up there on Saturday. Keep you posted.


"A" and "B" I wish you were here to hit the slopes with me.


Here is a picture from when "work A" and I went up skiing. We had a great time, can't wait to do it again soon!

Scramble- Not Just For Eggs Anymore

When I first moved here I attended Family Fun Night at a local fairground. My young cousin was going to compete in the chicken scramble. While sitting on the dusty bleachers I watch children bravely go out to compete in tug-o-war and then it was finally time for the scrambles.

What is a scramble you might ask? A scramble goes like this:
  1. Put all the children in a specific age group at the far end of the arena
  2. Release animals (varies by age group) on the near side of the arena
  3. Crowd in stands, consisting mostly of nervous parents, yell "1-2-3 GO!"
  4. Children run at poor unsuspecting animals and try to catch them
  5. Parents pray ("Please let little Jimmy catch a chicken", or something like "please God don't let Susy catch a greased pig" or something to that effect)
  6. Several select children catch the animals, and here is the best part.....
  7. Children get to keep the animals they catch.
  8. The aftermath...all the children that didn't catch animals sulk out of the arena some even start crying.

Family Fun!!! OMG!!! I am a long way from San Francisco!

Hello Everyone!


Hello from North Idaho (NI)!

Inspired by my friend A's blog I have decided to start my own. While this blog is not likely to be as exciting as her Mexico City adventure, I figured I should represent the Pacific Northwest.

Although Idaho is famous for it's potatoes I have yet to see an actual potato field. However, in the spirit of Idaho I purchased a fabulous potato brush that looks like a potato and has googlie eyes. This ultimate kitchen accessory is proudly displayed by my sink.

I have been in NI for approximately 5 months having moved here from San Francisco. During this time I have had many adventure that were blog worthy. I will do my best to get these events posted asap.

Thanks for visiting!