Well. I waited patiently. I did. Well, anxiously, but I finished cleaning, and did laundry, had lunch, sat down and knitted and was good. Until 5pm.
Then I got growly. Which, by the way, I can in part blame on Mercury being Retrograde. I texted Jason, and he said to use DHL's Live Chat feature again. Sure, why not.
Heh.
The pain in the ass I got the second time was less than helpful. Informed me that they were 'too busy' and I shouldn't have waited. Well, that's nice but why did the first guy tell me I should expect it? *grumbles* So. I can go pick the package up in Charlotte if I want and should they hold it for customer pickup? By now, I'm pissy. I realize after closing the chat I didn't confirm that I was going to go pick it up. *sigh* But wait .. I can't find a direct number for the DHL location? WTF? *deeper sigh*
So I get -back on- the Live Chat .. and get someone -even less- helpful. Who informs me that I have to wait -an hour- .. it's almost 6pm now, they close at 8pm .. for them to call me to confirm the package is waiting there. So that'd give me barely an hour to drive into Charlotte, in an anrea I don't know, that's right under the freaking airport.
Have I mentioned my completely irrational fear of planes?
While I'm dealing with completely unhelpful jerk, I call customer service. I go through the whole story after warning the girl that I'm -not- happy, almost break down into tears I'm -so- frustrated because I had a ton of things to get done today but put them all off waiting for this delivery that was never gonna happen in the first place. She tells me she can connect me to the local distribution center. Well why the hell could the guy in Live Chat not tell me that? *annoyed sigh-growl*
Why yes, miss, I'd love to talk to them. I hold. They connect me. Two minutes later I'm in the car on my way to Charlotte with hand-written directions because I don't have a printer any more - the old one won't work with Vista, so I'm gonna sell it in the Big Yard Sale. I made it safe and sound .. well, safe. Sound I can't claim, cos I was still growly, and had like 7 planes fly right over my head, and dog does that freak me out. But I got my precious package, and headed home. On the way I talked to honey, and decided we'd get McDonald's fries and chicken wraps for dinner, cos he was feeling sick and salty usually helps.
Did I mention Mercury was Retrograde? I think I did.
So I get to McDonalds. I order. 1 bbq grilled wrap, 1 honey mustard grilled wrap, two orders of fries. I get my receipt: 1 ranch wrap, 1 honey mustard wrap, 2 fries. I get to the second window, and ask the girl if the wraps are correct, they should be bbq and honey mustard. She has to ask someone. They assure me it's a bbq and a honey mustard.
I get home. Two wraps. 1 honey mustard ..... 1 ranch. *siiiiigh* Jason eats the honey mustard, because he just can't stomach the ranch. Which is why I got him the bbq.
Anyway, I have my laptop. It's gonna take me the better part of this week just to get used to it. Lastnight I sat in the living room trying to get the basics set up .. the nifty gadgets, the desktop cleaned up, enabled my LoJack for the laptop, that kinda stuff. I've just found I can copy files through the network, so that's how I'm gonna transfer all my music and pictures I think. I also managed to figure out the Bluetooth mouse Jason got me, which is nifty-keen. I don't enjoy the touchpad usually, though this one is better than his old one.
Now the concern is FedEx. My PC arrived in Charlotte last night. So it could be out for delivery now. I've never had issues with FedEx delivering things a day earlier than they say they're gonna .. but I don't want to miss it, too.
Showing posts with label excitement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excitement. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Busy Busy Busy!
Well, about a week and a half ago we -finally- got the approval to do the landscaping work outside our house - I told Jason I was gonna frame it. So the last two weekends have been busy busy working on planting and installing border stones and spreading mulch and running to Home Depot and Lowes to pick up plants and mulch and potting soil.
But I finally have flowerbeds! I have a ton of stuff planted in them too. Iceflower is planted in my little cauldron, and I have a blue false indigo, and a hibiscus, and petunias in a beautiful yellow hue, and impatiens (that I think I burned watering them too early) and some volunteered pansies .. the last time I planted pansies was like 8 months ago .. and several plants of gerbera daisies, and another kind of daisy, and verbena, and a balloon flower, and something called Angelina in white and purple, and something that looks like a miniature petunia in a vibrant red. I also have my clematis, and the mums I planted two halloweens ago, and a calla lily that didn't bloom last year but I'm hopeful, and a purple petunia in a hanging basket. It's an explosion of color in my front yard now!!
Well, it will be soon as everything starts to bloom. It's getting there.
In other exciting news, I'm getting a new computer -and- a laptop! I'm sooo excited! I've wanted to get myself a laptop for .. well, years now. And in part because I want to be able to talk to James but be social with my husband and watch tv in there with him, and with a laptop I can sit in the livingroom, and still have access to the internet. Wheee! *flailing kermit arms* And the desktop is much needed. Mine is dying, slowly. I will likely be spending next weekend transferring everything from the old computer to the new one .. which will be a trick, since my CD burner doesn't seem to work. I think maybe I should at least make all my music MP3's, to facilitate that endeavor. I can also use Brandon's computer since I have that flash drive with 2GB space on it. That's just .. time consuming.
It's exciting, getting a new computer. It means I get to start fresh. Sure, I'm going to have to spend some time cleaning off the garbage that gets put on systems nowadays, and I'm going to have to get used to Windows Vista. Oh, and installing WoW on a new machine, that'll be exciting. Gotta make sure I knew where everything is.
Woo! The excitement! I have to spend the next week or so cleaning, so I can get ready for my new computer!
But I finally have flowerbeds! I have a ton of stuff planted in them too. Iceflower is planted in my little cauldron, and I have a blue false indigo, and a hibiscus, and petunias in a beautiful yellow hue, and impatiens (that I think I burned watering them too early) and some volunteered pansies .. the last time I planted pansies was like 8 months ago .. and several plants of gerbera daisies, and another kind of daisy, and verbena, and a balloon flower, and something called Angelina in white and purple, and something that looks like a miniature petunia in a vibrant red. I also have my clematis, and the mums I planted two halloweens ago, and a calla lily that didn't bloom last year but I'm hopeful, and a purple petunia in a hanging basket. It's an explosion of color in my front yard now!!
Well, it will be soon as everything starts to bloom. It's getting there.
In other exciting news, I'm getting a new computer -and- a laptop! I'm sooo excited! I've wanted to get myself a laptop for .. well, years now. And in part because I want to be able to talk to James but be social with my husband and watch tv in there with him, and with a laptop I can sit in the livingroom, and still have access to the internet. Wheee! *flailing kermit arms* And the desktop is much needed. Mine is dying, slowly. I will likely be spending next weekend transferring everything from the old computer to the new one .. which will be a trick, since my CD burner doesn't seem to work. I think maybe I should at least make all my music MP3's, to facilitate that endeavor. I can also use Brandon's computer since I have that flash drive with 2GB space on it. That's just .. time consuming.
It's exciting, getting a new computer. It means I get to start fresh. Sure, I'm going to have to spend some time cleaning off the garbage that gets put on systems nowadays, and I'm going to have to get used to Windows Vista. Oh, and installing WoW on a new machine, that'll be exciting. Gotta make sure I knew where everything is.
Woo! The excitement! I have to spend the next week or so cleaning, so I can get ready for my new computer!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Wicked
Yes, it has been several weeks since that glorious day when we finally got to fulfill a dream, that being seeing Wicked: The Musical on stage. There is a story that goes along with my rabid desire to see this show, and it begins over a year ago.
(Note to self: Make certain husband purchases season passes for Blumenthal's 2008-2009 season. This is imperative.)
So, something over a year ago, we learned that Wicked: The Musical, as well as several other shows we would like to have seen, was coming to Charlotte. I said, on many occasions, "We need to make sure we get season's passes, so we can make sure we have seats." My darling husband, whom I love with all my heart, assured me that things -never- sell out in Charlotte, and that since we were going to Spain that summer, we really could use the money for something else. And so I relented. Even when the lady from the Blumenthal called trying to sell season's passes, I declined, because of the trip.
Big. Mistake.
Tickets went on sale .. a few months ago. I don't remember exactly when. I have tried to block that awful awful day out of my memory. Tickets went on sale at like .. 9am. At the box office. They didn't even release tickets to online sales. Because they sold out in six hours.
I was furious. I couldn't reach them by phone. I had to go to work, and didn't have time to keep trying. I called my husband. And was about in tears of frustration because I couldn't get the tickets and I desperately wanted to see the show. Darling husband was frustrated too, because he couldn't get tickets either, and he and I had a bit of a tiff over it. After all, I had said we needed to get the passes, and it was his idea not to. I got over it, because he promised me he would do everything he could to find tickets. And I know that he doesn't break his promises. But I was still notably upset.
Time passed, and I began to get a little uneasy. He had many people looking for tickets for us, including a business friend who was friends with Mayor McCrory. There was simply no way to get tickets. It was looking bleak, and my darling promised me that he would take me up to Chigago, where Wicked plays permanently.
But then one afternoon, I overheard Brandon on the phone with someone, and got suspicious. I didn't get my hopes up, because I didn't want to be disappointed. But Jason had managed to find three tickets for that Friday's performance. I was squeeeing so much all week, especially once the tickets arrived. Friday could not have come fast enough.
But eventually, it came. We got to the theater just before they started letting people in, and all the way there I was knitting on a discloth inspired by the characters: pink (Galinda) and green (Elphaba). Of course, I only knitted up until the show started, because goodness knows I could never have knit through it. Not even if I were knitting straight stockinette in the round. There's just no way.
The show was .. amazing. I had listened to the soundtrack endlessly, so I thought I knew the story of the musical, but I was wrong. There was so much I missed by not knowing the play itself. I am however glad I never read the Grimmerie that Jason got me a couple years ago .. I think for Christmas, but it might have been birthday .. because it had the entire script in it, and so many details that would have made the experience less .. well, an experience.
It's impossible to describe it all. The acresses in the lead roles were amazing. Both of them really embodies the characters, and their voices were delightful. I am incredibly happy we were able to get tickets for this show. It was the chance of a lifetime for me, because I'd been anticipating it for so very long.
(Note to self: Make certain husband purchases season passes for Blumenthal's 2008-2009 season. This is imperative.)
So, something over a year ago, we learned that Wicked: The Musical, as well as several other shows we would like to have seen, was coming to Charlotte. I said, on many occasions, "We need to make sure we get season's passes, so we can make sure we have seats." My darling husband, whom I love with all my heart, assured me that things -never- sell out in Charlotte, and that since we were going to Spain that summer, we really could use the money for something else. And so I relented. Even when the lady from the Blumenthal called trying to sell season's passes, I declined, because of the trip.
Big. Mistake.
Tickets went on sale .. a few months ago. I don't remember exactly when. I have tried to block that awful awful day out of my memory. Tickets went on sale at like .. 9am. At the box office. They didn't even release tickets to online sales. Because they sold out in six hours.
I was furious. I couldn't reach them by phone. I had to go to work, and didn't have time to keep trying. I called my husband. And was about in tears of frustration because I couldn't get the tickets and I desperately wanted to see the show. Darling husband was frustrated too, because he couldn't get tickets either, and he and I had a bit of a tiff over it. After all, I had said we needed to get the passes, and it was his idea not to. I got over it, because he promised me he would do everything he could to find tickets. And I know that he doesn't break his promises. But I was still notably upset.
Time passed, and I began to get a little uneasy. He had many people looking for tickets for us, including a business friend who was friends with Mayor McCrory. There was simply no way to get tickets. It was looking bleak, and my darling promised me that he would take me up to Chigago, where Wicked plays permanently.
But then one afternoon, I overheard Brandon on the phone with someone, and got suspicious. I didn't get my hopes up, because I didn't want to be disappointed. But Jason had managed to find three tickets for that Friday's performance. I was squeeeing so much all week, especially once the tickets arrived. Friday could not have come fast enough.
But eventually, it came. We got to the theater just before they started letting people in, and all the way there I was knitting on a discloth inspired by the characters: pink (Galinda) and green (Elphaba). Of course, I only knitted up until the show started, because goodness knows I could never have knit through it. Not even if I were knitting straight stockinette in the round. There's just no way.
The show was .. amazing. I had listened to the soundtrack endlessly, so I thought I knew the story of the musical, but I was wrong. There was so much I missed by not knowing the play itself. I am however glad I never read the Grimmerie that Jason got me a couple years ago .. I think for Christmas, but it might have been birthday .. because it had the entire script in it, and so many details that would have made the experience less .. well, an experience.
It's impossible to describe it all. The acresses in the lead roles were amazing. Both of them really embodies the characters, and their voices were delightful. I am incredibly happy we were able to get tickets for this show. It was the chance of a lifetime for me, because I'd been anticipating it for so very long.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Updatage
Okay. Pardon me while I have a bit of a berzerk, crazy, ecstatic moment ...
.. because ..
WE'RE GOING TO SEE WICKED IN CHARLOTTE!!!
Okay. Done squeeing now. For the moment.
In other news, I've finally had enough of the idiodicy that was the guild I was in on World of Warcraft, and switched to a guild that should have less drama, since they're not a roleplay-based guild. James came with me, and I really think, in the long run, we're going to be much happier this way. It turned out that certain individuals, who are obvious to me but won't come forward themselves lest they appear to be the assholes and bitches they truly are, accused me of stealing from the guild bank. Which is frankly rediculous, since I'd say I put a good 50% of the items in the bank, not to mention paid for two of the tabs they currently have, and half of three people's Epic flight mounts. So .. no, I don't deserve to take anything.
Dumbasses.
Anyway, with that annoyance out of my life, perhaps game stuff will get better. In other news, we're actually getting a refund this year, apparently. Jason did out taxes on Monday and found out that for the first time since the first year we got married, we're getting money back. Thank the Gods. That, coupled with him already getting a small raise and me getting most of my lost hours back makes for a very happy Tania.
Well .. that and the fact that this Friday evening I'm going to see Wicked!!
.. because ..
WE'RE GOING TO SEE WICKED IN CHARLOTTE!!!
Okay. Done squeeing now. For the moment.
In other news, I've finally had enough of the idiodicy that was the guild I was in on World of Warcraft, and switched to a guild that should have less drama, since they're not a roleplay-based guild. James came with me, and I really think, in the long run, we're going to be much happier this way. It turned out that certain individuals, who are obvious to me but won't come forward themselves lest they appear to be the assholes and bitches they truly are, accused me of stealing from the guild bank. Which is frankly rediculous, since I'd say I put a good 50% of the items in the bank, not to mention paid for two of the tabs they currently have, and half of three people's Epic flight mounts. So .. no, I don't deserve to take anything.
Dumbasses.
Anyway, with that annoyance out of my life, perhaps game stuff will get better. In other news, we're actually getting a refund this year, apparently. Jason did out taxes on Monday and found out that for the first time since the first year we got married, we're getting money back. Thank the Gods. That, coupled with him already getting a small raise and me getting most of my lost hours back makes for a very happy Tania.
Well .. that and the fact that this Friday evening I'm going to see Wicked!!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Work Today
I got to give the GM of my store a laugh. I told him that the woman on my team that he - back when he was PPM ( I totally know you don't know what that means - it's Product Process Manager, kinda like an assistant manager. ) - had to throw out of the store has applied for my old DM's job. It makes me feel good though that he talks to me and realizes I'm not like her.
I also got to watch them catch a slicer - a shoplifter that comes in and slices open cases to take the product out. Like - I saw the cop come up, talk to the guy, and slap the cuffs on him. Exciting! Especially since he got like 20 cds the other day, and had 6 games on him when they caught him.
I also got to watch them catch a slicer - a shoplifter that comes in and slices open cases to take the product out. Like - I saw the cop come up, talk to the guy, and slap the cuffs on him. Exciting! Especially since he got like 20 cds the other day, and had 6 games on him when they caught him.
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