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Going Out

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jessica
– September 30, 2007Posted in: shopping

Yesterday was a busy day. We got to see how wonderful Illianna is with going out.
First, we ran to Staples to return a chair because Ryan initially bought one at Office Depot, which was supposed to deliver to the house on Wednesday, but of course it didn’t and when he called to find out where it was they didn’t know, so he went to Staples and bought a different one because he’s been programming again and our old chair is way old and kills his hip. Well, the Staples chair had a screw hole that was messed up so he had to take it back anyway and meanwhile the Office Depot chair showed up.
Then we went to Lava Grill because we’d been watching Bleach and it made me think… Sushi! It was our first experience dining out with the little one. We went at an off time to be on the safe side, but she was great, so we decided to keep on running around and headed to Walmart to check out the Halloween gear.
We love Halloween. Halloween starts off a great few months of decorating, entertaining, and family. For the past few years now we’ve really gone all out at Halloween ‘party 2006′. Last year we got a comment from one of the trick-or-treaters, “I knew your house would be creepy!” That of course has only encouraged us to top ourselves this year. We have our theme ‘sorry I cannot reveal’. We just need to find our props/costumes. Of course Illianna is going to partake. We’ll get lots of photos so we can show her all the fun torturous things we did to her when she didn’t have a choice in the matter. Walmart was a a total bust, but on a side note they have some elegant black Christmas decorations. I’m not sure what theme/style I’m going to do for Christmas yet, so I was very good and didn’t buy anything.
Next, we ran to BabysRUs because we always need *something* from there. This time it was a hunt for ready-to-feed organic formula. They didn’t have it, but I did get a cute little outfit.
She started to kind of fuss while at BabysRUs, but we managed to sneak into Party City to search for props for Halloween. Again, total bust.
Something happened to Ryan while working in Pampa, TX because he actually wanted Chick-fil-a for dinner. I haven’t eaten there in years, but their charboiled chicken wrap wasn’t too bad, and instead of fries you can get fruit! Thank goodness fast food places finally have a “healthy” option, so those of us who are forced to eat there against our will, don’t die.
We made it home just in time to feed her and get her in bed without a wailing session. She’s such a good girl.

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Fun Times

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jessica
– May 1, 2007Posted in: shopping, travel

We just got back from another trip to New Mexico. I would say where we stayed, but it’s such an oasis for us, I don’t want others to find out. I will say it was as beautiful as ever, and I can’t wait to return.

We ran into so many odd people on this trip. The whole town of Roswell is really into the whole UFO thing. I personally am open to the idea, but what we saw of the town was all hokey. We experienced the one and only spacewalk! A guy spent 6 years of his life creating a maze with black lights that included a little story of Roswell and the aliens. It was a well spent two bucks for the experience. He was actually very talented. I think if I were a retired actor, Roswell would be a fun place to live. You can just be a character and fit right in. While that is to be expected in Roswell, NM, I didn’t expect it in another little town we visited.

While visiting another town we saw a sign that said, “Rare Books”. Of course with Ryan’s hobby of collecting books, we had to stop. The “store” was run out of a motel, a strip motel. I don’t know if the guy owned the motel or what, but he’d knocked out the walls between three rooms to create one larger area. I was going to say the odd thing was he still lived there despite the musky paper/dust aroma lingering in the air, but I’m not sure I can confidently make that statement. There were so many odd things. Like when we walked in and I saw him lifting the mattress to reach under it. Then there was the fact that he was wearing penny loafers, cargo pants, a tweed jacket with the arm patches and all, or how he was rambling about how he just got back from Africa, or how he excused himself because he needed another libation. Not to mention the creepy mannequins dressed in various military outfits. It was a very interesting experience. He was a very nice man, just a little off. I think that’s what happens when a woman isn’t around. For Ryan’s sake I hope I live longer, but if I don’t I want to be able to come back and see how eccentric he’s become in my absence. Anyhoooo.. Ryan found a first edition he’d needed to complete a collection of his, so it was a worthwhile excursion.

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Cancel my AOL…please!

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Xnuiem
– December 19, 2006Posted in: shopping

By now, I assume most of you have heard of or seen this clip, but I felt it required repeating. I once had an AOL account, which I had gotten only to check some email settings for work. I then tried to cancel the account, which took over 30 minutes. I got a run around very similar to this guy.

Oddly enough, I am now getting that same run around from LA Fitness when trying to cancel my account. That will be in another entry a little later.

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Nectar

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jessica
– August 4, 2004Posted in: shopping

We were in the grocery store recently and Ryan told me how I’d have to drink Ensure once I’m pregnant ‘not that we’re trying… so don’t ask’. Curiosity led us on a treasure hunt so I could sample some and know what I was in store for. After wondering the store for an additional 15 minutes looking in all the logical placements ‘clearly our down fall’, and our apprehension to ask the teenie bopper employees for fear the infamous blank stare would appear or better yet a response of, “Isn’t that what old people drink?” we came across the golden nugget. Ryan grabbed the Plus version and we high tailed it out of dodge. So here I am, a month later, with an addiction. Every morning I succumb to the intoxicating liquid. I’ve branched to different varieties and I must say each is as sweet, but I always come home to my first, Plus. I tried the Carnation version and felt dirty for even trying it. The low carb qualities do not help it’s cause.

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Tires – SIGH

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Xnuiem
– July 31, 2003Posted in: shopping

Had to buy new tires this week for my car. I drive a small car, so i figured the tires would be like 30 or 40 each.

WRONG! Over 100 each was all we could find, and we searched everywhere. Even then, no one has them in stock, and they must be ordered which takes at least 3 days just to get them in!!!

The tire size, in case you were wondering is 195/50 R 16 V . They are low profile high preformance tires, and that is all they make for that size. We had no clue!

A word to the wise, know what type of tire the car takes when you buy, so you arent shocked later.

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Things that people get away with these days.

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jessica
– January 20, 2003Posted in: shopping, thoughts

We have been investing in some particularly expensive clothing lately, due to the fact that we are getting older, but mainly because we are both so tall, that we’re having a LOT of difficulty finding things that fit us properly. We finally were able to purchase my second item of nice clothing, a skirt. Well, I wore it once and spilled a little something on it and we took it to the cleaners. As I was setting my clothes out for work, I realized that my brand new skirt had acid burns all over it and starch! The skirt was a wool blend, which you don’t starch. I informed Ryan of this situation and of course it’s irritating. We looked over a few of his shirts that we had cleaned and found that they had ruined one of his silk shirts and his favorite shirt had what appears to be a bleach mark. We got online and researched what happens when people go back to the cleaners demanding payment for destroyed clothing. Of course, the cleaner never pays. However, if you file suit they always pay the bill then. We are now at a crossroads. Should we sue the dry cleaner over clothing that is worth quite the hefty amount or let is slide? Before getting in bed last night we agreed that we would just file with the Better Business Beauro. Today I’m sitting here thinking about this further and it’s really upsetting me. I think we should file suit. Not many people take pride in their work, and that is a sad thing, but when that effects those people who work hard and take pride in their work so that they can afford things it’s frustrating. I couldn’t imagine doing something like this at my own job. I would never do horrible or destructive work. I have a bit more respect for myself and others than that.

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Christmas

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jessica
– December 13, 2002Posted in: shopping

The holidays are soon approaching. I’ve done all the Christmas shopping, well almost, I think we have 3 more people left. I hate Christmas shopping. I’m typically a girl that you have to drag kicking and screaming out of a mall, but when they are jam packed, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. You can never find what you are looking for and there are people yelling and screaming and no one is in a good mood. The whole spirit of Christmas is lost. Not to mention, do you really think that Christ ‘you know the guy this is supposedly about’ would actually want us celebrating what we have estimated is his birthday this way? I don’t think so. People become rude to one another, fighting over presents. People in the mall all have chips on their shoulders. The average American will go 5,000 into further debt. Is it really worth it? Sending Christmas cards is a big enough deal in my opinion, but then I am the one writing them. I grew up celebrating a very quite Christmas. We never had much money so rarely did we have gifts, and then when there were gifts they were always silly little things that my dad had thought of at the last second, mainly because somehow he was always able to ignore the fact it was Christmas. I wish I could do that. So we would sit around our tree which I would have put up and made a mess of decorating, talk and sing Christmas carols. As the years have gone by, I miss those simple Christmas. I’ve done the large gathering, where it takes hours to open presents and everyone “oohs” and “awws,” and it’s all so silly. When we have kids I dream around sitting our Christmas tree with a couple of presents and singing carols. How do you celebrate Christmas?

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Wal-Mart Rules

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jessica
– September 14, 2002Posted in: shopping

We were fortunate to live near a nice Super Wal-Mart at our old apartment, and did all of our grocery shopping there. Well, in our new place, we are near a Super Wal-Mart, but it’s quite old and ghetto. The food isn’t as fresh as it could be, so we’ve been making the trip back to our old Wal-Mart. Well, finally the whole lazy thing got to us, and the extra drive wasn’t worth it, or so we thought. Less than six blocks from our apartment is a Tom Thumb, a Kroger, and Albertson’s. Albertson’s being the lesser of the evils, even though they are no longer “Your Store” because they have jumped onto the frequent shopper card bandwagon. We attempted to do our normal grocery shopping, but couldn’t find some of the basic necessities such as Fruit Roll Ups…. We did thankfully find Gusher Fruit Snacks however when we ate them back home, they were old and hard. During our shopping trip at Albertson’s we found multiple things that had expired. They had special deals on meat that was just about to go old, and doughnuts that were a month old. We took some of the expired items off of the shelf and put them in our cart to give to the manager at the end of our trip, but as we continued we realized that if we continued to do that we wouldn’t have any more room for the few things that were still good. Finally, we were so disgusted and annoyed that we couldn’t find things that we left only to have a bill of $161.00. Now, Ryan and I do eat well, but dear lord that is a big bill. You should have seen how empty our cart was! Needless to say we drove the extra miles to go back to our trusty Super Wal-Mart, and were pleased to see a smaller tab and many more items. So hip hip hooray for Super Wal-Mart.

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Customer Service

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jessica
– August 26, 2002Posted in: hotels, links, shopping, thoughts

Just when I thought customer service was a thing of the past…. out of nowhere someone wows your socks off. After our recent visit to New Jersey, I’d lost faith in a thing called customer service. Our first night we had someone who we figured out was the host of the restaurant only after he was half way down the hall with the menus look back and glare at us. The hotel we stayed at charged a $70 late fee because we were two hours past check out time, even though we’d told them our first night that we would be late to check out, and the company that sent us has at least two people in that hotel every night. Then we had a recent episode with our bank who is supposed to be working for you, but they aren’t folks. All people seem to care about these days is making a buck.

Up to tonight, I’d lost faith. We are planning our wedding and have recently figured out that while it would be great fun to have a Cinderella wedding, no one tells you the price tag that comes with that, and the burden it brings. It dawned on us that a wedding is about two souls coming together and expressing love for each other and God… not the table arrangements, guest list, or food.

At this point we’ve already signed a few contracts and put down some money. Upon calling our great “band guy” and explaining our situation he was more than willing to help us come to a more than happy medium. Craig provided something called Customer Service. Something that in this fast paced world had just about become extinct. It’s so refreshing to find an individual that can see the bigger picture. Someone that can see beyond what would have been a buck today can turn into something much more than that later. It’s things like that that make a world of difference, and that’s why we were willing to pay what we were. I, we, really appreciate it and hope that more people can see the bigger picture.

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