Saturday, April 28, 2007

So Exhausted From So Little

We spent today, all day, running errands.  We had to pick TJ up at the vet because he wouldn’t eat after we dropped him off last night.  And considering, he needs to, uh, “pass” the two foot long piece of string he ate, he needs to get his system moving.  Frankly, I’d appreciate it if he did it without requiring life-saving surgery.  I’m funny like that.  Anyway, TJ, our brave little guy who is super confident at home, was terrified at the vet’s office and refused any food.  He isn’t really a people loving kind of cat, he’s more a dog’s or cat’s cat.  But, when we picked him up at the vet, Leigh-Ann took him out of his crate, and he clung to her.  It was sad, and a little sweet.  Since we got home from our errands he’s been so cuddly.  He’s sitting still for pets and kisses on top of the head, which is generally not his thing.  Everyone cross your fingers that he has a good 2 foot long poop.  Gah.

We had to take TJ home, then go right back out and run more errands.  To Home Depot to return a swamp cooler that must’ve had some defect because after a week of working okay, it then started blowing circuits left and right.  It was a poorly made piece of crap anyway, so I’m not surprised.  We got another swamp cooler, but we’re rapidly realizing that it’s not going to completely do the trick.  The master bedroom just cannot be kept cool, so we took advantage of Home Depot’s no payments/no interest for 12 months to buy a little portable air conditioner for the bedroom.  It’s terrible how our house has hot and cold spots, depending on the season.  Naturally, the downstairs is perfect almost all the time, because the bedrooms, tv, and workspace is upstairs...where it’s hot, hot, hot.  We hope just a few shots of cold air a day in the bedroom will take care of the situation.  By the way, late on a Saturday afternoon, there were ZERO checkstands open.  The only way we could pay was to ring up everything ourselves.  That’s ridiculous.  Then, they told us and the man in front of us to pull our cars around and they’d have someone bring out the 90lb air conditioner boxes for us.  We pull the cars around and two girls are bringing the boxes out.  One, must’ve been less than five feet tall and the box probably weighed more than she did.  What kind of crappy service is that, Home Depot?  No cashiers and no one to help put the air conditioners in the car.  Luckily, the man in front of us was a youngish ex-Marine, who was still in very good shape.  He put the box in the back of our car for us.  We still would’ve been there if we’d needed help from Home Depot employees.  I know it’s based on doing it yourself projects at home, but I don’t want to do it myself when I’m in the store.

I wrote a couple more paragraphs, but they bored me, so I deleted them.  I just wanted to post one more thing, that I was super excited to see at the bottom of my blog that I was now, at least for the moment, a Slithering Reptile in The Truth Laid Bear Ecosytem.  Not long ago, I was just a multicellular microorganism.  Although, my Slithering Reptile designation seems too high for me, so maybe I’ll be dropping back down soon.  But, I took a screenshot for proof.

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1. Home Depot has a great selection, but the customer service is such a joke. I bought two toilets and two basins a while back and the only one to help me was on a stepladder. He asked if he could help. I said yes. He didn’t come down. i had to go all over the store to find someone.

   Have you seen the great service they show in TV ads?

   jan  on  04/30  at  05:17 PM

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