Friday, September 15, 2006

Exhausting week

I am terribly exhausted and I don't know why. I have spent the last week dreading each day. Much to my surprise and happiness when I entered the office on Thursday it really wasn't Tuesday.

Have you ever had one of those days where you totally forget what day of the week it is anymore? It's kind of strange. Usually it is later in the week than I thought so it ends up better than I thought.

I don't even remember most of what has happened this week.

Wait! It's coming back.

One night we decided on pizza for dinner. I chose Little Caesar's because they have it "hot and ready". What a joke. I get there and there is about 10 people waiting for pizza. So much for "hot and ready". I decided that since I was there it would take less time to just order and wait than to go somewhere else. It took me about 25 minutes to get my 2 pizzas. The funny thing about that trip was that there is a sign carrier outside to advertise their hot and ready pizza. At one point she came in and spoke to the manager. Apparently she was being verbally abused because for some reason people didn't think waiting 25 minutes for their pizza qualified it as "hot and ready". I think the other 20 some people now in the waiting area all laughed at that one.

On a positive note, I had a great experience at Target. I had gotten a gift card from my co-workers in celebration of the finalization of the guardianship of the girls. I thought it would be best used to purchase a new set of car/booster seats so that I can pick up the girls from daycare if need be. I decided which style I wanted but there was only one on the shelf and I needed two. I picked up a customer service phone to call for assistance. They give you a message that someone will be by within 60 seconds to help. I barely had hung up the phone and someone was already coming to serve me. I told him that I need 2 of these seats and asked him to check in the back. About a minute later he rolled out a flatbed cart with one more seat on it. He told me this was the last one. The box on the shelf was pretty crushed so I asked if I could just check to make sure it was all there and no dents or dings on it. We opened the box and the seat was fine. He then walked me up to the front of the store. The lines were pretty bad so he offered to check me out himself. He then asked me to pull my car up so he could load it up for me. He tried to put a box in the backseat but it was a little too large so he told me he would just take them both out of the boxes so that they would fit and then I wouldn't have to worry about disposing of the big boxes. It doesn't seem like much but it was a great experience and not something I ofter experience around here. Customer service seems to have gone out the window where I live.

Another thing that happened this week was my husband's brakes took a crap. He suddenly started hearing a horrible grinding noise. He told me he was almost afraid to drive it. He took it in and got the repairs done the next day. The speed was nice but out pocketbook is still crying over that one.

The rest of the week was pretty ordinary except it was all very exhausting. I wish I could just sleep the whole weekend away but then we would be starting another exhausting week and I would be back to square one.

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