Irritations and Productivity

On Monday, a lady from the sofa delivery company called to schedule the delivery. I explained in what I thought was great detail that this sofa had to go upstairs and over a banister so sending two guys would not be sufficient. She assured me she would have a "technician" meet the delivery truck.

She didn't. So the two guys show up and tell me they can get it in place, but they might scrape the ceiling. Let me clarify something here. The reason for painting and carpeting now was because our son had taken much of the furniture with him and made it easier to do. The reason we needed to paint at all was because we got black marks on the ceiling at the top of the stairs moving in the last sofa - and even more moving it out. I really didn't want them to mess it up again which is kind of why I was all for the ridiculous price I was paying for professionals to move the new one.

The delivery guys left the sofa in my living room. About an hour later, a technician and a helper came and completely disassembled the sofa, carried it upstairs in pieces and reassembled it up there. OK, THAT was worth the price. Anyway, it's there and my irritation at being ignored is gone.

Today was a very productive day for me. I raced to a friend's house to trade for a product she had that I needed for a customer to pick up today. Then I went to Costco and used all the coupons I could manage and restocked our garage shelves with paper goods, etc. Then I made a mad-dash to the grocery store to get soy sour cream for my daughter. Dairy allergies are the pits, folks. The absolute pits!

My daughter works with the youth group at her church. They asked if they could have an end-of-summer celebration here next week. The only thing I still hadn't finished from all the work upstairs is putting some photos that used to be in frames on the walls into albums instead, so I actually got that done this afternoon and did about four pages in our family album for a total of twelve pages today. I'm delighted and it's done with time to spare before the young people descend upon us.

Supper tasted great but was a logistical nightmare. I was making nachos, but they stuck like glue to the foil while in the oven and they were a mess. It was a relatively quick meal and my daughter liked it. Still won't do it again soon since it was so messy.

Guess that's about it for this time.