'Happy First Anniversary of Your Log In Date'
I think the inside of the card, if they made one would read something like this...
'May you never have to see another...'
Friday, November 24, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Seriously? Seriously!
Yep, seriously. Have I ever mentioned that I think we (Alan and I that is) are cursed? I'm talking old-fashioned, Egyption don't-invade-my-final-resting-place kind of curse or the more modern voo-doo curse where someone keeps poking a pin in my head. I figure it is my head because it is the one thing that really hurts.
So we decided to do the flooring in our house in anticipation of a new family member. Some people might have waited a few years given the need for food flinging by some of the younger set but our carpet wouldn't have lasted that long. For hardwoods we chose teak and for carpet a beige berber. We have been getting everything prepped and ready for almost two weeks now. Last week Alan and his friend Sean started to install the teak floors with the beautiful character. Well if by character they meant no two boards were the same width then we got just what we wanted. Needless to say that is going back to the store and we are going with a nice, everyday, run of the mill (hopefully a mill with a laser cut) maple hardwoods. Fine, the store is coming to pick up the old and deliver the new. Everything is fine. This week was carpet installation week. November 20, 2006. An appointment that has been booked for six weeks now. A carpet choice that seemed perfect and it would be if they had sent the right one. Let me back track, as you'll notice by the date on this post, the 20th was yesterday. One of the installers had to go to the hospital on his way here. He had an abscess on his tooth. He's okay except for the fact he had an allergic reaction to the T3's and that the antibiotics were taking a while to start working. On Tuesday, they arrived again, got the underlay installed ( a lovely shade of blue in case anyone is wondering) and then they brought in the carpet. The wrong carpet. A taupe. Taupe is not beige, it is pink. Or pinky-brown as the installer described it to the salesman. The salesman generously offered to bring the right carpet and we (the installers and I ) would just have to wait for an hour and a half. One would think that if a company carried the carpet you wanted in three colors and the three colours were taupe, biege and chocolate brown and you had wanted beige but received taupe and the salesman said he would bring the right one, you would assume he would chose the biege, right?? WRONG!! He chose the chocolate brown. I couldn't believe it. Then the salesman tried to arrange the installation for the following week!! The installers 'fixed his little red wagon' though and they left all their tools at our place so they couldn't go to another job.
So we decided to do the flooring in our house in anticipation of a new family member. Some people might have waited a few years given the need for food flinging by some of the younger set but our carpet wouldn't have lasted that long. For hardwoods we chose teak and for carpet a beige berber. We have been getting everything prepped and ready for almost two weeks now. Last week Alan and his friend Sean started to install the teak floors with the beautiful character. Well if by character they meant no two boards were the same width then we got just what we wanted. Needless to say that is going back to the store and we are going with a nice, everyday, run of the mill (hopefully a mill with a laser cut) maple hardwoods. Fine, the store is coming to pick up the old and deliver the new. Everything is fine. This week was carpet installation week. November 20, 2006. An appointment that has been booked for six weeks now. A carpet choice that seemed perfect and it would be if they had sent the right one. Let me back track, as you'll notice by the date on this post, the 20th was yesterday. One of the installers had to go to the hospital on his way here. He had an abscess on his tooth. He's okay except for the fact he had an allergic reaction to the T3's and that the antibiotics were taking a while to start working. On Tuesday, they arrived again, got the underlay installed ( a lovely shade of blue in case anyone is wondering) and then they brought in the carpet. The wrong carpet. A taupe. Taupe is not beige, it is pink. Or pinky-brown as the installer described it to the salesman. The salesman generously offered to bring the right carpet and we (the installers and I ) would just have to wait for an hour and a half. One would think that if a company carried the carpet you wanted in three colors and the three colours were taupe, biege and chocolate brown and you had wanted beige but received taupe and the salesman said he would bring the right one, you would assume he would chose the biege, right?? WRONG!! He chose the chocolate brown. I couldn't believe it. Then the salesman tried to arrange the installation for the following week!! The installers 'fixed his little red wagon' though and they left all their tools at our place so they couldn't go to another job.
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