Grump day

Boy, I had a grumpy annoying morning/day yesterday. It started out with that damn robin bird banging on the windows at 6:45 or so. He even was hitting the bedroom windows, which he usually doesn't do.  Then at 8am - for at least 3 hours - it was the neighbor dogs barking their brains out at the yard workers at their house. And I guess they didn't get the job finished, so will most likely be back at 8am this morning, so we'll be listening to that again. I guess the guy doing their sprinkler system add on told Mr and DH that he just cannot find employees to hire, so the reason Mr. had to wait this long to get it done was the guy had to wait until school was out and hired high school students to work the summer.

Let's see, what else....oh, I called Tractor Supply. Was on hold 20 minutes before finally getting to a customer service person. She put me on hold and called the freight company and said they are going to try to redeliver tomorrow. "apparently you are rural". I said no, we really aren't. We are a town right on the major interstate freeway, at the beginning of their route. Their route is "rural" as they go to small towns north of us 3 hours away, on a windy 2 lane highway. Then they run out of time/driver hours and leave us hanging again.

Then I got the notice for jury duty with a form to fill out. They sure do want a lot of personal information about me. What my education is, where I work, my occupation, am I related to an attorney and if so their name and address. Wonder if being related to one is a reason to not want a person as a juror. If so, I listed my (step) sister in law, haha. She is partner in a law firm and also a pro tem judge.

The topper was the reply from cabinet lady. Here's what I said in the email: just checking on our cabinet install again, as it's now been 5 weeks since the last update. We'd like to get this scheduled, please.

Here's her reply:

Sorry, I have never thought we would be in this situation.

Don’t get me wrong…I’m glad we are busy! It’s definitely better than the alternative.

That being said, the guys are working overtime to try to keep up with the demand. We haven’t been able to get a slot in their schedule.

As things are going, I can’t tell you when that might be. You are more than welcome to come pick up your cabinet anytime. 

I feel like telling her to take her cabinet and shove it up her.........(we have not paid for it yet). How about you just schedule a time for it to be installed, just like you are doing with every other job you get?

DH got the call in the afternoon from the Ford dealer that his part was in, so he drove up there to pick it up and was gone about 2 1/2 hours. All worked good on his pickup, so he must have done the upgrade right. He said he got better gas mileage, too.

Then I get an email from LampsPlus that my birdie lamp ship date has been delayed again. Wait, I thought it shipped later last week? I swear I saw on the order status it said shipped and I know I then saw the charge on my credit card online and was so happy. Now it's showing as not shipped and the charge is gone from my card. I give up. Wish there was some other company to buy this lamp from. Usually stuff like that is available at more than one store, but I can't find it anywhere. Every time I look at their website it says they have it in stock, ships in 1-2 days. Weird.

I was texting with my sister in Canada and told her I got the free weeks trial to Apple TV and watched that Palmer movie she recommended and i asked if there was anything else good on there to watch, while I have the free week. She said Defending Jacob is good, so I started that. An 8 episode mini-series. It's really good and I still have a few episodes to finish it up. When I started watching I'm like what have I seen this lady in before? she looks so familiar. I finally had to look her up. She was in Downton Abbey, LOL.  

I ordered one of those dough bowl candles from an Etsy seller. I picked "pumpkin bread" scent. It's really a cute candle but wooo, the scent is strong. I does smell exactly like pumpkin bread. I can't believe dh hasn't asked "what's that smell?" I swear he can smell like a dog.

Well, so far there has been nothing going on to annoy me today, LOL. Bring it on! :)