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Good morning!
So I ordered overnight delivery on something a week ago tomorrow.
It started in Pennsyllvania. It made it to Virginia. Then it got to New jersey. It is now back in Pennsylvania, in a different city. Overnight... a week ago. And with the holiday tomorrow (4 July)? ...
It was within 100 miles of me, and then somehow ended up and 8-hour drive away. I e-mailed UPS. I called UPS. I got nowhere on when I will see this. Which sucks b/c it is signature required and I kinda need to have a better window of delivery than "eventually", which is all I'm getting.
Google map this if you like: Pittsburgh PA to RIchmond VA to SaddleBrook, New Jersey (where the hell is that?!) to Philadelphia.
I don't get a refund. "Unforeseeable delays". Uhh.... your own tracking site said you mis-sorted the package. How is that an unforeseeable delay? And why was the package in New Jersey for four nights and three days? Was it near Atlantic City, having a blast at a casino?
Meanwhile, if I'd paid for regular delviery, it would've been here by now. *facepalm*
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Anyone traveling for July 4th? Having fireworks, bonfires, barbecues?
The heat here will be prohibitive (heat indices in the 110*F range), so we're thinking... No. No picnics, no fireworks display visits, etc.
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Now, if anyone missed it, which most probably did...
I had made a lovely red-white(ish) and blueberry jelly roll for the holiday week.
I posted this last night but here's thestory of why ther'es no picture of a lovely damn jelly roll with cute decorations:
I was going to take a picture. It was blueberry jam inside. It was white-sugar dusted tiny star cookies on top, and the outside was crusted in bright red sugar. Very lovely. But I was tired. I rested.
I heard a crunch-flap-thwap about two minutes after Hubby got home from work.
He picked it up in his hands off the plate to see how the bottom was sealed. Naturally, since it wasn't frozen solid (ARGH).... It's now... uh.... Sorta-Layered-Cake (?)... Broke in half and he dropped it to the plate, and it flopped.
He is alive but only b/c he agreed to give me a foot and leg rub with lotion, and handed me little lemon star-shaped cookies on demand, and dried my tears, and apologized twenty times, and then swept and mopped floors (they were already clean, but A for intent and effort).
The cookies are intact. I made about 4 dozen of the little buggers. Lemony, not too sweet, just barely dusted with sugar outside, so quite nice.
I'm just glad I didn't put buttercream rosettes or something on top of the jelly roll. It's enough a flopped-over twisted weird thing as it is!
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Four hours of life baking and preparing and making and.... Yep. "How's it look on bottom?"
Curiosity kills more than cats.
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Life is a trip. Let's enjoy the view together:-)
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Welcome to the Perseid meteor showers, the "biggies" usually every year. (The Leonids beat 'em one year IMHO).AND today much of the northern hemisphere will see 5 to 99% solar eclipse. How cool is that? Your best bet is to be in the UK or norhtern Spain, where totality is excellent before sundown. Me, I'll get a super duper tiny itty bitty slice of it, so little that it won't be noticeable. New...
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I'nm exhausted. This doxycycline thing has ripped me apart and I'm eating crackers and water. I can't take (anything) or eat (anything) except saltines and toast and maybe unbuttered watery mashed potatoes. Are we sure the cure isn't worse than the possible disease?!?!And a week to go. ***Fun cures that WERE worse than the disease:ARsenic. Popular against STDs, which just compounded misery...
Just wanted to check -in..
Leo, sorry that your package has not arrived yet.
Fantod, pray everything goes well with your shots on the 9th. Hope that you get the relief that you need to feel better.
Twin- sorry that you are having pain in your legs, Hope you feel better.
My fingers, hands and wrists are bothering me today. Will not be typing long.
Hope everyone has a great day and holiday! Pam
I've just spend the whole bloody morning wrestling with transcript requests, arguing with our new printer (that can't do one thing right), and a non-functioning military website. Throws hands up! Gaaahhhhh! This is why I suck at admin work... I could take a baseball bat to everything. That should teach it a lesson, right?
Autumn, good luck with your staycation... I hope you can find some fun things to do around there. Maybe a picnic? Any festivals in town?
Twins, I faith that you are equipped with the needed strength should your marriage end. I've wondered about myself too a few times in the past, what would happen if we split up. But my trip to Texas and his trip to VA both times have proven that I don't really mind his absence. Does that make me a bad wife? I guess I have the answer to my original question that if we didn't make it, how would I do. And the answer is I would just pick up and move on with life. I was thinking of you the same way. I know you love him and wish things would turn around, but a weight will be lifted when you don't have all that negativity around you. At least that's how it's been for me. It's been nice with the peace and quiet. Anyway, still keeping you in my thoughts and prayers as you navigate.
Pam, sorry about your fingers. Keep them rested and hope they feel better tomorrow. hugs
Have a sparkling Independence Day tomorrow, everyone!