January thaw.....ICK!!

Ok...to start....I've gotta "fess up". Back on Christmas day when I was having trouble getting my debit card accepted....I did end up putting the order on our credit card instead. The next day it dawned on me..........it was my fault!! I was putting in the wrong pin number - ER DUR!!! Honestly...it's the only card we have with a pin number.....ya'd think I could remember it!! Well, at least I had the right numbers, even if I didn't have them in the right order! S'ok......the furniture got ordered, and that's the important thing......even if it is going to take 6 to 8 weeks to get it.

I also ordered another "pantry cabinet" for the hobby room. I have one.....72" tall, about 3 ft wide and 16" deep that I keep LOADS of yarn in. I've been saying for several years that I'd like another so that I could get more yarn out of totes, but couldn't find one the same size.....I didn't want a smaller one, so didn't get any. While I was browsing online for office furniture, I found one......so I ordered it. It arrived by FedEx yesterday......and I wouldn't even let him in the door with it! First....he never rang the doorbell...I happened to go out toward that part of the house and saw the truck, so went to the door, just as he was leaning it up against one of the overhang posts.....I can't be positive, but I think he was just going to leave it...he was very surprised when I opened the door...and lied to me about ringing the doorbell - when I said it didn't ring, he said "oh, no...I guess I knocked on the door." Then he said "I suppose you won't accept this, huh?"....I took one look at the mangled box, totally open on one end...could see that at least one of the pieces had a corner broken right off and said "Ya think???? Send it back." He said he didn't notice it when he loaded it onto the truck that morning....must have had his eyes shut! As soon as he left, I emailed the customer service rep at the website I'd ordered it thorough. They answered my email within an hour and said they'd contact the manufacturer right away and arrange for a replacement to be sent. According to their blurb, this website is owned and managed by senior citizens - does that tell ya anything??!!

Oh.....and.....my the windchimes that my wonderful hubby bought me got sent back. Come to find out, he didn't buy bigger ones....what he got were one size smaller than my largest.....the box was a whole lot bigger, though!! However, the girl at the shop has a larger set coming on Friday.....they are definitely larger, so we'll probably take a ride up this weekend and get them. Course, I can't hang them out until spring.......but that's ok....sigh.

So.......we got one tiny little 40 mile snowmobile ride in on New Years Day.....made sure we didn't go further than an hour's ride from home and stayed where there was cell phone service, so we could check our answering machine for customer's calls. It was great, though I'm very much afraid that the cold is going to bother me this year.....SNARL GROWL GRRRRRRR. Sigh.....can't be helped.

Of course, the past two days, there's no way it could bother too much.....were in our January Thaw....boo hoo! We had about 3 feet of snow on the ground....with temps in the high 40's and low 50's yesterday....and a temp of 47 at the moment, we've lost over half our snow - WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Again.....can't be helped, so just deal with it. It's been so foggy these 2 days that we can't even see the neighbor's house about 600 feet away.

Work has slowed right down, too.....we no longer have things scheduled far ahead. There's nothing at all on the schedule after tomorrow......so, of course...I'm all tense. I'm the worrier....Ed just goes with the flow....lucky him!

I'm going to be mailing surprises out to some of my crochet group friends here soon. If I get more addresses from more of them, I'll surprise more of them!! Hee hee...can't say more....at least one of them reads my blog (right, Wippy?). I'll tell ya all about it when I'm done (if I remember!)

On a crochet note, I'm still working on that pillow cover.

Done Ramblin