Tink wanted to see pictures of when she was a baby- so we load that file on the computer – let it go through the slide show and she’s all smiles, seeing all these pictures of people holding her when she was born. We talk about how Gpa & Gma came to stay and how everyone came to see her the day she was born… Planned C-section. Pan tells her stories of how he helped Daddy & Mommy take care of her – and it’s just so cute…

Then we get to this picture …

Pan: When you were little I couldn’t touch your head

Tink: Why?

Pan: Because it was squishy like your nose is.

Gotta love it!

because I end up doing disgusting, gross things….

We have dish network. I {heart} my DVR… that said. Our remote stopped working, no big deal – we have that warranty…. Mr. Incredible calls, goes through their hoops, $15(shipping) and a day later we have a new (very cool) remote. Now this remote came in a box – which Mr. Incredible proceeded to leave on the bookshelf. I was supposed to have a friend over, so I was tidying up the house a bit and I threw away the box this remote came in – seriously -why would we need this box? This was Thursday.

Fast Forward to Saturdayy…

Mr. Incredible: Where’s the box the remote came in?

Fantastagirl: I probably threw it away.

Mr. Incredible: No seriously – where is the box – I need the instruction manual and the extra keys…or we can’t get a different remote.

So we look everywhere… and I am thinking to myself – that thing came on TUESDAY – garbage man came on WEDNESDAY… I am so screwed – because I knew I threw the box away… after looking in all the usual stuffing places – you know – the cart under the phone, the junk drawer, the hall closet, his cabinet in the basement, my cabinet in the basement….

I finally bite the bullet head out to the garage -and there at the bottom of the BIG garbage can is the bag of garbage I threw away Thursday morning… and at the bottom of that bag? Is the box. Inside the box – the instruction manual and these 4 little keys – value $40….

The look on Mr. Incredible’s face when I dug through the garbage to not have to spend $40.00 to watch tv… priceless….

Moral of the story – Don’t throw anything away – you never know when you will end up going through each trash bag, trying to find 4 little pieces of plastic – that will enable your Husband, the love of your life or your kids, the apple of your eye – the wonderful enjoyment of watching that box in the corner of the room. And never underestimate the power of being able to watch Arthur, while recording Spongebob or some other drivel like that…

Oh you’ve heard about Onion letters – right? You know that’s what I call letters that you write when you have to complain to a company about how their wonderful employees, the ones that are supposed to use their heads and help me… (they should at least know where their head is located) – and to quote Tom Hanks “That’s the lump that’s 3 feet above your ass…”

On to the need for my Onion letter. You know I got new furniture on Friday-and I posted those pictures – you drooled over them (let me think you did – make me happy m’kay?) marveled at my ability to buy such wonderful furniture on such a tight budget…. well one of those chairs, it was broken. Now I wasn’t here when the furniture was delievered and from across the room – you couldn’t tell the front legs were not held together – you couldn’t see that the spindel was broken – but upon closer inspection – you could clearly see that the nail that was put in for re-inforcement caused it to break…. not something caused by myself, Mr. Incredible or the kids.

On Saturday morning at 9:35 am I call the store – and get Miss A. Now I tell Miss A my problem, she says to me – well I can set up a time for a service guy to come to your house to repair the chair. (WTF?) I inform her that we have had the furniture for less than 24 hours – and repair is not what I want – I want NEW, if I wanted scratch and dent, i would have bought off the floor. So I ask to speak to a manager, who happens to be in a meeting (are’t they always) and so I ask to speak to our sales lady – and she is not in as the store doesn’t open until 10 – then why are you answering the phone. She tells me I can call back at 10. (she doesn’t offer to take my number to have them call me – NO… I have to make another LD call) So I did.

The “manager” doesn’t want to replace my less than 24 hour old chair – she wants to repair it. UHM NO! If I wanted scratch and dent I would have bought off the floor. I tell her as much – she still is acting like I want her to give me the world – when all I want is a non-broken chair. I remind her of the store policy of 1 year satifaction, etc… and she insists on repair…I finally tell her – that if she can’t replace the broken chair that she can come to my house by 5 pm (sat) to get the whole set – and I would be reversing the charges. And I will never step foot in her store again (I also reminded her of all the past business we have done, and how we will be buying more…) Then all of the sudden she has the idea to replace the chair…which in the end they do.

But that was such crap – it took me who knows how many phone calls, threating to reverse the charges etc. to get her to say – bring the chair to the store – we will just replace it from one in the warehouse… I didn’t want my money back, I wanted a chair that wasn’t broken…If I had wanted broken I would have kept the set I already had.

Stupid people suck!

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Side note the laptop I use to update my blog – just died…as in dead – I am going to have to haul my cookies down stairs into the cold cold basement – or use Mr. Incredible’s new laptop (like I’m using now shhh don’t tell him….) the screen went white…damn it!

Out with the old (this table is old – Mr. Incredible learned to eat at this table). The sad thing is – the table is still in good condition – it’s just ugly. Not to mention the chair are plain awful…they scratch up your legs when wearing shorts. (yes I could have recovered them, but I really wanted a new table and chairs) So hopefully we will be able to move it to the basement and make it a project table…homework, art projects etc. Notice the ugly carpet in this photo – that is gone. The walls are painted and those curtains – gone. This picture was taken shortly after we moved in a few years ago… Looking at it – I can’t believe the difference changing the floor, color on the wall etc makes. I used to be known at the queen of white (meaning every wall in the house was white…) and now the only room not painted is the living room – and that will hopefully be done this spring.

Like my new table?

I love it – just got it yesterday. Although last night when putting those little pads on the bottom of the chairs, we did notice that one of the extra chairs is broken – so will be calling the company today to see what they would like to do. Since I’ve had good luck with them in the past I am pretty sure they will stand behind the product and just bring me a new chair….I mean it hasn’t even been in the house a full 24 hours yet. but doesn’t it look so much better in the kitchen the old set?

It does have a leaf and we bought 2 more chairs…now where do I put the extra chairs? The leaf went under my bed and I am guessing I’ll have to cleanout the closet a little bit and put the chairs in there.