February 25, 2022 - Friday



Whew, finally Friday. It's been a long week of waiting, dealing with customer service, and experiencing tons and tons of anger and frustration. It's been rough. I wish I could get the whole week back and do it again. 

I really didn't want to go out today, because I was in such a bad mood, but we did it! And, again, I'm glad we did. Nearly every time I don't want to go out, but do it anyway, I'm glad I did it. Weird how that works, huh? 

So...washer bs. MAN. This is seriously just some crappy crap crap. It obviously didn't get delivered. I got a call at noon and the voicemail said, "We cancelled your delivery. If you have any questions, you can call back." 😳 Huh?? At the end of the four-hour window that we had to wait for our washer we get a call that says the delivery was cancelled with no reason why??? I don't freaking understand. The stress definitely colored my play date with Melis and Naz, but thankfully Ben called to try to handle it and that helped me relax a little more. Whatever, man. At the end of the day, Lowe's screwed us over, service-wise, but we had some helpful people who really tried to make things better for us. It looks like we're picking up the washer ourselves (have to rent a freaking truck to do it! AND somehow carry it ourselves) tomorrow, if we can make that work. Ben ran to the laundromat tonight and got a couple of loads done to get us through until the washer is set up. I'm in a little bit of a better place, although I'm still pretty irritated with how everything went down. We're paying about $100 less for the washer than we were originally, but honestly, I feel like I would have paid twice as much for the washer if it would have meant no stress. This is one of those situations I couldn't control, though, and we handled it the best we could. Hopefully it's over!

Above: No trip to Polaris is complete without a stop at the good ol' hot dog truck!

Below: I took this picture at our beautiful library while I waited for Jonas to do his Dungeons and Dragons thing. I had been crying over the washer situation and was on the phone with customer service all the way to the library. But the beauty of the lines in this building made me want to take a picture and...well, I really didn't do a great job capturing that beauty, because I didn't want to draw attention to myself. :)



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