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Computer Grief.  This sums it up pretty well, I think.

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That goes for my blog too! Grr!

Hee hee.

This morning was a series of comical errors. I left late for the bus. It was raining. I got to the corner to see the bus arriving at the stop, yelled “Wait!!!” as I ran across the street (traffic coming at me). I did not make the bus. I got soaked thoroughly as I walked to the Metrolink station to catch a train instead. I was too cranky and wet to feel like reading on the ride into the office. How appropriate that the book I chose to start reading today was “In Praise of Slowness.” Yes indeed it was a comical morning.

A comic that agrees with me that the Bush regime is criminal.

For the Type A OCD Paranoid person, the ultimate in preparedness kits!

Need to keep a friend, lover, co-worker, or teammate of a task they promised they’d follow-up with? Put a monkey on their back!

You’d better believe I sent one to Justin (I love you, Baby!) about painting my “library” red!

Justin & I had been discussing for some time now purchasing a dresser.  We have been using hangers and the smaller particleboard drawer units one would purchase at a Home Depot or Lowe’s in their custom closet section. The rod holding Justin’s hung clothes up was finally too heavily laden and detached from the wall entirely.  One of the dresser drawers’ fronts came off entirely.  The drawers were all too narrow to fit many items of clothing in any case.

Awhile back I was perusing the Internet during a slower time at the office and came across a beautiful dresser on the Target website.  We’d searched in Target stores for a nice dresser, but had only found the Shabby Chic style, which Justin deplores.  I sent a link of that dresser to Justin and asked his opinion and ordered it when he said it looked nice to him.  I knew I would never order anything so heavy or large from Target again unless a promise of free shipping was made by Target when the shipping costs were totaled.  The shipping address was set for my office – as we are never home during delivery hours. This marked the beginning of our small adventure.

Last week the dresser came via UPS to my office.  The UPS man told me good luck on getting it out the door and into another vehicle because it was 130 pounds (!).  I told him we’d have to get it home somehow and my boyfriend would help me with it.  This was an extremely long box and to be honest neither Justin or I was sure it would fit into his Honda Civic Hybrid.  We somehow lifted each end as a team and were able to barely fit it into the backseat of the car.  Somehow he got the beast of a box into the house on his own – I was stuck at the office for another two hours at that point – and up to the third floor of our home.

This morning we had time and decided to tackle putting the dresser together. Sounds simple enough, right? Imagine two dogs making themselves the center of all things as you try to put the dresser together.  Then Justin made the mistake of assuming things without reading the instructions and we were forced to re-position and re-screw the molding onto the dresser and put the proper hardware into spots while removing the incorrect hardware for the proper spots. It was indeed an adventure.

A small critique of Target furnishings… The finish was scratched a bit (apparently in shipping).  A small gap exists between the top dresser drawer and the dresser top (not a fault of workmanship on our part).  The shipping costs combined with somehow needing to get the beastly box home did not make for a true convenience as online shopping is slated to be.  I will never purchase furnishings online again without free shipping – and delivered to my home not the office (in spite of needing to pick it up from the UPS store). I will likely not purchase furnishings from Target again at any rate – no matter how modern and cute some of it is – after the small flaws found on this item.