Disaster

I can’t even begin to imagine the devastation. It truly is like a bad hollywood movie. Just incredible. I’m not one who walks around talking/thinking about an all-powerful god – but Mother Nature sure comes close.

Disaster also fits my holiday weekend. Sure, I have my health, a roof over my head, I’m dry and fed, but it still sucked.

First of all, in a previous post I mentioned how much I was thrilled with Amazon and their stellar customer service this holiday season. Not so thrilled anymore. Granted, I did order the few gifts I needed on Dec. 20 and 21, but I’m not sure that’s an excuse.

The couple of gifts I ordered from Amazon were for my great-nieces who I would be seeing on Saturday – we haven’t seen them in a while so I was excited. They are 4 and 1. I placed the order on Tuesday and was guaranteed by Amazon they would arrive by Friday. On Wednesday I received emails that the items would be sent out separately but both had been upgraded to overnight delivery and would arrive on Thursday. By Friday 2PM nothing had arrived. The tracking numbers weren’t appearing in the database. Okay, they were there, but no information was available about the whereabouts of the packages. One was sent UPS, one was sent FedEx. I called FedEx and they said they never had possession of the package. I searched the Internet and found an actual phone number for Amazon (ended up being in India, of course) and was informed the package never went out. I said you sent me emails saying it was on the way. Well it wasn’t. No gifts for the girls.

I didn’t give up. I went out to Toys R Us at 4:30 Xmas eve. It was a horrifying experience and I gave up quickly. I made cursory appearances at a few other stores and came home empty handed.

Then I found out the package I had sent overnight (FedEx) to my best friend never made it out of New Jersey. It was supposed to be in Las Vegas by 10AM Friday morning.

I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I admit I cried when I attempted to give Georgie his Xmas slippers on Saturday morning and they were the wrong size. The email receipt I have says XL, they sent L. Suffice it to say, I didn’t have a merry weekend.

I think the kinks are all worked out in the host transfer. Even though, in the end, they screwed things up more than they helped, my new host was very attentive to my needs – including emailing me on Xmas eve.

There was a bright note to this weekend. Georgie’s parents were very generous to us. My cedar chest and new camera are pretty much absolutes now! Thank you, thank you!

I did manage to knit this weekend. There was no way I was finishing Georgie’s secret gift – a scarf if anyone still cares – I’ll post some pictures tomorrow – for Xmas, but I finished it today. I just need to weave in ends. And I started decreasing on the back of the Ribby Cardi.

I hope everyone else had a great holiday weekend! I’ll be looking forward to hearing all about it!