I'm wanting so much to get back into my almost daily
blogging - but I'm struggling to compose freely without having to edit myself.
You would think I'd taken care of all of that over the last couple years
- but last year's frequent hospital stays sent me back to a bit of
self-editing........gonna "lean into that" - push through for those
who don't know the psychological lingo! :*)
so, I'll just stop the intro shit and get into it!! I'm really going to be 'rambling' - lots of thots about lots of things........some of these thots may not translate well to actual words.
I was coming back from Dallas a few weeks ago and traveling on I45 south when one of those "how cool is it to imagine the whole of the human race as separate individuals and feel the connection to them because we're doing something similar" moments. I was driving on I45 south in the city of Dallas and at that same moment there were people on I45 south in Houston!! At the same time!! I'm not alone - there are others out there making the same 'journey' I am.
It is INSANE how fast everything about moving to Pennsylvania has happened! To quote myself in a note I posted on fb last week: "Everything is happening so fast that it feels like when I'm snow skiing and I start really picking up speed and I'm so terrified of crashing into a tree that I no longer can think coherently and so the thought of just falling over to stop my momentum doesn't even come close to occurring to me.................." For those who don't know, this whole process started on January 24th -- January 24th!!! By the time the moving company comes to pack up my house, it will have been (just short of) 4 months!!
It's really irritating........to get 2 samples of a beauty product that says in it's instructions: "....clinically proven to visibly restore youthful volume and fullness over time by helping to build your skin's own natural collagen! After just 8 weeks of twice daily use ----- URRRRKKKK!!! ----- You're kidding, right??? I have to use it for "just 8 weeks" to see any results, and you only gave me 2?!?!!!! Why bother!
That's like my recent experience with Barnes and Noble. We (my husband and I) recently bought a nook hd+ ereader for me, my daughter and my daughter-in-law - I bought mine one day before they did. The special running at that time stated that we would receive a $50 digital content credit for buying the nook hd+. As I read the small print on the email telling me that I had gotten my $50 credit, I got more and more concerned. The small print informed me that there would only be ONE credit per BN account..........wtf??? Was this really true?? Immediately, I called 1-800-the-book, BN 24/7 customer service. Really?? Was BN really that cheap?? I was assured that we would all 3 receive a $50 credit! Sweet!!! Thanks so much, customer service!!
A couple days later when neither my daughter nor my daughter-in-law had received emails, I called customer service again. And after being on hold for about 20 minutes and hearing that the customer service rep "understood that I was saying that I was upset about them not receiving their emails" and then being transferred to a manager who the customer service rep was "sure would be able to help me" and that same manager regrettably not being able to do anything about BN cheap ass policy, I ended up being promised a physical $25 gift card for my distress.............REALLY????? I told the customer service manager that I knew it wasn't her fault - that she didn't make the policy - but that I would really appreciate her passing on to her superiors that I thought they were cheap!!!! I mean, I just spent $1,000 dollars and they're too cheap to give us $150 in digital content. I sent an email to the online customer service as well.
Not sure why some companies get the whole "go above and beyond the call in customer service" and others are so cheap!! And it's usually the generous ones that are more successful!
And one final "ramble": I love the movie "The Proposal" - Sandra Bullock and adorable Ryan Reynolds. Also, Betty White, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson and the fabulous Oscar Nunez (Ramone "God Bless America! Mama Cass!!")!!! It has the most excellent credits scene I've ever seen in a movie!!!
This movie is a great example of truth being evident anywhere you look. One of the predominant themes is unconditional love......Because Andrew loves her, his family decides to accept Margaret (despite the fact that she's a bitch in the beginning) unconditionally into their family. And it's that unconditional love that eventually softens her heart and changes her. She is overwhelmed at the love she so freely gets from people who don't even know her!!
Alright, enough for now! I have to watch the opening episode of "Beauty and the Beast" - it's on Netflix!!!!
