I never understood buying expensive stockings. I've worn them before, but they get runs just as fast as the cheap ones when you're as remarkably ungraceful as I am.

Edit: Oh, and congrats on the good interview!

People can be snobby about anything.

I was expecting to get my pants from Land's End today, they were out for delivery. Now they are at the post office. I don't know why, UPS delivers here all the time. Land's end has a Today only sale on pants so I was hoping to try those on and if I liked them order another pair. Phooey.

I was expecting to get my pants from Land's End today, they were out for delivery. Now they are at the post office. I don't know why, UPS delivers here all the time.

Because sometimes UPS does this bullshit thing where they deliver it as far as your city but then don't bring it to your house and instead take it to the post office, where, if your post office is anything like mine, it takes another 3 days to MAYBE get delivered. And the thing is, if you even have the option at checkout to select your method of delivery, when you pick UPS, they don't tell you that you really just chose the unholy incompetent union of the UPS and the local post office.

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I ordered some frozen meals, which are being delivered by FedEx. They were sent from Los Angeles on Monday. I got a tracking update on Tuesday saying that the package had left the facility in Los Angeles, and then nothing since then. The website says "packages are shipped on Monday for guaranteed delivery by Friday." I'm waiting to see what happens.

It shouldn't take that long, I don't actually live in a city as much as a small village that doesn't rate it's own zip code. And the post office is about 15 minutes from here so I'll be hopeful. But we'll see.

I didn't even notice an option about delivery I just picked the cheap option. UPS can get me stuff from Amazon! I should be able to get something from Lands End.

My sinuses are being evil. Breathing hurts and I don't like it.

I also got my hair cut today. Well more like reshaped. I'm late to the fauxhawk party but that's kinda what I'm rocking. I got the stylist to do the back and sides at a 3 setting on clippers. The way she cuts it -if the hair stands up there's a dip in the middle, it's there for a reason somehow it makes my hair lay right.

I think this summer I'm going to go for a 3 setting clipper all over.

Because sometimes UPS does this bullshit thing where they deliver it as far as your city but then don't bring it to your house and instead take it to the post office, where, if your post office is anything like mine, it takes another 3 days to MAYBE get delivered. And the thing is, if you even have the option at checkout to select your method of delivery, when you pick UPS, they don't tell you that you really just chose the unholy incompetent union of the UPS and the local post office.

I ran into this issue at Christmas. I was NOT happy.

Regarding getting a cleaning person. I looked into it when we first bought this house. We had the house cleaned professionally before we moved in and then asked for a quote to wash the hardwood floors, and all of our teeny kitchen and teenier bathroom and were quoted $160. I don't know if that is a reasonable quote or not, but it's just not doable for us even on an every other week basis. I should probably look into getting a quote from someplace else just to see.

sj, I had to pay a bunch to get an "initial" cleaning, which in theory was deeper than the usual ones (I'm pretty sure they were here longer than usual, too), but after that it's $120 for a once a month cleaning. I kind of expect that if I did twice a month, it would be more total but less per time, because it wouldn't get as bad in between. And I have a three bedroom townhouse with 2.5 bathrooms...and this is a "green" cleaners (I don't care, but figure it's probably better for the cleaning people?) who is probably not the cheapest. Check into it! Even having it done once a month is awesome. She doesn't really deep clean, but she does the microwave and the counters and dusting and vacuuming and all the bathrooms, and washes the floors.

I just got another tracking update for my "guaranteed delivery by Friday" package. It's now 100 miles away. Considering the time it'll take to get it here, get it processed through the local FedEx office, get it on a truck, and get it to my door, I'm not optimistic.