On Tuesday the 13th, I woke up after only 3 hours of sleep (after having worked all night the previous night) with an awful sore throat. I went to Minute Clinic, thinking that I had strep throat. I did have a fever, and even though my strep test was negative, they put me on antibiotics anyway because I didn't particularly want to wait for the results of a throat culture. I called in sick from work that night since #1 I was still contagious and #2 I woke up from a nap that afternoon with a horrible headache and body aches on top of the sore throat. Even though I got my flu shot a few weeks ago, I am pretty sure that I was ill with the flu...not fun at all! I had to call in sick that Thursday as well.
That Friday, I was feeling well enough to drive to my parents' house to do some laundry. We were still without a functioning washing machine (the one that we had ordered previously came to us badly damaged, with a crack in the barrel that caused water to leak on the laundry room floor) and we really needed clean clothes. It was nice to hang out with my mom that day, and to have some clean laundry! When Dad got home from work that night, the three of us went to Don Pablo's for dinner.
Now, about that washing machine...
After we sent back our damaged washer, the Best Buy store said that they would order us a brand-new (not floor model) version of the same washer. We chose to have it delivered Thursday, November 1st, because we were contemplating going out of town and knew that we would be back by then. All seemed great and I eagerly awaited the arrival of the new one.
Come Wednesday morning (Halloween), I received a call from Best Buy. I thought it was going to be the delivery company calling to tell us what time our washer would be delivered the next day. However, it was the gentleman who sold us our original (broken) washer. He said that he had talked to the delivery company and that they could not deliver our washer the next day because it was a discontinued item and there were no more in stock. I was floored because the manager I had spoken to said that our washer had been ordered and that there would be no issue getting it to us! Apparently, there is a warehouse in Chicago where all the discontinued items are stored. As they are set to be delivered, they are removed from the warehouse. However, they don't "hold" any of them once they are ordered and our name was not on one of them because their system is more of "first ordered, first delivered" method. That means, if we had asked for them to deliver it sooner, we probably would have gotten one. Silly me, I thought that them ordering one meant that we definitely had one with our name on it!
Anyway, we got it worked out that we could get a similar model for the same price as the original, brand-new, in-box, and that it would still be delivered the next day. Thank goodness, because I really needed to do laundry again!
This was the first year that I did not have to work on Halloween, so I enjoyed handing out candy to the neighborhood kids. My favorite costume was the little girl dressed as a garden gnome!
The weekend before Halloween, I carved a Perry the Platypus (from the Disney show "Phineas and Ferb") pumpkin. I loved hearing all of the kids who came to our door comment on the pumpkin! It turned out really good, I think :-)
Did you all exercise your right to vote today? Matt and I did! We also exercised our right to lock the car keys in the car...
After voting, we went to Best Buy to return a washing machine hose that we didn't end up needing. After that errand was done, I realized that I had locked the keys in the car! I tried calling a coworker who lives in Avon, but she didn't answer. Then we decided to walk across the street to the polling place where we had just voted. I knew that there were still workers there (we had just left and the polls had just closed) and since everyone who voted at that location had to be from the same precinct/live in the same general vicinity, I figured that someone would live close by and would be able to give us a ride home to get a spare key and Matt's car. Thankfully, a high school student who had helped run the polls that day offered to give us a ride both home and back to Best Buy (it was on her own way home). This was definitely a wake-up call that I need to get the phone numbers of some of our neighbors in case anything like that ever happens again!
Have a great rest of your week, and enjoy our Halloween pumpkin pictures!
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| It's Perry the Platy-pumpkin! |
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| Our little pumpkin dog |
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