MID WEEK, HUMP DAY

 

Hi ho, half way through the week.

And my only plan for today is to get the final two runners finished.

AND go out and buy a water dispenser to clip inside a dog cage.

Coco has remembered how to climb over the pet fence, and keeping her contained has become a problem.

Yesterday she escaped out the garage door and it took me over half an hour to find her, and get her back into the car so I could get her home again.

It totally did my head in.

So now when I need her to be contained, she's going into a CAGE.  She cannot get out of that!

But she does need access to water when confined, hence the need to go get something that will attach to the inside of the cage.

Thank god Marley is NOT an escapologist.

And that's about all I have for now.  I don't have a walk planned for today.  UNLESS I feel inclined later on.  We will see.

ONWARD...

9.20 am, sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for a locksmith to arrive.  I cannot for the life of me find the key to my sewing room door.  And I have finally caved and called in a locksmith to make new ones.

I can get in via the door from the garage, but not from the outside door.  Most annoying.

Once he's been and fixed me door, I can go out and get a water dispenser for Coco.

It is another lovely day, just a bit cool.  I shall probably not be going OUT for a walk.  I can't believe it is already too hot for me to walk in the sun! It's only September for goodness sake!

How do you feel about punctuality?  For me, it's goddam IMPORTANT!  If I have an appointment, I am ALWAYS early.  I feel it's the height of rudeness to be late, unless it is TOTALLY beyond your control.

So, the locksmith said he would be here at 10 am.

It's now 11 am, and he's still not here.  And he's not text me to advise me of an ETA, or why he's late.

Yesterday he wouldn't even give me a time he was arriving!  He arrived at the end of the day!  I had sat around waiting for him ALL DAY.

So now I'm ropable.  I'm going to text him and find out when I can expect him, cos I don't do WAITING well.

ABOVE:  While I've been waiting, I finished this runner.  Only one to go!  

Then I shall set to and get all the runners out and re-iron them, sort them out into their correct bags etc.  Get the ducks in a row again.

ABOVE: This one was scratching at the garage door to be let in this morning, and she made a bee line for a sunny spot.

Marley on the other hand, prefers to stay in bed, curled up in a ball.  Cute bugger.

Fuming now.  I text the locksmith, and he has not replied at all.

So, I let him know (vis text) that I was going to be out over lunchtime, then went out.

Now I'm home, it's 1.30 pm and still no response from him!  Soooo goddam rude.  Unless he's lying in a hospital bed or similar, I could forgive him if that's the case.

Dumm dee doo....

11.32 pm:  LOL, I could almost think he just read that (above)!  He just rang me and he's coming over in half an hour.  No apologies for dicking me around.  Grrrr.  But at least my door will be sorted.

1.05 pm: Did he say in HALF AN HOUR?  It was an hour and a half before one of his employees turned up.

So ANOTHER guy turned up, he works for the locksmith.  In a regular car, no signage.

He has brought with him an entirely new door knob, cos the old one can't be 'fixed'.

Only it doesn't fit the damn door, so he's spent 20 minutes installing it, to then have to uninstall it.  

He tells me he can 'make it fit' after he's uninstalled it, then RE-INSTALL it.

Meanwhile ... it's ON THE CLOCK RIGHT?  

Can you imagine how annoyed I'm getting?????

In the end it took that man 40 minutes to put a new door knob on me door!   When he asked me to pay there and then, I said I wanted an invoice so I could check the time taken, as yesterday and today a lot of time was taken up with THEM not getting it right in the first place.  Plus the 'boss man' from yesterday spent half his time on the damn phone, or rummaging in the back of his van trying to find things!

If I could leave a bad review on his website I would, but there's no option to.  Annoying.

I'm over it now.  Sorry for venting.  VENTING.  Not moaning.

There is a difference.

Now, my temper is such that I need to lie down and just chill out.

***I double checked the price for the door knob online before he was finished the job, so I knew how much they were.

He was fair.  I got charged one call out fee plus the cost of the door knob.  So, that part was OK.  It was just the lack of consideration for MY TIME, the lack of communication and time wasted.

I'm now back in the sewing room, trying to finish the FINAL runner in my 24 run.

I might get it done ?

I did get it done, I'll show you tomorrow.  Right now I'm just done with today.

9.25 pm:  Well the evening has been peaceful.  No stress.  No frustration.  Here's hoping tomorrow is a much better day than today.

Catch ya tomorrow.