The last laugh

So far I am enjoying having some time off.  Although, like I said before, my husband is also unemployed and has a tendency to get on my nerves (I'm sure that I DO NOT get on his! Sarcasm) it can be a little hectic sometimes.  I have been doing some much needed deep cleaning around the house, and  watching a LOT of movies and TV. My husband has found a show that he loves- MONK.  It's a show about a detective from San Francisco who is OCD.  Some how he (my husband) thinks he is MONK. Which is really funny, because Monk is a germaphobe.  My husband is a plumber.  If he was a germaphobe he would have had a break down by now!!  When anyone but him loads the dishwasher, he complains that it wasn't done right. So guess what?  We let him load the dishwasher.  When he complains that no one but him loads the dishwasher, we have to remind him that he's the only that does it properly, so he gets to do it ALL the time.   Pretty soon he'll be the only one doing laundry and vacuuming as well.  Then I will HAVE to get a job- I'll be bored to death with nothing to do.

New Bed

Today was the day we were going to get our new king sized bed.  We have been so excited to get our new bed. After 25 years of marriage we FINALLY were going to get a KING SIZED BED.  It's been long overdue and we spent the morning getting prepared to get our new bed.   We had the bedroom all cleaned out and vacuumed-put the old queen sized bed out in the drive way so they could haul it away, and were so excited when the delivery guy called and said they were running a little early and would that be OK?  So 3:00 the guys show up with our King size mattress and ONE TWIN SIZE BOX SPRING.  Well- any idiot knows that a king size mattress REQUIRES TWO (that's 2) twin box springs. The delivery guy said "I think we have a problem." WELL NO SH** SHERLOCK.  Didn't he think there was a problem at the warehouse when they loaded a king size mattress and only 1 twin box spring?  Apparently not.  He asked to see our receipt, and then he said "Looks like you only purchased one"  HUH?  I went to Sears to buy a mattress SET.  That's what I paid for. That's what they charged me for.  So for the next 3 hours we had to HAGGLE with the manager of the Sears store to get another box springs since they hauled off our other bed, we now would have no bed to sleep on if we didn't resolve this matter. We ended up getting a floor sample for half price.  I was very disappointed with the way the whole thing was handled.  From the store manager all the way down to the stupid sales kid.  We have always used Sears for our large appliance purchases, and have always been taken well care of up to this point.  I'm thinking that from now on RC Willey has my business.  I'm not done with this problem by a long shot.... I'm going to get a hold of their Corporate customer service and let them know how disappointed I am with the way this was handled. If anyone out there has any suggestions please feel free to let me know what your thoughts are on this incident!

WOW!

Something about living in the high mountain desert is- it warms up when it snows.  I know, I know, it sounds crazy. But it's true.  Today looked like a beautiful sunny day, then I stepped outside. UGH. The wind was blowing and with the chill factor the temperature is about 4. Yes. 4 degrees.  Did we somehow turn into Minnesota? Wisconsin?  I mean COME ON! It's February!  Can we get just a small break?  Thing is I'm afraid tomorrow (Ground Hog Day) that stupid ground hog is going to come out of his burrow and see his stupid shadow.  What then?  Six more flippin' weeks of winter.  NOT something I'm looking forward too.
The other thing I woke up to today is a sore throat.  Everyone (except me and the hubby) in the house has been sick for the last couple of weeks. I felt like I was almost out of the woods and able to avoid it, and WHAM!  Here I am feeling like crap!  I almost called into work and told them I was sick!  ( I crack myself up sometimes)
So we got a movie at the old Red Box.  It was called,  "MACHETE".  I think I laughed myself even sicker!!  It was TOTALLY inappropriate, but wildly entertaining.   Would I recommend it to you?  Only if you think you can handle really bad acting and lots of swearing and a bit of nudity.  My LDS friends should probably NOT watch it. 
Had a little run around with the HR dept for the bank I used to work for and my insurance guy.  The bank actually sent my pay stub to the branch where I used to work, instead of mailing it to my home!  (Good thinkin'.) Plus-it looks like they're trying to screw me out of my bonus incentive pay for the 4th quarter last year. And my home owners insurance actually deducted their annual premium TWICE from my escrow last year, so now the bank is asking me to come up with an additional twelve hundred bucks to cover the escrow account. I DON'T think so.
Jeez- maybe I should hire a secretary to handle all this crap for me!!  I was hoping to relax  a little in between jobs.