That's Not What He Got Weekend Recap

Good Monday morning to you!  I hope your weekend was slow and your coffee/tea is strong to start another week.  Last week the poor Mr was run through it at work.  Every single day was call after call, new stuff piled on (which he's fine with but never happens in a dump like this) and a new boss was named so that's always an interesting thing to contend with even if you know them.  (I've seen people go from perfectly fine to ripping off their face to reveal a reptilian creature underneath V style so I'm hoping that's not the case for the Mr.)  All he wanted was a nice relaxing weekend to recoup from it all.

That's not what he got.

It seemed to start off fine with him suggesting a soul food place and their website was all messed up so we couldn't really place an order.  He called saying their site says they're out of a ton of crap and the guy said they weren't so we thought that meant they were turning on the site.  It's not on our side of town so we started driving figuring when it flipped over to noon it would be fixed.  It wasn't.  So I went to call in the order.  The girl's like "hello?"  I said "is this Nannie's?" and then she answered the phone like she was supposed to.  Um.  Whatever.  I said the website wasn't working so I needed to place an order.  She's like "we don't do orders over the phone."

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I said eff those people and as we drove around (closer to the restaurant) I said it was up to him if he wanted to go in and place an order but I'm also not in the mood to play "what do you want/I don't know, what do you want" game either.  He said he'd go in.  I wrote down the order so he could either read it off or give it to Miss Manners.  He said their site wasn't working and she went in and flipped it on and basically stared at him.  He asked if it was easier to place an order on the site or give it to her.  He said she was an impenetrable wall of indifference which was quite the opposite experience of last time.  We got our food and it was at least mostly worth the hassle but not how we wanted to start the day.    

After that, we needed to be by some water so we went to a local river and after finding a spot away from the drunk nekkid people, we took in better scenery.

We watched this poor dude try to get up on a wakeboard for about 30 minutes in front of a boatload of bikini clad girls.  He made a solid 1.6 seconds for the longest but then there was a water skier that came by and made the biggest wakes you could find around these parts.

We grabbed a little something for the way home and were met with another case of eye popping shrinkflation which left much muttering under our breaths.  We went home for a bit and watched this movie called The Show.  Movies like that bother me more than anything because I feel like as a society we're not far from it, especially now.  So that wasn't the cheeriest choice I could've made.  

We saw my prescription and Christmas lights I saw were in stock were both ready.  We went to grab the pills first and the drive thru is closed.  The Mr goes inside and gets stared down by two women dressed like they skinned tigers and wore the pelts and he's thinking "I ain't your sugar daddy."  Then he saw despite the pharmacy saying it was open 3 more hours, it was closed closed.  Awesome.  At least we can go pick up the lights.  He runs in and there's a big sign all pickup orders are in the back lumberyard.  

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So we drive back there to some raising gate that you need to scan a barcode to get entry.  He finally finds it, scans it and it says "small pickups are inside."

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He goes back inside and they tell him the order has been cancelled.  He said he literally has a receipt and an email saying it's ready for pickup, nothing to say it's cancelled.  The kid says they're not in stock (despite the website saying there are 20 and three weeks ago it said none) so they're refunded.  He walks out to tell me this and I checked the card and there's no pending refund and I said this was $50 there's no proof so he went back in and talked to someone else about it and that guy showed him a screenshot for the order being zero.  He went back and forth with him for a few and the guy printed the screenshot of nothing being fulfilled which is basically worthless.  So 22 miles wasted.  A full gallon of gas.  You owe us $3.23.   I could tell he was not happy so I had him pull up to a flock of geese that were on the way out.  They gave us side eye.  Then a small gang of ducks came over and all of the geese looked at them like there was about to be a rumble.  The second the main duck walked past the main goose and there was no kerfuffle, all fowl went about their business.  I just figured a moment to take in nature, even if we watched a whole gaggle of geese abandon the one teen goose who wasn't paying attention would be better than stewing on what we just went through.  We headed back home and waved the white flag on the day.

Sunday we both oddly noted we slept well then he made some coffee and we bedrotted the morning away.  We ended up getting hooked on some of the Scooby Doo I bought recently and then threw in some Schoolhouse Rock for good measure.  Man, some of the historical ones hit a little different now.  We got up and I started making some salmon burgers while he got started on some trim for the newel post chonk which inevitably gave him way more trouble on the last piece than it should have meaning he was out in the sweatbox garage for longer than he wanted to be.  When that was taken care of, he wanted to get downstairs for our workout, Turbo Fire Tone.  I added in some free weights on some exercises as ripping the back of my arm fat off with the band on a few moves was not going to benefit anyone.  Once that was done I made breakfast for dinner.  French toast with light bread, scrambled eggs and turkey sausage.  I swear I think I'm allergic to eggs because my eyes always get itchy after I make breakfast like that and I sneeze the rest of the night.  Time to pull out the allergy eye drops so I'd stop sneezing, which we all know is dangerous at this age.  I got some Christmas presents wrapped so I'm basically done with that except for a few for the Mr as it gets closer.

That was about it.  So scintillating.  

How was your weekend?

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