An "open letter" to Walmart

You'd think that a woman standing by herself at the counter in the hardware... uh, sorry, "Do-It-Yourself" dept., looking around for help would have been like throwing up the Bat Signal and would have resulted in at least ONE employee coming to help. And you'd be wrong.

Seriously, I spent TEN MINUTES looking for help on the sales floor before finally finding a Customer Service Manager up front who told me there didn't appear to be ANY employees scheduled for that dept. and that there really wasn't anyone else who could check to see if there was in back an unopened package of replacement box cutter blades.

Since the only package I was able to find in the DIY section was already open and one blade missing, she did offer to sell me the package at 1/2 off.

I have no problems with this particular CSM. In fact, she was extremely helpful; however, I cannot believe you would condone such lousy staffing. What would have happened if I was looking to purchase a couple of gallons of paint (which would need to be custom mixed at the same register/counter I previously spent 10 minutes waiting at, ignored)? Walmart would have been okay with me driving less than a mile down the road and going to Lowe's Home Improvement, thus giving Lowe's the sale? Honestly, if it was for more than a package of replacement blades, I would have done that.

Signed,
A Disgruntled and Unhappy MDG

All Stressed Out and No One to Choke

My oldest daughter is graduating high school Saturday.  While I'm happy for her and am excited for the party we have planned for Saturday afternoon, there's one part I'm dreading - having to get the house to "guest" level of clean.  You see, I'm OCD and if I had my way, my house would be perfectly organized.  Unfortunately, I live with five other people and only ONE of them (DD#4) thinks like me.  The remaining 4 are, well let's just say, not as concerned with organization as we are.  So, while my house was cleaned and organized this past weekend, it's a wreck tonight.  And, naturally, no one is doing anything.  I'm about to grab my daughter's softball bat and smash the WiFi router.  But then I wouldn't be able to post this blog update and I'd be forced to get off Facebook and stop playing Crack Crush... uhh, I mean Candy Crush.  (I know I'm not the only person addicted to it.  Right?)  Plus I'd end up having to buy a new router and I don't have time to do that this weekend.

So, I really should be washing the dishes - or yelling at the kids to get the dishes done.  Then there's the whole sweeping and washing the floors.  I have a love/hate relationship with my floors - all the floors in our house are either hardwood or tile.  I love the convenience of just sweeping up messes but damn do I hate having to wash the floors.  Granted it gives my upper body a nice workout but I just don't want to do it when there are people home.  Maybe I can do it tomorrow afternoon, while DH is at work and DD's #2, 3, & 4 are in school.  DD#1 will be home but she's too busy freaking out about the possibility of tripping over her gown to really be much help.

Couple all this with the fact I need to find time to dye my hair (prematurely grey and I don't need the various comments about my 1 1/2" of grey roots), get my hair cut (hopefully I can get that squeezed in tomorrow morning), make the blueberry muffins that I didn't make last night (did I mention I'm addicted to Facebook?), go to Walmart and buy paper plates/tablecloths/cups/etc. for the party, and give myself a mani/pedi.  So what am I doing right now?  Sitting on the couch, writing another blog post and trying to ignore the constant nagging feeling that I must be forgetting something that's super important for this weekend that I don't have on a list yet.  Yes, I am a list-maker.  It keeps me sane.

Oh well, time for me to get off-line and get started.  Otherwise you'll be seeing a blog post Saturday night about how everything fell apart because I was too busy blogging, making pretty collages on Pinterest, and playing Candy Crush.

*****No recipe to share tonight.  DH made dinner... well, he started it and I ended up cooking the rest of it.  (Homemade version of Hamburger Helper - 2 boxes of organic shells and alfredo sauce from Whole Foods with a pound of extra-lean ground beef, browned and drained, and half a bag of frozen organic peas.  Not a typical meal for our family but it was surprisingly delicious.)