Stone and Skillet

 When I awoke at 1 pm a check for $5000 was in the door. Yay! 

When the rewiring is done, we will get two new bathrooms, we are painting house inside and getting new or more kitchen cabinets. I hope he will totally replace them. Then, we will have ducts cleaned! 

I hate the kitchen floor. Hopefully, I can get a new one. Maybe the paneling in kitchen and dining area can go. I hate paneling. Oh, we need new indoor doors. I will tackle this one thing at a time.

Finally, at 8 am, I went to sleep. My legs finally were warm enough. I was tired still when I awoke,  but no brain fog. Tuesday was weird. 

Tommy was procrastinating about making appointments--lawyer for Trust and surgeon for hip replacement. After a month, I made both appointments today.

Thursday, I bought STONE and SKILLET English Muffins. They were delicious. On Friday, I found mold on them one day before their expiration date. I returned them and bought another package. I froze those one at a time. Today, I bought two more flavors, looked down and saw I was eating mold! Those will go back tomorrow. These are new to Publix. However, check the date carefully. 

Has anyone had these English Muffins?

Lazy

Today was to be taken up by a long list of calls I need to make. I managed to get some calls made. But, few of them ended up positive since people were not in and/or could not help me. 

The Amazon call was so difficult. The only people I can talk with are overseas. One guy could not or would not speak up. So, besides trying to navigate his accent, I could barely hear him. Then, his voice was vibrating, then raspy. then like he was in a bucket. I think he did this, so I hung up. 

Finally, I got a woman who seemed to have the microphone in her mouth so that understanding her was so difficult. She told me to be patient like it was my fault only one box of five I ordered was sent. As for the otc, she said to keep it and she would remove the cost. 

As for my disliking talking to people on the phone whose first language is not English, there is more to it. When I had told one man I could not understand him, he was adamant. "Yes, you can understand me." Over and over. I do believe he was trying to reassure me he could understand me. 

I have studied Latin, Greek, Japanese, and Spanish, so different languages are interesting to me and I was good at these studies. From the time I was 18 other people in my group would ask me to talk with someone who they could not understand. I had a friend who was Japanese, and we worked through understanding each other. So, understanding someone who has an accent is not a problem in person.

However, when trying to convey a problem with an order to someone who speaks too fast and with a heavy accent, and who repeats the problem back to me wrong, I find it annoying. 

It seems Amazon has no agents in the US at this time. They can find cheap labor overseas and do not use employees in the US. This was one of my gripes with ATT. 

Well, I feel lazy even if I have spent time on the phone, working to set a few things straight and get appointments. I did get one appointment 100 miles away. And, feel happy to go to this setting. 

The grocery ads are better for me this week, but I will deal with that tomorrow.

How are the ads at your stores this week?