Pittsburgh Nesties
waltsgirl102503
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What's Irritating you today?
Work? Holidays? In-laws? I bet there's something and it will make you feel better to get it off your chest!
Re: What's Irritating you today?
Everything. Pregnancy hormones have taken over my body. I am irritated with the UPS man who must smoke like a chimney all day long because my packages reek of cigarette smoke. I hate even bringing them into the house.
I am also irritated with my 5 year old's constant whining. I have no tolerance for it. At all.
It's no surprise that mine are IL related. I am irritated the my MIL bought each of the boys their own drum sets, even after both of us told her not to. Not really sure where I'm going to put TWO freaking drum sets.
I am also irritated at how completely helpless they are and how dependent they are on DH all of the time. For Thanksgiving, they came to my parents...they looked up directions online (the fact that they figured out how to turn their computer on, is an amazing feat), then called DH in a panic because they couldn't figure out how to print them out. DH was like, well why don't you just write them down? They couldn't, and asked if we would wait for them to get to our house to follow us. We were on our way out the door, so DH said no, and ended up reading them the directions over the phone. Then they called us in another panic because they were on 279 and couldn't figure out how to get to 79. Um, 279 goes TO 79!!!!!!
Once, they drove from their house (South Park) to our house (North Hills), so that they could follow us to Ligonier. How they make it out of their house each day, is beyond me.
I've been doing a good job of letting go of my irritation with them, but we have so much going on right now, that I just don't have the time or patience to constantly coddle and appease them!
My ILs are sweet people and I like them and they have been very nice to me but I am a little perplexed by their gift giving plans. We won't see them this year since they are OOT. Meanwhile DH and I will be traveling so our mail will be stopped and we won't be in a good spot to look for packages. So ILs tell DH that their plan is to give me $ for the remote car starter I want and then they will get him some sort of combination of gifts. But apparently ILs told DH their $$ plans for this and he repeated it exactly to me as they will write you a check for X and I will get 2X.
I'm not trying to sound gift grabby and like the $ or amount is important (but I probably do) but my initial reaction was like, so I'm considered a half member of the family to you? I'm over it now and didn't say anything to DH but it was a weird thing to process internally as a new member of their family.
Get them and disappointed. The pictures don't look great. Last year's card must have been upgraded card stock because it was shinier and printed so much better. But previous years were regular card stock and looked better. And my photos are good quality so it's not me.
I complain and am emailed that I can reorder with upgraded paper and rush shipping and they will put the credit in my account to order if I want that or can get a 25% credit for future purchase. I try doing reorder yesterday and they won't honor what the email said and give me the better paper. I'm not spending more at this point! And the alternative is a measly credit for future purchase! I'm done with them!! Their card prices keep getting more and more ridiculous. These cards are not worth what I paid. I feel like they are doing a crappier job on the cheaper options so you have to go more expensive. And if there customer service can't make up for it I'm moving on.
I was OK with the card prices--but feel like the shipping has been out of control lately. My $10 coupon really only negates the shipping.
So I got another email from shutterfly. I told them about yesterday and that at this point it's too late to order so I'd rather have some sort of refund. They respond that now they have added a credit with the upgraded paper (hello...too late!!) but it's only for half my order. Ugh! I gave up on reordering after all the issues yesterday and don't want to wait till mid week next week to send out so I've already been working on the current cards. Would have reordered yesterday if they could have gotten it together.
Oh and they said they have some image enhancement crap that defaults on and could be the reason their printing sucks. In other words it probably helps bad photos but if you've already photoshopped your photos as I do it will over enhance them. So you need to take it off. Never heard of this with them and never had issues in the past so who knows
Let' just say, it makes me sad when I have plans and expectations, and then they have to change...I'll survive, but some days the bratty part of my attitude wins out, at least internally!