The last couple of days have been just crazy. It seems like I can never catch up on things. The housework keeps piling up, my job is picking up, now one of our boys is sick. Aaaa... How, how do you all, amazing ladies, balance being Moms, wives, sisters, daughters and all the other responsibilities that you face every day? Yes, I feel a little overwhelmed and slightly frazzled today (I promise, you don't want to see what my hair looks like right now...)
For the past few days we've been trying to work on our future guest room but it seems like there is always something else that demands our attention. Especially when nothing goes right! Like it was today.
We are making a new book shelf to contain a ginormous amount of books that we have. We got some premade shelves and wanted to top it with a finished wood slab. We measured and remeasured and finally knew exactly what we needed and what was in our budget. And than we headed to Lowe's...
We picked up a nice-looking 12-inch wide board that was a little too long, so we had it cut to our measurements. We bought it back on Thursday but only got to working on it today. Imagine our surprise when we tried to line it up with the shelves (again, to double-check that everything was right) and realized that the wood was not wide enough! In fact, it was missing almost an inch, less than 11 1/4 instead of 12.
Long story short, Hubs headed back to Lowe's and received the cold shoulder there. They were so rude! They told him that they didn't care that it was the wrong size, that they are not responsible because they don't cut their wood but get it from somewhere else, that as wood dries up, it shrinks, that after the wood was custom cut (when they made it shorter for us), there was nothing they could do. OK, maybe, for some seasoned DIY pros out there, it's a no-brainer that you need to have an extra measuring tape with you every time you shop a hardware store but we are still novices in that. But seriously when I go to a store to buy a dress of certain length, I don't expect it to end up being a whole inch shorter and think it's OK. Maybe, I should buy less dresses and more lumber, huh...
The ordeal still ended up to our advantage. After my very nice and quiet husband threw a small fit (blame it on a long day!) they finally, well, after some verbal vulgarities, called a regional manager who told them to give the money back. I know, it was only $12 but, hey, I could use it somewhere better, right? Since we still need the wood...
And how was your day??? I hope it was much more pleasurable than ours :)
