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So for some reason, ranting on here brings me peace of mind. I have no idea why. I have been walking around ranting about these stupid window people for the past two weeks (at least). And after posting that rant up on here, everything was better. They haven’t fixed anything, but I feel like I have taken my vengeance on them by letting the internet-people know that this company’s service sucks.

In other rants, I bought clothes online last week. I thought it was a good idea. They were really nice clothes on clearance and I was ordering with a couple other people, so we were all saving on shipping and other miscellaneous hidden fees. I ended up buying a pair of cargo pants and an adjustable sluttiness skirt, both the same size. When they arrived, the waists of the two garments differed by over 4 inches, resulting in my having to send both back for exchanges. How is this possible? I have ranted about this a couple of times before, but not recently. So, I will try again.

Women’s clothing need a new system. There is no reason men should get numbers like 32×34, representing actual inch measurements, while women get 6, representing a value comparable to some standard of measure that is undisclosed to anyone. There is no reason women’s clothing should come in negative sizes. There is no reason for me to buy two garments from the same company and have them not fit in completely opposite ways.

And why are sizes only even numbers or odd numbers? Just give misses a range and juniors a range. That’s it. No skipping numbers. If you’re out of one range, you’ve reached the next. Tough. If you have a 30″ waist, you’re a size 10 (or whatever standardized size you want). There’s no cheating the system. There’s no courtesy size-down. There’s no one number that defines a dress

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So, according to the world of fashion, I’m between a size 4 and a size 14. I’m getting a personal tailor. Anyone want in?

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– Rep stops by for bay window order, give him another deposit. Hand him completed form for HOA. He says he’ll take care of it and that someone will be in contact with me the next week to come make final measurements of my windows.
7/7 – Call Rep to find out when windows will be measured and if HOA forms have been taken care of. He says he will find out what’s going on and will personally handle my HOA forms.
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I call back and talk to my rep to find out what was going on. He tells me that he sent the forms out on 7/21. The person who called is new and has been reprimanded for her ineptitude. (Ok, fine. That was me editorializing.)
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– Receive letter in the mail, dated 7/26, from Premier Windows with a copy of my signed HOA form along with an envelope, asking me to sign and send to my HOA.
8/1 – Call Premier again to find out what’s wrong with them. Explain that if they didn’t send the form when they claim they did, which it doesn’t look like they did, it will take another month for them to get my windows in because they missed my monthly HOA meeting, which is the only time they approve home improvements.
8/2 – Receive call from same employee of 7/25 asking for my HOA information, which I gave to her on 7/25.
8/6 – Receive letter from HOA approving windows.
8/9 – Call Premier to let them know the approval came through.
8/12 – 8am Fax approval letter to Premier.
8/12 – 5pm Receive phone call saying that my windows will be installed on Monday. I double check to make sure my windows are done: bay window? Approved today? Yes, yes. They are in. They will be installing at my house and my sister’s house on Monday and Tuesday. Arrange for someone to be at the house on Monday/Tuesday, call the guy back to confirm the date and double-check that my windows are done.
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– Call window guy again to check to make sure they have the right windows and to confirm they will be coming to my house first and then my sister’s house on Tuesday.
8/15 – Window people show up at my house with my sister’s windows. They don’t have my windows. “The warehouse messed up.” My windows have not been started. The windows that have been finished are both clearly marked with my sister’s name and address.
8/15 – Speak with my rep again. He explains to me that it is not their policy to give people discounts/refunds.
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Friday — Loafed around a bunch, but then made a Dulce de Leche Cheesecake for Eepie’s deportation party. Ventured off to Wegman’s to find some of the ingredients I needed and ended up having to wander around and ask a handful of employees where to find Dulce de Leche stuff. Some of the people had heard of it, some hadn’t, so I had hope that they had it in the store somewhere. I just had to keep asking until I found the one person who would know. Eventually, it turned out that I had walked right past it like 3 times because it was half-hidden behind a display. Once I found my key ingredient (International aisle, Latin American section), I was off!

Baked up the cheesecake. Freaked out a little because I had no idea how to tell if it was done. I didn’t know if non-jiggly meant it was set or if a toothpick inserted in the center would indicate anything. Turns out, when the whole cake rises, it’s done. So, I ended up baking it for about 75 minutes, taking it out 3 times to check it.

Let that cool/refrigerate for a while and read/napped. Then, walked over to the HOY for more lounging. Read for a while and waited for the Asian Express to arrive. Adventures at Malibu Grill, then back to the HOY where there were way too many people to keep track of. Excellent turnout for Eepie’s farewell. Lots of shiny new toys for her. Played video games, ate desserts, met new people… After the crowd thinned out, we headed out for some questionable activities, back for more video games, then home.
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Pretty good, guys…

Apparently, no one fell for the apartment fight story. Too common, I guess. I voted for the last choice because I wanted to participate in the voting too, but didn’t want to give away the answer. I don’t know why, but someone else decided to vote for that too. It was a pretty close race between Glass Hand and Weed Jar.

The glass hand story was mostly true. Everything except the guy sticking his hand in the sub. We did have a water release hatch on the bottom of our sub. We did spend weeks forming the hull. We did write lyrics and sign the sub each year. But we didn’t have anyone dumb enough to stick his bare hand into a mixture of fiberglass and resin.

The Weed Jar story: completely true. My mom saw right through this story because she knew weird stuff came into the lab. She mentioned that while she was working there, a tumor was sent in that was stored in a pickle jar. Now, that sounds made up.

Thanks for playing everyone! Back to boring blogging starting… Now. :) -j.

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The specimens arrived at the lab in boxes on the conveyor belt. They were unloaded and sent down another conveyor belt for the lab technicians to sort and label. Then, the forms and labels came to me to be entered into the database. It was pretty mundane work and there was no internet or games to play when there was a lull. Most of the time I would just bring a book and read for half the day and work the other half. The daytime shift was usually the slowest, so I was the only data entry clerk there. I would talk with the lab technicians or go around trying to do other people’s work, but I got in trouble because I wasn’t “qualified” to feed papers into their scanner or something like that.

The specimens that came through were usually only one of a few different types: blood, stool, urine. Every once in a while they have something else in the mix, like hair, bile or other fluids. But one day, there was a big stir when something came out of the box at the first conveyor belt. It was definitely something out of the ordinary because people actually seemed excited about seeing what it was. You really can’t say that about a stool sample. This sample was in a medium-sized mason jar. Now, that by itself is weird for a medical lab. Samples are supposed to come in vials or hermetically sealed bags or something. Not in mason jars. But that aside, it was obviously the plant inside the mason jar that was attracting the attention. One of the supervisors noticed the commotion and had to get up to the front and take care of that sample herself. I guess, there was a possibility that someone might try to steal it? Anyway, I can’t confirm or deny the contents of the jar, since I didn’t see the results after it was tested. But it seemed pretty obvious to the people trying to get their hands on the jar that it was filled with weed.

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The process of designing the sub had us split into different sub-teams, but when it came to construction, everyone helped out. The largest part of the build was the hull. This required a large mold, which we special ordered the last year I was there to work on the sub. In previous years, a plug was made and then the sub built around that. Every year, working on the sub, there were accidents and all kinds of minor “incidents.” But this particular year, we went above and beyond.

The mold that we had made was a female mold. It had an indentation in a large piece of foam in the shape of the hull. We would lay the glass in the mold and just pop it out when it had set. This was better than the male mold we had used previously because the majority of the imperfections in the glass we laid would be on the interior instead of the exterior, resulting in less time needed for sanding.

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Friday night, got home from work after a 90-minute commute. Needed to get gas and that ended up taking way longer than I thought it would to get out to the cheap gas station I usually go to. Then, got home and finished up Harry Potter while Sonny was cleaning up around the house. Went out with Ian after that. He just finished up his first full week of working like the rest of us suckers, so we had a pretty mellow night. Went to Chipotle and then to Wegman’s to get groceries for Sonny’s extravaganza. Got back from Wegman’s and tried to stuff as much food into Ian’s fridge as we could and then just loafed for the evening.

Saturday, I apparently got kicked out of the family. They all played tennis and had family time without me. Then, I ditched my parents and ended up picking up party foods from Costco with Ian and his bro. We got back to find that there wasn’t enough room in his freezer for all the food. Rushed over to my parents’ house to make use of their freezers, then went to MicroCenter to get a new motherboard for Ian. He did the fixing his computer thing while I took a nap. Then headed over to my place to wait for Lenny’s fiancé’s uncle to come fix Sonny’s A/C unit. He showed up a little late because his van broke down on the way into the neighborhood and had to wander the neighborhood looking for our house. Turned out the A/C unit was out of Freon, so Lenny drove him to go get some and it was all fixed and livable again shortly thereafter.

Headed back with Ian and my mom after that. Dropped my mom off, picked some tomatoes up. Made plans for delivery of the frozen goods the next day. Went back to Ian’s to make Peanut Chewies, pasta salad, and to wash and cut vegetables and fruit. Nothing exciting about those recipes, really. I followed instructions and it all turned out nicely. I used cornflakes instead of rice krispees, though and I think the texture might have been better if I had used what they said. But it was still good.

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So busy this weekend with Sonny’s welcome home party. Getting late though, so I should post stuff later. Have some new recipes to share and stories to tell. We’ll see how that goes though. I had a rant on Friday, but I can’t remember it now. That kind of saddens me. If you have something you’re angry about, let me know. Maybe I can get angry too!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and made today so much fun! G’nite. :) -j.

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