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Regrouping
Sep. 8th, 2011 11:50 amAll righty, then. Somehow, the world always looks better after a night's sleep - especially on the rare and blessed occasions that said night's sleep somehow manages to not include nightmares.
Current plan is for the ever-amazing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
umbran to try to get out to the Sprint MegaSuperStore at lunchtime today, since his job does not, in fact, involve chaining him to an exam table covered in sick puppies. With any luck, he will emerge from the hunt victorious, bringing back life-giving sustenance for his mate and proving his value to the tribe.
And if that doesn't work, I have pointers now to places where I can hopefully order something online; I feel rather foolish that such an idea didn't occur to me last night - my only defense is that, after a long miserable day of catastrophes (morning traffic turning my 20-mile commute into an hour-and-a-half nightmare; no technician and two doctors at work; driving 2 hours to be with Sick Friend; having trouble establishing boundaries with said friend's husband; not being able to call husband or mom on the way home) I was not quite at my freshest and most optimistic.
I do, though, have to put in a good word for the kids who work at the Radio Shack in the Burlington Mall here in MA. We descended on them half an hour before closing, asked a lot of questions that they didn't have the resources to answer, and then I proceeded to have a near-total meltdown in their store. And they were quiet, and patient, and friendly, and honestly did their level best to solve every problem in any way possible, up to and including giving me directions to their competitor's stores when they didn't have what I needed, and not rolling their eyes when I started crying over a damn phone.
And thanks to all of you guys, too, for sharing your sympathies, your numbers, and your offers of either phones or ways to get a new one of my own. I'm sorry for crashing and burning like that. But today is a new day, I've only got one more day left in the work week, I will hopefully get the chance to make dinner and actually sit down in the living room and relax with my husband tonight, and the world will not end if I don't make it through every obligation, commitment, and demand that I feel beating me about the shoulders....
Current plan is for the ever-amazing
umbran to try to get out to the Sprint MegaSuperStore at lunchtime today, since his job does not, in fact, involve chaining him to an exam table covered in sick puppies. With any luck, he will emerge from the hunt victorious, bringing back life-giving sustenance for his mate and proving his value to the tribe.And if that doesn't work, I have pointers now to places where I can hopefully order something online; I feel rather foolish that such an idea didn't occur to me last night - my only defense is that, after a long miserable day of catastrophes (morning traffic turning my 20-mile commute into an hour-and-a-half nightmare; no technician and two doctors at work; driving 2 hours to be with Sick Friend; having trouble establishing boundaries with said friend's husband; not being able to call husband or mom on the way home) I was not quite at my freshest and most optimistic.
I do, though, have to put in a good word for the kids who work at the Radio Shack in the Burlington Mall here in MA. We descended on them half an hour before closing, asked a lot of questions that they didn't have the resources to answer, and then I proceeded to have a near-total meltdown in their store. And they were quiet, and patient, and friendly, and honestly did their level best to solve every problem in any way possible, up to and including giving me directions to their competitor's stores when they didn't have what I needed, and not rolling their eyes when I started crying over a damn phone.
And thanks to all of you guys, too, for sharing your sympathies, your numbers, and your offers of either phones or ways to get a new one of my own. I'm sorry for crashing and burning like that. But today is a new day, I've only got one more day left in the work week, I will hopefully get the chance to make dinner and actually sit down in the living room and relax with my husband tonight, and the world will not end if I don't make it through every obligation, commitment, and demand that I feel beating me about the shoulders....
