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Duty

Yesterday I received a jury summons in the mail; only the second one in my entire life. The first one was in the county I grew up in and had just recently moved from, I got an excuse from that one. In the letter I received yesterday it said that I could go online and request to be excused...which I did. Don't get me wrong, I would love to be on jury duty. However, I have no one to take care of Geof in my absence. I gave that as my reasoning and was granted an excuse this morning via email. You can bet I'm going to print that sucker out just in case they try to arrest or fine my ass for not showing up!

The Things Kids Say

Deneen reminded me with her post today of a little conversation which took place between Geof and my parents this past weekend. I wasn't there to hear it first-hand but it was just as embarrassing when my parents told me later. Ok, so Geof and my parents were eating a late breakfast. I decided to take the time while Geof was supervised and occupied to unload the things I brought down there for the yard sale week after next. Apparently, in my absence Geof pipes up out of nowhere and says, "Do you know what my Daddy used to put me in my Mommy's tummy?" My folks said that they had to ask him him to repeat himself...which he did. Then he answers himself..."His penis. He used his penis." I am soooo glad I wasn't there at the time, I might have died. My parents have always been open and honest about the birds and the bees, especially my mom. I remember her drawing a picture of a penis on my Magna Doodle as a kid when I was learning about where babies came from. I've decided to take the same approach and be honest about the names of body parts and their functions. My folks laughed about it and I turned ten shades of red. I'm just glad he didn't say that to my grandparents!

F#@$ You Rival!! Part II

Well, the 7-10 days came and went about 4 days ago. On Monday I sent yet another email to customer service here's the copy of that one...

"Here is a copy of an email I received...

"Thank you for your email.Your recall order number is ********* that you can use as a reference, you should receive your base in 7-10 days.
Thank you for contacting Rival
Joe
Jarden Consumer Solutions"

...That was 12 days ago...where is my replacement base?"

Maybe they misunderstood me or may be they just don't read customer correspondence or maybe they just don't give two shits. Here is the response I received...

"Amanda,
You are welcome.
Thank you for contacting Rival, a branch of Jarden Consumer Solutions."

Ugh!! You're Welcome?!?!?!? What the hell? You can bet that I quickly responded to that one, but have yet to hear back.

Tune in next time when we'll find out if Mandi will loose her cool and finally go bat shit crazy, will Rival send her the replacement base and make everything thing right in the world? We'll see on the next episode of "Customer Service".

Today's Quotes From Geof

• "Hey Mom, I just heard someone say hello to me and then I farted!!"
  

• "Wanna smell my ear?"

F#@$ You Rival!!

When Nathaniel and I got married we were gifted a nice Rival crock pot just like this one.

We used it quite a bit during the cooler months until one day the handles fell off of the base! Soon after that, we found out that it and other Rival crock pot models had been recalled due to none other than faulty handles. I contacted the powers that be and sent in the required information and the plug to the base. That was over a year ago. We had actually almost forgotten about it until I saw the base in the shed....it's destined to be a planter at some point. I did a little poking around online and apparently I'm not the only customer with the same problem. I emailed Rival a few days ago with this short and sweet little note...

"A year ago now, I sent in the plug to my faulty crock pot base. I just want to know when I can expect the replacement base? This is absolutely unacceptable and from what I understand I am not alone."

...on Wednesday I got this in response...

Thank you for your email.

Your recall order number is ********* that you can use as a reference, you should receive your base in 7-10 days.

Thank you for contacting Rival

Joe

Jarden Consumer Solutions"

I'll believe that load of bullshit when I see the replacement base in person. What the hell?! It was a volunteer recall, why all the problems? Asshats!

I Remember

Stacey S. McGowan

She was a beloved daughter.
She was president of her class in high school all 4 years.
She was a lacrosse player.
She was a college graduate.
She was smart, funny, and athletic.
She was a lover of life and people.
She was known by her embrace.
She was a hugger.
She was beautiful, inside and out.
She was a godmother.
She was a loving wife.
She was a devoted mother.
She was a gift, to know her was to love her.
She was there that day.
She was only 38...

...She is missed.
She is loved.
She is remembered
and today, She is honored.

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Silly Geof-ism...

"Bird Strings" = power lines...kinda makes sense, no?

Dearest Blogging Buds...

...I tried yesterday to comment on a few blogs hosted by Blogger and it turns out I can't do that anymore. Why, you ask? Because I had the bright idea to go ahead and switch to the beta version of Blogger. I like it ok, I guess, but now I can't comment on blogs that aren't "beta-fied". Another thing I don't like about it is that playing around with the template requires a knowledge of xml, and that is just beyond me at this point. On the other hand it is a lot easier to revert back to what they refer to as the "classic template" or the template you had previously. Weird. So, this is just to let you know that I am reading, but just can't comment at the moment...hopefully that will change...soon.

Weekend Visitor

After Nathaniel and I returned from St. Louis Geof found this attaced to the handle of his toy wheelbarrow...


What is that? you ask...well, it's a Monarch chrysalis, and a very special find. We removed it from the toy (so Geof wouldn't destroy it) and put it in a little jelly jar with a sunflower for a bed, and about a week later it looked like this...


Only a few hours later, it looked like this...


A few more hours later, and a move to the basil plant on the porch...

He flew away after spending the night on the basil plant...he might be somewhere over Mexico right now...I wonder if he'll send a postcard. Ha!

You can see the complete photo montage here. Just thought I'd share, we all thought it was pretty cool to watch, especially Geof.