I have quite a few draft entries lurking from the past week and a half. I start them but can’t seem to follow through (and if you know me well, you know that if there’s one thing I’m really good at it’s follow-through…hehe). I’m no Bethany Actually or SAJ, I’m afraid! I love their picture-filled entries that share glimpses into their lives. I rely on my words but words alone get boring after a while. And I have the nerve to complain that I’m still an amateur with my camera. Here’s a newsflash: if I challenged myself to include just one picture with each entry I bet I’d get closer to mastering the DSLR.

But let me share today’s tale of faux woe (some trivia: I have used that expression in two other entries).

(I just took a thirty minute break during which I checked to see if http://fauxwoe.com was available (buying domains to me is like buying shoes for many women), then tried to find the best price for the domain before registering it. And now I’m in the midst of preparing a very late but bound-to-be-delicious meal of chicken parmigiana.)

A month ago, my father (who prefers not to procrastinate) told me to take the car to a garage to get winter tires put on it. After several reminders I called Walmart’s automotive department and the soonest appointment at that time was for November 23, which I thought was too late. I decided I’d try walking in (driving in?) to see if I could snag the first appointment of the next morning. At least eight people had the same idea so I decided I’d go to another garage.

But then it didn’t snow, so I became complacent. But then with December around the corner I decided to call for an appointment and of course my November 23 appointment was taken. The new appointment date was for today, December 7. And thank God I got that date because last night it began snowing, and this snow had the nerve to accumulate on the roads and lawns in my area.

I showed up at 8:56am for my 9:00am appointment(!!) and dropped the car off. The man running the desk wanted to know if I was planning to wait for the car or if I’d pick it up after work. I lied and said the former, just so they wouldn’t delay my appointment, and went off to work. I called before leaving work at the end of the day, only to find out that although Walmart is open 24 hours, the automotive department is only open until 5pm on Mondays, so I’d have to pick the car up tomorrow. Argh!

I headed home and spent my usual 30+ minutes trying to decide what to have for dinner. My thought processes were interrupted by a call from Walmart’s automotive department, telling me that the car was ready to be picked up! “But I called you 2.5 hours ago to pick it up and was told you closed at 5pm,” I grumbled. The fellow on the phone told me they had decided to stay open longer (probably because of the first snow), but they’d be closing in 25 minutes. Walmart is approximately 20 minutes away by foot, but it was snowy and I don’t have winter boots (I wore my dad’s boots last year, if you recall) so I wasn’t sure if I could make it. But the fellow offered to leave the keys and the bill with customer service, in the section of the store that’s open 24 hours, so I put on my layers and my least slippery shoes and headed to the ‘mart.

With my ipod most of the walk was a breeze.

I collected the keys without incident, spoke up when the cashier failed to ask me to pay the bill, and headed to the grocery store, with the hope of finding dinner inspiration. I bought chicken AND beef, but tonight I settled on Chicken Parmigiana.

I’m just finishing if off now and it was delicious!

Filed under: Mundane by jummy