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My Life Thus Far
2006-12-14 05:32:26 (UTC)

There's Other Ways

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I was trying so hard to be happy. I really was, but
one big factors got in my way. It's too complicated to
elaborate, so I'll just run through my day and you can
pick it out.

I had today off. One of my few days off now that I'm in
such high demand at work. Snookums had his follow up
appointment at Madigan for his toe, so we spent the day in
Tacoma. His toe is doing much better. The infection is
almost gone and I can stop doing the twice daily soaks and
involved wrappings I've been doing for the past week. Now
he's just got a band-aid over the raw area of his big toe.
He found out today that they're not going to be able to do
the permanent procedure before he leaves on WestPac, so
that put him in a sour mood for the better part of the
day. He'll have to depend on the corpsman on the ship to
keep the infection from coming back until July or August
when he gets home.

Since today was our last trip to Tacoma until after
Christmas (at least for a reason other than shopping),
Snookie said I could pick out my Christmas present today!
A new Coach bag. We checked at the PX on base, but they
were completely picked over and didn't have anything I
liked, so we went to the Tacoma mall. We'd planned on
going there anyway. I wanted to see their new VS. It's
been remodeled and has a beauty store, which we don't have
at my store.

Anyhow, Snookie took me to Macy's to look at their Coach
section and I found the Holiday Patchwork Gallery Tote to
suit my liking just fine. So, I went to pay for it and
they wouldn't take my check! I've NEVER bounced a check in
my life. We've got $897.34 in our checking account, but
they wouldn't take my check. I was completely embarrassed.
So, I paid with Visa checkcard, which made no sense at all
considering they're drawn from the same checking account.
The cashier told me they wouldn't say why they declined
it, but to call my bank just in case. So, I did. The
manager of Navy Federal told me my account was in
excellent standing, always has been and she had no idea
why they wouldn't honor my check. Other than maybe they
considered it to be too risky to accept a $433.22 check
from anyone. It was nice of her to try to comfort me, but
I find it hard to believe that they decline every $400
check that comes their way. If I hadn't liked the damn bag
so much I would have just walked away. Honestly, the whole
experience has tainted the way I feel about the bag. I had
such a lovely experience getting my current Coach. I got
it on Rodeo Drive. The salesman was so friendly and nice.
I think I'll check Bangor. If they've got this bag or
another one I like, I think I'll take the Macy's one back,
just because I don't like how they treated me. I never
shop there for anything other than Coach anyway. I'll just
stop going all together. God knows there's other ways to
come by a Coach other than Macy's.

I tried to cheer myself up with more shopping. The VS in
Tacoma has an Italian line called Intimissimi, which they
were having a sale on, so I got 3 gorgeous Italian blouses
for $30.00. Regularly $126. Even that didn't cheer me up.
After that we just came home. If shopping doesn't help,
nothing else will.

Snookums is feeling better and is trying to make me happy,
but I'm still dejected. I think I'll go to bed and maybe
when I wake up, things will look brighter. Ciao.




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