.. I tell the clerk at Rite Aide One Hour Photo. Keep in mind this is at approximately 1pm on a Friday afternoon, a full eight hours before the store closes. “No,” he replies. “If you want one hour photo processing it’ll be ready tomorrow.” WTF.

At the beginning of March, my fiance ordered us? matching customized Air Zoom Huarache 2k5 basketball sneakers.? After we ordered, the order confirmation informed us that it would take 3-4 weeks for the sneakers to arrive & that we would receive a shipment confirmation and tracking number upon shipment. Great. Wonderful.? 3 ^1/2 weeks later, we have received neither confirmation of shipment nor tracking number. Soo, we decided to log into the niketown website, since the nikeid website required a tracking number (which, once again, we had never gotten!) to track the progress of a shipment (once it’s shipped, obviously). The niketown website showed that the shoes were shipped on 3/22, but did not provide a tracking number. I called Nike, and while the automated telephone system provides me with the same exact information found on the website (that the shoes were shipped on the 22nd), a real, live customer service rep had different information. According to him? and the other two reps I spoke to (I called a few times to make sure? he wasn’t looking up someone else’s info, yes I know, a little neurotic of me),? our order was shipped out on the 8th of March, a mere 6 days after we ordered the shoes, and it was delivered to the rear door of our house.? Now this is just silly, because we were told 3-4 weeks for our customized bad boys, and there is no possible way the UPS guy could have delivered the shoes to the rear door!.? This is because? there is a padlock on the gate leading to the backyard, where the rear door is (no other way to get there!) and we have two dogs (a big yellow lab and a shiba inu fox-lookin fella) in the backyard.? C’mon now.? And that’s why nike+ups=suckiness.? They have collaborated in a joint effort to lose our sneakers.? Now they are looking into this whole mess and trying to figure out all the discrepancies, and if the shoes really cannot be found Nike said they can either re-make the sneakers or refund the $$.? Either way, let me tell you that will take a much longer time than we care for.? Oh man.? Those sneakers better come… or else… I don’t know, it’ll SUCK ? On a lighter and not so angry, annoyed and frustrated note, Go on ahead and visit my Current Renter, the fire within….,(see sidebar) and tell them kristinaQ from green tea ROCKS dot com? sent you

Soo..? a few weeks before my high school graduation last year, I learned I was pregnant. Although my pregnancy was unplanned, my fiance(boyfriend at the time) and I loved our baby from the moment we found out. Needless to say, there were many things that had to change in my life. A few months later, I moved in with my fiance.? One thing I had to give up was a hefty scholarship to a very good school. However, at my parents’ urging, I decided to not totally decline my acceptance, but to merely defer it, as doing so would reserve my place for the 06/07 school year and provide me with a 100% guarantee that I would still be privy to the scholarship should I end up attending the school. Because of the circumstances, I really felt that I wouldn’t be able to handle a full-time schedule of classes next year. After all, as of this coming Sept, my son will still only be 7 months old, and daycare/babysitter costs are astronomical. But I’m lucky… because my parents refuse to let me get a chance to not further my education. They’re going to help me with all the costs of tuition, childcare and transportation. After discussing everything,? we have decided that? we will do whatever it takes to get my education as I had planned to, because I know that doing so will help me and my fiance to provide my son with all the things he needs and deserves and then some. I want him to have a good life and working hard now will help me to provide him with that.? But I know I’m lucky because? I have full support from my fiance and my parents (and even though he’s only about? 7 weeks old, I know my son supports me too!), and I thank God that? I have them.? :-)? Now all I have to do is get the paperwork going, meet with the counselors, etc etc…

Now I’m not saying it was a bad movie.. it was just frustrating. And gross. And disturbing.. on sooo many levels. Anyone else feel this way??