Bad Day

[Duende]

I just need to vent after the terrible day I had today. It all started at 2:30 AM this morning when my upstairs neighbors alarm went off, which I can hear perfectly through the air vent. The thing is that my "wonderful" neighbors are appaerntly incapable of getting themselves out of bed like normal people. The alarm rang and rang until a little after 3:00, when somebody finally hit the snooze button. Then I had about 10 minutes of silence when it started again, and rang and rang until about 3:35 when the snooze was hit again, and of course, ten minutes later, it started again. they didn't actually get thier lazy asses out of bed and the damn alarm shut off until a little after 4:00 am. By this time I was very awake and so steamed that I was outside in my bathrobe trimming the hedges to work off my angry energy, especially since neighbors seemed equally deaf to my banging on the vents and ringing the doorbell. This has been going on for the last couple of weeks, I try to keep a fan on in my room but I can still hear it through the fan noise, and since it sounds just like MY alarm clock, I'm already accustomed to awakening to that particular noise. I don't think I've had a solid full night's sleep in weeks now (they even do this on Saturdays).

At work, I'd say it was mediocre, except anything I tried to print seemed to get f***ed up in some way, whether ink was smudging, or the 2nd side of a two-sided sheet was printing upside-down, it just was making me crazy. The only saving grace was the bowl of candy bars a coworker brought in that she has leftover from Halloween. Thank god for chocolate!

Now the latest. I was lucky enough to claim one of Cindy's 20 Mabel's that she was selling, so I bought her and also one of her Esthers. I got the package today... or rather what the post office left of it, which was just a torn envelope in an plastic sleeve with a printed note on it saying "WE CARE. Dear Postal Customer: We sincerely regret the damage......." blah blah blah. When I saw this and realized that the wonderful PO had just lost an irreplacable mini I just felt like screaming. I feel like just going to bed now and not getting up again until this day is over, but I still have to pick up my daughter. I'm at the point where I'm wondering what else can go wrong... :(

Well, sorry for taking up the space and your time, but I just needed to rant. I know Cindy comes here too, so I also needed to let her know what happened to her package. I think I'm gonna go bury my head in the sand now and mark down that Wednesdays the 1sts are my personal Friday the 13ths. Thanks for letting me rant.

-Michelle "Duende"

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[Hinton]

All you got was an empty enevlope? That blows!

I'm sorry you had such a crappy day. Hopefully it'll get better.

[Wren]

That is a pretty bad day. :-< It always seems stuff like mail being eaten or whatnot happens with something pretty precious like that and not junk mail. I hope things look up for you soon!

[Nathan Caroland]

Ugh, I think its time to have a personal talk with the neighbors and let them know that this can't go on like this any longer or you'll be forced to storm their door and cut the cord on the darn thing. :D

Work .. happens, had one of those weeks a bit back.

The package though, that truly blows! Probably would of been a bit better off in a box but I've had those torn open too (grrr) but either way, the postal service really pulled a number there!

Hope your week manages to get better.

[supervike]

At least there was the chocolate!

Silver lining and all that....

happy thoughts happy thoughts

[cdukino]

Hi girl. I have another Mabel. She is a miscast more or less... meaning she has a to heavy mouldline to be sold. But that can be cleaned with a bit of work so that you can't see it on the final painted version. I noticed I did not line the sides of the envelope with sticky tape like I usually do. I wrap the mabel in bubblewap so it becomes bigger and has no pointy bits too. I never had problems with that till this one.The Dutch postalservice doesn't have good small boxes (hence me hamstering up all the boxes people send me) and the crappy ones they do have (you can dent them with your pinky) cost a relative small fortune and up the sendingprice a lot due to size and crapload of material you need to fill it up every time (oh and we don't have firm convenient small bubblewrap envelopes at the postoffice either). Seems that extra step border the envelope rims does pay off... or is a recepy for disaster if I do not. My little bad (ran out of sticky tape and thought the extra firm big bubblewrap bag inside would be safe enough.... the tear really had to be this big for it to even come out... it was exactly as big as the envelope itself.)

I will resend you the slight but savable miscast. That's the best i can do. I just don't have any others for sale left. (There goes hoping all the others arrive safely). Hope this makes you feel a bit better.

I do not have an ester left though :( There will be recasts in the future, I can offer you a Ben instead... I have 2 of him left to send out... but recasts can be (very) distant future.

[Hinton]

Do we need to send a donation of small boxes to cdukino?

Sometimes it doesn't matter how well you try and protect a package. Things like this happen from time to time unfortunately. And sometimes, I wonder if it's an accident at all.

[Maestro]

That really sucks, doesn't it??

I got my model from Matty just yesterday, also in a (slightly) torn enveloppe, and only the body still remaining inside.. The seperate arm, head and cape were gone... :(

John

[Illustrange]

Do we need to send a donation of small boxes to cdukino?

Sometimes it doesn't matter how well you try and protect a package. Things like this happen from time to time unfortunately. And sometimes, I wonder if it's an accident at all.

you should, because its indeed hard to find those and what I remember (havent tryed posting anything in a while.) about the price, Id rather have a freebooter mini or 2 wyrd minis for that :S and since she probably has to send out regulary.

my own experiences with this (probably not the topic starters intent.) have been pretty good, apart from rackham who once sent me quite some stuff I didnt want or was just-different than what I really wanted, not to forget that I didnt get the 2 free armypacks back then (a dozen of free miniatures... 2 christmasses ago I think ?) wich I was entitled to with my order... ofcourse I got my bad on another site... borders custom opened and charged my taxing for packages 2 times, coming from the usa ..the tax was almost as much as the order >_<

@duende
life of brian,
skip all the movie to the end.


doubtfull its any help tough ;)

[Stupidcow]

When things go totally wrong, it means you have just reach the turning point. From now onwards, things are gonna just get better.

[Ritual]

When things go totally wrong, it means you have just reach the turning point. From now onwards, things are gonna just get better.
Yes, tomorrow you will ONLY be woken at 2:30 AM by your neighbours, not have any package lost in mail! A definite improvement! :D

Seriously, though, what a bummer! Those neighbours of yours seem like a real pain! Can't you contact the landlord or something?

[Jabberwocky]

Sorry to hear about the day--hang in there, it will get better!

[Duende]

Thanks for all the kind words everybody! :love:

I did say something to my neighbors the other morning when they left thier apartment aound 5AM, they said they would try to change it.... last night I didn't hear their alarm until about 3:55 am, and since I know they get up around 4, I only had to hear it ring for about 10 minutes.... I hope it can stay that way and I just didn't sleep through it going off at 2:30 am again. I really think they should just get a different sounding alarm clock since they sleep through the sound of this one, they should try something different. :irked:

On a long-shot, I did go to the post office and described what was in the envelope, just in case they would happen to find the minis on the floor or something, so they have my name and number just in case. I know they're unlikely to be found, but it doesn't hurt to try. I'll take the bad Mabel, Cindy, I hopefully can fix the seams with a little GS. (And give that package a few layers of tape! ;) ) Maybe you can write "buky contents" in big letters on it as well.

Today is going alright, the worst thing today is some files that refuse to transfer onto a CD (I keep getting writing error messages during the burning, and I've gone through about 5 blanks now).

Of course what would really make my day is seeing a Rotten Harvest II gallery go up! *nudge, nudge, wink, wink*:flirt:

@ Illustrange - "Life of Brian" huh? It's been ages since I've seen that movie, I can't remember the song at the end.. Didn't it also have the "Every Sperm is Sacred" song? ;) or was that a different Python movie?

[EricJ]

sorry to hear all the bad new Michelle :(

I think what you should do is get a bull horn, and when the alarm goes off, put it right up against the wall, turn it to high, and gently suggest they shut the damn thing off :)

[Ritual]

@ Illustrange - "Life of Brian" huh? It's been ages since I've seen that movie, I can't remember the song at the end.. Didn't it also have the "Every Sperm is Sacred" song? ;) or was that a different Python movie?
That's from "The Meaning of Life"! The song I guess Illustrange had in mind was "Always look on the bright side of life".

[cdukino]

[QUOTE=Duende]
On a long-shot, I did go to the post office and described what was in the envelope, just in case they would happen to find the minis on the floor or something, so they have my name and number just in case. I know they're unlikely to be found, but it doesn't hurt to try. I'll take the bad Mabel, Cindy, I hopefully can fix the seams with a little GS. (And give that package a few layers of tape! ;) ) Maybe you can write "buky contents" in big letters on it as well.

[QUOTE]

Oh I don't think you understood me completely. I am resending it to you... no costs for you. I wanna make up for you bad day a little. But I can't give you the exact same thing due to the mouldline nd having no esthers left. But a knife and carefull scraping should take care of it... no Greenstuff needed... just some carefull cutting and scraping and she will be as cute as the others.

And believe me I will use tape in abundance.

[Nathan Caroland]

Heh, the bullhorn suggestion is great ... or go get one of those air powered fog horns and put it to the ceiling and pull the trigger!

Contest pages likely be up tomorrow, been doing the 14 hour shifts again ...

[Ritual]

Contest pages likely be up tomorrow, been doing the 14 hour shifts again ...
Well, that leaves you with 10 whole hours each day to upload the contest entries! Plenty of time!!! :D :poke:

[LavronYor]

Duende, I would let the police use their bullhorn, as you file a disturbing the peace charge. Having to go to court because you are either too stupid or too lazy to turn off an alarm should get their attention. Or phoning the landlord at these times might also give the hint.

Hope things are going better.

[Jubilee]

Before my husband and I bought our house, we lived in an old house that had been converted into three apartments - we had the basement, and there were some other tenants upstairs. Well, these tenants kept the strangest hours - and played loud music at 1am. My husband is a fairly heavy sleeper, but it kept me awake most nights. In addition, they would occasionally vacuum in the middle of the night!!

Eventually, we called the landlord to complain and get the phone number of the people upstairs. I started calling them whenever their music was keeping me up. Some nights, I could hear their phone ringing upstairs (because I was calling them), but apparently their music was so loud, they wouldn't hear it! Sometimes I would have to call 3-4 times.

Finally, we had to move our bedroom into a much smaller room (uncarpeted! ug) on the other side of the apartment to escape their loud music. About a month after we had done so, one of the tenants came to tell us that the person who had been playing the loud music would be moving his room to the other side of the house so he wouldn't be bothering us anymore. ARG!!!

Not long after that I demanded that we buy our own damn house. ;) I can't stand noisy and inconsiderate neighbors.

Try getting their phone number and calling them when they leave their alarm on.. :)

/ali

[Akenmaat]

I completely feel for you. My husband and I used to live under some neighbors that made a lot of noise late at night (sometimes as late as 2 or 3 AM). I'm positive they had the entire NFL up there some nights. However, our apartment manager says to call him at ANY hour if anyone has a noise problem, which I've since done several times. (I'm a real grouch (read: pure evil) if I wake up before I'm supposed to). They stopped moving furniture/playing football/wrestling rhinos or whatever it was they were doing.

Now I just have to get that :cussing: 5-year-old brat next door to stop doorbell-ditching me when I'm home from work with a migraine. :wtf:


Anyway...
I'm a firm believer in Karma. One of these days that guy with the alarm clock is going to live somewhere else and have an infant, and HIS neighbor is going to wake up said child at all the most inopportune moments possible, thus waking him up allllllllll night. :D

If you don't want to wait for that, get a hand-held compressed-air horn and give it a good 3 second blare through his window... or aimed through your ceiling... or in his general direction. :evil: (OK, not really. That would be bad.... but it sounds so satisfying.... but would be evil... but sooo tempting... no, no, no! must not turn to the dark side... *cackle*)
Yeah.... I'm tired. I'm going to bed now.

[Nathan Caroland]

Airhorn = Good Idea!

[Akenmaat]

I love airhorns. My dad used to keep one next to the phone for those special solicitors that just wouldn't take "NO!" for an answer. I still think it's hilarious.

[Duende]

Anyway...
I'm a firm believer in Karma. One of these days that guy with the alarm clock is going to live somewhere else and have an infant, and HIS neighbor is going to wake up said child at all the most inopportune moments possible, thus waking him up allllllllll night. :D


I suppose I should clarify.... the couple above me is a lesbian couple, one of which has two kids from a previous marriage. I think it's the blonde one who has the alarm problem, but I didn't hear it last night so they must have done something..

[supervike]

Lesbians? Why didn't you say? I'm on my way....

[Duende]

Lesbians? Why didn't you say? I'm on my way....

LOL! Yep, and I'll only just say that the alarm isn't teh only thing I've heard coming from upstairs..... well, at least THAT doesn't go on for hours and disturb my sleep!
:laugh:

[Duende]

Update:

Well, I suppose my luck had to turn around at some point. Today in the mail came Cindy's second attempt at mailing Mabel to me, and they made it this time! Yay!
:cheer2:

And just to add icing to the cake, I also got what I thought was a bill from my local Health Center (family doctor), but it turns out that apparently I overpaid them somewhere and inside the envelope was a nice little check. Yay, Christmas shopping here I come!

So I guess the moral of this story is that even if you have a day where you just want to tear all your hair out, there'll come a day when you'll want to glue it back on. :tongue2: :thinking:

Thanks Cindy!

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P.S. I also talked to the upstairs neighbors about their alarm, and that situation is also better, I haven't head thier alarm for the past week now! :D

[Hinton]

Glad to hear you had a good day to counter-balance the bad one.

[Akenmaat]

Woohoo! Glad to hear things are better. :)