Harry arrives tomorrow

I’ve been waiting just over two years for tomorrow to arrive—Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be delivered to our front door sometime before 7pm.  I hope it’s delivered by an owl, but I’ll accept a postal employee (especially if they screech a bit while dropping the book off).  I plan to savour the book and read it as slowly and carefully as Nancy will permit (unless she reads it first), because when I’m done, I’ll be left with nothing but another two year wait for book seven.  Thanks to J.K. Rowling for writing books which get me so enthused, though… the only author I’d anticipate more anxiously would be Philip Pullman, and I hope one day he does publish the promised, “The Story of Dust”.  I’ll be sure to write a little Harry Potter review when I’m done reading “The Half-Blood Prince”, and I promise I won’t tell you who dies.

In other news, when did Sears start to suck so badly?  Sears is lucky that Harry Potter is being released, or else this entry would have been entitled (in big H1 tags), “Sears, You Suck”.  About two weeks ago I placed an order with Sears.com during their “4th of July 10% off if you use your Sears card” weekend sale.  I ordered an expensive set of pruning shears, and an expensive pair of garden loppers (for the palm trees), and I saved a decent amount because of the 10% discount.  A few days later I received an email from Sears saying (more or less), “Sorry, we canceled your recent online order.  Feel free to place it again if you still want the items.”  They offered no explanation as to why the order was canceled, and of course, the website no longer offered the 10% discount.  I did reply to their email to ask why they’d canceled my order and to ask if I could still get the 10% discount, but they just sent the identical, original response and didn’t answer my question. 

The next incident was the infamous death of our fancy Kenmore dishwasher, just three years old.  It had already needed a major repair a few months after we bought it, but at least then it was still under warranty.  This time, Kenmore made us wait 10 days for a repair appointment, which I also found inconvenient.  When we needed to buy a new dishwasher, I ordered from the Sears.com website and was told that a customer service rep would call within 24 hours to arrange installation.  That 24 hours has turned into 96 hours, and no one has called to arrange installation.  I also didn’t receive the order confirmation email I need to apply for my delivery rebate, but I can clearly see my order in my Sears.com account and it says “processed” (as opposed to “pending”).  I emailed their customer service dept. to ask if they planned to install my dishwasher sometime before the onset of autumn and casserole season, but surprisingly, no one has replied.  :mad:  I remember the days when I thought of Sears as really reliable and trustworthy, but lately, I’m just not impressed.  If we do ever get this dishwasher and it breaks down before its time, I’m going to go all   Jeff Jarvis on them.

In pet news, all the cats are loving their new Waltham Urinary SO kibble and canned food, courtesy of Derek and his bladder stones.  You know a food must be tasty when it has the word, “urinary” in the name.  Seriously though, Chelsea loves it, and will even pass up a can of moist Friskies for the Waltham kibble.  I don’t know what they put in it—maybe it’s made with kitty crack.  We got Derek’s test results today and he does not have a UTI, thank goodness, and there’s been no blood in the litterbox lately.  The dogs are well but I noticed Dante was squinting a lot today, and later I saw he had some discharge from both eyes.  His eyes were also quite red on closer examination.  He’s got those odd eyes, like a sharpei (not like a “sharpie”, which is what I first wrote)—he doesn’t really have “eyelids”, and his eyes are fairly small, well-protected slits.  For now I’m just dosing him from our extensive veterinary medicine cabinet with “BNPH”, an ophthalmic solution which runneth over around our house.  It’s been prescribed for everything from eye problems to ear problems to upper-respiratory problems, so we’ve got three bottles of it taking up room in the fridge.  If the eyes don’t look better by Monday, we’ll definitely take him in for an appointment with the professionals.

I was asked to bottle-feed three orphaned kittens today, and I sadly had to decline because I just haven’t been feeling well at all.  I’ll write more about this in a more detailed entry this weekend, but I’m trying to change my medications, and I’m switching from one SNRI (Seratonin/Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor) to another.  With SSRIs, I’ve always been able to just do a cold swap—just stop one med, and then start the new one the next day.  The SNRIs aren’t as forgiving, however, and while I figured I could do a cold swap in theory, it’s not working out in practice.  I’m apparently going to have to taper my Effexor XR and then start adding in my new pill, Milnacipran.  I cut out my Effexor two days ago and I’ve felt like a zombie, with today being the worst day of all—headaches, nausea, dizziness, etc.  I finally gave in and took an Effexor and it all went away, but only after I’d suffered for 8 hours and wasted most of the day.  I’ve never had a problem tapering my Effexor, and I’m not at all concerned about tapering it, I’m just surprised that the Milnacipran isn’t picking up the slack.  So, if I owe you email, if I haven’t been posting on message boards, or if I’ve been somewhat silent, it’s just because my brain is on strike.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 07/15 at 10:55 PM

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  1. You may read Harry Potter as slowly or quickly as you wish.  I have several new books to read, so I’m not going to wrestle it out of your hands…even though I’d win.  So, savour (see, I even wrote it the Canadian way) it at your leisure.

    Posted by Flippy  on  07/16  at  12:58 AM

  2. Sending “feel better” vibes your way!  :)

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    Posted by Expat  on  07/16  at  07:08 AM
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