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I win one against the big bad Brown

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

After three phone calls to customer service centers (one of which at least had to be in India), and being told that I live in an apartment complex all three times, someone finally was able to read a map and deliver my package from UPS! We also got an extremely apologetic phone call from a […]



We make ’em lean and mean

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Yesterday was Baby Boy’s nine month check-up. Of course, we were late because the Munchkin insisted on taking her sunglasses to Grandma’s house (my mother watched her while I took Baby Boy to his appointment), and traffic was still lousy, even after rush hour. Fortunately, with two kids in the backseat, I am a carpool. […]



Don’t mess with me, UPS

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

This I do not understand. I returned home after church last night to a message on the answering machine from UPS. “We tried to deliver a package to you from Barnes & Noble, but we don’t have your apartment number. Please contact us…” I stared blankly at the Webmaster as he stared back at me. […]



Reading my fortune cookies

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

One of my Mother’s Day gifts was a couple of bags of what my family calls “unfortunate” cookies. My Obachan gets these huge bags of discounted fortune cookies in Chinatown, and then we all get smaller bags out of the big bag. These cookies are the ones that didn’t make the cut, so they end […]