I am irritated and I need to vent, so that means you get to read about it! Yay!

Ok, a few weeks ago, I was burning one of my Gold Canyon Candles and I noticed that it smelled more waxy than the last one. I thought it was a fluke, but not enough of a fluke that I was willing to buy another big one, so I opted for one of the smaller ones…and sure enough, it was not a fluke…*sigh*

I had only gone to GCC because a friend had been selling them and they were a bit cheaper than Yankee Candles (after you factor in her discount, etc). So, I figured I’d had a good run with GCC and decided to get back to the candles I’d loved for years, Yankee Candles.

My one mistake?

Not using caution when ‘going back’ like I did when I tried to decide if the GCC thing was a fluke. No-Siree-Bob…I went right ahead and got three of the big ones.

I wasn’t disappointed. At first. I mean, they smelled the same as I remember and they made my house smell SO stinkin good! The problem was, the wick-holder-dodad - it was like…to long. When the wick was all said and done, I had a TON of wax (good smelling, expensive wax) left over in my candle. I was NOT happy!

So, what did I do?

I melted it down and measured exactly how much (useless) wax I had left after using all of the wick. Guess what? I had just over the amount needed to make one of their small jars…4.3 oz of unused, unusable, expensive, stupid wax. Those suckers sell for $10 in the store (and online!).

So, I sent them an email. I am already certain what their answer will be, “we sell wax warmers online and in the store…blah blah blah”

This really irritates me! I mean seriously! If they are going to require you to make an additional purchase to get the full use of their product, shouldn’t they disclose that at the start?

Anyway…that’s my rant for the day. Freakin Yankee (useless, leftover expensive wax) Candles.

Yeah…I’m not buying a warmer. I’ll just throw these stupid things away and never buy another Yankee Candle again!

Grr

• The AC is broken, we are waiting for the AC man.
• The food I got at Claim Jumper last night tasted like fish. I didn’t order fish
• The grocery store trip with the whole dadgum family was fun…not
• The AC guy can’t come till after noon. It’s hot.
• I am NOT in a good mood…my FIL is not the only visitor who arrived yesterday.

This is not going well.

So I realized on my way to work yesterday I didn’t have a lighter, so I decided to stop and buy one. I go into the store, walk up the counter and tell the lady I need a lighter. She says, “ID Please” and I said…”ok, let me go get it”. I walk out the car, get it and come back in…she hands me the lighter, rings it up, takes my money and never asks to look at the ID she just asked me to go get.

I was irritated so I asked her about it - she just points at a sign that says, “ID required to buy…” and in the list is ‘lighters’ - and I say, “Yeah, I know, you told me to go get my ID then you never asked to see it, why?” and she just shrugs.

I guess simply asking for me to have it is enough.

It really irritated me.

No, really, guess.

So, the phone rings and Jerrett answers and he has this short conversation with “Mystery Person On The Other End Of The Line” and then hands the phone to John. That’s pretty abnormal, because he just doesn’t get that many phone calls…so I look at him with this look on my face like “Who Died?” and the next thing he says is, “What happened, you get kicked out?”.

Oh great. This can’t be good…you haven’t seen his family…no wonder he joined the Marine Corps…

Turns out, no, the person on the other end didn’t get kicked out. He was just calling to finalize his visit. A visit John knew was in the works WEEKS ago. A visit he didn’t want to tell me about until it was all finalized. A visit that is taking place this weekend. In three days in fact. They’ll be here by noon-ish time on Friday.

Thanks for the notice hun. (I assume you’ve all started to collect bail money, right?)

Anyway, his dad, who has threat..I mean…said he was coming several times in the past, but has never shown up and in some cases, has never even bothered to call us and tell us he isn’t going to show up is, apparently, really, truly, totally 100% committed, going to show up on Friday. With his 13 year old sister.

You know what’s going to tick me off even more than not knowing until last night?

I’ll tell you!

Me, busting my arse, while not feeling totally 100% fantastic and getting everything done, to include laundry, house cleaning, laundry, vacuuming, dusting, laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, cooking, laundry…and then him NOT showing up.

In fact, there is a good chance that by 1 PM on Saturday, I could be in Bakersfield California giving him a piece of my mind, if he isn’t here on Friday.

Men. I mean…I know we can’t live without them…but can’t we keep them in little boxes in the closet and limit their contact with the outside world? Seriously.

I hate when I find something I really like to eat and I order it a few times and it’s really really good - then I order it again and it’s really really bad.

You might remember the bad experience from Quiznos a while back. Same thing, different item.

*Sigh*

Well, there goes that fave crave.