Today did not play out like I expected.
I was going to drive to the city for a few things. Brady is working on a house that is our ideal floorplan so I wanted to go take a peek as a perspective buyer. I was just leaving town in my car and saw an elderly man crossing the highway. On foot. Honestly, it is not the first time I’ve seen people crossing the highway like that, I’ve done it! But he was of the slow-moving variety of old people. I stopped at the highway and waited so as to not run him over. He knocked on my car window. I opened it up and he asked me if I was heading to Saskatoon, could he have a ride. Apparently his fan belt broke and he was stranded. I gave him a second look, thinking “I have a baby in my car…” but he looked pretty honest and harmless. So I said yes. My little car proved to be a bit of a challenge for him to enter but he made it, and I proceeded to have company all the way to the city. We didn’t talk much, he was quite hard of hearing, but it was nice to have a quiet ride with someone in the passenger seat. Once in a while, I looked back to see how Dekker was doing. He went from staring at our ride-along, to staring at me with a concerned look on his face, to snoring. Clearly he got over it.
I dropped the man off at his home and headed to meet Brady. Getting out of the car, I had some pain in my back. Its been a bit screwy recently but I’ve been having it adjusted and its been getting progressively better. So I didn’t think about it. I saw “our” house, and then I saw a nearby house that was the exact same floorplan, but mirrored. I love them both. I have a very real desire to move into that exact house. By the time the tours were over, I was walking all crooked and yucky. Sooo much pain! I called my chiropractor and thankfully, they had an opening for me about a half hour later. So Brady came and entertained Dekker while Dr. Mike fixed my back. Because of these events, I opted out of my grocery shop and went straight home. I felt like I accomplished nothing, and was a bit discouraged. But think. If I hadn’t gone, I wouldn’t have been able to drive that man home. Win win.
Once I got home, I found out that according to tracking info, UPS had listed yet another “missed connection.” Our third. This really pissed me off! I had woken up early, turned on house lights, opened the door to our entrance, and wandered around the house so I would be SURE that we wouldn’t miss them. There was a fresh snow earlier and there were no footprints of a missed courier guy. I was pretty freaking furious. I called UPS. I spoke to customer service and (surprisingly politely) told her that we missed our third pick up, and I am more than 100% positive the guy never came. She reviewed the info and after several minutes came back and said the missed connections weren’t in Radisson. Apparently they were between the trailer and the parcel. Which is ridiculous since its been in the city since Thursday!!! So translated, the courier doesn’t want to drive out this far. The rep said it i actually in the hands of Purolator so she would send a message over there for them to call me with more info, since she agreed, it didn’t make sense. I got a call pretty much right away from Purolator, assuring me they had got my message, and would hopefully have an update by tomorrow. Now, I’m supposed to expect a call when someone is coming. Let’s hope anyway. I’m not waking up that early again, just to learn that the courier doesn’t want to make the trek.
So as you can see, not the day I was expecting. But I suppose if things always went according to plan, life would get boring. Wouldn’t want that!