Fun with Amazon

I love amazon and am a regular purchaser of their services--mostly for DVDs and books. Today Jen went on-line to purchase some gifts for her the cousins down in San Diego, and after purchasing the items realized that she had forgotten to ship it to her sister in California. Unfortunately when she went to cancel the order was already moved to processing. And this brings up my greatest beefs with Amazon.

As I am an Amazon Prime member, I get free 2-Day shipping, thus as soon or within minutes of a checkout being made, the order is locked into the "shipping soon" status, which means that the order cannot be canceled.

So upon searching the Amazon website and then google, I found the customer service phone number, where upon I was told that they could not cancel the order and that once I receive a tracking number to call the carrier and cancel the shipment. I explained that I was very aware of their shipment time-frame and was very frustrated with the immediate change to "Shipping Soon" within minutes of the order being placed. I also explained that I know the order won't be shipped till later tonight, early tomorrow and that they should be able to cancel this order as it was being shipped to the wrong address. She again informed me that the order could not be canceled. This perturbed me to no end, so I asked to speak with her supervisor, and unfortunately after requesting it multiple times had to yell at the customer service rep (I always feel guilty when I have to do this).

The supervisor, probably due to my insistence with the front line rep, immediately premised to contact the order fulfillment center to get the order canceled, and much to her credit the order was canceled.

Now here is the ironic part. Shortly after getting the initial order canceled, I went on-line and ordered the products again and checked out. It wasn't until later that night that I realized that I had shipped it to us, rather than to California. I am a moron, who begrudgingly and humbly ate his crow last night.

Sick Day

Last Thursday (Jan 18) Ryan came home sick after throwing-up at school. He later threw up in the bathroom, unfortunately missing the toilet, so we kept him home on Friday. Yesterday (Sunday) Ky came down with the same symptoms shortly after coming home from church. Unfortunately his nausea hit while he was sitting on the toilet with diarrhea. This resulted in the bathroom floor once again being covered with vomit. Nice.

Well, last night Jen began getting the same symptoms as the kids, and Taylor started complaining about an upset stomach. Heather also was complaining about an upset tummy, but I think her complaints stemmed from the desire to sleep with a bowl in her bed. Needless to say today I took a sick day to help Jen out, and we kept Ky and Taylor home from school just to make sure that no additional clean-up was needed at school. All was quiet from the vomit patrol, and no further sightings were encountered. That was good since I can't stomach the sight nor smell of vomit.

278.8

So as I mentioned here one of my main goals this year is to lose at least 50 lbs. To that end I have begun exercising daily (or most days), limiting when I eat and how often I eat, and eliminating many of the grazing foods from my diet (cookies, chips, soda, and candy bars).

For the most part I have done well in limiting when I eat, and what I eat. I have fallen off a couple times, and mornings after Hailey hasn't slept very well have been tough to get up and exercise. But surprisingly the cravings, and longing for food in the middle of the day have been minimal and readily resolved (ie drinking water, or carefully planning my snack to coincide with the strongest cravings).

Current Weight: 278.8