Fool Me Once....

Do you shop those online "deal" websites where you get fantasitc stuff for cheap?  I have good luck with the coupon ones - like Groupon - Living Social - Crowd Cut - but have not had good luck with the actual STUFF sites.  Shoebuy.com keeps inviting me to their "valued customer" sales but the one time I saw a pair of nice shoes I thought would be awesome on T-bone and ordered them - they emailed me about a month later saying, "Hey sorry! We ran out."  I mean - Whuck?  You RAN OUT?  How was I able to actually ORDER the shoes if you didn't have enough. 

Then along came an ad for Zulily.com - a site for cool kids stuff and I thought - "Ooooo!  I can shop for fun stuff for Christmas and Birthday's!" 

Isn't that shirt CUTE?  Couldn't you just SEE it on Boo Boo La La? 

Well forget about it!

Mommylisa21, Jul 29 16:39 (PDT):



Hello Lisa,


We are very sorry to inform you that due to an unexpected inventory discrepancy we are not able to fulfill your order as planned. We realize this is a disappointment and we apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this may cause. The authorization for your credit card has been voided so your card will not be charged.


Please be assured that we tried everything we could to resolve this issue so that we could ship your order in its entirety. In light of our inability to meet our commitment to you, we will be adding a store credit in the amount of $10 to your zulily account. We realize this isn’t the same as shipping what you ordered, but we hope you’ll be able to use it on a future order with zulily.


Once again, we would like to extend our apologies to you. If there’s anything we can do for you, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We value your patronage and look forward to providing a better experience in the future.


Regards,

zulily Customer Service

And mind you I placed the order July 9th!!!  It took them twenty days to figure out they did not have enough of these t-shirts in stock.

Quite honestly I do not understand how this happens - It happend to me with the clearance sale on J.Crew.com too this past spring ONE out of the FIVE items I ordered was actually in stock and shipped to me.  Do I need to start selling inventory control services???

So what say YOU blog community?  Do I bother to give them a second chance?  Have YOU ever ordered from Zulily and ACTUALLY recieved the item you ordered.  Have you had this happen to YOU?

Where we will be next week...

Get wordless yourself...

On the next episode of...

Coming Soon to Mommy's Nest!!

My parents recently emptied their attic and called my brother and I over to claim what we wanted, the rest would go in the garage sale!  In amongst the Play Skool toy sets, old t-shirts and memorabilia was a notebook.  Yes - a ratty old composition book that I had when I lived in NORWAY!

I tell you this because that notebook is FILLED with all kinds of crappy poetry that a young girl would write.  Just really lame stuff.  And I am going to share it with you starting Sunday!!!  Yes - all of August will be SILLY SONNETS on Mommy's Nest. 

Your welcome!

(now that will REALLY drive down my followers numbers for SURE!) 

...and the fun comes to an end for Boo Boo La La!

Sorry I missed giving you a Boo Boo La La Saturday last week - I was in a wedding and it was a CRAZY week!  You see DAYCARE HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR TWO WEEKS!

So for the past two weeks Grandpa (My dad, not T-Bone's) has been helping out by driving to our house - 30 miles each way! - to spend time with his Boo Boo La La.  The man deserves a vacation to Hawaii!  He did three days each week all by himself - they went to:

7/13 The Como Zoo to ride rides and see the Polar Bears
7/14 The Minnesota Zoo - cuz they both LOVER it so much! (she was afraid of the crocs though and would not go see the new Africa exhibit....hmmm.
7/15 The Splash Pad, naturally
7/16-17 Grandma joined the fun for a local "beach" and she stayed OVERNIGHT while we were in the Groom's Dinner and such...
(Grandpa and Grandma got a break Saturday night cuz they were ALSO invited to the wedding - Candice stepped in!  Boo Boo loves her some Candice!)
7/20 They laid around and only went to McD's playland for two HOURS.
7/21 Willy Wonka at Stages AND the company picnic at the job my Dad just retired from...whew!
7/23 They laid around and went to McD's playland for anothe two HOURS! (Dad got to read the paper, he was good.  But I think my child ate McD's 4 out of the 7 days!)

Grandpa was also a good sport about playing kitchen, even if she fed the stuffed animals and told Grandpa he could serve himself "Cuz your a grown-up!"  He even let Boo Boo La La paint & color a bunch for Mama....including the one above that I got the full lowdown on Thursday night before dinner.

You see its a girl Mama.  She has to climb up those red & green spash poles to get to the beach.  And she has purple hair...and the green thing, that is the button you push and it makes a noise like spllloush and you get lots of water on you.  And that silver part is her hat.  She needs the hat to climb up to the pool and spinny slide and the beach...the whole thing is the beach and right here (pointing to the side of the blue "pool") that is the lifeguard and they keep everybody safe and tell the rules and blow their whistles like this TWEEEET!  Really the WHOLE THING is the beach and this part (pointing to blue "pool" and darker blue "slide") THIS part is the pool and slide and she has to climb those splashing poles to make it in there. 

You get it?

Sure babe.  Its as crystal clear as your pool.

Apparently I am Literary AND Influential - :P

I have a dear blog friend, Steven at Life in the Fish Bowl, and he tried this so I HAD to follow.

I put up an old Boo Boo Saturday post from this year and got the result:

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Now - I had HEARD of James Joyce so I was pretty stoked.  Then I checked out his Wikipedia entry and saw THIS:

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Along with Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and others, Joyce was a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922). Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

You too can see how Literary and Influential you are too at "I Write Like"

Are you going to Lilith Fair?

Sunday was a busy day after an already long weekend...Friday night Groom's Dinner & Rehearsal, Saturday Wedding during tornadoes that had to be brought inside, shots, too much wine ;P, and then I had to get up - slice fruit and head to the beach for my Mom's Birthday Party - think pic to the left but at a beach and with slightly older girls! 

THEN THE MAIN EVENT!!!!! Home to meet up with Paige to go to Lilith FAIR!

 I even got free FLOORtickets 8th ROW                                                                        

I could almost feel the sweat fly from Nancy Wilson....Heart Kicked BOOTIE! 

And Mary J. Blige was just what the Dr. ordered for a mom's night out on the town. 

I really must thank Chevy for the great tickets!!!  Just another perk from my Mom's Time Out Twin Cities blogging...Oh and THANK YOU PAIGE FOR TAKING COOL PICS WITH YOUR iPhone!

How to keep your friends from wanting a baby,

Too Lazy! Just like me...

Gentle-Ian's Monday Minute for July 12, 2010

1. Can you burp the ABC's?

Nope, never tried though.


2. So lets just say you have a 9+ hour drive ahead of you would you consider wearing Depends so you didn't have to stop multiple times?

No - I see stopping as an excuse to enjoy the countryside I am driving through.  Howdy folks!  ;)
3. Would you rather...run your tongue down five feet of a NYC street or press your tongue into a strangers nostril?

Umm.  Neither.  But if I have to choose I would put my tongue in a strangers nostril - except I get to pick the stranger!
4. If you had an envelope that contained the date you would die would you open it? 

No I would not.  I had the opportunity to "calculate" my death using a formula in college from Emanuel Swedenborg and I chose NOT to participte.  Self-fulfilling prophecy and all that...

5. Which one song describes your sex life best?
 
Heh heh.
 

A picture of the fun.

We are camping.  Enjoy your day!

Out Visiting!

Come visiting with me today and then follow Michelle - she is super cool.  :)

and a very good driver.

My worst nightmare...

So for nine months I ate organic and pared down the caffiene and worked out and slept and rubbed my belly with lotion and talked to my belly and everything...

Then tonight it happened.

My daughter came RUSHING to see something I was telling her about and she had a toothbrush in her mouth and she
F
  E
     L
        L

AND I GASPED

And she was fine.  She fell on the ball she tripped over with her belly and it prevented the TOOTHBRUSH that was in her mouth from ramming down her throat and really hurting her.

I feel so overwhelmed and blessed and phreaked out and happy all at the same time.

Mom's have a hard job.

Go Directly to Jail...Do Not Pass Go!

I guest posted today.  Enjoy!

See you on the flipside!

Stick 'Em Up Chevy! Hand over the tickets and no one...

Again, check it out at http://www.teamchevytestdrive.com/ - find Minneapolis Lilith Fair Test Drive

for more details.

Genevieve Gorder? Perhaps...

When I came home from San Diego the "vignette" I had in my bay window was altered a bit...

Boo Boo was so proud, "Look Mama, I designed this for you!"

It was really cute.  She had linked the two chickens I have bought...I am picky on my chickens...they looked sweet with all her "jewels" around them. 

On Thursday we were driving down our street and my now "addicted" child said, "STOP!  There is a garage sale!" and so we did stop and look around and Boo Boo found the PERFECT item to complete her display...

And Mommy got it for the bargin price of $2!

Do you think she will be the next Genevieve Gorder?

Update on Mission Monkey - Winners being announced today & next week!

Ian at The Daily Dose of Reality has started the Mission.  A Mission for a Monkey - to help a small child and her family that have had a big huge bucket of cold hard cancer dumped on them.

It is amazing that we raised over $3000 for Monkey's Family - and they are paying it forward as well.  If you had not heard Monkey is doing well - and now Ian has begun announcing the winners!!!
Click on The Daily Dose of Reality for more details! 

In case you forgot some of the cool stuff that you could win!!!  Remember to buy stuff from these Etsy Sellers, thank them!

ECO-friendly Wool Dryer Balls from Farm Fresh Fiber

A GORGEOUS

Retro and Fun Tuxedo inspired Peasant Top with the added Boutique Mia touch; it can be a vintage button, a little bow or just a little surprise.
[ SIZING ]
Size 4/5

From Boutique Mia!  She makes adult clothing too!

 Boo Boo Approved!

AND THE AWESOME STEVEN ANTHONY

donated this lovely piece from his shop!

he has a cool blog too!

Thanks Everybody!  and remember...this could be your child.