Wednesday Witterings . . .

 

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Good morning everyone! Sorry for my absence yesterday and I hope I didn't cause anyone to worry. I simply was too zonked out to write or do anything.  I had another one of those episodes late Monday night and ended up going by ambulance to the hospital up country to get checked out. I spent all Monday night sitting upright in a hard chair staring at an empty bed across from me. I had no blanket to cover me or anything.  I had some initial blood tests done when I got there and an x-ray and then nobody came to talk to me the whole rest of the night until I had another blood test at 4 a.m. and then the doctor came and said, "It's not your heart, there's nothing wrong with you, go home."  Then the nurse came and said you can go now and I said, well I have to call my sister to come and get me and I can't call her until it's a decent time for me to wake her up.  I finally gave in and called her a 5 a.m. because they were giving me the "sink eye."  I then went out and sat in another hard chair by the entrance way at the back door until she came. I started out inside, but they told me that was for patients waiting to be triaged.

In any case, I did not sleep all night. Not one wink. So, I was pretty zonked when I finally got home. (Thank you, Cindy, for driving all the way up there to get me so early in the morning.  She's a saint.) I fed the fur babies and went to bed. I managed to sleep for 2 hours, but that's all. I spent the rest of yesterday in a huge brain fog.  I went back to bed at my normal time last night and managed to sleep right through until 6:30 this morning, which was great.

And here I am. Another ambulance bill to pay. None the wiser about why this keeps happening. I have no idea.  It's scary when it does.

Happy Birthday today to my dear friend Ginny in New Hampshire!!  She is the sweet friend who knit me my beloved tea cozy. We also got to meet in person a few summers ago when she and her husband Tom were camping here in Nova Scotia.  Sweet people.  I hope you have the most beautiful day Ginny!  Be happy and be blessed!

I bought something on Etsy a month or so ago which cost me $87.20 including the shipping fee. It has never arrived, although when I track the package, it says that a customs fee is due and that UPS has tried three times to deliver it to me. Nobody has tried to deliver anything to me. There has been no notices on my door, nothing in my mailbox, no phone calls, nada, zip, nothing. 

I contacted the seller, who is in Turkey. She says she paid UPS $20 to ship it and is out of pocket. I said  . . .  um, no, I paid you $27 to ship it and it hasn't arrived. Clearly, they are trying to deliver it to the wrong address because they are not delivering or trying to deliver it to me, here, right where I live. 

I said I wanted a refund, as clearly, I am not going to get the said item, unless she chases it up and gets it sent to the right address. (Fat chance of that happening. I tried to figure out how to contact them here and could get nowhere.)  The seller was upset, again stating that she spent $20 sending the item to me, and now she was going to have to pay to have it brought back into her country.

And that is my problem? How so?  I purchased an item in good faith, and I have not received said item.

I can't contact Etsy until 3 months have passed and I still haven't gotten the item I ordered. The only option they give me is to continue to contact the seller, which  . . .  I'm sorry, seems a bit like harassment.  I have contacted her three times already. 

I have never ever had any problems ordering anything on Etsy before.  I have always received what I ordered, no problem, and the sellers have always been very accommodating, often even beyond accommodating.  This has thrown me.  Am I in the wrong for wanting my money refunded? 

I am not happy about this. Not happy at all. That's a lot of money to fork out for nothing.

 

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Oh dear, all I am doing is grumbling here this morning instead of focusing on my blessings. I am blessed that nothing was wrong with me.  I am blessed that I had money to order something on Etsy.  There, hopefully I have chased any bad Karma away.

The gnats are down to a dull roar now. Not that many. Hopefully in a day or two there will be none.  I still have those pest strips hanging, an empty fridge, four bait stations out and two bug lamps, oh plus two little bug sticky light things.  I have several gnats in the bait stations this morning, but I haven't seen any flying around, yet.

I am pretty sure that Cindy and I discovered the source of them on Saturday and we dealt with that, so hopefully they will soon all be gone. What a struggle this has been. Again, Cindy is a Saint.  I don't know what I would do without her. I really don't.

 

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I am sure she rues the day I returned back here.  Oh, I know she doesn't, but . . . what a burden I fear that I am becoming. It upsets me in that I have a grown son who lives only fifteen minutes away who could be helping me with these things, but my sister who is a senior herself ends up doing it all, on top of having to care for my elderly father. She has never made me feel like a burden, I hasten to add. It is me who feels like I ask too much.  I don't have anyone else to help me. 

When I came back here, I thought that my son would be there for me, but it hasn't ended up that way and the two sons and five grandsons who would be there to help me live too far away to do anything.

I am not sure what the answer is, but I will figure it out.

I took my hummingbird feeder down this morning. All it was attracting at this stage is wasps. I have not seen a hummingbird in a number of days now.

 

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I am not sure what I will get up to today.  I have tons of things I should be doing, so I expect I will get at a few of them.  I hope I have not been a real downer today.  I do know that I am a person who has been on the receiving end of many, many blessings, and I take none of them for granted. 

I have a lovely home, and a wonderful family who loves me and I love them. I am a woman of great faith and a believer in prayer.  Everything works out just the way it is supposed to in the end. I am a great believer in that as well.

I am going to leave you with a thought for the day before I dig a deeper hole, lol.

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

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 *.Music can change the world
because it can change people.
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There is nothing new from me in the Kitchen today, but I am sharing my recipe for Apple Dumplings. Its a good one. I promise.

Have a lovely day all you wonderful people. I hope it is filled with joy and love.  Don't forget!

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