AuburnChick's Adventures

Why do weekends fly by so quickly?

After an extremely busy week, I was ecstatic to see Friday roll around.

After making my usual cup of tea, I got down to the business of the day.

We had a serious issue with one of our databases last Monday, which rendered it unavailable all week. Fortunately, IT fixed it Thursday afternoon. Unfortunately. I had to input three and a half days worth of data first thing Friday morning. Whew!

I’m grateful that God blessed me with a tech-minded skill set because I’d created an Excel spreadsheet that mimicked the database, so importing everything was a breeze.

My day literally flew by. By lunchtime, my brain was mush.

I normally take leftovers each day, but I’d gone through all of them by Thursday, so I ordered in Friday.

I’m convinced that chips and salsa are the fix for everything.

My colleagues and I hightailed out of there at 4:45. I don’t think we could have strung two coherent sentences together.

The Mr. and I opted for an easy dinner before settling in to watch the first two episodes of the second season of Wednesday.

This is a strange show that I have to mentally separate myself from every time I watch it. I do love the nostalgic nods to the original television series.

After reading awhile, I called it a night.

Saturday

I managed to sleep until 6am Saturday. Go me!

I sipped a cup of tea and played my word games.

I love the Emoji game, which is part of the Apple News offerings.

Mr. and I watched the last day of 21 Days of Prayer, which my church does twice a year.

After church, I had to reach out to Amazon’s customer service because we were charged for a pair of pants we returned the first week of July.

Have y’all ever tried to contact an actual person at Amazon?

This is one of the most frustrating experiences ever!

There’s a live chat feature that, if you’re lucky and persistent enough to hunt for, is available.

I’d contacted them TWICE before Saturday regarding these pants, which they claimed they never received. We always opt to drop off our items at Kohls. Kohls will return Amazon purchases, and we always get a 20% store coupon in the process.

It was a mess.

The rep I talked to refunded my money and provided the following instructions for accessing the chat:

For the record, these instructions didn’t work for me, but hey, it’s worth a try next time, eh?

It was a tech-help sort of day, y’all, because later that day, I tried to help the Mr. get into one of his apps.

I’m starting to feel my age. Things are getting more difficult as technology gets more complicated.

Fortunately, and I give all credit to the Lord, we finally got him in. My legs were actually shaking by that time. I despise tech snafus.

I took it easy the rest of the day. I did my PT exercises, and we had some football games playing on the TV. It was Week 0, so there weren’t a lot of games.

Sunday

I slept until my alarm went off at 7, y’all! Yay me!

Hubby and I attended church and then spent a quiet afternoon doing our Sunday chores.

I finished a book while keeping an eye on the U.S. Open.

We got in a nice little FaceTime session with our oldest grandchild. She’s going to be five in a few months, so her conversational skills are at the point where we can actually go back and forth for a few minutes.

It was nice to catch up with my sweet son. He’s working his way through an online MBA program, so I enjoyed hearing how his first week of class went.

I watched a bit more tennis before tuning the television to Big Brother.

I read a free short story I’d downloaded form this month’s Prime First Reads.

I did not enjoy this. The topic was disturbing, and the characters were unlikable. I rated it ⭐️⭐️

I called it a night afterwards.

I pray that you have a productive week!

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