1) Spending my day working from home with this view - our "new" sunroom is amazing and I'm SO happy and grateful to have it.
2) Charles just called from the parking lot at Costco where he went to have his hearing aid repaired. One of them has been "out" for at least 2 months and b/c the 2 year warranty they came with recently expired, we've been reluctant to take it in to get fixed. Most of you probably have not dealt with hearing aids much but they are expensive and they break ALL THE TIME. Seriously, we've had these both replaced or rebuilt probably 4-5x since we got them 3 years ago. ANYWAY, Costco informed Charles today that b/c we bought them on our Costco AMEX card, they come with an additional 1 year warranty - so they were sent off to be repaired AGAIN for free! Woo hoo!!!!
3) Charles' "new" job - he'll have to respond for himself but I think he's having a blast and all of his work has been well received. I think every account at the agency has requested that he be put on it since he started. I don't know if that bodes well for his stress level but it sure makes him look good! P.s. - for those of you that don't know - a new city magazine is launching here in Raleigh in September and Charles has been tapped to write 2 columns for it. His work there has also been very well received and best of all it means he'll be recently published soon which will get him some great visibility here in town for more writing gigs (paid). Yay!
4) Recently, we noticed that the Saturn seemed to be dropping really hard into gear sometimes while driving. We took it to a local GM dealer we've been to before. Last time we went there for the power steering - they fixed it for free and were really nice - we figured what the heck. At first they drove it and couldn't detect what we were talking about - they mentioned this was about the time the transmission fluid needed to be changed so they gave us a quote of $200ish and went to work. Then we got the call that it was actually 2 pistons and some other pretty major sounding stuff. Well that must have been under warranty too b/c when Charles went to pick it up the bill was.......NOTHING. He got me pretty good with a call saying, "Um, I went to get the car and the bill was a little different than I thought....(insert pregnant pause and me freaking out here) it wasn't $200, it was FREE!" Yes ma'am - that really happened!
5) The owners of the beach house we rented for Labor Day weekend had a scheduling snafu that resulted in us losing the rental for that weekend. They apologized profusely and offered us a free night next time we stay with them. Later that day we got a call that Labor Day had opened up again and now it's half price b/c they wanted to continue to extend the free night offer. Thanks, we'll take it!
6) The last wonderful thing is that I was able to turn a fairly ugly situation at my office into a glorious sunshine opportunity. We're talking serious silver lining on a seemingly ominous "rain cloud"! Yay again!
So thanks to the forces of the universe for shining down on us lately! We're loving it and I for one am very conscious of paying it forward!
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