People who write interesting stories that I’d really like to follow, but they use such a tiny font that it gives me a headache. 
Yet another reason that story needs its own thread.
Due to popular demand (complaining?) I’ve moved our story to MPSIMS. You can find it here 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just want to hear more about the Marine with buns of steel! 
Don’t we all?
I did that – well, I ordered refills on-line. It’s when I was paying for them that the human malfunctioned.
Yeah, is that a problem? 
Remember that you can also write about him. I just left Herr Professor at the library desk, one of you can get Mr Buns of Steel there.
Ahh, the human should be replaced with its upgraded version, human 3.2.
A Sunday recap:
Early morning: overlygirl’s got tired eyes. She must not have gotten enough sleep. We were out late at a birthday party last night.
Mid-morning: holy fuck, overlygirl’s got pink eye!
So we go to urgent care. We go to the pharmacy to get pink-eye-be-gone. We swing by Dominoes to get pizza - overlyhusband and overlyboy haven’t eaten lunch and neither have we. I step out of Dominoes and the pizza goes flying out of the box (apparently you need to keep the front clamped shut or they have a tendency to be airborne), sails through the air a few feet and splats on the ground.
The generous people at Dominoes remade the pizza for free, for which I was immensely appreciative, so I gave them a large enough tip to cover the cost of an extra pizza. Finally, we got home.
The moral of the story is that I fucking hate Sundays. And ear infections. And UTIs. And pink eye. But the whole situation was kinda funny, especially when the pizza went sailing.
You have a better attitude than I. The pizza part would be when I fell on my knees and screamed to the high heavens WHYYYYY??!!! and then crumpled into a sobbing mess muttering “I can’t, I just can’t”.
I’m so extremely disappointed and upset that I can’t stop getting weepy about it, and it’s the stupidest thing to get upset about, but I can’t help it, so I get upset about feeling upset, and THAT’S stupid, so lather rinse repeat.
Parkhead and I have our five-year anniversary coming up next month, and for over five years now I’ve been looking for suitable wedding rings for us, something symbolic and not too expensive, and finding nothing worthy of the purpose. Until last month, when I found these: Matching Doctor Who Rings*, which are totally awesome and I love them and I want them and can’t wait to show them off to all my fellow Whovians who will be peanut butter and jealous.
So I ordered them last month, waited a week past the stated ten day period for processing the order, and contacted the seller, who said their engraving machine had broken down and they were playing catch-up, but they should be shipping soon and he’d let me know when they were on their way. Fast forward another week, and I get another message saying my order had been missed entirely, he’ll get it done as quickly as possible and I can have a refund of the shipping cost, or cancel the order and get a complete refund. I said I still want the rings, I’ll take the shipping refund, and he replied to that message with ‘Thanks’.
Four days later, last night just as I was heading for bed, I get emails from both Etsy and PayPal saying my order has been cancelled and my money refunded. What?!? I send a message on Etsy that I’d told him I wanted the rings, not a refund, what’s going on? I look at the PayPal email and under ‘Note from Merchant’ it says ‘Hello, because you did not reply to my last message. I will need to cancel your order and refund. Mike’
Excuse me? I did reply to your last message, and YOU ACKNOWLEDGED IT. Then I look again at the Etsy cancellation message, and it says:
Cancellation reason provided by the shop owner: Shop owner cannot complete transaction
Message from the seller: If you have questions about your order, please contact the shop owner. If the reason provided is inaccurate, or you believe that this transaction was cancelled in error, please contact trust@etsy.com.
Thanks for using Etsy! Etsy Support
Yeah, you bet your arse I will do. Not only am I given two different reasons for the cancellation, but one of them is a complete lie placing the blame on ME. I haven’t heard back from him yet from either my Etsy messages or the email I sent to the PayPal address, and if I don’t, buddy’s gonna get a scathing review for this shitty customer service. I don’t even care about the engraving, I just want the rings!
*I don’t know if you’ll be able to see that page, since it’s my transaction page, and the seller’s page as a whole is not currently viewable since HE’S GONE ON VACATION. o_0 Oh, but he’ll be working on any existing ‘open’ orders while he’s off, not to worry – except, of course, that MY order is no longer open, thanks a fuckload for nothing.
So here’s an image from another site.
I’m so mad and disappointed and just… HURT. I wish I didn’t react so strongly to things that hurt me, and that I wasn’t so easily hurt by relatively benign incidents, but damn. I was so happy to find these, and have been looking forward to getting them for nearly a month now, and with delay after delay and then sudden unjustified cancellation, I just can’t even. I feel betrayed by his lie to try and cover up his own upgefuckedheit, whatever it may be that prevented him from fulfilling the order. That ain’t right.
Now it’s just a waiting game to see if he responds, and if I don’t hear back from him in the next couple days, he shall taste my squirrely wrath on his Etsy review page, indeed he shall.
Can you review a cancelled order on Etsy?
According to the transaction page, I will be able to leave a review tomorrow. Though it also says ‘cancellation pending’, so if that goes through first, who knows. We’ll see, I guess. If not, I’ll definitely be sending the whole story to Etsy support.
My crock pot died last night while it was full of bean soup. Piece of junk. Damn thing wasn’t even five years old. At least I can finish cooking the soup on the stove.
Anybody want a crock pot lid and liner? Only the outer part’s dead. It’s going to the Land of Wind and Ghosts once I get moving on my errand running.
No one buy the second one. Those little white balls fall out constantly. I mean, even when you’re not trying to use it, just moving it to fill it.
Oh, I forgot my rant. It’s stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!stop snowing!
I do that. Often. My sympathies.
What the hell just happened with Tapatalk? I tried to get to the board and it gives me some garbage about tell us your interests then it feeds me a bunch of message boards to join when I pick an interest to just move to the next screen, then it gives me some 1second flash of a screen saying something about ‘if you continue you agree to EULA terms of service’ then it dumps me back to tell us your interests.
My interests use message boards that don’t use Tapatalk, how about that? I am not interested in any more boards because I have limited time, and you’re just making me want to uninstall you.
So now I have to try and navigate from my browser, well ok but it’s annoying.
I downloaded tapatalk a couple months ago. I find it more annoying than using my phone’s browser. It doesn’t reflect user information, and doesn’t preview that I could find. I only use it to post pictures which tend to all be on my phone. And even with that, it doesn’t seem to allow url formatting. Really annoying. Now would be a good time for a more simple, streamlined competitor app to show up.
Now, now, it might not actually be a faulty product.
Were you using it in black and white? One thing I’ve learned from things that you see on TV is that EVERYTHING fucks up when it’s in black and white…
ETA: Oh, NO!!!