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It’s time for another edition of Tuesday Troubles. I’ve said it before, but this should be named “things i’m annoyed / confused / want to complain about”, however I couldn’t figure out how to make any of those into a snappy title, so Tuesday Troubles it is. And yes, I do realize that these aren’t true “troubles”. I know these for sure could be defined as first world problems!
~So as you know (since I talk about it all the time), I am on a quest for a new MacBook. Except I don’t really want to pay full price for it (I mean who does). So I was all, okay, I’ll do the Apple trade-in thing and trade in my current MacBook and get an Apple gift card to put towards my new one. Umm, no. I wasn’t thinking straight and realized that you have to mail in your computer and then they mail you a gift card. That’s all fine and good, but it’s not like I can (or want to) be without my laptop for days (weeks)? Why can’t we just do this in the store? Am I missing something here?
~Speaking of trading things in, we were at the mall yesterday (*) and can into this machine were you can immediately trade your old cell phone in for cash. Say what? We were super curious about it, so we pretended like we wanted to in an iPhone. The quote it gave us was low (like $80 less than NextWorth), but we were more wondering how it does it know you didn’t just steal a bunch of phones? Or that you aren’t just pissed at your boyfriend and decide to sell his phone? I suppose it could have asked you to scan a drivers license or something when you got farther along in the process, but it seemed odd!
~While at fro-yo (have I mentioned how much I love Orange Leaf?) the other day B asked me what flavors I got. Umm, you know what I had no idea. Once I mix them all in my cup and put the toppings on, I couldn’t even tell what they were. So I decided that I want to do a blind taste test with fro-yo. Would I be able to identify all the flavors without seeing the label? I’m not so sure about that. Can you tell?
~My brother recently found an adorable (**) little Westie with no tags. He actually finds dogs fairly often since the city (aka Detroit) has a huge stray problem. But anyway, he and my SIL searched and searched and put up ads on Craigslist and Facebook looking for the owner. My brother even went back to the area he found him a few times to see if anyone had put up any lost dog signs. Nothing. WTF? If someone was actively searching for that dog, they would have for sure crossed paths. This dog is house trained, super sweet and friendly and even got a clean bill of health from the vet. It so sad thinking one day he was part of someone’s family and the next day was on the streets (dogs often get abandoned) ;(. Happily he’s now part of my brother and SIL’s family (aka zoo), but it’s horrible to think about all those other dogs out there ;(.
~And finally today is the 8th anniversary of the day B and I first met. Awww! And yesterday while discussing it I couldn’t figure out what year we met. LOL! Since when did I get so awful with dates? B guessed it was 7 years. I knew it was longer but couldn’t place the year itself. Luckily neither one of us are overly sensitive the other one has no clue, so we make a nice match ;).
That’s it from here for now! What’s troubling you today?
