It's Arrived!

They let us out at noon because the snow was falling like things that fall at a very great rate and accumulate to make the roads slippery. Of course, they let us out at a terrible time because the roads hadn't been plowed yet. So my 16 minute commute took me 46 minutes. Most of that was just getting out to the main roads. The road we're on hadn't even been sanded. Fortunately the connector road that curves and is a bit of a hill was. Or I never would have made it in the little Honda. I was going 20 mph on the highway, but  we got let out about two hours before all of Philadelphia schools and businesses were dismissed. Some of my friends had three hour commutes, on public transportation. Anyway, everyone I know made it home safely. The dude is off today with Stella. They're hunkering down.

But you want to hear about yesterday. I arrived just in time to see a box and a padded envelope being buried in snow. My fabric finally arrived! (And, incidentally so did an order I placed December 30th, which had never been confirmed. So you know I double bought that stuff. {sigh}.)

I'd like to say I ran to cut the fabric and then sat down to stitch-stitch-stitch, but there were things to be done. It's not every day you get home four hours early! I did manage a few stitches, more than two threads, I'm happy to say.

And if you are following the saga of the orders placed on January 4th, there is still one outstanding. I just found out that that company had problems with my credit card and emailed me, and the email ended up in the spam folder even though, you know their newsletter and the order confirmation managed to land in my inbox. And they know this is a problem because when I wrote and asked where my order was they told me to look there. I like to shop in stores I've visited in person, and have a relationship with the people who work there. But sometimes I think, just give me Amazon. I get what I want when I want it. And I get an order confirmation. And if something's unavailable, they know because their inventory software is tied to their shopping cart in some sensible way.

The good thing, I suppose, is that they did tell me in the email that ended up in the spam box that it would take two to three weeks to get some of the threads in. Better than the places that string you along with a "we ordered it..." But this is the problem with having tiny little businesses hand-dying forty hundred different thread colors and types. But let me tell you how I really feel.