All about Sears

@Mom's reply: Closest Zellers is in Edmonton somewhere, not worth the drive, and I'm not eager to pay for home delivery, either.

Definitely unable to make trip to Edmonton to shop. Between Chris planning to use most of his vacation/PLD days for when the baby arrives, the roads, my just starting this job, and not wanting to wait too long to get stuff set up*, it's just not a possibility. Plus we aren't exactly eager to do too much travelling. Glad to go to Cold Lake in January (mental note: get Chris to call and book vacation today so we CAN go to Cold Lake in January) but other than that, not eager at all. I'm already getting quite uncomfortable staying in one position too long, so avoiding driving/riding in car is one of my priorities.

(*Still have this paranoid voice in the back of my head telling me to get ready EARLY... Trying to block it out, but I figure that being ready early can only make the voice shut up, and it would be better than being late, anyway.)

@Mom's reply#2: The crib was 'available' when the lady ordered it over the phone, and she's IN their system ordering it. So, I'm guessing it takes a few days for the order to process, and then they finally find out it's 'unavailable'. I don't know how their system works, but it's obviously flawed.

OH, AND THEY CHARGED MY CC FOR THE 2ND CRIB ALREADY SO I HAVE TO CALL TO GET THEM TO REFUND IT. Even though the crib is 'unavailable,' they charged my CC.

I still can't believe they refused to refund Grandma's money. If I was Grandma, I'd be on the phone arguing until they got sick of me wasting their time and just gave in. (I think that is partially what happened when I called about the crib, they were unwilling to do anything about it, and I continued to argue, and - in my head - showed no signs of backing down. I would have been on the phone with them all afternoon. I started out nice, but got pissed off fairly quick, especially when the lady kept interrupting me. I ended up yelling at her to stop interrupting me and told her it's very rude to interrupt their customers. Her reply: "Are you done?" At which point I lost it again and asked to speak to her manager who was, conveniently, not there.)

UNBELIEVEABLE.

Anyway, did you actually order it, or just get to the point of ordering it and then cancel the order?

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We set up the mis-delivered crib, anyway. It was going to be very difficult to move that box now that the super strong straps were cut, and we would have had to sometime this week - it was laying in our kitchen. 6 feet by 5 feet of YOU HAVE NO WALKING SPACE. So we said screw this crap, we didn't want to bother 'picking out' another one, to probably have the same thing happen, so we just decided to keep this one. It is nice, I was worried it would be too 'feminine' with the curves on it, but it's for a baby. And it's white. How girly could it be?

After we set it up, I kept crying, the realization that we're that much closer to the baby coming. The CRIB is set up.

It's monumental to me. A HUGE step. Only thing huger would be the baby coming. (So far, that's my thought process, may change after the rest of the room is more set up.)

The crib looks perfect. I think we may have been meant to have this one, the other one would have looked a lot more 'box-y' and I don't think would have suited the room quite as well.

I'm thinking about going to pick up the mattress today, although am not sure how much it weighs, so don't know if I should be packing it around myself. Chris works (if he's lucky) until 2, and I start working at 2, until 6. The sears store here closes at 5:30. SOL.
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There is still tons of things I wanted to buy from Sears, but after what I've been told about what Grandma went through, and my own personal hell dealing with them, I'm not too eager.

Might file a complaint with their service department, this is getting to be ass-backwards, and they deserve to know. (Wondering if they'll try to make us pay for the crib we received since we're keeping it? It's regular retail is $75 more than the one we ordered. I would be on the phone with them for WEEKS if I had to, to deal with THAT. You want to see an angry pregnant woman? Wait until Sears screws up more shit for me...)

Going to call them right now to get them to refund my money for the crib we won't be getting.

(In other news, first day at work was great, remembered most everything, some stuff still questionable, but since they changed all of the tobacco rules and lottery machine, it's to be expected.)