Yesterday was a really bad day for B which in turn became a bad day for me. Things started out okay. No issues in the morning. We took our time, relaxed, they put away the rest of their stuff from camping, it was all good. Then they went out. Mistake. B went over to her dad's to drop off a present for her sister's birthday which was Friday. She intentionally went when she knew no one would be there so as to avoid what came next. Just as she was leaving her mom showed up to drop the kids off. Her mother immediately had to text her "Why couldn't you have come to MY house to see your sister??". And there it was. That turned into a major text storm between them. I swear, X1 and B's mom were separated at birth. End result, B comes home crying, angry, and needs to punch something so I volunteer. Got a bruise to show my love. More texting, more anger. Fun times.
I order us dinner from our favorite Italian place to try and make things calmer. This seems to work for a while and all is well. For a while.
But it got worse. Our friend comes over to help us move something and B has to pull her car out of the garage. Not paying attention, she hits his car. Yeah. Nice dent in the door, paint scrape down the side. We then spend the next hour doing what we can to get the dent out, clean up the scratches as much as possible. I order him a replacement side mirror immediately (she didn't knock it off, but did break the mirror itself). He's going to go get some quotes this week to see how much. Sigh. Thanks universe. This of course sent B into a spiral and I had to watch her for a while to make sure all was good. In the end she calmed down, especially after I was able to get the majority of the dent out. Still, not a good day for them.
Me? I was okay. Other than the extreme mental exhaustion from dealing with all of the above. I got something cool - I got my first ever StitchFix order. I've heard a lot of good things about them and decided to try it. I got 5 pieces of clothes and I really liked 3, BUT the price of the 3 versus keeping all 5 was $2 more. See, this is how they get you - if you keep all the pieces you get a significant enough discount that it wasn't worth not keeping all five. No matter what combo I came up with, it was either slightly more or slightly less than if I kept them all. In the end that's what I did. I wouldn't do this on a regular basis, but definitely once a season to get some fill in pieces for the closet. I did all their quizzes and style profile things and I would say the pieces were 100% appropriate for my taste, they all fit well, and nothing was extravagantly priced. As for the service 10/10 but overall, 7/10. Why? Because of price. Again, none of the pieces were crazy, but in the end it came out to about $30 per item. So yeah, cheap enough that I am not stressed, but pricy enough I wouldn't do it every month.
No plans for today thankfully. I need to keep B in the house and away from texting her mother and starting a war. That should be fun. Whee.
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