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I am still ill...
and for quite some time now...
I have mostly just been lying in bed...
and so...
I have been not wanting to cook lately...
but to simply eat out.
I love food...
I love eating out...
but...
I hate being disappointed whenever I do so.
It had begun to lightly snow before going into town to eat some tacos
a few days ago.
I wanted to eat some tacos at Baja Billy's...
however...
they are still closed for renovations.
Okay...
it happens.
So...
I went to another cafe to try their food.
I had ordered a Chicken Quesadilla...
only to find that I make much better ones at home.
I had also ordered a Philly cheese sandwich...
and it was just so flavorless that I boxed it up for Bandi to eat
(she loved it though :)
I will never go there again.
Disappointment #1
I got in my car...
and just went home.
I later got my delivery of my second Osakazuki Japanese Maple...
however...
just by looking at the box size...
I knew it wasn't the three to four year old sapling that I had ordered.
Disappointment #2
It was a one year old sapling.
I e-mailed the company and awaited a reply.
That night...
I felt like eating Chinese food...
so I decided to try a new restaurant in Woodland Park.
The food was just okay...
nothing special.
I could tell the "cook" had not been formerly trained.
The only thing I had accomplished here was to mentally note it as another place
to which I would never return.
Disappointment #3
I then drove home...
filled...
but not excited by the meal.
Earlier today...
I again drove into Woodland Park to go to their hardware store to pick up
an indoor planter for my undersized Osakazuki.
My normal taco truck was closed...
so I tried a newer Mexican restaurant for their tacos.
OMG...
the carnitas was dry...
as was their rice.
Another great disappointment...
and another place to which I will never return.
Disappointment #4
At least the mountains were beautiful near home.
I filled one of the planters with soil...
...and I planted the one year old sapling in it.
It is now too late in the season to plant it...
so I will just keep it indoors until Spring.
Now...
the company which had sent me the wrong order...
had answered my email.
This is how they rectified their incorrect order:
#1 - They sent me a gift card for the price of the original order.
#2 - I, of course, get to keep the incorrect order.
#3 - Although they have no more 3-4 year old saplings...
they will search for a replacement 3-4 year old sapling.
I had asked for a Japanese Bloodgood...
which is not only fast growing and has beautiful Fall colors...
but it is exceptionally large upon maturity...
so I can plant it much farther from the house...
and then have a fully mature tree size of 30 - 50 feet tall and wide.
The owner said she would search for one...
but in the event she could not...
I told her I would wait until she could get a 3-4 year old sapling...
either Bloodgood or Osakazuki.
There are plentiful places to plant either one.
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This is how people should always rectify their mistakes...
with interest.
She had done more than I had expected...
far more.
This is how people should act to rectify their wrongs upon others.
Of course...
I had also NOT been rude when I had emailed her.
One cannot vent anger and then expect others to make things up with interest.
I merely delineated the problem...
and I had then asked her to explain.
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I had long ago learned that 99% of our problems
dealing with people come from not giving basic human respect to others...
from the beginning.
And NO...
I don't pretend that verbiage is our only means of communication.
It is in demeanor...
in intonation...
facial expressions and body language...
through implication of things said and not said...etc.
In short...
keep a pure heart...
and your sincerity will shine through in the vast majority of cases.
I also like making things up with interest...
as if I were wrong...
I had robbed them of their peace of mind...
at the very least.
This also lets them know that by making it a losing proposition
for yourself to easily make "mistakes"...
that you were sincere in your apology...
and that you would endeavor to not make mistakes in the future.
Too many people merely shoot off an insincere "sorry"...
without making anything up...
never mind with interest.
These types of people are far too easy on themselves...
and so...
make frequent "mistakes"...
because they don't hold themselves accountable.
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Anyway...
I am going to take more medicine and go to bed.
I have so many things I want to do...
but ignoring my initial symptoms of illness
is what had gotten me into this much longer illness in the first place.
I must not act like a child when ill...
so, in the future...
I will fully recover before doing any projects.
It will probably take me a few more weeks to fully recover...
but...
I ordered a DVD box set of the complete series of:
I had never seen it except on short outtakes on YouTube.
It should arrive in a few days.
I will just binge watch it every night until I get sleepy.
And so...
until I recover more...
my posts will be infrequent...
as not only do I not feel well...
but I will just be lying in bed most of the time...
and there will be nothing of significance of which to post.
However...
once I start feeling a little better...
I just know that I will start talking about the first things that pop into my mind :)
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