JimE sat down to practice guitar tonight and I thought, "I haven't blogged much at all this year. I think I'll order a cheesecake through Skip and blog while he plays guitar."
I've used Skip the Dishes a grand total of 3 times in the past 3 years. One of those was in Coquitlam. Turns out I had a 7 dollar credit off my order. I'm not sure why. However it helped with the guilt.
The nearest cheesecake was from Mr Mikes. So I threw in a sticky toffee dessert knowing JimE would eat half my cheesecake. If you are gonna throw all your healthy eating efforts out the window, you might as well make it worth the guilt.
I left my phone open so I could watch Navjeet's progression while I typed at my computer...
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At the end of November our new house wasn't much more than a hole in the ground with some cement footings and walls buried underground.
Our contractor consultant suggested we get our appliances ordered. I admit I thought she was a bit bonkers since it was going to be a minimum 5 to 6 months before the house would be ready for them. However, I never miss a good opportunity to shop.
We (the 'royal we') did some research and narrowed down what we did, and didn't, want.
We headed off to Moore's Appliance where we were informed with a casual gesture towards a fridge on the floor, "If you want that fridge, you can expect about July for delivery."
Yeah, that won't do for us. And we headed off to Andre's Electronics on the recommendation of our consultant.
Andre's. Who knew? It's not the first place (or likely the 10th place) that comes to my mind when shopping for appliances. However they offered us decent pricing and according to their computer system our appliances would start arriving in January, and the fridge, the most delayed item, was listed as arriving February 17. They'd hold everything in the warehouse until we were ready. Perfect.
Sometime around the end of March I touched base to confirm everything was here, even though we knew it was still going to be at least 2 months before we needed it - our expected beginning of April possesion date had been delayed. Partially due to our countertops being hung up (no pun intended) in the Suez Canal fiasco, so everything kinda became not such a rush.
The range, washer, dryer and OTR microwave were here. Dishwasher is scheduled for May 5 and fridge for May 21. Ok, decent. We won't need it before that.
Today (May 28) we decided to include a little deke into Andre's on our neighbourhood walk.
Dishwasher is here.
Fridge is re-delayed. Should be here about July 21st. July!!??!
Apparently it's on the same boat that is bringing our Fjord livingroom furniture from Norway that we ordered from the 'quick ship' program at the beginning of February, scheduled to arrive by end of April, that's rescheduled to 'arrive in the US' in July to be assembled before delivery to Canada, that takes about 3 months.
Holy crap, CV-19 has played a number on our 'normal.'
With nobody travelling, they are pumping their travel dollars into renovations and home improvements. Resulting in deliveries being delayed way beyond what would have been acceptable two years ago.
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Ding-dong
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Skip has arrived with my cheesecake.
I open the door and take the hand-off of the paper bag from Navjeet.
It smells like spices.
I use my best "white girl" manners and think, "The spices smell delicious and I'm sure they won't affect the taste of my cheesecake."
I open the food container.
And there sits a Mike burger and fries.
I'm not sure how to explain the excitement dashed, while simultaneously being exhilarated.
Here sat what I knew would be a free burger and fries, yet knowing my cheesecake was gonna be another half hour away.
A quick call to Mr Mike's resulted in the voice on the phone saying, "Oh, I'm sitting here waiting for your call. I knew that the previous order had been duplicated. I have your desserts sitting in a bag right here, I'm jumping in my car and heading your way right now. Feel free to eat the burger or toss it in the garbage."
We inhaled the burger and spicy fries before she arrived a few minutes later with our cheesecake and sticky toffee cake (that they had doubled to 2 servings) with a $10 gift card attached, with the $7 credit, making the entire orders pretty much free. This botched delivery helped to ease the pain of knowing we'll be 2 to 3 months or more in our new house without a fridge or swivel recliners from Norway.
