The Nest

Oh, Happy Day!

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:30 AM

I've turned my husband into a Johnny Depp fan.  I feel victorious.

When Sweeney Todd hit theaters, I had mentioned to him that I really wanted to see it, but I knew we'd be wasting money and that he'd just fall asleep.  Thus, I've waited patiently for him to...acquire it with Korean subtitles.  Last night, he suddenly felt compelled to download it.

We just watched it a bit ago, and even once we reached the end, he wasn't so sure he liked it.  Once we started delving deeper into what its message was and how that message was delivered, his eyes brightened up.  (He still wants to try to go back to school to study film. He just loves it so much.)  In the end he loves the movie, wants to watch it again to observe more details, and thinks Johnny Depp is a great actor.  What more could a girl ask for?? ;D

In other news, today was the Women's Breakaway at our church from 8:45am-3pm. It was a day full of good food, great speakers and wonderful fellowship and worship.  It was hard for me at first because even though I've gone there for a number of years now, I've never really connected with any women.  I've taught kindergarten classes, volunteered for VBS, etc, but I've never really gotten to know any other women.  Thus, I had to be vulnerable and just find a table to sit and actually *gasp* talk to people.

It was really a great time.  Two women involved with the junior and senior high ministries, at two totally separate times, talked to me to perhaps try to recruit me for the ministries.  I had never even considered it!  I was thinking about going back and working the the little ones again, but I now feel very led to reaching out to these growing teenagers.  I think that maybe next Sunday, I will go and kind of shadow and watch and see how God moves me after that.  They really want me for Wednesday night Bible studies, but I don't know if I'd be able to handle it considering my job and the lack of time I already get with my husband.  God is first, of course, and if He wants me there, I will go.  For now, I am a little apprehensive about taking that on as well.  We'll see!

So yesterday marked eight months for us. :D  I'm still at that point where I can't decide whether I feel its "already" eight months since the wedding or "only?" eight months since then.  It's definitely been very eight blessed months with its share of some extreme ups and downs.  Thankfully, those extremes are getting to the point where they are not quite so widespread and that we are able to handle both ends as a couple better.  It truly has all been a real blessing.

I started to type an entry about this yesterday, but I never finished it.  My heart ached so much for my husband while at the same time, I felt so much anger that I was shaking.  I was an angry child growing up, but I reached a turning point in my life where I completely changed the way I react to things.  Thus, for me to actually say I was angry means something really got under my skin.

When my husband came to pick me up from the bus station, he said, "I'm sorry, Honey, I'm just still a little upset right now.  I calmed down a little, but still, I feel a little bad."  I was super concerned at this point because when he tells me something like that, I know that something happened that really upset him.  To make a long story short, what basically happened was that he took the car in to get an oil change to a place closer to our home than where we usually go.  He had been there once before, but that's really it.

The last time he had been in, they tried to get him to do a brake flush, but he declined.  This time, he went in and presented a coupon for the oil change ($15.99), and the man again offered him the brake flush.  He said, "I don't think so, but just check it again.  If there's really some problem, yeah, you can do it, but please call me first.  Do you have my number?  It's ________."  In there, my husband heard the cost associated with that being around $19.95.  Blah blah blah, he says it'll take about twenty minutes for it to get done, he'll call him.

Over an hour later, there was still no call so my husband just goes back.  They claim they had just finished, so my husband just says, "Oh, then perfect timing."  He gets the bill and it's for about $90.  He questions this since first of all, he had only fully agreed to the oil change, which was only supposed to be $15.99.  Second of all, he thought that the brake flush would have only be $19.95 if he had agreed to it, which he didn't, though they did it anyway.  He tries to press it a little but gives up because he is just so upset since he feels he was taken advantage of because he isn't a native English speaker.

I was just about seething when he told me all of this.  We went back over right away, and I did everything I could to be very civil with the manager to try to work through it.  He was only going to refund us the extra charge for the oil change and insisted that my husband had "basically agreed" to the service (brake flush) and that it was performed, so there.  I asked, "That's all you're going to do?" because he was still cheating us out of our money, and he just kept sticking to his story.  (The manager was the one who "helped" my husband when he went in.)  My husband said to me, "That's fine," looking still so hurt and upset, and I said to him, not very loudly, "Yeah, since we'll never be coming back here."  I swear I was still being civil, though.  I was talking quietly but firmly with him.

In the end, he took a little big bigger of a markdown on the oil change, took $20 off of the brake flush and gave us a full punch card for a free oil change if we wanted to give them a second chance.  Thus, it basically came to what the original price should have been had he agreed to both services and had it been the cost he had thought he heard.  There's a little more to the story, but I've already made this a long "long story short", lol.  It took me some time to calm down because I was just so angry at how they operate their business and really take advantage of people like my husband.  We're not going to use the free oil change card because I don't want them touching our car again (since they screwed up the tire rotation and put the tire pressure out of balance), so my husband said he would give it to a student or someone.  I said, "Why?  What did the student do to you?"  lol.

OK, so that is condensed coming from me, at least.  ^.~

Oh!  And I had a baby dream last night.  It was of our baby as a newborn, all wrapped up tight and cozy.  I was holding him/her in my arms, showing him/her to other people.  There was this one strange part, but I am not going to try to explain it.  @__@  Anyway, our baby was just beautiful.  ^^;;

Anyway, I need some rest.  Daylight Savings Time is going to bite me in the bum, and we've got to get some rest for church tomorrow.  :D