A Series of Unfortunate Events

It has been a crazy couple of weeks at the Orona house. Both of our kiddos came home from Phoenix with a head cold, thanks to the little girl in front of us on the airplane who coughed all over them. We started last week off with yet another trip to the doctor, this time for Sofia, whose cold moved down to her chest- or so we thought. We all survived the trip this time, since it did not involve any weighing of or looking at Daniel. The good news was that Sofia's chest was clear. The next day we woke up to find that our air conditioner was leaking and had soaked the carpet in our hallway and into Daniel's bedroom. The maintenance guy came to do the repairs and moments later I was asked to leave with the kids because the smell of ammonia was getting dangerously stronger in our apartment. When we returned, two gentlemen were here tearing up the carpet and setting up fans to dry the carpeting and the foam underneath. Daniel's room was in disarray with furniture rearranged and toys strewn about (the only difference from any other day was really the furniture), and this is what we dealt with for the following 24 hours.

All the while Fernando was on the phone with the company we had purchased a part for our television from and UPS in Little Rock who was unable to deliver it in under a month, thus my previous post about Arkansans and their apparent incompetence. Evidently in this state it takes a college education to tell the difference between a 4 and a 1 in an apartment number- but I digress.

We spent the weekend on our continued quest for a Nintendo Wii, to no avail. Perhaps one day someone will explain to me the marketing genius behind shipping 10 units of one of the hottest electronic items on the market to a store once every 4 weeks. Or is this just another example of the wonder that is customer service in this state?

Despite the fact that Fernando had to head to Lincoln, Nebraska this week (sorry, babe) this week has been going much better. Thanks to Gamestop.com we were able to find a Wii and it arrived yesterday. Today we received our new kitchen appliances. It was a bit chaotic, but worth it in the end. Now we are looking forward to Fernando's return home tomorrow and a very Wii-ful weekend.

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