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It’s only 10 a.m. and already this morning has made me want to crawl right back into bed. We’re trying to order some of the remaining items off of our amazon registry using amazon gift cards, a visa gift card and then the remaining balance will be put on my credit card. Amazon split the one order into four separate ones, split up the gift cards among those four orders, and charged the remaining balance to a limited-funds debit gift card instead of my credit card, which has resulted in partial cancellations or orders because of lack of funds (yeah that’s what happens when you charge a large amount to a debit card with a specific amount on it) and nobody – me or the people at Amazon – seem to have any idea what was charged to what card and what actually went through and what didn’t. FAIL. So now a better part of my day will be spent figuring out this nightmare (excellent, because I was looking for a time-sucking activity today), continuing to rake the yard (noticing a trend yet?), making phone calls, and unpacking the guest bedroom/storage in our house. Tonight we’ll be finishing carpeting the basement for our washer/dryer’s arrival tomorrow. Other than the Great Amazon Fail of 2010, sounds like it could be a decent day. Yesterday we got the shelves assembled in the china cabinet so now we can display our toasting flutes, unity candle set and cake service set from the wedding. We also got the office furniture arranged upstairs and started to unpack all our office stuff – it’ll be nice to have a work space again. It kind of sucks knowing that in two weeks all my stuff will be arriving from Texas so even if we are completely unpacked by the time my parents pull into the driveway with my little mini-moving-truck…we still have to unpack all my stuff. Sometimes it just feels like life won’t ever get back to normal. Maybe this is our new normal?