Who needs dowel at midnight?

[norsegirl]

Me. I went out to put the final coat of paint on the drawers and remembered that I wanted to fill the holes at the top that once-upon-a-time were used to hold an attached mirror, which has long since been re-purposed in my mum's house and is no longer going to be a part of this piece of furniture. Not a problem since attached mirrors have kind of gone the way of the dodo, and I have a mirror I was going to hang on the wall behind this piece of furniture. Slight problem in that a 3/8" hole really cannot be entirely filled with wood filler. I figure I need some sort of dowel in there. Of course that is something I forgot to pick up today on my stop at Lowes. I was hungry and thinking about supper, so I just got paint and left. Annoying because I've found a little extra burst of energy and motivation this weekend and would really like to just get on with this project.

I figure maybe I'll get lucky and the 24-hour Wal-Mart will have it, and they have other things I need anyway, so I head out. I didn't spot anything in the hardware section on my own so I tried to ask one of the employees. Poor kid didn't even know what a dowel was. He ran off and got some other guy who did know what they were, and was also pretty sure that they didn't carry them. Yet one more reason why Canadian Tire is better than Wal-Mart. No grocery and pharmacy, but generally a better selection on those areas that they do have in common. I'm dead sure I could have gotten dowel at Canadian Tire. One of the things I miss most about Canada (after my friends of course, and the health care) is the shopping. I miss Loblaws/Canadian Superstore and all the PC products, and I miss Canadian Tire - sigh.

On the bright side, Wal-Mart does have a baby section and the disposables I'd been considering for week-1 were on sale, so I grabbed a few packages. Let's see how Huggies "Pure and Natural" work out for us. I figure between the 14 weeks I still have before the due date and 60 of these to tide me through the first week I have lots of time to make a decision on which cloth ones to use. Right now we seem to be deciding between pre-folds and the service.

Interestingly, still working on the name thing, and that is technically going to come up before diapers or all this furniture, car seats and stuff I've bought. I think we've stalled out on that issue. Probably because it is a much bigger decision than which "play yard" to buy or where to put the poop.

I guess since the dresser project is on hold until tomorrow I might as well get some sleep.

Comments

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

LOL! You're Squalor-Mart experience sounds like *exactly* like the service I get at Crappy Tire:

Step 1 - spend 20 minutes searching for a "sale associate" (I swear they hide under the shelving or something).

Step 2 - ask for you what you need

Step 3 - listen to the kid repeat it back to you as if it's a foreign language: "you want a ... furnance? filter?" then look bewildered before hazzarding a wild guess. "Try Aisle 54. Maybe."


I don't shop there unless I know ahead of time that they will have exactly what I'm looking for, or I have the time to kill locating it myself.

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't get me wrong, Canadian Tire has its flaws too. And you're right, the sales staff might as well all be 4-year-olds for how much they seem to understand. But once you know where stuff is, and not to buy anything "Mastercraft" that actually has to work (hammers and screwdrivers fine, volt meters, levels or anything electronic and/or requiring precision no) it's a fine place to shop. Mostly I liked all the free stuff I got for buying gas there.