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So okay, I skipped a day of newsworthy daily do’s and so today I am going to rectify that!
Yesterday, with determination I was going to do two important to me accomplishments.
Number one was to contact the store where we purchased our matching wedding bands when mine had to be cutoff last November due to me not knowing that it was only a temporary condition and having not yet being diagnosed with Hypothyroidism; which more than likely caused my fingers to be larger than ever before!
At first, since it had been quite some time I felt a wee bit guilty asking for the refund for the rings, but my Mother’s engagement ring and band fit back on my left hand, where my own had to be cut off, and sure enough when measured at the store back in November my slim size fives had gone up to sevens! But the ring we bought me, I suppose due to my medication working had my finger go down one size once again! So the one we bought, are you following this, but now was too big and so I wanted to return them, Hubby’s and mine we bought a matching set, and I did explain; we had kept the receipt and the box too!
The problem was that we were a month and six days past the allotted time for the return policy/agreement! (PS Walmart was the store, and thanks Assistant Manager Kevin for being so understanding.)
But kindly and considerably the assistant manager said that’s okay after I explained what had happened; he said sure bring them in!
And so we did for a full refund, I cleaned them well and they had no scratches at all and they could see that they were well cared for, and so all went well, hooray!
And so my number two accomplishment was with that refund that we received we were able to repair a whole bunch of jewelry, three rings and two necklaces that had been broken and the difference was only a little over fifty dollars more than what we paid for those other wedding bands, that were titanium and gold and not very expensive but unique in the fact that they looked like a gold and silver combo. Yesterday, though, we hit a glitch for after we decided to begin the return and repair project we called the jewelry store to make sure that the while you wait jeweler would be there to do the job. His wife said he was out but “should be back any minute” and that we should call before we come over, and so we went up to where the return was way up in the opposite direction and figured that we would call via cell phone every once in a while and the wife gave the same answer that “he should be there any minute!” This went on for about two hours and so we headed down there figuring that he “SHOULD BE THERE ANY MINUTE!” Hubby went in when we did arrive at their store and sure enough he wasn’t there but, “HE SHOULD BE THERE ANY MINUTE!”
So Hubby and I decided to find a lunch spot to wait and we did go over to one of our favorite delis in Punta Gorda, Hendrickson’s, an industrial stylized Irish deli.
So what do you order in an Irish deli, why, Cuban sandwiches of course, what are you crazy?
Kidding of course, but it is on their menu and so we did.
Killing time and when we got in the car before going the few blocks back to the jewelry store we called from our parking spot, PS not handicapped, to find out if the mysterious jeweler was in, and “he wasn’t coming in until tomorrow!”
Now most would have lost their cool by now and all I could bring myself to say to his wife was: well, that is not very nice, and continued on to say that we may have to find someone else to do our repairs, and I hung up.
What would you have done?
When we came home I called another one but their repair person was only in every other day and there were no guarantees that they wouldn’t have to send it out anyway…and so the only game in town/county that does fix jewelry while you wait had us in their presence after our lunch today. Hubby called and spoke with the jeweler who said that he was in and would be in all afternoon!
But………when we arrived, he wasn’t in at all, he was out!
But he had us, since his employee insisted he was only gone for a few minutes and would be right back!
Endurance and patience are my very often weaknesses these days especially and anger, used to give me a run for my money, but no, I was like a dog with a bone now… I wanted my jewelry fixed and he was going to do it by GOSH! If only in a few minutes or hours or days, what-have-you! He will, he will, he will!
And so now I sit here with all my old jewelry new once again, he even fixed Hubby’s original wedding band and the inscription on the inside that had been ruined when his had to be cut off due to him hurting his finger and it swelling, all fixed and all new looking and somehow worth the aggravation? I think not!
But in the end we got what we wanted and so did he, the jeweler that is, being the only game in county who fixes things as you wait…! And dare I say the name of that jewelry store was Star’s and they have been here forever…!

On that lesson of trying to be more than I can be patience wise but also proving that I am just as stubborn as many…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings, share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS Happy Birthday old chum and she did have a good one, for that I am sure!