furniture...sigh...

I'm learning that the process of ordering and receiving furniture is a bit like home improvements--it always takes longer than you thought.

In January, with money from christmas gifts, we ordered some furniture from one of my mom's suppliers. They said it would arrive in 4-6 months since it had to ship from Italy.

In early June we got in contact with the supplier and they said that they didn't have our check. In actuality, they had cashed the check in early february. So, we sent them a copy of the check and they said--oh yes, we have that, we just didn't know what furniture it went to. So, in June they told us we would get our furniture in another 1-2 months. This time they got the timing almost right.

We found out last week that at long last our furniture had arrived in Seattle and was sitting at the shipper's warehouse. Somehow the company had not passed along the information about who we wanted to receive the shipment. So, another few days goes by and the shipper gets approval to deliver it to our receiver. The receiver gets the shipment on friday and inspects it today.

Today we find out that one of the chairs is missing 2 special screws. So, now we have to wait for the supplier to send the screws and then just maybe, if all the planets align properly, we'll have our new furniture. It will be like Christmas in August!