The best laid plans...
Jan. 7th, 2011 06:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsBetween the new program, the "join free" offer, and New Year's resolutions, the line to Weight Watchers last night took 90 minutes to process. I ended up leaving before the official "getting started" lecture, but I have done WW before and the underlying premise seems the same, even if their math has changed. (Used to be you could figure your points out with a slide rule you got free in your intro package. Now it's a $19.95 calculator that comes extra.)
Still, I have all the swag necessary to play the home game - the intro package, the cookbook, the calculator, and the pedometer that translates your walking into points earned. All of which cost, so I was pretty darn surprised that the iphone app is free!
No, I don't intend to go back for meetings, despite what I said when I signed up. I don't see the need to pay $14 a week to chat. I do have an LJ after all!
And then there's the PJ debacle. Long story as short as I can make it: Deva Lifewear used to make wonderful flannel PJs. Wearing a set now. Wear them under my clothes during cold clinic shifts (I'll be standing one in the snow tomorrow.) But I only have 2 pairs, planning on buying more this year. Only they don't have more this year; they aren't making them anymore.
I discover right after Christmas that they have a few sets still in the warehouse and order them. This order ends up taking two phone calls and two emails before the dang thing goes through - they didn't have full sets, or have matching sets or colors I asked for, etc., etc., etc.
They finally arrive yesterday.
The ones I'm wearing now, last year's? Fit perfectly. These? Are a size too large. I ordered the wrong damned size! And they can't be returned or replaced because this is whatever they had lying around the warehouse.
*long heavy sigh* My plan now is to thermo-torture them in the washer and dryer a few times to see what happens. If I still swim in them, I'll pull them apart at the seams and put them back together based on one of the fitting sets. This isn't necessarily a hard project - they're based on scrubs, so we're only talking 6 seams in the top and 3 in the pants, and at the end of it, I'd have a pattern that I could use for future from-scratch sets.
But it's another chore to do instead of the wash and wear comfort I was expecting in the mail.
Still, I have all the swag necessary to play the home game - the intro package, the cookbook, the calculator, and the pedometer that translates your walking into points earned. All of which cost, so I was pretty darn surprised that the iphone app is free!
No, I don't intend to go back for meetings, despite what I said when I signed up. I don't see the need to pay $14 a week to chat. I do have an LJ after all!
And then there's the PJ debacle. Long story as short as I can make it: Deva Lifewear used to make wonderful flannel PJs. Wearing a set now. Wear them under my clothes during cold clinic shifts (I'll be standing one in the snow tomorrow.) But I only have 2 pairs, planning on buying more this year. Only they don't have more this year; they aren't making them anymore.
I discover right after Christmas that they have a few sets still in the warehouse and order them. This order ends up taking two phone calls and two emails before the dang thing goes through - they didn't have full sets, or have matching sets or colors I asked for, etc., etc., etc.
They finally arrive yesterday.
The ones I'm wearing now, last year's? Fit perfectly. These? Are a size too large. I ordered the wrong damned size! And they can't be returned or replaced because this is whatever they had lying around the warehouse.
*long heavy sigh* My plan now is to thermo-torture them in the washer and dryer a few times to see what happens. If I still swim in them, I'll pull them apart at the seams and put them back together based on one of the fitting sets. This isn't necessarily a hard project - they're based on scrubs, so we're only talking 6 seams in the top and 3 in the pants, and at the end of it, I'd have a pattern that I could use for future from-scratch sets.
But it's another chore to do instead of the wash and wear comfort I was expecting in the mail.
