Under a Blue Moon

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Any day now…

Woman_at_table

This is one of my favorite paintings. I bought a large print of it back in the 90’s and both my Aunt and one of my sisters liked it so much they bought it too.  It is a decorating/lifestyle ideal to me.  I want to have leisurely mornings sipping tea and reading the paper in my sunny breakfast room.

I am heading back to Colorado Springs next week – I’m going to have to start paying property taxes pretty soon, I’m there so often.  But!  After that things should calm down quite a bit.  In fact the week after I get back from Colorado my niece and I are taking a long weekend and we’re going to do some visiting and shopping in Eugene, OR.  I can hardly wait. 

Then I am going to have two weeks of leisurely mornings – two whole weeks off of work where my days will be my own.  Doesn’t that sound heavenly?  It sure does to me.

I have a funny/great customer service story.  I ordered a couple of Rebekah Del Rio cds from CB Baby and I got this email when it shipped:

Dear Andrea,

Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. 

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packaging specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Wednesday, September 19th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby.  We sure did.  Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year."  We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh…

–Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby
the little store with the best new independent music
http://cdbaby.com

Isn’t that the best shipping notice you’ve ever read?

Andrea Filed Under: Musings

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  2. Kathleen says

    What a wonderful, sweet, kind, note. I am going there now for a visit! Sigh!… mornings sipping tea in the breakfast room I so wanted to do that today.

  4. cindy ~ My Romantic Home says

    That print is beautiful! A lot of my coworkers will be in Colorado Springs next week too. If you see a loud crazy bunch of people out and about…that’s probably them!

    I love that shipping notice…thanks for sharing!

  6. mandy - pearl maple says

    The picture is beautiful, we could all do with more of those civilized mornings sitting in the sun.

    Your customer service letter is too funny but in truth doesn’t every order we place with a company deserve this standard of excellence?

  7. Mimi says

    Wonderful painting, and yes, it is an ideal to strive for. Wish life were not so hectic. I will be traveling, too, in the next few weeks. Wish I were staying put!

    Love the packing notice!

  12. Arielle says

    I happened upon your blog today and just wanted to say I like that painting a lot as well. It gives off such a good, comfortable vibe. And that shipping notice is quite hilarious! Your blog looks so interesting; I have bookmarked it and intend to visit often. Nice to “meet” you.

    Arielle

  13. theredvelvetshoe says

    Love the print. . .my favorite color green/blue. . .and such an innocent scene. . .thank you for sharing it~~I added it to my favorites and am going to try to find it to hang somewhere around here.
    Michelle

  14. Donna says

    Hey, wait a minute! They told ME I was Customer of the Year! Something’s fishy here!

    I love that painting too, so calming. Have a great trip!

    Donna