I love Amazon. I really do. I purchase pretty much everything there because shipping is usually always free and they don’t change tax. No to mention that their prices are good to. Love Amazon.

However, they just lost my sale on the following three items:

I pre-ordered all three of these a while ago. Dixie Chicks came out a while ago, one of the books comes out in September and the other in October. I have always pre-ordered from Amazon in the past and, even when I selected that “group my shipments in as few orders as possible” they still shipped pre-orders as they came in.

I figured that maybe they would wait until at least 2 of the items were out but, according to my order history, they intended to wait until 9/24 (11 days after the last item was released) to ship my entire order to me.

Not acceptable. I pre-ordered these items because I was looking forward to getting them and didn’t want to run out to the store the day they came out. I don’t mind if there is a few day delay for shipping before I get it, but to make me wait months is just stupid.

I think they really should rethink this change in policy.

Anyway, excited about the new Lemony Snicket books and damned if I was going to wait until the end of Sept to read them, I decided to see what Overstock charged. Even with $2.95 shipping, these same three items were discounted enough that it was actually a few cents cheaper to order all three of them from Overstock AND they already put the Dixie Chicks CD in the mail for me and will ship the others as they come in.

Bad form on this one, Amazon. Overstock won this round.

My cousin Rita gave me these tranquility candles a while ago and I was just grooving with my favorite, Cucumber Mint, which is supposed to refresh. I was just getting my chi in line and feeling all tranquil when I here a sudden loud noise and the candle explodes!

The glass outer casing cracks all the way around and luckily I was able to blow out the candle before I set the house on fire and the only wax that spilled was easy to clean up, but I certainly feel much less tranquil than I did before I lit that darn thing.

It’s a bit of an old dog, new trick thing, but, while I want to learn CSS in theory, I really don’t want to be bothered in practice.

That is why I, who create websites in my spare time for my own amusement, have resorted to using templates for my MySpace page and my blogs.

If this ruins your opinion of me, I am sorry. Even my overachieving insanity has to end somewhere. . .