The giant carpet rug was scheduled to be delivered on Tuesday. It was highly anticipated and Mr. W even tentatively booked his son to come over and help him move our downstairs furniture, so that he could lay down the carpet rug and expand Allie’s play area downstairs. (Toddlers on travertine makes him nervous.) I’ve always preferred carpeting over hard floors, because it’s warmer and I can sit on the ground and there’s more noise-absorption, so I was looking forward to Carpet Day, too.

Tuesday came and went. No carpet rug. Mr. W grouchily refreshed the UPS shipping info page a gazillion times into the night on Tuesday, but the status is perpetually stuck at telling us anticipated delivery is Tuesday by the end of the day.

Mr. W finally called UPS, requested a trace, and they called us back this morning (at 5:30 a.m. sharp). They’re not sure WHAT happened to the carpet rug since its entry scan into a Southern California sorting facility last Friday. They’re going to start doing a search for the shipment’s whereabouts. Basically, they lost it.

How do you lose a 120-pound, 21 foot by 12 foot package?! Even if they rolled it up so that it’s the shortest dimension possible, it’d still be 12 feet long.

So since we couldn’t move furniture and lay down carpet yesterday as anticipated, Mr. W and I instead went and bought a new Prius to replace the old Prius that he’s apparently run down into the ground. He did say he like the Prius so much that he wasn’t going to get another car until he runs it into the ground. Of course, with his signature driving style, even the dealership that did his oil change last weekend was surprised at the state his engine is in. The guy in maintenance said something like, “I have never seen a Prius engine this run down like this.” Another maintenance guy who’d inspected the car after the “check engine” light came on said that there was no oil left in the engine, and that we were lucky the engine didn’t blow up or catch fire. =P
So hello, new family car. Hello, ice blue Prius V. You’re pretty and way, way too techie for me with the techie package that Mr. W wanted. (This car even parks itself, you need only select parallel parking or parking space parking.)
My only actual beef with this car so far is that it appears the baby’s carseat can’t be anchored in the back center seat. Anchors are only available on the side seats. Even with that info in the manual, we have yet to find the actual anchors, and we tried yesterday. What kinda makes up for it, tho is that the back seats have a tilt, just like front seats, so it gives my leggy girl more leg room in the rear-facing carseats that she has to be crammed into until she’s 2.