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[SoapAddict415]

Ugh! I signed up for a webinar and I got a lot of useful info. At the end I signed up for a 10-day trial for $1 then it's $50/month. I figured I could get a lot of info in 10 days. I know a lot of things but not everything and this will help fill in some of the gaps. My gripe is that my work week starts tomorrow, I need today to focus & study. Ken is upset because last week he accidentally left his backpack in the car of a client that we've known for years. He finally got it back today and not only is stuff missing but they're are holes in a side pocket. So the day is now being dominated by talk about his backpack. Trying to change the topic doesn't work. He even blamed me at one point because I defended the client once when Ken asked me for advice. I'm so rattled and irritated now that I can't even begin to focus and I REALLY want to study. Oh great, now that he's done ranting for now, NOW he wants to be nice. Too bad buddy, I'm irritated!

 

[dibbles]

@earlene did you happen to look where it should be? Maybe you put it away and don’t remember doing it.

 

[lindakschickens]

I've been going thru something similar with Amazon. My order was supposed to be here last Monday (Amazon prime 2-day delivery). They didn't attempt to deliver until Wednesday when I was 2 blocks from the apartment. The driver didn't leave my package like usual. Thursday my husband was home all day and they claimed to have attempted a delivery. I called Amazon and complained so they said they'd have the driver redeliver that day. They didn't. Friday I was told that they lost my order. I got a refund and reordered my items but yesterday I noticed that my account shows a pending return for the items I never got! I emailed them and I'm waiting for a reply. On the good side of things, I got one of my reordered items today and the other is expected tomorrow.

normally amazon here in the UK is ok only a handful of issues like high ticket items being delivered to a neighbor I did not know (thankfully they are decent ppl the are part of the church literally across the street and no more then 6 houses up. but still it's annoying and really gets my goat when their delivery company still has the item and the jerks wont refund me even tho it is still in their hands if you will. I'm going to contact them in the morning if they have not refunded me by then.. I have spent literally thousands of pounds in the last 3 years with them I'm a overspender/overshopper (shopaholic) yes I'm addicted to shopping and I'm trying to get my act together and get help/help myself. They are really going to lose out in the future with me I normally buy almost everything on there as it's normally it's cheaper by like £2 ($3-4) so I buy it on there. They are getting sloppy drivers tho for their amazon logistics (shipping) which is a bummer as I had a nice Romanian guy who delivered all the time here for almost 2 years then in the last year he like disappeared and there is always a different guy or gal now most normally leave it on my back porch a few with my church going neighbor (really nice gent he is) but this last one just *growls* really peeved me off he saw me I know he did and he buggered off.

I also have a bit of a half gripe: I sold 2 young hens I hatched out myself from my own flocks eggs to a very nice/friendly guy only one problem he showed up and spoke very broken Chinese English and it was hard to understand him I felt bad but in a way he should have just texted me what he was saying as oddly enough his english typing was really good :s

 

[msunnerstood]

Sigh, I joined a soaping FB Group and I'm regretting it. Nothing but negativity. You can give helpful, constructive feedback on people's labels, soap designs etc without the snarky, hurtful insults. I felt so bad for the OP's.

 

[SoapAddict415]

@earlene, if you were doing other things at the time you lost your packet, maybe it's fallen behind a chair or something. In my case, it'd be in the laundry basket or behind my nightstand lol. We're always looking stuff in weird places. Friday morning we found the bedroom smoke detector way in the back of the linen closet on the top shelf. We thought it was in the bedroom so we were completely confused when we couldn't shut off the one that's in the hall next to the linen closet. When I closed the closet door and the noise stopped, we finally realized that the hall detector wasn't the one going off and the bedroom detector wasn't in the bedroom lol!

[emoji36] I've been using this for months to make my soaps. I get it from Amazon. Today I was window shopping on Amazon. I had another bottle waiting in my cart and I noticed that today it said Olive oil/Sunflower Oil Blend! So I went into my kitchen to view the ingredients list on the bottle that I just used to make 4 lbs of soap (that's A LOT for me) this weekend. Yep, Sunflower oil! A whopping 80% Sunflower oil! Now I don't know what to do about the soap that I just made or the 10-15 pounds that I've made over the past few months. And my labels! I just made a bunch of labels for each scent with the ingredients listed on Friday! I wanna scream!

 

[msunnerstood]

[emoji36] I've been using this for months to make my soaps. I get it from Amazon. Today I was window shopping on Amazon. I had another bottle waiting in my cart and I noticed that today it said Olive oil/Sunflower Oil Blend! So I went into my kitchen to view the ingredients list on the bottle that I just used to make 4 lbs of soap (that's A LOT for me) this weekend. Yep, Sunflower oil! A whopping 80% Sunflower oil! Now I don't know what to do about the soap that I just made or the 10-15 pounds that I've made over the past few months. And my labels! I just made a bunch of labels for each scent with the ingredients listed on Friday! I wanna scream!View attachment 31854View attachment 31855

Have you tried running it thru the lye calc to see if its close?

 

[SoapAddict415]

Have you tried running it thru the lye calc to see if its close?

Not yet. I had a minor meltdown lol. I really hope there's no difference because during my mini meltdown, the family friend that orders from me for Christmas every year, just contacted me on FB.

Ok, I think I'll be okay. I just have to redo all of my labels. According to Soapcalc, there are minor differences. The water and lye amounts are the same, the large amount of Sunflower oil will just give me a slightly softer, slightly more conditioning bar. The only thing I'm concerned with is the linoleic total. When I thought I was using 30% EVOO, my total was 12. Now it's 26. I could be wrong but I think that if that number is over 15 I could possibly get DOS. I hope I don't.
Thanks scard! [emoji16]

 

[scard]

Sap values are very close.
Olive Oil ♥ 0.1353
Sunflower Seed Oil ♥ 0.1358
Sunflower Seed Oil, High Oleic Acid ♥ 0.1351
I hope it's ok!

 

[earlene]

I had a horrible electronics day today. First my email stopped letting me in and I had to change the password. I think this was the third time in so many months. It irritated the heck out of me when an hour of two later it again wasn't accepting my newest password. I was so frustrated and upset about having to change my password so many times that I called my provider to ask for help and complain about it. Well as it turns out I have two other devices set to automatically sync my email periodically and if those aren't updated with the correct password immediately, then I get locked out and have to create a new password. I complained about that, but to no avail. They are as rigid as can be over their policies. AND they can't just turn off the lock out without creating a new password. AND I can not use a previously used password, which I also complained about but the policy is not going to change for elderly people with limited memory space (boy are we seniors being discriminated against, IMO). Anyway, I managed to change the password on my tablet pretty quickly.

But then my phone froze up and after I turned it off, it got stuck on the start-up screen. All day long and it would never turn back on. I managed to remove the SIM card, which promptly fell apart! I was able to put it back together again and put it into a different phone that does turn on and get the password changed in that phone without being locked out again. But all this took me quite a long time AND then I spent the rest of the day trying to get this phone loaded with the apps I regularly use and I'm still not done. Just a horrible horrible day, it was.

I did order a new SIM card (online) from my mobile carrier, so I hope I have it before the end of the week and that my cell phone gets updated enough to satisfy me by then. I am beginning to think that mobile phones and mobile devices are not worth the trouble for all the money we spend on them!

 

[SoapAddict415]

I had a horrible electronics day today. First my email stopped letting me in and I had to change the password. I think this was the third time in so many months. It irritated the heck out of me when an hour of two later it again wasn't accepting my newest password. I was so frustrated and upset about having to change my password so many times that I called my provider to ask for help and complain about it. Well as it turns out I have two other devices set to automatically sync my email periodically and if those aren't updated with the correct password immediately, then I get locked out and have to create a new password. I complained about that, but to no avail. They are as rigid as can be over their policies. AND they can't just turn off the lock out without creating a new password. AND I can not use a previously used password, which I also complained about but the policy is not going to change for elderly people with limited memory space (boy are we seniors being discriminated against, IMO). Anyway, I managed to change the password on my tablet pretty quickly.

But then my phone froze up and after I turned it off, it got stuck on the start-up screen. All day long and it would never turn back on. I managed to remove the SIM card, which promptly fell apart! I was able to put it back together again and put it into a different phone that does turn on and get the password changed in that phone without being locked out again. But all this took me quite a long time AND then I spent the rest of the day trying to get this phone loaded with the apps I regularly use and I'm still not done. Just a horrible horrible day, it was.

I did order a new SIM card (online) from my mobile carrier, so I hope I have it before the end of the week and that my cell phone gets updated enough to satisfy me by then. I am beginning to think that mobile phones and mobile devices are not worth the trouble for all the money we spend on them!

It was that kind of a day Earlene! A website that I paid to be on went down so I can only access they're Facebook group for now but then Facebook started acting up. Until I rebooted my phone, I got kicked out of every post I tried to like or comment on. But I'm glad you were able to get back into your devices and that you were able to order a new SIM card.

 

[msunnerstood]

We are on creek watch. Storms all day, tornado not far from here. flood and flash flood warnings here and in many of our routes out of here. The creek is very high. We are checking it once an hour. Praying it stops

 

[SoapAddict415]

I've got to take the day off. The heat has been in the 90s again and that triggers migraines for me. In addition to that, my soon to be former credit union is giving me troubles again. I took out what's called a Payday advance loan. For a small yearly fee, I can take out a personal loan as needed. I've done it before and since I have direct deposit they used to just deduct the payments. There were issues with the last time I needed to renew and now the payments aren't automatically deducted. No problem, I just go online and pay. I made the last payment 3 days BEFORE the due date. I thought that was a good thing. No it wasn't. Because I didn't make the payment on the due date, they're considering it late and the idiots locked the account so I can't make my next payment or pay my rent which is due today! The customer service phone bank doesn't open until 10a. It's a co-op credit union and I no longer live near the branch that holds my account. Thankfully there's another co-op credit union near me that I can bank at. I think they open at 9a. I'm hoping that I can walk there, get this mess fixed and hopefully transfer my account.

 

[Lin19687]

We are on creek watch. Storms all day, tornado not far from here. flood and flash flood warnings here and in many of our routes out of here. The creek is very high. We are checking it once an hour. Praying it stops

AND ????!!!!! @msunnerstood

 

[Dean]

Found out the glycerin that I bought is made from palm. I'm a monkey murderer.

 

[msunnerstood]

AND ????!!!!! @msunnerstood

The water made it up to the back of our garage. It covered our 1 acre field and finally stopped rising at 2pm today. Water began receding around 3. Whew..now i need a nap

 

[Lin19687]

 

[msunnerstood]

The water in the 3rd pic goes all the way back through the field to the tree line which is where the creek is. For reference, normally the creek is 7 feet below the bridge deck you see part of in pic #2

 

[Miki]

The water in the 3rd pic goes all the way back through the field to the tree line which is where the creek is. For reference, normally the creek is 7 feet below the bridge deck you see part of in pic #2

I hope you and yours are safe! Is it expected to get any higher than that?

 

[msunnerstood]

The water in the 3rd pic rose several more inches until it got to 10' behind the garage but then receded this afternoon. its like the earth opened up and swallowed the water. The yard water just vanished. Creek is still high but not as bad

 

[Miki]

The water in the 3rd pic rose several more inches until it got to 10' behind the garage but then receded this afternoon. its like the earth opened up and swallowed the water. The yard water just vanished. Creek is still high but not as bad

Great news, thank goodness for that!