a few days ago I was online in the morning. Shut everything down, went to go exercise. Come back at lunch, nothing works. I tried everything, and finally broke down and called verizon.
After an hour on my cell phone (because no one can charge the damn cordless phones) they tell me my router is bad and get me hooked up on one computer. Hongo's computer.
Okay...the last two days have been HE!!. I don't know how people with only one computer do it. There are 5 people here who all want to use the computer at the same time. I always make the kids take turns, but me??? I have to take a turn? Say what???
I was emailing back and forth with someone, and I kept cutting into my kids' Club Penguin/Runescape time. "Let me use it really quick, sweetie."
I even broke down and started using my phone to check my mail. Yes, this would be the week when all the important stuff starts coming in.
So today I said "THAT'S ENOUGH! I can't live like this anymore~" The final straw was that Hongo's computer was the only one with access, yet MY computer is the one with all the information that needs to be uploaded. and the connection wouldn't work.
and since Hongo was working late, chaffeuring someone to Le Chateau West Valley where you get a free night's stay with meal included, I decided to call Verizon and get this straightened out.
An hour and half, two technicians, and a gallon of water later, my computers are all back up and running. That means that the kids only have to share when Hongo is at home. Because I am not a very good sharer. Must be the only child in me.... ;)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
I'm cold....
I'm just dropping in during lunch to announce that I am cold. That's it. The weather changed too drastically for me, and even though I have sweaters and jeans....I'm cold.
I am almost done knitting my sweater - half a sleeve and the neck to be done.
I am also almost finished with a hat. I made it for my son, but he said he didn't want anymore hats, so I may just let DramaQueen have it. That girl can never have too many hats.
I am almost done knitting my sweater - half a sleeve and the neck to be done.
I am also almost finished with a hat. I made it for my son, but he said he didn't want anymore hats, so I may just let DramaQueen have it. That girl can never have too many hats.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
for the over 30 crowd.....
I JUUUUUUST barely made it into this one!
When I was a
kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how
hard things were when
they were growing up, what with walking 25 miles to school every morning ...
Uphill BOTH ways.
Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over
the ripe old age of 30, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of
today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you
live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know
how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet .
If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library & look
it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a
letter, with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way
across the street & put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week
to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had
to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to
wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ usually talk over the
beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were
on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
We didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either.
When the phone rang,
you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss,
your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!!
You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution
3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! Games like 'Space Invaders'
and ‘asteroids'.
Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your
imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just
one screen forever!
And you could never win.
The game just kept getting harder and harder and
faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad
with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels
and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a
little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on.
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel & there was no cartoon network either! You could only seecartoons on Saturday Morning.
Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait
ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to
use the stove or go build a frigging fire... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing & shake it over the
stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
When I was a
kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how
hard things were when
they were growing up, what with walking 25 miles to school every morning ...
Uphill BOTH ways.
Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over
the ripe old age of 30, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of
today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you
live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know
how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet .
If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library & look
it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a
letter, with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way
across the street & put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week
to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had
to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to
wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ usually talk over the
beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were
on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
We didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either.
When the phone rang,
you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss,
your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!!
You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution
3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! Games like 'Space Invaders'
and ‘asteroids'.
Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your
imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just
one screen forever!
And you could never win.
The game just kept getting harder and harder and
faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad
with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels
and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a
little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on.
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel & there was no cartoon network either! You could only seecartoons on Saturday Morning.
Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait
ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to
use the stove or go build a frigging fire... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing & shake it over the
stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Rain? what Rain?
That was the big news of the week. rain this weekend.
Well I didn't see any rain...did you? No, I didn't think so.
Today we did go out and I wore jeans and a long sleeved shirt (because that is just the kind of girl I am) and I am happy to say that I didn't freeze and maybe once or twice I felt a little warm and over dressed.
We took the kids out shopping for pants and boy was that an ordeal. I have the tween who wears a size 12, 14, and 16 all in one. I swear every store that we went to, the pants would NOT fit right. We finally ended up finding two pairs that fit in a size 16.
Then I have the middle child with long stick legs. She will be a very slender, make you sick because she is so skinny kind of girl. She ended up with a 7 slim.
The Hairy One was by far the worst...the people who design little boys jeans must think no one cares what a boy wears from the age of 4-7. Because I saw some really ugly jeans today.
So we bought 6 pairs of jeans today. Hooray for mom! Next paycheck we will go out and look for some tops. Oh joy. Did you know most of the tops we saw today cost more than the jeans???
We also returned some library books and bought some yarn. I have three more sweaters in queue after I finish the one for myself. LQ is next and today I picked up some light gray wool yarn for a sweater for her, and then there will most likely be pink yarn in the future for DQ. The Hairy One has not decided on a color yet, but that is okay since I havent even found a pattern for him. I think by the time I finish I will be so sick of sweaters that I will be embracing the opportunity to knit socks.
Tomorrow I do not have softball, so I will most likely be working in the yard and doing home improvement projects to get ready for the winter. We have new neighbors next door and you know how I am - very competitive when it comes to whose grass is the greenest and who has the fewest weeds.....lol.
Well I didn't see any rain...did you? No, I didn't think so.
Today we did go out and I wore jeans and a long sleeved shirt (because that is just the kind of girl I am) and I am happy to say that I didn't freeze and maybe once or twice I felt a little warm and over dressed.
We took the kids out shopping for pants and boy was that an ordeal. I have the tween who wears a size 12, 14, and 16 all in one. I swear every store that we went to, the pants would NOT fit right. We finally ended up finding two pairs that fit in a size 16.
Then I have the middle child with long stick legs. She will be a very slender, make you sick because she is so skinny kind of girl. She ended up with a 7 slim.
The Hairy One was by far the worst...the people who design little boys jeans must think no one cares what a boy wears from the age of 4-7. Because I saw some really ugly jeans today.
So we bought 6 pairs of jeans today. Hooray for mom! Next paycheck we will go out and look for some tops. Oh joy. Did you know most of the tops we saw today cost more than the jeans???
We also returned some library books and bought some yarn. I have three more sweaters in queue after I finish the one for myself. LQ is next and today I picked up some light gray wool yarn for a sweater for her, and then there will most likely be pink yarn in the future for DQ. The Hairy One has not decided on a color yet, but that is okay since I havent even found a pattern for him. I think by the time I finish I will be so sick of sweaters that I will be embracing the opportunity to knit socks.
Tomorrow I do not have softball, so I will most likely be working in the yard and doing home improvement projects to get ready for the winter. We have new neighbors next door and you know how I am - very competitive when it comes to whose grass is the greenest and who has the fewest weeds.....lol.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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