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Oct. 19th, 2006 05:54 pmThis is what happens when you play 'hyphenate the last names' when you get married. :)
Oct. 19th, 2006
Update-y foo..
Oct. 19th, 2006 10:13 pmPower is back on at the house, has been since Tuesday. Although every time I leave I expect it to be off again when I get back. :P The phone boxes were ripped off the side of the house and the phone company supposedly will not fix anything until a tree that is causing problems is removed. It was rotten, and split down the middle, with part of it resting on the downstairs roof. It hasn't broken off completely yet, which is leading to me running under it really really fast when I enter/leave. There is no way to get to the doors without having to go under it. And of course, getting it removed is our problem. Well. Technically our landlord's problem. Hopefully he'll be able to find someone to do it soon before it hurts someone. So - power, good. No phone or cable - doable. Dangerous split trees still being at house - bad bad bad.
I have decided my birthday (and this week, really) is a wash. Every time I try to find something good about it, something bad happens. We get power back but we won't have phones for god knows how long. We get a laptop, it gets screwed up. I get an ice cream cake for my birthday - only a day late! It turns out to have some cement-like caramel chewy thing in the middle and could not be cut before the ice cream melted. I wound up scooping out as much ice-cream as possible so I could /eat/ some of it but it does not resemble a cake at all. I get some irish breakfast tea for work, get a bug in it, drink the bug, trigger my gag reflex and spew tea all over my white sleeve. And freak out my co-workers. It's been that sort of week.
Still, it could have been a lot worse. And I am grateful for that. I still have my house, my husband, my cat and my family. The tree missed our car when it split. The laptop is fixed and if I go to Wegmans, I can use their hotspot to connect to the internet. Or get on from work when I have a chance. I can bleach the damn sleeve. And the cake...well, okay. That just sucks overall and I am never buying a cake from that place again. But in the grand scheme of things, it's a cake. Life goes on.
I have decided my birthday (and this week, really) is a wash. Every time I try to find something good about it, something bad happens. We get power back but we won't have phones for god knows how long. We get a laptop, it gets screwed up. I get an ice cream cake for my birthday - only a day late! It turns out to have some cement-like caramel chewy thing in the middle and could not be cut before the ice cream melted. I wound up scooping out as much ice-cream as possible so I could /eat/ some of it but it does not resemble a cake at all. I get some irish breakfast tea for work, get a bug in it, drink the bug, trigger my gag reflex and spew tea all over my white sleeve. And freak out my co-workers. It's been that sort of week.
Still, it could have been a lot worse. And I am grateful for that. I still have my house, my husband, my cat and my family. The tree missed our car when it split. The laptop is fixed and if I go to Wegmans, I can use their hotspot to connect to the internet. Or get on from work when I have a chance. I can bleach the damn sleeve. And the cake...well, okay. That just sucks overall and I am never buying a cake from that place again. But in the grand scheme of things, it's a cake. Life goes on.
