At Last, My Internet is Up Again!!

Holy moly, peoples. After 6 phone calls in 3 days with AT&T, the last one taking over an hour, I finally, finally have internet access at home again. First, they hooked up the wrong place. I had to wait another 24 hours before my blessed Broadband light was green. Then, I couldn't register my account because their server was down. Then, the registration wouldn't take. I told Sabrina, the last person I spoke to, that she is my favorite person at AT&T.

My apologies to Kori - I really wanted to guest post while you were gone, but never had time at work to complete it. And I'm woefully behind, of course, on reading everyone's blogs.

Of course, without the distraction of the Internet, I got tons done at the new place. The living room is completely done, and there are just 2 stray boxes left in my room, and 2 more bags of clothes to go through.

I had my first bad experience doing laundry at our apt. community laundry room. Of course, I picked the dryer that doesn't work! By the time I discovered this, someone else was using the only other dryer. A load of towels took about 3 hours to complete.

But this a.m., I was up at 6:30 and got all my laundry done by 11. Somehow, over the course of the last few weeks, I've become a morning person. Even though I've been getting up by 6:30 every weekday morning for 5 years, I could still sleep as long as the girls would let me on the weekends. Now, I'm the first one out of bed! Is this a sign of aging? Whatever. It's more productive, I guess.

Riley is registered for school, I've figured out after-school care (though I still have to sign them up), and we'll be going for registration/orientation for Sylvia's new school in a couple of weeks.

So the other day, I realized I left my grocery list at home - I was going to stop at the grocery store before picking up the girls - and it took me nearly all day to figure out that, hey, I can just stop at home and pick it up on the way to the grocery store. "Home" is no longer 25 minutes away from work! That was pretty cool.

The girls will be going up to San Jose on Monday to visit with their aunts and uncles and cousins on their dad's side. Their dad lives there, too, but none of us are completely confident that he'll show up. They haven't seen him since July of last year - when he was 2 days late for their visit. The girls have not forgotten that. I don't think they ever will.

Riley lost 2 teeth in the past week; one of them being in the top front. So now she lisps along with not saying her "r"s correctly. I didn't think it was possible for her to get any cuter, but this time, she's outdone herself.

Sylvia's kicking butt on her Swim Team. She's exceeding everyone's expectations. She's also been extremely emotional. I think the combination of the move, plus the trip to San Jose being on, then off and now back on again has been a lot for her to handle. At the same time, I can't allow her to get away with everything. As usual, it's about balancing - in this case, her emotional needs versus the needs of the entire family. And, okay, my need for a little sanity myself!

I look forward to trying to catch up with everyone, a little at a time. And hey, the next one really and truly is my 200th post :) I'll be answering readers' questions. If you have any, ask them in the comments.