Year: 2009

I have no idea what is up, but for the past two days, technology and I have not been seeing eye-to-eye.

Last night after Tabby had snuggled down in her crib, I sat down to play some much-needed catch-up. After an hour of beating my head against the LCD screen, I just gave up. My computer has become insolent. I install something, it acts like it's been installed without issue, but then when I go to load it … nothing. No error messages. No splash screens. No NOTHING. Like it didn't get my request. And this isn't an isolated problem. At least three pieces of software are having this problem and they're from a few different vendors. After troubleshooting for another half hour (no malware, viruses, spyware, trojans or anything else bad found), I decided to give up and play a game. Guess what wouldn't load. Luckily the TV will still do my bidding.

Then this AM I checked my email on my phone as I was getting ready for work. I get a weather update every morning, so I always have at least 1 email and usually around 15 others. This AM? Nothing. Weird, I think, so I investigate and learn that my phone has decided (despite no change in settings) to download the entire contents of my inbox (some 3000+ messages), where it normally just keeps the past three days or so. This has completely bogged down my phone and it will no longer get the new messages (it's too busy with the old) and since it's in this endless freaking cycle of downloading, I can't change (or even look at!) settings. After some creative use of the reset button and some other trickery, I seem to have at least fixed that situation. Of course I had to wait a good 10 minutes after it wised-up and remembered it wasn't supposed to have all that old email and then had to delete it.

So to recap: no games, no work, but at least I have my phone.

* title “borrowed” from Sex and the City

I find myself with less to say than usual. Actually that's inaccurate. I have plenty to say, just not the option to say it. In addition to that, somehow, just the normal life processes are taking more of my energy than they usually do. I haven't quite had it in my to get out the camera or make anything terribly interesting for dinner or anything like that.

This weather hasn't been helping a lot either. The lovely week we had last week was just a teaser (as we knew it would be) and we're now experiencing single degree temps (on both sides of 0). I am trying not to leave the house unless I absolutely have to.

But I am enjoying some of the little things that have been going on. For instance, our sitter reported to me yesterday that Tabby spent all day singing Happy Birthday. We have not celebrated a lot of b'days in recent memory … most everyone we celebrate is in summer. I have no idea where she got this. I also told her last night to tell Matt she loved him SOOO MUCH and she did and opened her arms wide when she said “SOOO MUCH!” I'm surprised he's not dead from heart-melt.

• I finally had a major breakthrough on a work project this week. I am so happy to have it (95%) done.
• My Nutty Bars (#2 on the top ten list of things I shouldn't be eating) have not been recalled due to the peanut butter salmonella scare … I suspect this is because they don't actually contain real peanut
butter
• It has been unseasonably warm around here … 60s! multiple days in a row. It is LOVELY. We've been taking walks again. What the heck did I ever want winter for??
• Sounds like we'll be going to see Slumdog Millionaire on Friday. I'm very much looking forward to that
• We had a budget review last night … we knew daycare costs doubling was going to suck … we just didn't quite grasp how MUCH
• I am hosting Bunco in about 3 weeks … and I'm thinking of making breakfast for dinner … what do you guys think? What would you make with it?
• I know it will fall apart as soon as the baby arrives (if not sooner), but I have been doing weekly goal setting for the past couple of weeks and it has been going pretty well so far … I think I found the key: attainable goals. Baby steps as they say …
• As much as I'd been trying to avoid Facebook (nothing against it, except that I need another time black hole like a fish needs a bicycle), all my mom's group peeps are really into it so I guess I'll do as Romans (moms) do
• Everyone's been speculating as to what was in the note Bush left for Obama … military secrets, an apology, the combo to the safe, a few of his best White House jokes … me? I'm pretty sure it's his secret BBQ sauce recipe. I mean … think about it.

It started out as a pretty crappy day. Not worth going into, but sufficed to say, I was pretty grumpy all morning. It got better throughout the day but man it really turned around when I got to our sitter's house to pick Tabby up. She frequently dawdles over a snack or picking up toys or something, but today she was ready to go the instant she saw me. I got an unsolicited kiss from her and sweet baby chatter the whole way home (she was hungry and wanted to eat … cheese!).

We had a snack (cheese). We had a walk with Daddy. She slept. We made dinner. We played kitchen. We did puzzles. We ran an errand. We did our bed time ritual. Snuggles. Kisses. Not a whimper, just a “good night.”

Couldn't love that little girl any more if I tried.