Domestic Life

So there I was, feeling better and nearly caught up, ready to get back to my blog.

And our internet connectivity crapped out. According to our provider the problem wasn't on their end, but we couldn't figure out where on our end it was going wrong.

Since I'm married to an IT genius, it only took him until he came home from work the next day to work out what he thought was a solution. All he needed was my netbook computer and we'd be back in business. (OK, it was more technical than that, but do you really want the details? Of course not...)

Can you guess what happened? Can you? That's right, my netbook was dead. At first I thought the battery was flat, but when we plugged it in it started making an odd noise. It sounded like it wanted to boot up, but then changed its mind. It did this over and over and over and over.

Fuck. Fortunately it's still under warranty so I will call Acer tomorrow - my first opportunity to call them since I'm gainfully employed now - and arrange to get it looked at. Fingers crossed it's an easy fix.

So now I'm back on the desktop and fighting for computer time. Actually it's not really a fight. If I want to get online I just say "Off, I need to go on" to whomever is on. The exception is Sparky if he's doing school work, but since they're now on school holidays that won't happen for a couple of weeks. But I tend to be nice and do the million other things I have to do if someone is on and hasn't been on for ages.

That's the other thing. I seem to have caught some kind of domestic virus. I've been cleaning without much protest, and I spent the morning baking. I now have a chocolate cake, chocolate chip muffins and a whole cookie jar full of triple chocolate chip cookies to show for my efforts. I admit I cheated a little with cake and muffin mixes as well as pre-made cookie dough BUT this is big for me! And I think the cleaning thing is because I'm not home as much anymore so I feel I need to really keep on top of it instead of thinking I'll get around to it. Except for the bathrooms... I loathe scrubbing the shower so I will publicly thank The Hermit for doing that today. If I could I'd hire a cleaner just to do my bathrooms... and floors. Those two things - I'd do the rest.

Gee, off on a tangent there. Focus... Things are settling down here after the upsets of last week and I've nearly got my head around the amount of sheer learning I have to do at work. Instead of trying to get caught up (like I usually do) I'm just going to start fresh this week (especially because I need to do some module work). Cool?

Thanks for sticking with me and being patient. You guys are cool.