Cox Woes
Posted on March 22, 2003 by Ching under Life.
By the way, did you know that we got conned into parting with $30 for a dedicated cable internet line? Yes, sirree! Why is it that when you can’t connect to the internet because of crappy service somehow your ISP finds a way to convince you that this is YOUR fault and that they can make it better FOR A FEE? What is $30 anyway when you can enjoy many months of uninterrupted service, right? Supposedly the dedicated line will give us a better connection. I wondered if that was BETTER as in FASTER because, you know what, I can’t tell the difference. If it’s not, then how can it be better? Isn’t faster better? How else would you define it? Maybe I’m just impatient.
I shouldn’t gripe about it too much because I agreed to it. It was another one of those heat-of-the-moment decisions that you wish you could take back (kind of like spending $2,000 on the Bowflex). It went like this, “God! I hate these outages! I hate our internet connection! Sure, have them install the dedicated line! Dammit!” Voila! Just like that, the cable company has usurped money out of another unsuspecting broke-ass sucker.
Speaking of which, Brian promised me he would seal the hole that they made through the wall before it starts raining again. I have to make a mental note to remind him because if I don’t it’ll be next year before it gets done. He promised me that he would call the cable company today and cancel our digital cable (we’re switching to regular cable because we’re paying $130 per month right now for our cable and internet combined and we’re hardly ever home to enjoy it; when I am home, I’m on the freakin’ internet) also and he hasn’t done that yet either. I never understood why he wanted all those dang channels anyway (we have all of the digital tiers the cable company offers except for the the Spanish tier; if it were up to Brian we’d have that too and to think that I can comprehend Spanish better than he does)! I think he is having second thoughts about canceling the digital cable. He’s probably hoping that I will forget and then he won’t have to do it. I can sense his reluctance to give it up. I’m giving him until Monday and then I’m going to nag him about it. LOL! I’m really getting good at this “wife” thing!
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Felix and Hobbie
Posted on March 22, 2003 by Ching under Babies.
Not much going on today.. Just staying home, washing dishes, doing laundry, working on daddy’s birthday present, working out and just being bumming around the house (not necessarily in that order). It’s about six o’clock and I’ve barely begun laundry, I haven’t done the dishes and I’m still trying to get motivated to work out. The only thing I’ve accomplished today is bumming around the house and tweaking dad’s suprise. Two out of four ain’t bad. I’m performing at 50% productivity today. It’s so weird because now that we’ve got a working furnace and it’s not so cold inside the house I can’t get myself to work out when during the week that our furnace was broke I woke up at seven everyday and worked out for an hour — I even had to work out in a turtleneck because it was so cold. Now that conditions are more conducive to working out I can’t get myself to do it. Isn’t that something?
Anyway, I took a break earlier. I played with the cats and took some pictures. Felix and Hobbie were helping me procrastinate. Now Blogger is my distraction. I better quit this procrastinating crap already, otherwise I won’t be able to cross off the things on my to-do list. Here are some pictures of Felix and Hobbie to keep you company. I may not be back for a few days because I have to relocate Golden Sushi to a more reliable server (as soon as Fateback’s servers are back up) and work on the new webzine.
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Baby Shower
Posted on March 16, 2003 by Ching under Family, Life.
God! I am so ticked off! I wrote this long schpiel about how mom and I went to the baby shower at Tita Rose’s house yesterday and how I had to speed on the way home so I could make it there before Brian got home (he comes home for lunch) and everything and then I encountered this run-time error and my whole post just vanished into thin air! I am so freakin’ upset!
Anyway, I’m not going to whine (too late for that) and I’m not going to retype the whole thing either. Here are the pictures. Enjoy.
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New Furnace
Posted on March 12, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Some pictures of our brand-spankin’ new furnace and AC unit. Glad that’s finally over. Now we start paying. When our tax refund comes back we’ll start to see some light at the end of the tunnel (the tunnel of debt, that is).
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Ritchie’s 25th Birthday
Posted on March 11, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Today is a super-duper great day — not just because it’s Ritchie’s 25th birthday either! Although that is definitely a cause to celebrate! Happy birthday, Ritchie!
When I arrived home today I was greeted by the wonderful sound of a working furnace. It was music to my ears! Nevermind that the hallway was in shambles and that there was enough sheetrock dust all over the place to fill a small tub, it was all worth it. I’m so thankful for David coming over to help Brian install the new door on our utility closet (the old one had to be removed so that the service guys could have access, not necessarily replaced though, but there again — Brian hated that door so it had to be replaced — so what if it doesn’t match the door to the water heater a mere two inches away from it). Call today’s blog an ode to my father-in-law Dave because without his help I don’t think that the the door would have gotten installed.
At any rate, Brian made me take a shower with him because he was feeling grody from working on the door and being covered in sheetrock dust. It took some convincing on his part too because showering at night is really not my thing. My routine is to shower in the morning when I wake up, which I will do again tomorrow, but I decided to give in and shower with Brian. Oh, what a glorious feeling it is to be able to step out of the shower and not have to run to the bedroom where the space heater is! I can walk around the house naked (or at least partially clothed) again, instead of having to wear layers of clothing to keep warm. I could go on and on but you get the picture.
Allelujah! It truly is a wonderful day!
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