Did You Miss Me?

My internet has been down since Sunday. Actually since Saturday night, but who's keeping track, right? I tried to keep my calm about it and not get overly upset, but I didn't succeed. I think I called the Tata Indicom help center no less than 10 times in the past 3 days, only to be told every - single - time that they understand my frustration and they'll upgrade my concern to the highest priority. Uh... no they don't... they have internet. Oh yes, and they'll do everything in their power to have it restored within 2 hours. Uh... no it wasn't. Their powers stink, because it took over 72 hours to turn it back on, and who knows how long I'll have it before it goes out again.

To help clarify my posting from last Friday, I was the featured blogger of the day on SITS (The Secret Is In The Sauce). You remember, right? The silhouette photo of the girl with her computer, and the phrase "My Blog Is Saucy." For those of you who don't know what it is, or who sent me an e-mail about it (which I am JUST getting today), it's a fun website I frequent that profiles different bloggers and recipes. I received the notice last Tuesday that I was going to be featured on Friday. So I tidied up the place, and got ready for my oodles of visitors. There was just one problem. I couldn't even enjoy my 4 seconds of "fame" as I was in the midst of unpacking my 162 boxes... and then my internet went out. Fame is over rated anyway, isn't it?

In other quick news... (I'm typing fast here because who knows how long I'll have internet and I need to verbal vomit everything in the next few minutes)...

Riley started soccer last Saturday. We signed her up for a few after school activities, but it was the only one she got into this quarter. It's from 8:30 am - 9:15 am.... so there will be no sleeping in on Saturday. Matt took her to her first lesson (is that what you call it?) and said she was only one of two girls in the group. She was a bit tentative in the beginning, but by the end of the session, she was kicking the ball during a scrimmage. She hasn't quite learned that it's a team sport, so when she got home she continued to tell me how she "won"... which really meant that her team won... But when it's a bunch of 5 year olds vying for the ball and kicking it every which way but Sunday, does it really matter who won?

Most of the house is unpacked. Hallelujah! As soon as we get the rest of the pictures hung on the wall, I'll post the photos. We spent all Saturday afternoon furniture shopping for a wardrobe to put in our bedroom. We don't have enough closet space in the house, even if we were to put clothes in another room. So shopping with the driver we went. We looked high and we looked low. We probably went to 10 different stores. After about five hours of looking, we finally went to this second hand furniture warehouse, where they have furniture piled floor to ceiling, all on consignment. We found a diamond in the rough, a humongous wardrobe that will fit perfectly in our bedroom. But it's ugly. I mean, really, really ugly. So my project for the next weekend (as if I don't have enough to do around here anyway. Remember? no maid yet...) is to strip the waxy paint off the wardrobe and white wash it with a fun color. I started to remove the paint yesterday and discovered that it's going to take at least 4-5 bottles of paint thinner, and many more hours than I thought. This will be FUN... {insert serious sarcasm and four letter words here}.

I'm signing off for now. I need to finish the girls room. I started to unpack their last box yesterday, only to discover that they brought a piece of Israel here with them. Sand. Apparently their shoes still had sand in them, so when I took their boots out of the box, out came about a cup of sand... which is now on my already slippery tile floor.

I need a maid.