Well I successfully dismantled everything on Sunday minus the nativity and some white lights and candles. Noah about broke my heart when he came in and craned his neck around the corner from the dining room, into the living room and then said, "The tree is gone."
His tone sounded disheartened and disappointed. I said, "Yeaaaah - I know - I'm sorry Buddy."
He shrugged and said, "It's okay - I know it has to happen. It's just - I had a really long, bad day and all I could think about was how nice it was going to be to come home and just sit on the couch with Moose (his dog), in front of the tree all lit up and just hang out. To be honest, I was kinda thinking or realizing - this will probably be my last Christmas home with you guys. Guess I didn't really want it to end, ya know?"
Seriously - would have been less painful if someone would have cut my heart out with a dull spoon. I flipped out and said I would put everything back up immediately. He laughed, hugged me and said it was fine.
Worked in bubble-mode all day Monday with the exception of grocery shopping and then today, after everyone left for work - for no reason whatsoever, the power went out. Was out for hours. When it came back on, the surge evidently fried our modem/router. I called the provider for tech support, because their new equipment does this ridiculous thing - if it reboots for any reason, it changes the network name and password. Uh - yeah - not convenient. It's only rebooted 3 times since we've had it and they have an app you can log into to reset it, but today, I logged in, reset and after it reconfigured, it rebooted and wiped out what I put in. After 5 attempts, I got annoyed, hacked the system using my computer, logged into it directly and looked at the protocols to figure out what was going on. Figured it was either server side or the power surge. Called them. Hour and a half later and frustrated tech, we're doing an equipment swap. LOL
Using my phone now tethered to my laptop to connect so I can at least get some basic work done.
In regards to weather - I'm jealous of everyone. My AC is on. I'm not kidding. LOL
I have a fake digital fire place, rolling a fire scene with the heat setting turned off and my AC is running. It's 7:30pm. I'm so ashamed. LOL
Hope everyone had a great weekend! I'm sorry about any games that didn't turn out as you had hoped. And congrats to any that did!
Hope all your families are doing well this week. I'm so excited to see us nearing the 200's on the countdown! OH and yesterday when I went grocery shopping, they had Christmas baking items marked way down! I was out of everything after this past season. I got everything I need for this coming Christmas' baking season for a grand total of $2.87!! They had items that normally sell for $6 each, marked down to $0.49. Others were $0.10! It was crazy! I was in Heaven.
...Just some snow showers not enough to build snowmen or have snowball fights but its a start right lol...Thats me finished work for another day so gonna bake pancakes with the girls in a bit...Enjoy the rest of your day christmas friends
Strange weather this winter here in Ohio.
