WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2007
Okay, I realize that sounds harsh. I can laugh about it now. And I apologize for taking so long to post. Today is, in fact, my birthday (I’m seventy-two – or at least it feels like that) and I’ve spent the last two days fighting a losing battle with my old and new routers. I love/hate technology. I wouldn’t want to live without it – which means I can’t live without it – which means I want to kill something or someone if I have to live without it – which is what I’ve had to do (live without it that is – I didn’t actually lay a deadly ambush for the Geek Squad) for the past 48 hours.
(Insert deep, cleansing breath here) Actually – it wasn’t such a bad birthday. I started out registering the kids for school in an unairconditioned school gym. It was hot. Africa hot. Then we ran all over town looking for everything on a 2nd and 4th graders’ lists. Why can’t you just go to one place for this? Why do they need several thousand reams of wide ruled, 3-ring binder paper but don’t need a 3-ring binder? And WHO came up with the brilliant idea of giving 9-year-olds Sharpies? I’d pretty much decided long ago that Sharpies required post-graduate work in order to use one in my house.
Anyway – I did manage to buy myself a really cool lemon quartz (have you ever heard of that?) ring, order a tungsten ring with little skulls engraved on them (did you know you can’t scratch or even size tungsten?) and found an uber-cool Cole Haan bag. My husband will probably make sure he never leaves town again on my birthday.
At last the internet is working, the kids are in bed, I have a Grey Goose & tonic, and am settling down to do some work on my book #2 edits. Ahhhh. Bliss.
May you have many wonderful birthdays to come!