So the fighting between my youngest brother-in-law, his family and my father-in-law continues. This weekend we're heading down to my father-in-law's house to celebrate Thanksgiving with his girlfriend, her kids, his sister (my husband's aunt) and her family. I think my middle brother-in-law is also supposed to be there with his boyfriend.
So basically 2 of my father-in-law's 3 kids will be there and we're supposed to just pretend like the 3rd son doesn't exist. I'm sure my FIL will make at least a couple comments about him, which is going to be super awkward since the middle brother-in-law's boyfriend is bosom buddies with the youngest brother-in-law's wife.
Confused yet?
Oh and then to top things off, my FIL's girlfriend casually asked on Wednesday if we wanted to do our Christmas exchange on Sunday. We weren't even aware of who would be participating in such an exchange.
Not to sound like the Grinch or anything, but I'm a little (ok, a lot) not thrilled about buying extra gifts for children I don't know and probably won't see ever again. My father-in-law's girlfriend has a 14 year old and a 9 year old that will be there as well as her 11 year old granddaughter who now lives with them. The girlfriend has custody of the 14 year old son, but the 9 year old daughter lives with her father and sees her mother on the weekends (they have different fathers). The 11 year old granddaughter is living there because her mother was homeless and living in a car - I'm not sure if said homeless mother will be at Thanksgivmas or not. My husband's aunt will also be at the Thanksgivmas celebration, meaning we'll also need to get something for his aunt, her husband and their 2 kids. We actually know them though, so that's slightly better than the 11 year old grandaughter of the 40-something year old girlfriend.
I really really really wish that my father-in-law had held off playing house until we knew whether or not the girlfriend was going to be a permanent fixture in our lives. He always berated my middle brother-in-law (the gay one) about moving guys in so quickly and then the moment he became single he did the exact same thing. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Anyway, that's my rant - I guess I'll just have to see how the drama plays out between everyone while doing my best to keep my opinions to myself. I hope my father-in-law doesn't bring up the whole apartment thing or the whole missing brother-in-law thing because I really don't know how civil I can keep the discussion if he does. Well, wish me luck!
Oh, and also, fingers crossed that my father-in-laws girlfriend knows how to make a good Thanksgiving meal. LOL - I've never had anything that she's cooked, so I don't know what to expect.
Friday, November 29, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
K-Cups DEAL
I recently obtained a Keurig. I know, I know, it's 2013 and I'm JUST NOW jumping on the single serve coffee bandwagon. I'm the only coffee drinker in my house, so you'd think it would make sense to have a Keurig, but I never bought one because I didn't want to spend that kind of money on myself. Anyway, thanks to the magic of the Facebook yard sale site, I was able to get one for free. It's nothing fancy - just the Keurig mini, but it works. The person that gave it away said it didn't work, but after descaling it was absolutely fine.
Anyway, onto the DEAL portion of the post.
Right now it's November and Keurig users are probably not thinking about their summer time favorites, but if you head to your local grocery store you can probably score a deal on the iced tea line of Keurig products. I just got back from Market Basket (it's a New England thing for those that aren't in the know) and they had their Snapple iced teas marked down to $2.99 a box. They are normally $6.97 in the summer, then they go on sale for $4.99 towards the end of summer/early fall and now they are $2.99. Will they go lower? Maybe, but I'm sure it helps that we're in the beginning of winter and the stores are looking at about 6 months or more of no iced tea sales.
I plan to grab a box a week as long as they are on sale to keep myself well stocked for the summer months. Then, in the summer I'll look into chai tea, hot cocoa and hot cider. Hopefully with a little planning I can keep the Keurig in the convenience category rather than the expense category. For regular coffee, I plan to get a couple of those refillable cups to use on a regular basis. Maybe Santa will tuck one under the tree for me. ;-)
Anyway, onto the DEAL portion of the post.
Right now it's November and Keurig users are probably not thinking about their summer time favorites, but if you head to your local grocery store you can probably score a deal on the iced tea line of Keurig products. I just got back from Market Basket (it's a New England thing for those that aren't in the know) and they had their Snapple iced teas marked down to $2.99 a box. They are normally $6.97 in the summer, then they go on sale for $4.99 towards the end of summer/early fall and now they are $2.99. Will they go lower? Maybe, but I'm sure it helps that we're in the beginning of winter and the stores are looking at about 6 months or more of no iced tea sales.
I plan to grab a box a week as long as they are on sale to keep myself well stocked for the summer months. Then, in the summer I'll look into chai tea, hot cocoa and hot cider. Hopefully with a little planning I can keep the Keurig in the convenience category rather than the expense category. For regular coffee, I plan to get a couple of those refillable cups to use on a regular basis. Maybe Santa will tuck one under the tree for me. ;-)
Monday, November 25, 2013
Pregnancy Journal: Week 19
Week 19 has been pretty uneventful. I saw the Dr. and apparently I have gained 9 pounds so far, which isn't a lot at all for this point. Especially not when you consider the staggering amounts I gained with the other two...
The baby is doing great, genetic testing and down's syndrome screenings came back great, nothing to worry about. I'm not showing much. I think I was bigger than this with my first pregnancy at 19 weeks. I'm in maternity pants and maternity shirts, but both are too big while my regular stuff is too small. I'm in that awkward "is she pregnant or just fat?" stage. Annoying.
The baby is doing great, genetic testing and down's syndrome screenings came back great, nothing to worry about. I'm not showing much. I think I was bigger than this with my first pregnancy at 19 weeks. I'm in maternity pants and maternity shirts, but both are too big while my regular stuff is too small. I'm in that awkward "is she pregnant or just fat?" stage. Annoying.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Winter Blues
I can't seem to beat the winter blues lately. The weather is not so wonderful (cold), Thanksgiving is around the corner and I'm cooped up all day, every day with the kids. The only other adult I see is my husband, and he has been getting home around 8pm every day then drinking and vegging out because he's stressed out from work.
I'm basically isolated right now. I talk to my mom and my BFF on the phone pretty much every day, but that's not the same as seeing other people, leaving the house and having something to do that doesn't incite anxiety. I don't want to pack the kids up and take them anywhere because I'm getting over a cold and they are both in it full-swing right now. Bringing sick kids into 30 degree weather seems like a bad idea to me.
I have to go out later this morning for my prenatal appointment and I'm dragging the kiddos with me to that because I don't want to pay a baby sitter, clean the house and then come back to a disaster. I'm not asking my father-in-laws girlfriend since she bailed on me the last time. Seriously, it's like the only person I can depend on is myself. Kind of sucks, but it's true.
What do you do to beat the winter blues? I'm desperate for suggestions at this point. :-/ I need something to look forward to and Thanksgiving is more stressful than anything since we travel to my family's house and then stay overnight a couple days and do some shopping.
I'm basically isolated right now. I talk to my mom and my BFF on the phone pretty much every day, but that's not the same as seeing other people, leaving the house and having something to do that doesn't incite anxiety. I don't want to pack the kids up and take them anywhere because I'm getting over a cold and they are both in it full-swing right now. Bringing sick kids into 30 degree weather seems like a bad idea to me.
I have to go out later this morning for my prenatal appointment and I'm dragging the kiddos with me to that because I don't want to pay a baby sitter, clean the house and then come back to a disaster. I'm not asking my father-in-laws girlfriend since she bailed on me the last time. Seriously, it's like the only person I can depend on is myself. Kind of sucks, but it's true.
What do you do to beat the winter blues? I'm desperate for suggestions at this point. :-/ I need something to look forward to and Thanksgiving is more stressful than anything since we travel to my family's house and then stay overnight a couple days and do some shopping.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Pregnancy Journal: Week 18 & Gender Reveal!
I'm really bad at posting my weekly updates until the last possible day. Fortunately, I don't think too many people read these posts, so it's all good.
Anyway, last week I had my gender ultrasound. I think I touched on that in a previous post. I may as well get to the best part... the results!
IT'S A BOY!!
We're very excited since we already have 2 girls. My husband is over the moon to not be the only member of the family with a Y chromosome anymore. I'm insanely nervous about the whole circumcision thing and buying blue stuff and just parenting a boy in general. This is girl central... adding blue seems like it'll be hard. I hope not. :-/
I'm also starting to think about breast feeding. I'm not sure if I'll do it this time around since I had such a rough go of it the last time (I had an abscess that was quite large and had to be surgically drained. A nurse had to come in every day to change the dressing and it was all around horrible. EXTREMELY painful.)
Anyway, that's the update. :-) I can't believe I'm almost to the 1/2 way point -- especially considering the longest I've gone thus far was 38 weeks.
Anyway, last week I had my gender ultrasound. I think I touched on that in a previous post. I may as well get to the best part... the results!
IT'S A BOY!!
We're very excited since we already have 2 girls. My husband is over the moon to not be the only member of the family with a Y chromosome anymore. I'm insanely nervous about the whole circumcision thing and buying blue stuff and just parenting a boy in general. This is girl central... adding blue seems like it'll be hard. I hope not. :-/
I'm also starting to think about breast feeding. I'm not sure if I'll do it this time around since I had such a rough go of it the last time (I had an abscess that was quite large and had to be surgically drained. A nurse had to come in every day to change the dressing and it was all around horrible. EXTREMELY painful.)
Anyway, that's the update. :-) I can't believe I'm almost to the 1/2 way point -- especially considering the longest I've gone thus far was 38 weeks.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Husbands.. SMH.
I'm convinced that my husband TRIES to be an ass. Seriously. Every time I have an obligation at night like when I was on the town's planning board or now that I'm on the MOM's Club executive board, he is magically late getting home.
Then he blames EVERYTHING else besides himself. Traffic was horrible, co-worker gave me a last-minute task to do that had to be done tonight, I had to stay 10 minutes late because I got in 10 minutes late because you didn't wake me up on time this morning, etc. etc.
The excuses are never ending, but the one thing that is consistent is that he NEVER takes responsibility. He never says, yes, I let the time get away from me. Even then, I wouldn't believe him since he can get home on time whenever he wants unless I have to go somewhere.
It doesn't even have to be a meeting or anything of consequence. I used to like to go grocery shopping at night when the store wasn't crowded and I could get what I needed without any trouble. I'd go after dinner and leave him with the kids. Well, pretty soon he started working late on the night I usually went grocery shopping. What's the result? I now have to go in the morning while he and the kids are sleeping OR I can haul the kids with me, but anyone that has 2 young kids knows, that's just not always an option.
I'm really at a loss for an explanation. It's like he doesn't want me to leave him with the kids so he consciously does things to ensure that I can't get the heck out of the house. My MOM's Club obligation is once a month. My planning board obligation was twice a month. The MOM's Club and planning board did not run concurrently - I had a month off from one before I joined the other. Grocery shopping is weekly. It really seems to me like he just doesn't want the burden of taking care of the kids one night a week so I can get out of the house and regain my sanity. Even when I'm home I'm the one that feeds them, gets them ready for bed and tucks them in 90% of the time. The other 10% is when I fall asleep on the couch because I'm just exhausted from being pregnant and having a total of zero time to myself.
Now this is where everyone says oh, but he works all day so he's tired and doesn't want to take care of the kids. Guess what? I work from home and I don't mean that I take care of the kids. I do that too in ADDITION to a job. Sure my hours are a little more flexible than his, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm trying to produce quality work while raising children, keeping the house clean and making sure everyone eats on a daily basis. I don't have the commute, but I have full-time child care, 100% of the housekeeping and 100% of the food prep/food shopping responsibilties. I take the kids to ALL of the doctors appointments - I don't even think my husband has MET their pediatrician. I have gone to all of my prenatal appointments alone. If someone needs to come in to do something I'm the one that has to hire them, meet them, check their work and pay them. My husband has never met the babysitter, whom I've hired a grand total of 2 times when I couldn't bring the kids with me to the doctor and I didn't have another choice.
Basically, my husband gets woken up in the morning (by me), showers in leisure while I get the kids up, gets dressed in clean clothes (washed and put away by me), then heads off to work without packing kids into the car or getting anyone's shoes on but his own. He listens to his podcasts on the way in, then works. Sure work can be frustrating and stressful, but it's a different kind of stress than I have. He works with adults and has adult interaction each and every day. Once a week he goes out to lunch with his friend. When the work day is over (whenever that is - he doesn't have to pick kids up or worry about their schedule), he gets into his car and drives home. Again, he deals with traffic, and I know that's not fun. When he gets home, the kids greet him like he's a rock star and then we sit down and eat dinner. He turns on his show and veges out during the meal, so conversation is pretty much null. After dinner the kids demand his attention and he does his best to ignore them, mostly browsing the internet or watching the rest of the 3 to 4 hour news programs he records during the day. 2 1/2 hours after he gets home it's time for the kids to go to bed. We (sometimes just I) put them to bed and then my husband resumes his internet/television watching. I can talk at him, but getting a coherent response pretty much never happens. Sometime in there I go to bed and he follows in when it's convenient for him. We repeat the process again the next day.
It's a boring, monotonous, unfulfilled life for me. I'm pregnant (not planned, at least not on my part.) and I feel lonely, bored and unappreciated. I've told him as much, but his show was on so he didn't hear me. Now I'm waiting for him to get home late so I can go to my volunteer position and enjoy what little time I get with adults - assuming he gets home in time for me to catch any of it at all.
Then he blames EVERYTHING else besides himself. Traffic was horrible, co-worker gave me a last-minute task to do that had to be done tonight, I had to stay 10 minutes late because I got in 10 minutes late because you didn't wake me up on time this morning, etc. etc.
The excuses are never ending, but the one thing that is consistent is that he NEVER takes responsibility. He never says, yes, I let the time get away from me. Even then, I wouldn't believe him since he can get home on time whenever he wants unless I have to go somewhere.
It doesn't even have to be a meeting or anything of consequence. I used to like to go grocery shopping at night when the store wasn't crowded and I could get what I needed without any trouble. I'd go after dinner and leave him with the kids. Well, pretty soon he started working late on the night I usually went grocery shopping. What's the result? I now have to go in the morning while he and the kids are sleeping OR I can haul the kids with me, but anyone that has 2 young kids knows, that's just not always an option.
I'm really at a loss for an explanation. It's like he doesn't want me to leave him with the kids so he consciously does things to ensure that I can't get the heck out of the house. My MOM's Club obligation is once a month. My planning board obligation was twice a month. The MOM's Club and planning board did not run concurrently - I had a month off from one before I joined the other. Grocery shopping is weekly. It really seems to me like he just doesn't want the burden of taking care of the kids one night a week so I can get out of the house and regain my sanity. Even when I'm home I'm the one that feeds them, gets them ready for bed and tucks them in 90% of the time. The other 10% is when I fall asleep on the couch because I'm just exhausted from being pregnant and having a total of zero time to myself.
Now this is where everyone says oh, but he works all day so he's tired and doesn't want to take care of the kids. Guess what? I work from home and I don't mean that I take care of the kids. I do that too in ADDITION to a job. Sure my hours are a little more flexible than his, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm trying to produce quality work while raising children, keeping the house clean and making sure everyone eats on a daily basis. I don't have the commute, but I have full-time child care, 100% of the housekeeping and 100% of the food prep/food shopping responsibilties. I take the kids to ALL of the doctors appointments - I don't even think my husband has MET their pediatrician. I have gone to all of my prenatal appointments alone. If someone needs to come in to do something I'm the one that has to hire them, meet them, check their work and pay them. My husband has never met the babysitter, whom I've hired a grand total of 2 times when I couldn't bring the kids with me to the doctor and I didn't have another choice.
Basically, my husband gets woken up in the morning (by me), showers in leisure while I get the kids up, gets dressed in clean clothes (washed and put away by me), then heads off to work without packing kids into the car or getting anyone's shoes on but his own. He listens to his podcasts on the way in, then works. Sure work can be frustrating and stressful, but it's a different kind of stress than I have. He works with adults and has adult interaction each and every day. Once a week he goes out to lunch with his friend. When the work day is over (whenever that is - he doesn't have to pick kids up or worry about their schedule), he gets into his car and drives home. Again, he deals with traffic, and I know that's not fun. When he gets home, the kids greet him like he's a rock star and then we sit down and eat dinner. He turns on his show and veges out during the meal, so conversation is pretty much null. After dinner the kids demand his attention and he does his best to ignore them, mostly browsing the internet or watching the rest of the 3 to 4 hour news programs he records during the day. 2 1/2 hours after he gets home it's time for the kids to go to bed. We (sometimes just I) put them to bed and then my husband resumes his internet/television watching. I can talk at him, but getting a coherent response pretty much never happens. Sometime in there I go to bed and he follows in when it's convenient for him. We repeat the process again the next day.
It's a boring, monotonous, unfulfilled life for me. I'm pregnant (not planned, at least not on my part.) and I feel lonely, bored and unappreciated. I've told him as much, but his show was on so he didn't hear me. Now I'm waiting for him to get home late so I can go to my volunteer position and enjoy what little time I get with adults - assuming he gets home in time for me to catch any of it at all.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
My In-Laws are Horrible People
Well, things were going somewhat smoothly for a while there with the in-laws. It had been a solid week since we'd gotten a call about the cops being called on anyone or anything ridiculous like that. Then, as typical, the shit hit the fan.
We got a message from my FIL's girlfriend that someone had turned them in for a zoning violation. That report happened to coincide with the move-out date of my brother-in-law and his family. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who did it. It was either my brother-in-law or someone acting on behalf of him and his crazy wife.
Normally, we just ignore the crazy that happens over there. We let everyone have their petty little fights and we don't say anything. We don't take sides and as long as nobody draws blood or causes a 3rd party agency to come in, we ignore it. Unfortunately, this time fell into the latter category and we had to say something.
Of course, that made us the bad guys. You see, nobody questions my brother-in-law or his wife. They are allowed to dish out silent treatments, scream, say horrible things and generally be a pain without any repercussions. It doesn't matter who they direct their ire at - we all just sort of ignore it, but the person being targeted always feels bad that nobody stands up for them. I've pointed that out, but nobody is interested in taking a stand so we deal with the emotional terrorists one outburst at a time and after 6 years we've gotten pretty good and just writing it off as them being the a-holes they are. So as you can imagine, when my husband and I confronted them to tell them they had crossed the line from things we can ignore to things we cannot tolerate, they were absolutely shocked. Not only were they shocked, my MIL was shocked too. How dare someone try to discipline her baby!
Needless to say, we didn't get anywhere, but it gave us a rather unique chance to see how these people think. They honestly believe they can convince everyone that my FIL's girlfriend is behind everything and made them look like the bad guys. They even suggested that perhaps SHE had called the zoning office to make the report so that everyone would get mad at them.
My MIL's boyfriend had another theory. Perhaps my FIL did it to himself when he evicted my BIL and his family for not paying rent - after all, he drew attention to himself with that one. Um... no... the town doesn't have anything to do with an eviction.
Somehow in all of this, my other brother-in-law's boyfriend tried to lighten the mood by telling a story about how he interviewed someone who couldn't subtract $1.37 from $5. (He manages a Burger King.) My sister-in-law chimed in and said, "OMG! That's so easy, it's $4 and change!!".
*face palm*
We got a message from my FIL's girlfriend that someone had turned them in for a zoning violation. That report happened to coincide with the move-out date of my brother-in-law and his family. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who did it. It was either my brother-in-law or someone acting on behalf of him and his crazy wife.
Normally, we just ignore the crazy that happens over there. We let everyone have their petty little fights and we don't say anything. We don't take sides and as long as nobody draws blood or causes a 3rd party agency to come in, we ignore it. Unfortunately, this time fell into the latter category and we had to say something.
Of course, that made us the bad guys. You see, nobody questions my brother-in-law or his wife. They are allowed to dish out silent treatments, scream, say horrible things and generally be a pain without any repercussions. It doesn't matter who they direct their ire at - we all just sort of ignore it, but the person being targeted always feels bad that nobody stands up for them. I've pointed that out, but nobody is interested in taking a stand so we deal with the emotional terrorists one outburst at a time and after 6 years we've gotten pretty good and just writing it off as them being the a-holes they are. So as you can imagine, when my husband and I confronted them to tell them they had crossed the line from things we can ignore to things we cannot tolerate, they were absolutely shocked. Not only were they shocked, my MIL was shocked too. How dare someone try to discipline her baby!
Needless to say, we didn't get anywhere, but it gave us a rather unique chance to see how these people think. They honestly believe they can convince everyone that my FIL's girlfriend is behind everything and made them look like the bad guys. They even suggested that perhaps SHE had called the zoning office to make the report so that everyone would get mad at them.
My MIL's boyfriend had another theory. Perhaps my FIL did it to himself when he evicted my BIL and his family for not paying rent - after all, he drew attention to himself with that one. Um... no... the town doesn't have anything to do with an eviction.
Somehow in all of this, my other brother-in-law's boyfriend tried to lighten the mood by telling a story about how he interviewed someone who couldn't subtract $1.37 from $5. (He manages a Burger King.) My sister-in-law chimed in and said, "OMG! That's so easy, it's $4 and change!!".
*face palm*
Friday, November 15, 2013
Holiday Budget - Bah Humbug.
I'm really curious to know what everyone spends on gifts during the holiday season, particularly gifts for in-laws, significant others of in-laws, etc. because with all of the added gifts we're expected to buy this year it seems that our budget is getting blown out the window - especially if we spend the same on everyone across the board.
In years past, we have assigned $30 to siblings and $50 to parents. However, we now have 3 additional nephews to buy for and one sibling has a nasty habit of picking up a new love interest every so often that we never really get to know and never really want to spend a lot of money on because they will just be leaving in the not-so-distant future.
Add on to that the fact that the husband's parents have now split-up and are both involved in other relationships and we now have 2 additional "parents" to buy gifts for. My father-in-law's girlfriend also comes with 2 kids plus a grandchild that lives with her, so the divorce basically added on 5 more people to shop for, none of which we know very well. Then to make things even more awkward, my mother-in-law announced that she expects us to buy gifts for her boyfriend's grandchildren because they will be at the Christmas gathering as well.
In total between the two of us we're looking at 7 siblings, 6 parent figures and 9 children as a minimum not counting our immediate family (my husband, myself and our 2.5 children). In the past, my sister has decided to not exchange gifts with anyone outside of her immediate family, except for the kids, so that would take the number down to 5 siblings.
Realistically, that number will probably be higher. My husband likes to get gifts for his grandparents and his father's new girlfriend isn't exactly the hostess with the mostess so last year we celebrated at his aunts house, which meant adding on a gift for her, her husband and their two kids.
It just never ends and my husband isn't OK with giving cheaper gifts even though I keep telling him that people are doing that with us and our family because nobody can afford to spend $20 or $30 per person when you have 20 or more people to buy for. He doesn't get it, so I'm wondering if I'm the one that is being unrealistic here, especially since I know the number will only increase as the years go on.
What do you think? How much do you typically spend on people during the holidays?
In years past, we have assigned $30 to siblings and $50 to parents. However, we now have 3 additional nephews to buy for and one sibling has a nasty habit of picking up a new love interest every so often that we never really get to know and never really want to spend a lot of money on because they will just be leaving in the not-so-distant future.
Add on to that the fact that the husband's parents have now split-up and are both involved in other relationships and we now have 2 additional "parents" to buy gifts for. My father-in-law's girlfriend also comes with 2 kids plus a grandchild that lives with her, so the divorce basically added on 5 more people to shop for, none of which we know very well. Then to make things even more awkward, my mother-in-law announced that she expects us to buy gifts for her boyfriend's grandchildren because they will be at the Christmas gathering as well.
In total between the two of us we're looking at 7 siblings, 6 parent figures and 9 children as a minimum not counting our immediate family (my husband, myself and our 2.5 children). In the past, my sister has decided to not exchange gifts with anyone outside of her immediate family, except for the kids, so that would take the number down to 5 siblings.
Realistically, that number will probably be higher. My husband likes to get gifts for his grandparents and his father's new girlfriend isn't exactly the hostess with the mostess so last year we celebrated at his aunts house, which meant adding on a gift for her, her husband and their two kids.
It just never ends and my husband isn't OK with giving cheaper gifts even though I keep telling him that people are doing that with us and our family because nobody can afford to spend $20 or $30 per person when you have 20 or more people to buy for. He doesn't get it, so I'm wondering if I'm the one that is being unrealistic here, especially since I know the number will only increase as the years go on.
What do you think? How much do you typically spend on people during the holidays?
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Strange Day
What a long and strange day... it seems like everything went the opposite way that I expected it to today, yet everything managed to be "ok".
This morning I was supposed to head in for my anatomy ultrasound - that's the one where they tell you if you should paint the walls blue or pink. My father-in-law's girlfriend was going to come and watch the girls while I went to the ultrasound. Unfortunately, she had some unforeseen auto troubles (understatment of the year from the sounds of things!) and she couldn't make it. She didn't know until the last minute that this would be an issue, obviously, so I was caught a bit unaware and didn't have time to get another sitter. Thus, I did what any mother would do and I braved taking 2 toddlers with me into a cramped ultrasound room with a technician that hates people, much less small people. I stocked up with snacks, drinks and electronics to make the trip as painless as possible. Then the bribing began...
"Be good and don't cry, then we can go to McDonalds, ok?"
"Ok mommy, I like McDonalds."
"BURGERS!"
Thank God for small miracles. They actually heard what I was saying, understood it and cognitively decided to go with the flow for once in their tiny lives. They were quiet in the waiting room and then they sat patiently in the corner on the floor in the ultrasound room playing on the iPad TOGETHER - a miracle in itself - while the tech hmmed and hawed and did her thing. I didn't get to really watch the ultrasound because my husband wasn't there and I didn't want to see the gender. Instead, I had her write it down and put it in an envelope to look at later with him.. results to follow!
Anyway, it worked out better than I could imagine and I rewarded the kids with McDonalds a la picnic style in the living room. I've been avoiding Mcdonalds for the majority of this pregnancy for fear that I'd get addicted like with my first. That didn't happen. In fact, it turns out that I can't stand McDonalds food anymore. It tastes and smells horrible. So that's refreshing...
Then, for whatever reason I had only planned on making meatloaf for dinner. It's not my favorite meal and I can't think of any less exciting way to find out the gender of the baby than over a plate full of meatloaf. So, that plan got nixed. Instead, we warmed up leftover seafood chowder from the other night that was amaaaazzzinnnggg (I should seriously post that recipe) and the hubby picked up lobsters... or planned to. He went to our usual store and somehow there was a run on lobster and they were sold out. That's amazing since it's not really lobster season anymore. So, he had to go to a different store that's like 20 minutes away and get lobsters there for the exorbitant price of $9/lb. Crazy!
Again, it didn't work out like we had planned, but in the end he got lobster. As a bonus, they sell crab legs at the store he went to, so we really had a feast.
Anyway, we unveiled the gender after the meal and the results will be to follow. We haven't told the families yet since it's so late, so we want to let them know what the newest member of the family will be first.
This morning I was supposed to head in for my anatomy ultrasound - that's the one where they tell you if you should paint the walls blue or pink. My father-in-law's girlfriend was going to come and watch the girls while I went to the ultrasound. Unfortunately, she had some unforeseen auto troubles (understatment of the year from the sounds of things!) and she couldn't make it. She didn't know until the last minute that this would be an issue, obviously, so I was caught a bit unaware and didn't have time to get another sitter. Thus, I did what any mother would do and I braved taking 2 toddlers with me into a cramped ultrasound room with a technician that hates people, much less small people. I stocked up with snacks, drinks and electronics to make the trip as painless as possible. Then the bribing began...
"Be good and don't cry, then we can go to McDonalds, ok?"
"Ok mommy, I like McDonalds."
"BURGERS!"
Thank God for small miracles. They actually heard what I was saying, understood it and cognitively decided to go with the flow for once in their tiny lives. They were quiet in the waiting room and then they sat patiently in the corner on the floor in the ultrasound room playing on the iPad TOGETHER - a miracle in itself - while the tech hmmed and hawed and did her thing. I didn't get to really watch the ultrasound because my husband wasn't there and I didn't want to see the gender. Instead, I had her write it down and put it in an envelope to look at later with him.. results to follow!
Anyway, it worked out better than I could imagine and I rewarded the kids with McDonalds a la picnic style in the living room. I've been avoiding Mcdonalds for the majority of this pregnancy for fear that I'd get addicted like with my first. That didn't happen. In fact, it turns out that I can't stand McDonalds food anymore. It tastes and smells horrible. So that's refreshing...
Then, for whatever reason I had only planned on making meatloaf for dinner. It's not my favorite meal and I can't think of any less exciting way to find out the gender of the baby than over a plate full of meatloaf. So, that plan got nixed. Instead, we warmed up leftover seafood chowder from the other night that was amaaaazzzinnnggg (I should seriously post that recipe) and the hubby picked up lobsters... or planned to. He went to our usual store and somehow there was a run on lobster and they were sold out. That's amazing since it's not really lobster season anymore. So, he had to go to a different store that's like 20 minutes away and get lobsters there for the exorbitant price of $9/lb. Crazy!
Again, it didn't work out like we had planned, but in the end he got lobster. As a bonus, they sell crab legs at the store he went to, so we really had a feast.
Anyway, we unveiled the gender after the meal and the results will be to follow. We haven't told the families yet since it's so late, so we want to let them know what the newest member of the family will be first.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Pregnancy Journal: Week 17
This is the tail-end of week 17. In fact, tomorrow I cross into the 18-week territory..
This week I've had more of that lovely pre-pubescent looking acne explode all across my face, neck and even my chest a little bit. I picked up a bunch of samples the other week for moisturizers and face washes, but so far nothing is helping. I've discovered I have oily and dry zones, with acne crossing into both areas effortlessly. Fantastic. I definitely didn't have this problem with other pregnancies, so I don't even know where to begin.
I've been incredibly anxious the past week for my upcoming ultrasound. It's the big anatomy scan where they reveal the gender, but my husband can't come, so there won't be any revealing going on. Instead, the tech will (hopefully) discreetly slip the results into an envelope for us to open together at a later date - though I'm not sure when. I'm not going to lie, I'm going to try to guess based on what I see on the screen. lol
I also have my father-in-law's girlfriend coming up to watch the kids while I go. I have a "regular" sitter that has watched them twice, but both times she has left a mess in the epic proportions, so I'm hesitant to call her back. $20 minimum and 2 weeks worth of picking playdough out of a dark carpet doesn't really amount to a lot of fun on my end. Not to mention I can't decide if she's developmentally delayed or not and I'm not sure how she'd react if anything really went "wrong" while I was gone. That kind of scares me... bottom line, if you can't trust her, you need to get someone else. My father-in-law's girlfriend has been on the scene for a little over a year now, so I guess she can be trusted, not to mention the kids like her, so that helps. We'll see how it goes... I know my father-in-law would love for us to call them (as in both of them) one weekend to watch the girls since they are the only grandkids he gets to see. The family has been really cold and downright rude to her, so I'm trying to be the more "open" one since everyone deserves a chance.
Anyway, here's to hoping tomorrow goes well and maybe in a future post I'll reveal the gender!
This week I've had more of that lovely pre-pubescent looking acne explode all across my face, neck and even my chest a little bit. I picked up a bunch of samples the other week for moisturizers and face washes, but so far nothing is helping. I've discovered I have oily and dry zones, with acne crossing into both areas effortlessly. Fantastic. I definitely didn't have this problem with other pregnancies, so I don't even know where to begin.
I've been incredibly anxious the past week for my upcoming ultrasound. It's the big anatomy scan where they reveal the gender, but my husband can't come, so there won't be any revealing going on. Instead, the tech will (hopefully) discreetly slip the results into an envelope for us to open together at a later date - though I'm not sure when. I'm not going to lie, I'm going to try to guess based on what I see on the screen. lol
I also have my father-in-law's girlfriend coming up to watch the kids while I go. I have a "regular" sitter that has watched them twice, but both times she has left a mess in the epic proportions, so I'm hesitant to call her back. $20 minimum and 2 weeks worth of picking playdough out of a dark carpet doesn't really amount to a lot of fun on my end. Not to mention I can't decide if she's developmentally delayed or not and I'm not sure how she'd react if anything really went "wrong" while I was gone. That kind of scares me... bottom line, if you can't trust her, you need to get someone else. My father-in-law's girlfriend has been on the scene for a little over a year now, so I guess she can be trusted, not to mention the kids like her, so that helps. We'll see how it goes... I know my father-in-law would love for us to call them (as in both of them) one weekend to watch the girls since they are the only grandkids he gets to see. The family has been really cold and downright rude to her, so I'm trying to be the more "open" one since everyone deserves a chance.
Anyway, here's to hoping tomorrow goes well and maybe in a future post I'll reveal the gender!
Monday, November 11, 2013
Too Many Obligations!
Does anyone else feel like they just have too many obligations these days? I was looking at the ole calendar with the hubby and we realized we pretty much have something every weekend until 2014. That was insanely depressing. The worst part is that everyone and every thing is in another state, so we have to drive a minimum of 1 hour each way to get to the nearest relative/friend/event.
When will we Christmas shop? On the way to or from someone's house or party? When will we finish project like putting away the patio furniture for the weekend or installing insulation in the attic? Heck, I haven't even had time to CLEAN the attic, let alone install insulation up there.
Part of the reason life is so crazy is because nobody in my husband's family is getting along at the moment. So, not only do we have Thanksgiving with his mom, we also have to make time for his dad, his aunt, etc. It seems like every time I turn around someone isn't getting along with someone else and then the whole party dynamic is wrecked and you can't invite everyone to a single event because they won't get along.
I'm really close to just saying no to everyone and selfishly taking a weekend to do what matters - relax, take care of things around the house and spend time as a family outside of a car.
When will we Christmas shop? On the way to or from someone's house or party? When will we finish project like putting away the patio furniture for the weekend or installing insulation in the attic? Heck, I haven't even had time to CLEAN the attic, let alone install insulation up there.
Part of the reason life is so crazy is because nobody in my husband's family is getting along at the moment. So, not only do we have Thanksgiving with his mom, we also have to make time for his dad, his aunt, etc. It seems like every time I turn around someone isn't getting along with someone else and then the whole party dynamic is wrecked and you can't invite everyone to a single event because they won't get along.
I'm really close to just saying no to everyone and selfishly taking a weekend to do what matters - relax, take care of things around the house and spend time as a family outside of a car.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Product Review: Ken's Steak House Marinade & Sauce
My husband and I LOVED it. I opted to use it as a "sauce" rather than a marinade and holy yum, it was fantastic. I was in a pinch at dinner time and just dumped some over semi-frozen boneless thighs, then popped them in the oven to bake. The smell of the sauce filled the house and it was like being in one of those Japanese steak houses. Score one for the sauce. Next, I whipped up some stir fry veggies, fresh from the freezer and added another bit of sauce to the pan. Done. Finally, I made a little minute rice to serve it with. Here's a tip when making minute rice - season the water with complementary spices and it will flavor the rice as it cooks, seasoning each grain perfectly. I used salt, pepper, garlic powder and ginger powder.
When my husband got home, he immediately commented on how good dinner smelled. Of course by this time I disposed of the bottle and took all the credit, but in reality it took just minutes to prepare, plus time to bake. Like I said, I even used partially frozen chicken thighs, so these marinades and sauces really help on nights when you didn't do so well at planning ahead, but still want an excellent meal. I'll definitely be buying more at the store, possibly in other flavors, to keep in the pantry for emergencies or nights when I want takeout, but not the work of getting takeout or the price that accompanies the unhealthy choices. This sauce is sodium free and a healthy way to really satisfy a Chinese food craving.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Pregnancy Journal: Week 16
Today is the last day of week 16. I'm getting pretty good at posting at the end of the week... Anyway, it was extremely uneventful. I'm looking forward to my ultrasound in 2 weeks where someone (though not necessarily me) will find out the gender. My husband is going to try to "spill the beans" and see about coming with me to that one so we don't have to wait to find out, though I don't mind waiting.
This past week my nesting instinct has kicked in. Every corner of my home is getting cleaned and organized... I'm not sure if that has to do with the baby or the fall, but either way it's looking good! I hate having limitations on what I can do though, especially in lifting things because it means I have to wait for my husband to get home a lot, which is no fun. I feel bad that he had to put up the fence by himself and get the washing machine in by himself too. :-/
Anyway, that's about all that's new. Oh, and my old pants finally don't fit. I can't even suck it in and force them anymore.
This past week my nesting instinct has kicked in. Every corner of my home is getting cleaned and organized... I'm not sure if that has to do with the baby or the fall, but either way it's looking good! I hate having limitations on what I can do though, especially in lifting things because it means I have to wait for my husband to get home a lot, which is no fun. I feel bad that he had to put up the fence by himself and get the washing machine in by himself too. :-/
Anyway, that's about all that's new. Oh, and my old pants finally don't fit. I can't even suck it in and force them anymore.
Monday, November 4, 2013
When It Rains, It Pours
As the old saying goes, when it rains, it pours. That's been true for me the past week or so. First, my computer started acting up. It was going slow, barely chugging along and the spinning wheel of death was my constant companion. It got to the point where it just wouldn't function.. at all. It was awful.
My husband was optimistic. He thought he'd just run the disk utility and all would be well. The disk utility found hundreds of errors with iTunes. That seemed promising, so we faithfully restarted and waited... and waited... and waited. It still ran slow. He reset the PRAM and some other crazy thing that only computer geeks know about using ultra-secret key combinations during start up. Nothing worked. Finally, in a fit of anger he said we'd reinstall the OS. We tried... and we got an error. It couldn't be installed. It said we could try again, so we did and this time the error came up even earlier. This wasn't a good sign. Finally, on the 4th try it worked and I was able to restart, hoping my computer troubles would finally be over. Nope. No such luck.
At this point, it was pretty clear we had a bigger issue than either of us wanted to deal with. My husband sighed and resigned to the fact that it was my hard drive. At this point the newsletter I produce every month for the Moms Club was several days late and the hate mail started to flow in. Wonderful! We got a new hard drive and spent all of Friday night working to backup his hard drive on his computer, install the new drive in his computer, transfer the files to the new drive, backup my computer, wipe his old hard drive, and then transfer all my files to his hard drive. That was super time consuming and of course we ran into as snag - my computer couldn't even backup the hard drive. It wasn't recognizing the external drive we were backing it up to... so I lost everything between October 3rd and Friday night.
Saturday we spent traveling to family functions. Sunday, I got up early and began to do my chores. My washing machine has been loud since the day I bought it, but lately it has been REALLY loud. I threw a load of clothes in to wash and part way through the final spin cycle, it kicked the bucket. Literally - the drum dropped into the basket. At the same time, something locked and you couldn't turn the drum by hand anymore. The clothes only made it through part of a spin cycle, so they were soaking wet. I knew from Googling and talking to other moms that repairing a bearing or locked drum on a front-loader was more expensive than replacing the machine, so off to the store we went.
I was determined to not spend too much, so I was looking at clearance models. Front loaders are horribly expensive these days! I couldn't find anything in our price range, not even clearance models. When we bought our set, we paid $599 per piece and it wasn't the bottom of the line machine either. Now, they seem to start around $799 and they go way up from there. A cheaper alternative is the top loader HE machine. We tried 3 stores and at our final stop I found a beautiful LG top loading HE machine with all the bells and whistles a girl could want on clearance (it was a return) for $449. The original price was $999. WOW, what a deal!
Here's the funny part - that deal was at Sears. The store I swore I'd never ever shop at again. Well, they redeemed themselves a little with that one. The salesman was very nice and they got it off the floor and to the loading dock in under 10 minutes. We were there about an hour before they closed on a Sunday and nobody seemed to be hurrying us along. It was a nice change compared to the snow blower incident of 2013. I declined the extra protection plan though because quite honestly, I don't want to deal with the Sears repair team. No thanks!
So that's my tale - first the computer, then the washer. About $700 later, we were back in business. Oy!
My husband was optimistic. He thought he'd just run the disk utility and all would be well. The disk utility found hundreds of errors with iTunes. That seemed promising, so we faithfully restarted and waited... and waited... and waited. It still ran slow. He reset the PRAM and some other crazy thing that only computer geeks know about using ultra-secret key combinations during start up. Nothing worked. Finally, in a fit of anger he said we'd reinstall the OS. We tried... and we got an error. It couldn't be installed. It said we could try again, so we did and this time the error came up even earlier. This wasn't a good sign. Finally, on the 4th try it worked and I was able to restart, hoping my computer troubles would finally be over. Nope. No such luck.
At this point, it was pretty clear we had a bigger issue than either of us wanted to deal with. My husband sighed and resigned to the fact that it was my hard drive. At this point the newsletter I produce every month for the Moms Club was several days late and the hate mail started to flow in. Wonderful! We got a new hard drive and spent all of Friday night working to backup his hard drive on his computer, install the new drive in his computer, transfer the files to the new drive, backup my computer, wipe his old hard drive, and then transfer all my files to his hard drive. That was super time consuming and of course we ran into as snag - my computer couldn't even backup the hard drive. It wasn't recognizing the external drive we were backing it up to... so I lost everything between October 3rd and Friday night.
Saturday we spent traveling to family functions. Sunday, I got up early and began to do my chores. My washing machine has been loud since the day I bought it, but lately it has been REALLY loud. I threw a load of clothes in to wash and part way through the final spin cycle, it kicked the bucket. Literally - the drum dropped into the basket. At the same time, something locked and you couldn't turn the drum by hand anymore. The clothes only made it through part of a spin cycle, so they were soaking wet. I knew from Googling and talking to other moms that repairing a bearing or locked drum on a front-loader was more expensive than replacing the machine, so off to the store we went.
I was determined to not spend too much, so I was looking at clearance models. Front loaders are horribly expensive these days! I couldn't find anything in our price range, not even clearance models. When we bought our set, we paid $599 per piece and it wasn't the bottom of the line machine either. Now, they seem to start around $799 and they go way up from there. A cheaper alternative is the top loader HE machine. We tried 3 stores and at our final stop I found a beautiful LG top loading HE machine with all the bells and whistles a girl could want on clearance (it was a return) for $449. The original price was $999. WOW, what a deal!
Here's the funny part - that deal was at Sears. The store I swore I'd never ever shop at again. Well, they redeemed themselves a little with that one. The salesman was very nice and they got it off the floor and to the loading dock in under 10 minutes. We were there about an hour before they closed on a Sunday and nobody seemed to be hurrying us along. It was a nice change compared to the snow blower incident of 2013. I declined the extra protection plan though because quite honestly, I don't want to deal with the Sears repair team. No thanks!
So that's my tale - first the computer, then the washer. About $700 later, we were back in business. Oy!
Friday, November 1, 2013
Help, My Mac Is Running Slow!
I live on my computer. It's not just my gateway to Facebook, it's my bread and butter. I work from home and I use it everyday. Additionally, I hold a volunteer position with our local Moms Club chapter and I make the monthly newsletter for the group. Not being able to use my computer is an issue.
Unfortunately, at the moment anything more taxing than using Safari just crashes the whole dang thing. I get the rainbow wheel of death and the whole system just goes to shit. Not awesome. That really limits my ability to work (and consequently earn money) as well as producing the club's newsletter.
Even better is that the damn thing decided to die right before the end of the month, which is my busiest time at work and when I produce the newsletter. Fantastic.
I've been scouring the internet for advice and I've found out a couple of things: 1.) If you type in Pages (the name of the word processor on a Mac), you get a whole bunch of junk that is not related. Also, Pages itself does not have a usable help section. Annoying! 2.) It turns out that having a slow Mac is not an uncommon problem, but either I'm not fluent in geek or they made these things REALLY F-ING HARD TO FIX. I'll go with the latter, though it's probably a touch of the former as well.
I keep searching and hopelessly grasping at straws. Half of the "fixes" address only one of the many many problems I am having. You see, my computer is slow, Pages won't open, existing newsletters appear to only have 2 pages versus the 18 that actually exist, NOTHING WILL CLOSE, my Apple mail is just a giant shit-show and I keep getting this super annoying script error message in Firefox that probably has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that my computer hates me. Oh, and don't even try to get into the Applications folder on the hard drive. Actually, don't even try to open the hard drive in general.
After Googling myself crazy, I've determined the problem is either the hard drive, the battery, a corrupt file somewhere along the line, a plug-in, some other bit of hardware not previously listed, the memory or possibly Pages itself. I may also need to uninstall and reinstall Firefox.
Well hell, that doesn't really narrow it down at all.
Before you throw your nose up in the air and say I should just bring it to an Apple store to see a genius, let me point out that it's no longer under warranty. I'm rocking a Macbook Pro circa 2008 that was handed down from my husband. The hard drive was upgraded in 2011. It has also had the ram upgraded to the maximum amount. My other issue is that I don't live anywhere near an Apple store. They like to hide those things in cities and I have this extreme phobia of driving in cities with small children and electronics while New Englanders do death circles around me. It's just a bad idea. Speaking of cities and New Englanders, what the heck is with the roads being exactly wide enough for 1/2 a Prius around here? I drive an SUV. A big SUV. I don't fit on these dainty little streets and I refuse to downgrade to anything small enough to cause instant death when someone inevitably slams into me. Anyway, the Geeks at the bar always do the same thing, they turn the computer on while they attempt to look cool, try the most simple thing that anyone with access to Google has already tried, plug some little doodad into it, say "hmm..." then tell you they will have to do something a little more advanced that will take a while. Thanks a-hole, I figured it was something "a little more advanced" than what I could find with a Google search. Then they always want you to leave the computer with them and come back to pick it up later like getting there once wasn't quite enough fun. Meanwhile, the kids are screeching in the background because they want the newest iPad that's on display and convenient at their height and you're like yeah right, I'll just drop $500+ on something made of glass that requires a blessing from the Pope, a handle of whiskey and a PHD from MIT to fix. No thanks!
Seriously Apple, when your crap doesn't work, I don't want to look at new products. I'm not one to say oh golly gee, that last one was so damn fun I think I'll buy another. No, I'm like anything with an Apple logo on it better not be within my site or death rays will shoot out of my eyeballs as I go ballistic and curse every single one of the color-coordinated self-proclaimed geeks that are probably only working at Apple to get a discount on the latest iPhone.
AHHH! I hate computer problems!!!!
Unfortunately, at the moment anything more taxing than using Safari just crashes the whole dang thing. I get the rainbow wheel of death and the whole system just goes to shit. Not awesome. That really limits my ability to work (and consequently earn money) as well as producing the club's newsletter.
Even better is that the damn thing decided to die right before the end of the month, which is my busiest time at work and when I produce the newsletter. Fantastic.
I've been scouring the internet for advice and I've found out a couple of things: 1.) If you type in Pages (the name of the word processor on a Mac), you get a whole bunch of junk that is not related. Also, Pages itself does not have a usable help section. Annoying! 2.) It turns out that having a slow Mac is not an uncommon problem, but either I'm not fluent in geek or they made these things REALLY F-ING HARD TO FIX. I'll go with the latter, though it's probably a touch of the former as well.
I keep searching and hopelessly grasping at straws. Half of the "fixes" address only one of the many many problems I am having. You see, my computer is slow, Pages won't open, existing newsletters appear to only have 2 pages versus the 18 that actually exist, NOTHING WILL CLOSE, my Apple mail is just a giant shit-show and I keep getting this super annoying script error message in Firefox that probably has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that my computer hates me. Oh, and don't even try to get into the Applications folder on the hard drive. Actually, don't even try to open the hard drive in general.
After Googling myself crazy, I've determined the problem is either the hard drive, the battery, a corrupt file somewhere along the line, a plug-in, some other bit of hardware not previously listed, the memory or possibly Pages itself. I may also need to uninstall and reinstall Firefox.
Well hell, that doesn't really narrow it down at all.
Before you throw your nose up in the air and say I should just bring it to an Apple store to see a genius, let me point out that it's no longer under warranty. I'm rocking a Macbook Pro circa 2008 that was handed down from my husband. The hard drive was upgraded in 2011. It has also had the ram upgraded to the maximum amount. My other issue is that I don't live anywhere near an Apple store. They like to hide those things in cities and I have this extreme phobia of driving in cities with small children and electronics while New Englanders do death circles around me. It's just a bad idea. Speaking of cities and New Englanders, what the heck is with the roads being exactly wide enough for 1/2 a Prius around here? I drive an SUV. A big SUV. I don't fit on these dainty little streets and I refuse to downgrade to anything small enough to cause instant death when someone inevitably slams into me. Anyway, the Geeks at the bar always do the same thing, they turn the computer on while they attempt to look cool, try the most simple thing that anyone with access to Google has already tried, plug some little doodad into it, say "hmm..." then tell you they will have to do something a little more advanced that will take a while. Thanks a-hole, I figured it was something "a little more advanced" than what I could find with a Google search. Then they always want you to leave the computer with them and come back to pick it up later like getting there once wasn't quite enough fun. Meanwhile, the kids are screeching in the background because they want the newest iPad that's on display and convenient at their height and you're like yeah right, I'll just drop $500+ on something made of glass that requires a blessing from the Pope, a handle of whiskey and a PHD from MIT to fix. No thanks!
Seriously Apple, when your crap doesn't work, I don't want to look at new products. I'm not one to say oh golly gee, that last one was so damn fun I think I'll buy another. No, I'm like anything with an Apple logo on it better not be within my site or death rays will shoot out of my eyeballs as I go ballistic and curse every single one of the color-coordinated self-proclaimed geeks that are probably only working at Apple to get a discount on the latest iPhone.
AHHH! I hate computer problems!!!!
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