Ramblings of a Wayward Goddess

My AC guy made it out rather quickly yesterday. He took a Shop Vac and vaccummed out a ton of crap out of my drainage hose. No more leaky unit. That reminds me, I need to make a Dr appt, but I digress.
My wonderful husband is working on getting us a rental to drive to Texas in. Not that I don’t love love love my Explorer, but it seats 5, and there are 5 of us, and it’s a 24hr drive. I’m looking at bare minimum a mini van, ideally a nice gas hog SUV. His company is willing to foot the bill. How cool is that!
I had to break down and buy a day planner. Who knew my day without kids would need to be planned. I do more now that all three are in school full time than I ever did with one or two at home all day. I’ve already committed myself to spending 2hrs of every Tuesday with kindergardeners. They are so awesome. And the 5th grade wants a piece of me too. I’m setting up the science class tommorrow afternoon, and chaperoning a group at Barnes and Noble on Thursday. You know those rowdy 5th graders let loose at B&N is trouble waiting to happen. Might have to pull out my whip, just in case. My 3rd grader whats me to volunteer in her class too, but her teacher makes me want to poke my own eyes out. I know I will have to suck it up and volunteer at sme point though, just so I can get my Super Mom crown at the end of the school year.
Four more weeks and I get to meet my niece for the first time ever!!

Just read through this blog and you will see the computer woes I had this month. The fix should have taken a day and instead turned into a month long saga. It’s finally fixed, I hope.
My husband was in South Africa for the entire month. It’s been 5 weeks since I’ve seen him. Normally that’s no big deal. I mean I miss him when he is gone and everything, but he has had this job for 5 yrs, so I’m used to him being gone for long periods of time. And we needed the money, this has just been a crappy month to be on my own. Speaking of money, we needed the money because on old debt came back on us recently. We were able to come up with a kick ass settlement which we were grateful for, but we had to come up with $1600 by the end of the month for the settlement to be honored. I scrimped and saved and managed to come up with that on top of paying the bills and putting money away for our vacation next mth. of course that means something else will crap out. My husbands big screen tv has been flipping out lately. It will just decide to turn off and not turn back on. Perfect! Yeah yeah yeah it’s 5 yrs old, practically extinct, I get it, just don’t need the headache right now. Speaking of headaches…….walking through the house Friday night, hear ‘drip drip drip’, what the fuck?? Go looking. It appears my air conditioning unit is POURING WATER. Loverly. So the closet that the thing is in is now lined with plastic and buckets. I have water coming up from the floor. I called my AC guys Saturday morning to see if I could get someone out first thing this am, and their answering service guy was an ass. He says “You need to call back Monday, this line is for customers who need assistance”. Hey, guess what I DO NEED ASSITANCE! So I call back this morning and the nice lady said she would try to get someone out, but that all their techs were scheduled for the day. Right, that’s why wanted to call early. Joy! I know the unit needs to be replaced, but that’s just gonna have to wait. I just don’t have it right now.
When we leave next mth for two weeks I’m going to put all my valuables into storage just in case my house decides to spontaneously combust while we are gone.

“Breathe Me” – Sia: “1. Breathe Me – Sia”

Stuff: “1. 100 Years – Five For Fighting”

So, my husband flew ‘home’ finally. And by ‘home’, I of course, mean the office. So he is only a few states away and not an entire continent. We can go back to watching our favorite tv shows together. That’s always fun. He calls and we sit and watch tv, and laugh at the funny parts together. Then we discuss. Ten years and the magic is still there I tell ya.
The youngest had his super special tea party at school on Friday. He looked so damn good in his shirt and tie, that I told The Man that when he finally makes it back this way, we are all going to get dressed up and go out together.
In other news, I think we finally decided on our Texas trip. We will go the last week of Sept-first week of Oct. Gotta love year round schools. I can’t wait to see my niece. Her birthday is that last week of Sept, so I will be there when she turns one. Since The Man wants to move there, I should get to know the family. I also need to make a list of points of interest I want to check out. I need a gym, a good dojo, a place to ride horses (yeah, that one will be tricky in TEXAS!). If I’m gonna live there, I need to have my spots.

I know a woman. A woman I have mentioned before on my blog. She has cancer. She has been fighting for 7 yrs. It started as breast cancer, and spread. She now has lung cancer too. She has been in remission more times that I can imagine, and it keeps coming back. she has gone through rounds and rounds and rounds of chemo and radiation. She is currently going through another round. The thing that pisses me off is, her husband is a chain smoker. the Drs have told him, flat out, “You are killing your wife. Stop smoking”, and he hasn’t quit. I’m an ex-smoker, I understand the hold it has over you, but if there were no other reason in the world to quit, you would think quitting to save the life of your wife, and mother to your children would be it.
If you are a smoker and don’t care about your health (I’ve heard the ‘arugument’ “Everyone dies of something”), care about the health of those you live with. they might be the ones who suffer in your place.

My husband was supposed to fly home today. Instead, last …..Thursday, I think, a group of the guys he is working with in S. Africa called him up and asked if he could extend his stay for a couple days so that they could take him hunting in The Cape. He called up The Powers That Be (TPTB) and asked if he could stay a bit longer so he could go hunting, and they said ‘ok’. He left around midnight to drive the 8 hrs. They stayed until Sunday morning. I thinkhe had a good time, even though it’s probably been a good 12 yrs since he fired a rifle, and he didn’t actually shoot anything. Everyone else in his party got something, at least once, so they had tons of meat to bring back. I’ve given up home of seeing myhusband this month. Maybe in Sept.

The tech guy came back this morning. We figured out that apparently the problem is with my ISP. Something wrong at the switch, as well as my modem. So he called my ISP and reported the issue, they are sending out one of thier techs on Monday, and I should be getting a new modem sometime next week. This better work.

So, my tech guys shows up at 7pm to “fix” my computer. Three hours later i can’t even get online through dial up. by then it was 10pm and I just wanted the guy out of my damn house. He says he will call Thursday to set up a time to come out Friday. Well, it’s Friday and I’ve heard NOTHING. So I got my nieghbor to come over and fix it enough so I coul dget dial up back. He says he will come out tomorrow and throw a network card in to see if he can get me back on with DSL. If not, the I know that it’s the DSL modem, and not (nessecarily) my computer.
Oy Vey! Did I mention this computer is barely 4 mths old.

Techie asshole is supposed to be here tonight “around 7″ to fix my computer