Good afternoon! Yay! My internet is back at home! Saw the service truck in my neighborhood and he stopped by after he replaced the area modem - all is working now! My original appointment was for tomorrow, but guess they figured out our entire area was out of service. I'm hoping I don't get a charge for this repair. I logged on to 63 emails waiting!
So much for being offline for 36 hours!
Well today I walked Gus and got a Menards run in - I had a list of two items and came home with about twenty!
(lots of holiday snacks!). As I had a lot of spare time not having the internet, I did some house cleaning and vacuuming this morning. I'll be going to circus to work in a few hours - likely my last session this year as my Saturdays have been cut out and the next two Tuesdays are holidays (Christmas and New Years Eve's).
Laura, you clean up before the cleaners come
? I can understand picking up dirty socks and underwear from the floor, putting away your toothbrush or something like that, but I'd not vacuum or mop before they come! I'm hoping your trip is still on and DH feels good enough to travel!
Paula, I'm glad I don't have a lot of things on internet controlling my house. I know some people have their heat/cooling controlled by online access, and I noticed my TV had a hard time getting info (I'm not subscribed to special channels coming over the internet). I don't have a house security system using internet and no Alexa box. I'm deliberately avoiding too much internet control in my house. How's your IT band doing? Is yoga helping or is it putting the IT to work too much?
Dede, I'm hoping my brother and his wife come up in January but glad I don't have to travel down there for the holidays. I hate living out of a backpack and camping on a sofa there
- my brother and his wife get an entire furnished apartment to stay in here. Well i'm glad your doctor gave up on yelling at you about your BMI
. I'm up in weight but about where I was before the knee replacement - being lighter might help my joints, but losing the weight takes lots of time compared to putting it on
. Our news mentioned the TN weather last night - glad you made it through without too much damage compared to the tornado affected people. I'm keeping my Christmas decorating pretty low key - I'm happy about it! I get overwhelmed when I see extravagant decorating in every room.
Beth, good to see you again!
I'm glad you're enjoying the holiday cooking - the gift of prepared meals will certainly be appreciated! I thought that in retirement I'd be taking the time to cook and bake more - nope! Most of my meals are microwavable ones ready in 4.5 minutes
- taste fine, but I'm not doing the cooking and may actually downsize some of my large cookware pots as they don't get used by me any more. What happened at the Santa Shuffle? Did you not finish it or just cause pain from trying to walk it? Weather wise we're way below the average temp (mid 20's F) and then the next week, we're way above - hard to plan ahead... We've been in negative temps some nights and up to almost 40s some days... I'm glad I can do a nice walk with Gus outside if we're not in the single digits (sub-zero F and I'll pass on walking Gus outside).
Waves to all!
Anita