Daily Grind
Instead of watching TV, I’ve had it set to all music channels lately. The country channel has this deal where you can e-mail or text in messages and they’ll flash on the screen for 30 seconds or so. Tonight I’ve seen at least four marriage proposals. I suppose it would be somewhat romantic to have a marriage proposal on TV, but not on the music channel, mixed in with illiterate texts from people reporting sports scores and teeny boppers saying hello to friends. Plus, the graphics are terrible. All the pictures of the stars look like the people running the station have a total hate on for country and tried to find the most unflattering picture possible.
So if you have plans to propose to me, please don’t do it on the digital music channels.
Also, I’m already married so there’s that.
Mike actually proposed to me on the refrigerator with magnet poetry. I was so sure it wasn’t real that I wouldn’t even mention it on the phone when he called later in the day. As if several magnet somehow accidentally fell into “Will you marry me?” formation?
I managed to plod through Zumba today before preschool, then came home and had big plans to paper piece some batik on black quilt blocks for Jen’s lotto, but then I remembered that I have no idea how to print from my computer.
Normally I e-mail things to Mike with a nice message like “print.” Sometimes I’ll even add a please. However, his desktop is smoked, so I have to do something with wires and stuff. Sounds too geeky to me.
The saga of his computer is pissing me off.
We ordered a new computer from Dell on 11/23. The next day I got three phone calls from Dell. Two were from salesmen wanting to sell me another laptop even though we just bought one in September. The third was from a guy who said our credit card had been declined (which is just nuts) and that we had to cancel our order. Eventually he said we could replace the order by using our Dell account, so I gave the go-ahead on that. He was supposed to e-mail a confirmation e-mail but I never received anything.
I sort of forgot about it, even though the whole thing was really odd.
I’ve been thinking of it off and on and wondering where the hell the computer was.
Last night I finally logged into my Dell account and didn’t see anything about the new order–just that the original order was cancelled.
Alarm bells were ringing, so I called Dell and waited on hold for over an hour.
I was finally given an order number and told the computer is in production and will arrive no later than Dec. 15. I’m glad we really had an order number and the whole thing wasn’t an elaborate hoax, but it still seems really odd to me.
I don’t know why Mike wants a desktop anyway. Probably so he has an excuse to sit in the basement. He should have got a laptop so he can sit on the couch and we can touch toes while doing our very important internetty things like updating our FB status and browsing Amazon.com.
Anyone have any good book recommendations? I need a really fun, fast paced book. I mostly read fantasy and crime thrillers, but am open to other genres.
We have Mike’s big work party tomorrow. I have no idea what I’m going to wear. I have a few options, so I guess I’ll put on a fashion show for Erik tomorrow and see what he thinks. Ha. He mainly likes it when I just have my underwear on. Freaky kid.
I’m really glad I don’t have to feel pressure with the clothing this year. Last year I was told it was a formal party and totally freaked. What a total joke. Geek formal is apparently very different from real world formal.
I think I’m going to go to bed early again tonight. I was totally out by 9:30 last night. Crazy! It was the best thing I’ve done for myself in a very long time.
Oh, by the way, this should amuse someone. Today our Advent activity was to go pick out a special ornament at the store for Erik. He LOVED this, but I quickly realized I’d made a big mistake. He picked out a really ugly basketball snow globe. Ugh. He kept saying it was “marvelous,” which totally made the other ladies in the aisle giggle. He is big on Maggie and the Ferocious Beast right now, which is where the word comes from.