I got up extra early this morning to make a giant Toll-House pan cookie (basically bars out of cookie dough) for church; Eric had to read, the kids were servers, and I was assigned the "fellowship" after church with another woman. We were also on tap as greeters before the service. We did the whole church thing, getting home shortly before 12:30 p.m, and now we are just vegging out, making loose plans for the afternoon. I am leaning towards going back to the pool today. Eric and I went for an hour late yesterday afternoon and it was lovely--with temps near 100 degrees the water felt heavenly, and it was nice to just be, he and I on our own! Then we came home, grilled steaks, potatoes, and corn on the cob, and had a nice relaxing dinner. We even opened one of our bottles of wine from our winery tour a few weeks ago. It was very tasty!
It is looking like ALL the kids and I are going to go to MN next weekend for the 4th. Eric has to work, so he'll stay here with the dogs, but the kids and I will head up on Thursday after they are done at school, and we'll stay til Sunday. My sister has invited us to go up to the lake for the few days we are there, and that will be lovely. Liisa has taken Friday and Saturday off so that she can go too, and maybe Tony, Andrea, and the little ones can join us too on the 4th. We'll see. Today is Justin's 4th birthday, and it is the first one I have not been present for. I am sorta blue with that. I talked to him on the phone this morning and he really wants me to go to his house! The plans for Aurora and Patrick to go to IN fell through, so they were home this weekend and Brie's plans to go to her mom's for the week have also fallen through. I am not sure of all the details on why it wasn't a go (the issues were on their mother's side, not ours) so I won't speculate on it here. The kids were glad to be home, and have had a fun weekend between hanging with friends and going to the pool. Low key, but nice.
We had the cable guy out again this morning; it's looking more and more like there is a problem in the TV itself where the cable is attached that isn't properly converting the signal. We have static for sound now, instead of real sound, yet when we hook up the xbox or other gaming systems, the sound is fine. It is the same static whether we run the cable through the converter box or the tv, so the issue is on our end and not with Charter. We also have a mess on the kids' relatively brand new computer: it has a virus on it that has locked up the antivirus stuff, won't let the system restore work, and basically has made it a piece of ineffectual crud--a high priced word processor/game system. We cannot get it to hook up with the internet or anything. We took it in to best buy to see what they thought and they gave us some remedies to try here, but they are not working, so plan B will need to be bringing it in for servicing or just getting a new tower (at this point it's almost 6 of one, half a dozen of the other). Eric neglected for whatever reason, putting the extended warranty on it, so we have to make some choices regarding fixing it. My tower of my new computer also has issues, but being under warranty still, it will be repaired at no cost to us. In the case of mine, it's a hardware issue and not a virus or something I did to it... Technology is great when it works, but when it doesn't....
Anyhow, that is what's new with us today. Eric heads into his hell week tomorrow morning, and I work tomorrow, then am off the rest of the week. Hopefully this week will go smoother than last week did!
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