Things that bug me Thursday

I'm crabby. The weather has been cold and rainy for days now. I can't remember the last time I saw the sun. The kids at school are ready for spring break. Little do they know that the staff was ready a month ago.
This crabbiness brings me to the things that bug me.  Usually I can just ignore them and go on with my day, but when I'm crabby, I complain.

1. You are supposed to walk facing traffic, not with traffic. This is so you can see cars coming. You should also not wear dark clothes if you are walking and it is dark out. People cannot see you.

2. You are supposed to ride your bike with traffic. You are also to follow traffic laws, meaning that stop sign is meant for you to, buddy.

3. The turn signal is in your car for a reason. Use it.

4. If you are going to wait for my parking spot, that is fine, but please note that the word wait. If I walk out with a stroller, shopping bags, and a toddler, it may take me a few minutes to get everything in my car. The more you honk at me to hurry up, the longer I will take.

5. I will not go faster just because you get closer to me. In fact, I may slow down. This is especially true in a school zone. Back off dude.

Okay, I feel better.

Ooops

I am still trying to figure all of the features here on Blogger. So today in reading my comments, I deleted them all. So don't think I didn't like your comments, just hit delete on accident.

Goodbye BabyCenter...for now

I have been an avid BabyCenter users for a few years now. I would look up answers to questions, ask questions, and learned so much from the site. At times, it was hard to see everyone else get pregnant again and not me, or to see what everyone elses toddlers could do that David can't yet. Still, I loved reading about what everyone was doing. But alas, all good things must come to an end, or a break. I spent way too much time on the site. I would check BabyCenter as often as I did my own email. I need a break, but having the account is too tempting. So, I deleted my account while I take my break. I needed a clean break, and knew I wouldn't have that if I still had a log on. To easy to just pop on and check real quick.

So here I am, day two of my BabyCenter hiatus and feeling the pains of withdrawal. I am sure that someday I will join again, but for now, I can use this time to focus more on family and learning to be a better cook.

AT&T : Rethink Possible...rethink service

As part of our budget consolidation, Nate and I have made a lot of cuts. We go rid of satellite, we eliminated home phone service, and consolidated credit cards into 1 account. We knew that we could use Hulu to watch a lot of our shows and we have cell phones. The last thing we did was look at our Internet service and what cuts we could make there. No way were we going to eliminate it - I need the Internet! Here is where our story begins...

At the end of December, we called AT&T about changing our service. They said that UVerse would be the best bet for us. $15 a month and a faster connection than we currently had. Sign me up! We were sent our box, tech guy was sent out and we were on our way…Not. January 6^th comes and we have no Internet service (well, no home Internet. Someone around us has an open connection that we have been “borrowing” from. It’s slow and unreliable, but I can still Facebook and blog.). Nate has spent countless hours on the phone to find out that we cannot have Uverse.  We are too far away from their box.  Sadness, but they agree to give us a $5 a month discount for 12 months for our trouble.  January 21^st comes and we were supposed to have Uverse disconnected and DSL reconnected – not.  Uverse got disconnected, but we did not get DSL back. Nate again calls and spends hours on the phone to find out that the best they can do is the 25^th. January 26^th comes – still no service. I call, not so happy about my 3 weeks of no Internet. Customer service was horrible and they can’t do anything but schedule another tech, which we did for tomorrow.  So far we have taken 3 days of work off for this. If it’s not fixed tomorrow,  we’re going to suck it up and pay for cable Internet. It’s way more than we pay now, but I am so over AT&T!