Momma Said

..that there would be days like this.

At 930 this morning the power went out. not a huge deal, as we have plenty of light from the windows and sky lights, and I can occupy the toddler with crayons and play doh. The problem was :

1. I had not made any coffee yet, and not knowing how long I would be without was really irritating to me. Its like when you want a smoke and all you can think of is your next smoke, I was getting the "Nic Fit" urge, but for coffee! Very stressful. I even tried to stick a filter over a cup with a few table spoons of coffee and drip hot water ( from the tap - so not that hot!) over it to brew a cup !

can we say desperate? And by the way, taking hot tap water and trying to make your own cuppa java? Doesn't work. By the time anything comes out the other side of the filter, not only is it weak, but its lukewarm. Sadness.

and

2. The new security system, which, I can work, kinda, but not really. When the power went off, the battery back up keeps the doors and windows and ect working, but an alarm beeps every three minutes, six sharp beeps, telling me it is off. For the life of me I could not remember where me and hubs had put the instructions book, and it took me almost an hour to locate it, only to read that all I had to do was push status, read the notice about the power failure, and push disarm on that part. it would disarm that alarm, the power one,but not the rest.

DOH!

THEN, after I got all that figured out and the power came back on. (which, by the way, as soon as the lights came back I was up and making coffee, I was worried that the power would go back out and I would have none.) So with the coffee brewing and the dishwasher running ( I loaded the dishwasher while I waited for the power to come back - again - thankful for the kitchen skylight!) I decided to hop online and bug the twitterer's with my tales of woe. Only. No internet.

[Insert gasps of shock and awe. Sympathy is welcome]

So I called the ISP provider, after running a diagnostic thingy on my end (I sound all smart, don't I?) and he got me to a bunch of stuff - unplug here, watch this light there, click here there and everywhere. We also talked about the weather. Its been raining for two days where he is. Non stop. Crappy!

Anyway. After about twenty minutes of trying this and that, the tech guy decided that the power outage had fried my modem and that I would need to head into the city and swap it out - at no cost- I was all, woe is me, no interwebs! Whatever shall I do?

Then, magically, it started working! And uhm. here I am! I bet you didn't even know I was gone, did you!!??

As for making supper tonight? I'm VERY tempted to suggest going to a franchise restaurant's tonight, just for the heck of it. I'm sure that the three year old would love it too, even if just for the chance to get out of the house! He even tried talking me into letting him go out int he rain because "Look Mom! I have an Umbrella! Umbrellas are for the raining days! Now I can go outside!'

But I was all "NO". And he was all "WAH". And that dear interwebs is how my day went. How was yours?