I've been a bad Wifely

In so many ways, but I'll start by acknowledging my lack of presence for the last 6 weeks. I'm going to claim sleep deprivation and the fact that we still don't have a reliable internet connection... The Brig is failing miserably in his primary duty of IT support on this one.

So, I hope everyone is having a lovely run up to Christmas. I'm starting to get a little panicked so now I have a giant turkey (for 6 people), half a gallon of diet coke, presents for people who may or may not drop by, and half of firebox.com for The Brig. He's impossible to buy for, so I'm stockpiling for his birthday too. I have been very good though and bought and written Christmas cards. They have stamps on them and they will be going in the post box tomorrow...definitely. I'm determined that I won't end up with yet another pile of written cards that never get sent.

Actually, all this card writing is bringing back memories of sending wedding invitations this time last year. I was frantically sticking card and ribbon to more card and ribbon while The Brig compiled spreadsheet after spreadsheet of guest lists, their addresses and table configurations based on varying response rates. Thank God all that is over...I keep threatening The Brig that if he isn't nice to me I'm going to make him renew our vows next year. That keeps him in line.. :-)

Where's the explorer gone?

My internet explorer icon has gone missing. I'm not sure how I go about reporting it. Do I have to wait til I'm sure it's gone at least 24hours? I can't say when it vanished, as I tend to use firefox. I save explorer for when I want to look up something embarrassing (like wedding stuff I'm still interested in, coming on to a year later...I know, I know, a very shameful habit) or shopping for things I don't want The Brig to know I'm looking at (like more shoes, or more shoes, or sometimes even presents for him). Then, y'see, I can delete the browsing history and he's none the wiser, where if I delete the history in firefox, all the saved usernames are gone and I have to try to remember what I called myself for the online grocery shopping, or the newspaper, or my email... My tech support (ahem, The Brig) has had stern words with me in the past about not changing up my usernames and passwords between sites or at regular intervals, so thank God for auto-filling boxes.

But now I'm in a quandry...if I ask him to find the explorer he's going to want to know why, and I really, really, really want to google Uggs!

Moving day?

So, we had the movers all set to go this morning, but after a phone call early yesterday morning, we had to postpone. Apparently there's something about the mortgage funds clearing between banks. Anyway, hopefully that will be sorted today, we'll get the keys this evening and we can start hauling boxes tomorrow instead.

And I'll be one step closer to being back in the land of the internet connection!

Service interruptus continues...

We are still in the apartment without the joy of tv or internet; thank God I have a mobile so don't miss the phone too much. We have been promised the keys of our new house before the end of the week, although The General has just dropped the bombshell that it may take a while for the connection to our media supplier to be up and running. I will try not to be too sad, and will post again when I can!

Mind the gap

We have been in the process of moving house for nearly a month now, and had things gone to plan, we would be happily ensconced in our new home by now.  But because these things are never as easy as they shoud be, we are still in our old place, but without the joy of tv, phone or internet connections.  So now I can only blog when I can kidnap The General's internet usb thingy.  I have been saving up my posts for the last few days, so here they are...