Where have you been the past day or so I hope you’re wondering (really, really hope). A few months ago my computer started giving me attitude, and when I ran diagnostics it suggested final rites. And I know it’s the hard drive because diagnostics always had some issue with sectors or vectors AND I was unable to upgrade to the newest OS because of said sector/vector issues. It told me that it was just WAITING TO FAIL. So I bought a new hard drive – sitting nice and safe on the table even as i type – and prepared to wait it out…because that’s what I thought you did. Until I got the grey screen of death last night while DH and PITA were at a play. Yes, the man who refused to ever see plays with me has now seen three in a row with PITA (including two musicals!). He decides this morning that since I found my original OS discs (no more laughing about my never throwing out anything, yah hear?) he will install the hard drive tomorrow (god bless YouTube).
I’ve been trying to work using my laptop, which was originally meant to augment my desktop, but then I kinda forgot to add all my links and passwords and bookmarkerlets and it really sucked at mah jong…so I decided today might be better spent hunting down MG217 and all at Walgreens and picking up Colgate kids toothpaste at Target (there will be a 50¢ coupon in Sunday’s paper, so buy and post-redeem…sigh…every 3 earns you a $5 gift card, so buy six, use four coupons and the Target $5 gift card coupon and, by buying the $2.79 tubes you spend $16.74, less the $15 in gift cards less the $2 in coupons..oh, right, it’s a MM!)
So I’m out hunting deals for a couple of hours. Just pulled into the driveway (it’s already dark – boo!) when my phone rings. PITA, asking when I’m coming back because she’s scared. Not yet. I quietly go up the back porch and burst into the kitchen yelling AHHH! She screams. A wonderful future therapy moment shared. Turns out FirstBorn was home all along so I don’t really understand the scared part. Then she yelled up later (I was in the tub ignoring her) that there were RATS in the basement. RATS? Well something LARGE. ’cause she HEARD something.
Yeah, large sewer rats would be MY first thought, too. Speaking of water, though, got the new water/sewer bill today – $100 for two months! Up $20 from the previous one! We don’t have a pool, don’t water the lawn, I’m not that clean, and I seriously doubt that watering the bushes that DH planted used a thousand more gallons of water. OMG! It’s cause I do too much laundry~must cut back.
Product recommendation for which I get squat (but am open to baskets of cash and/or more products):
Got a bag of samples of Dove sulfate-free shampoos and conditioners and Nexxus products. Used the Dove last night and tonight and I have to say that my hair is super soft. Yesterday I used too much shampoo, reasoning that it would probably be like Avalon and not suds up at all – – I was wrong. Looked like a poodle. Smells nice, kinda pear-y.