good question...

what do you do when your internet is down for 24 hours? it's amazing how much extra time you have on your hands when you can't email, blog or facebook for a whole day. i did LOTS of laundry, made a big batch of cookie dough, did some more photo editing (posted today on my photo blog)... cole had mommy COMPLETELY to himself!! i think he was more than ready for a nap by the time lunch-time rolled around... i believe that i can safely say that he was sick of me and ready for some "alone time". the tables had turned... now he knows what i feel like sometimes! anyway, the internet went out yesterday morning and after speaking to someone who reassured me that there was an outage in the area, i patiently waited till well after 12 noon, which is when they said the issue should be fixed. i got an automated call around 3 saying that the problem had been solved, but still no internet. this time, when i called charter, i was dispatched to some "technician" in india (had to have been... where else?) who made me do everything i had already done several times already that day and then decided that oh, apparently we needed to arrange for a service call to have the problem fixed. the soonest was between 8 and 10 this morning. i'm figuring they don't schedule service calls before 8 am, so i found myself waiting and wondering how one can be an hour late for the first call of the day? hmmm. anyhoo, problem solved- the guy said he had an order to disconnect yesterday. seems that they got "lower rate" confused with "disconnect".

so now that i've caught up on the last day, i have to go and load the van with stuff to take to mom and dad's for our extended stay. cole and i are going there this afternoon (after lunch) and we'll probably be staying through friday... kelvin plans on coming after work tomorrow and staying through saturday to do more hunting with ted, dad and logan. i'm SO excited to finally meet my nephew today!!!!