Off-line, but not by choice. Our DSL was down since last Thursday until late this morning. It’s still not working well, it works but drops off occasionally. While we were without DSL we were totally without it. We had no signal at all. We had phone service though. We complained and complained to our provider and they were running around with phone service problems, they said, and our DSL was on the backburner.
All it took, as we thought, was something at the switch was needing to be replaced. Simple and just took a person to go there and do it. But then we are at the same place as before … we are up and running, and dead in the water for connecting to sites or emails at times, but then up and running again a bit later, never knowing if it’s there to connect to or not, but the green light is on the box just fine.
It’s frustrating since we can’t load something just because we want too … it’s supposted to be there, the DSL signal, but it’s not always. Hopefully “they” will get that fixed sooner than later. We did get a new modem out of this though, since the Tech was here and the signal was dropping and since they have a new model they use for new customers. It’s a router/modem, but we have our own router. So we use that as a bridge to our router. The new modem is nicer though, how it looks and sits, it’s more stable in housing.
Since that has all been happening I haven’t been online, of course. I’m very “out of it” and have some issues on my sites to take care of and blah, blah, blah, no matter, I just haven’t been online so it’s kind of wierd to be writing something on a blog again. 😉
I’ve gotten some more done, but not all, in the painting and remodeling we are doing. I’m taking it slow. Hardware I ordered came fast, but I ordered the wrong type of hinge by mistake, so now we have to wait for that new one to be sent out and return the others for our money back. It’s great looking stuff though!
Frank’s dad was here last week and we did another project … took the French Doors out. Now I have no door in the kitchen to the backyard or deck. Sad, but more good than bad. It’s not as hot on sunny days since there is no glass there. No drafts on cold days either. All better, mostly. The inside isn’t finished yet. We will have the sink in that area, but more so on the edge of that, so putting framing for a window in there wasn’t in the works. We have to measure and make the right plans for that and then we can put in the window framing once the upper cabinets are gone from where they are now on that wall, then drywall and THEN I can paint the walls.
We got paint for the walls, a light blue. We picked that based on what countertop we will probably use. It’s a motled stone-like look, with grays light and dark and little blue flecks, the blue pops out when next to the paint color we picked out. It goes nicely with the butter yellow cabinet paint too.
We decided to go with a slide in stove-probably too. Fridgedair makes one that is really nice and it’s a compromise to what I want in the kitchen. All in one unit, the oven is smaller, but it’s convection, and it has a warming draw on the bottom. To do a cooktop and wall ovens, we could not have afforded all of that. So this makes a compormise since I wanted the cooktop and wall oven, double wall ovens really, with convection, but the cooktop was what I wanted for using on either side of the counter-L that it’d be on … slide-ins have the controls on the front at an angle down away from the top. Cooktops have the controls on the top of the cooking surface, so they are accessible from any direction really. A warming drawer is something that I’d like too, cheapest ones of that are over $400, but usually more. So this model of slide-in has most of itl. It’s around $1000, pricey, but that’s it, it’s packed with stuff. Worth it. Just not the “top” that I’d like in total, but it has the smooth top and bridge to make burners connect if want, and a “keep warm” area there too, and expandable burner too.
It’ll be some time before we get that, so I don’t know how long that will be. We will be doing the counters later too, just moving what we have around and get the “stuff” done piece by piece.
So I’m busy moving stuff around too, like I have my little table with my laptop out of the kitchen now, and in the “dinning room/living room”. That gives us more space to move stuff around in the kitchen. But first, it’s filter out all the junk that collects around were I have my “desk” 🙂
I am putting the new hardware on the doors and drawers, have to drill new holes for the drawer pulls. That’s fun stuff. Another power tool thing 😉
Painting for that stuff should get done tomorrow. Once the hinges arrive, I’ll put them on and take some pictures and load them on this weblog.
3 responses to “I’ve been busy and off-line”
Marysue,
I am sorry about your problems with DSL. While I am happy with our Cable service we have, we will to use something else when we move. Talk about stress, I have had headaches and my stomach in knots the last couple days. With Rick gone, and decisions to make regarding the house sale, my final exam to do (five pages of writing to answer two questions due today), and problems regarding Mom wanting to come up here for Daniel’s graduation, it is all getting to be too much. I submitted my final exam to my class a few minutes ago. It is not nearly to my satisfaction, nor does it appear to be finished, however, I have had mental blocks and have been unable to focus to make the final any better at this time. I just hate to submit something substandard and know that I will get a bad grade on it. As far as Mom coming…She and I have been talking about that for months now. I told her that I didn’t know if having Joel go to Shepherds home in May would work. When she planned this, we weren’t sure how this would work. The more we found out about our move and house sale, it looked like having her come would not work. I told her not to come and she said she would cancel her request for Joel. Then I got my birthday card and she had dates on it when she was coming. I called her and blew up on the phone. Rick was the main one telling me to tell her not to come. So after time has gone by, I started to plan on how this would work, and told Rick, and he blew up on the phone and told me to call Mom again and tell her she absolutely can’t come then. Mom is afraid to send Joel on the plane by himself, so she asked him if he wanted to fly up here by himself or whether he wanted her to go along. Of course he said he wanted her to go. Why did she ask him. Having her go, and she said Ells was planning on going as well, would definitely be a fiasco. I am going to have to quit work early if they all come. My husband will be extremely angry if they come. Even if they stay in a motel, it would be an added stress that we don’t want during the huge stressful time of moving. We are moving right after Daniel graduates and planned it that way because that is the only thing that is keeping us here, or else we would have sold the house earlier and left with Rick. Well, I can email you more details.
Becky
Oh dearest sister Becky! I agree that the stress you have is terrible. The “mom” stuff is very difficult. She doesn’t “get it” it seems usually. I mean, she came here 2 times last year even though I didn’t want her to at all, once was a big suprise and it was that she never had “asked us” that she “told us” and that was in a letter as a “maybe” that we didn’t EVER talk about or say “yes” or “no” or “maybe” too. We said nothing, it wasn’t really said as something we should have replied too any ways.
Anyhow, it was last year that I lost the baby and I couldn’t STAND having visiters of any sort, mostly her being the worst thing for me to have around, and it was so hot here and I do not stay sane in heat with no A/C and HAVING to do stuff for other people. That was late Spring. They came again later, and I really can not recall that visit, other than I was not wanting it either.
I feel so bad about it from one side — I really didn’t want her to marry again. That changed our relationship totally. It ruined it totally really. Not because of me, per say, but she changed and is getting older and the two don’t mix … she does not communicate very well any more, and that was a trial before, you know 😉
I’ve tried and tried to fix stuff with her in the past, and it goes no where good. Just “being” with her doesn’t work either.
I do love her. I just know she doesn’t know what it is about how she is with her children. Why she doesn’t have the rosy cozy family that she “thinks she should/ pretends she does”.
I sure don’t want to not ever see her again, but I want to see her without her here, without me going there. How possible is that! Not at all. So …
Becky, you must just tell her she can’t come to see you. She can’t expect you to see her or come to your house. If she must, go to Daniel’s graduation and just stay in a hotel and go elsewhere for food and … see now, I know they can’t afford such trips. I mean, unless they got rich the last few months and haven’t told us all. 😉
You are selling and moving. She’d be no help, worse than help. She wants serving and wolfing down food. You can’t provide that. But don’t tell her to come here! :veryshocked:
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People reading this: Understand that our mother is our mother and we love her but she is hard to have visits with. We do love her and respect her as our mother.
Marysue,
Don’t worry, she was going to fly so they wouldn’t be driving when they could have stopped on their way. The last couple times they have been here I have worked hard with cooking and the extra cleaning and preparations. She truly does not have the slightest idea about what is occuring here. She should just trust that when I say it is not a good time to come that she should not come now. I understand that she wants to see Daniel graduate, but we would have to jump through hoops for her to attend this and I am already jumping through hoops to stay here in our house up to his graduation so he can graduate before we leave. I hope this pushes her to send Joel on his own and we will see how it works with him flying alone. There is a person from Shepherds home calling her tomorrow. Hopefully they won’t hash out a plan together to have Mom come along. I have left voice mails for this person, but she won’t be back to work until Wednesday, when she is going to call Mom. Hopefully she will call me back first before calling Mom. Well, I know other people may not understand this, but they would if they knew our Mom. I do love her too, and I have told her that, but having them visit is a stress, and when it is piled upon other huge stresses, this is why I am reacting as I am.
Becky