The things I've been through today though!!It was Liesl's actual second birthday, so even though we had a party last Saturday, we still wanted to do something fun!
So I wanted to go to the beach, but had to do an office task first. Two, actually, and they took me hours. I was trying to call customer service for Thomas' warranty because his laptop hasn't been turning on for like three weeks. Nothing. Just no turning on or lights or any indication of AI life still remaining. I told him I would have time to do it yesterday, but then I went to Costco and TJ's with Blaise and Pippa, and the van died at Trader Joe's and it was 100 degrees, and we had ice cream in the bag, and we had to wait in the store for Thomas to come and rescue us (and eat all the little ice creams), and then we had to put all the food away when we got back and then the Martindales came to dinner. So I didn't have time yesterday. But this morning I was on the phone for over an hour with the customer service people. And when I had been transferred to the second level of computer helpers and they were STILL trying to get me to do troubleshooting and resusitating moves to a computer that was stone dead instead of just bunging me a new one, the indian man on the other line told me to check the cable and unplug it in the middle, and when I did THAT, lo and behold, there was a chew! A chew through the cable, Almost the whole way through! HAHA! When I pushed the wires back together, the charging light on the computer TURNED ON! So funny! So all they had to send me was a new cord, after all that.
We left for the beach at nearly 2PM,
-Liesl said a 4-word sentence but I forgot it!
-beach. Some woman was wearing a "bathing suit" that had her entire bottom all hanging out in the atmosphere. Just no. That is not how you treat yourself to anything like dignity.
-pippa had to poop at the beach, so I had to take her to the big van and tiny potty, and I had to pilfer some sand from a beach house yard, to put in the bottom of the potty cause: smart. I had to throw the poo away in a laundry bag that I found in the van from the Hamilton Hotel that we had gone to back in December.
-Liesl thought Silas was drowning as he was playing in the water, and was really upset. "Silas! not! Safe!"
-home, then showered off. Had chocolate ice cream. Washed Liesl's hair in the sink. Tried to start dinner but was on a double streak on Duolingo outside, and I looked up, and Liesl was playing with POOP on the front porch, but I had to do a double take because she was already all stained with chocolate and I couldn't compute at first what was happening. Well I hosed her off in the little bathtub that was standing out front, and cleaned up the poop and then hosed off the porch. and then I had to make dinner and put away the beach stuff. I was putting away the popsicle floaty, when I noticed brown stuff on it, and I smelled it, and it was poop! So I had to take that back out front to hose off again. Later we found even more poop on the lawn, and more on the porch! Prolific! While I was doing dishes during dinner prep, Liesl grabbed my new tiny press pot that I had gotten on Tuesday at IKEA to froth milk with, and she threw it on the ground and it smashed! Gave Blaise a bath out front in the little tub. Dinner was at about 8! Silas was at youth group from 7-9.
-Thomas also said we got a ticket for over $100 because of some thing we ran up in DC in December, and had apparently missed the first notice.
-Sparrow made a cherry pie and it was too late for most people to eat it.
