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sunday night
Jul. 29th, 2007 09:32 pmIn cute baby news, Evelyn started singing today! She absolutely loves the Oooh Baby song... I don't know what it's called but it's the one from Dirty Dancing where they're dancing and he's all fondling her while she tries to get him to stay on task. "Sylvia? ... Yes, Mickey? ... How do you call your loverboy?" That one. After I finished singing it (the chorus, anyway) yet again, she looked up at me and said, "ooooh?" I took that to mean, "Mother? Woudst thou please commence with the singing of that lovely, beautiful song about how me, your sweet baby, is the one?" Life is easier when you figure out what they're trying to say, you know. Oh, and she laughed big time earlier during a rendition of another little song and dance, this one of my own invention. It consisted of me singing "Pretty girl, pretty girl, pretty-pretty-pretty-pretty-pretty girl!" while waving her arms back and forth. She laughed so hard she had to stop and catch her breath, which is a first.
I am making her sound like she was in a fabulous mood today, when in fact, she was mostly not. We spent much of the day troubleshooting both her and M's network problems. Those two things did not actually aid in the fixing of the other, surprisingly. Right now she's asleep in the swing, looking pink-cheeked and rosy and perfect gift-from-God miracle (etc) sweet. And last night, when she fell asleep for the night earlier than we expected and were sure she'd be awake in an hour ready to play? She actually slept all night, proving that we know absolutely nothing about what she's going to do, and we're only along for the ride here.
Speaking of network problems, do any of you geeks have any ideas on this? Friday morning, we got up to find we had no internet connection. We have a (wired) LAN, connected to a router, which is connected to a cable modem. Neither of us had any connection, and both of us had a taskbar icon about how our network cables had been unplugged. M plugged his computer directly into the modem, and it still didn't work. He left, and I plugged the cable into the modem and I had internet. There was also a pretty bad storm going on, but we think that started after the issues.. though we're not ruling a good zapping out. Since then, we have pretty much established that our router has died--it just blinks and does nothing when we try to use it now. We know that the modem works, we know that my built-in network card works, and we know that my network cable works. We have basically the same computers.. his network card is built-in as well. Things we have tried include disabling his built-in and trying two other network cards (one of which is new--the other one wouldn't work in my computer, either, as a test, so we think it's broken, hence buying another), using my cable, and.. some other stuff I can't remember at the moment. His errors alternate between a network cable being unplugged and it showing that it's there, but that there is limited or no connectivity--the status thingie shows that it is sending data (small amounts) but not receiving anything. And it still refuses to work. It's very frustrating.
And yes, of course, that means that we missed the family reunion. I feel pretty crappy about that, but at the same time, I can't imagine making that trip with her as cranky as she's been. On the bright side, we have finished buying/hanging pictures and stuff in our bedroom! It is DONE. We still have terrible furniture going on in there, but the accessories are brilliant. I need to take a picture of that when we get the mess cleaned up. We actually bought two more frames tonight for the blank walls, but we realized that it was too much with everything else. Now we just need to hang things up in all the other rooms. Bare walls are nice, right? Oi. Having a house is a lot of work. It also makes me hungry. I'd better go make sure that the ice cream is still good.
I am making her sound like she was in a fabulous mood today, when in fact, she was mostly not. We spent much of the day troubleshooting both her and M's network problems. Those two things did not actually aid in the fixing of the other, surprisingly. Right now she's asleep in the swing, looking pink-cheeked and rosy and perfect gift-from-God miracle (etc) sweet. And last night, when she fell asleep for the night earlier than we expected and were sure she'd be awake in an hour ready to play? She actually slept all night, proving that we know absolutely nothing about what she's going to do, and we're only along for the ride here.
Speaking of network problems, do any of you geeks have any ideas on this? Friday morning, we got up to find we had no internet connection. We have a (wired) LAN, connected to a router, which is connected to a cable modem. Neither of us had any connection, and both of us had a taskbar icon about how our network cables had been unplugged. M plugged his computer directly into the modem, and it still didn't work. He left, and I plugged the cable into the modem and I had internet. There was also a pretty bad storm going on, but we think that started after the issues.. though we're not ruling a good zapping out. Since then, we have pretty much established that our router has died--it just blinks and does nothing when we try to use it now. We know that the modem works, we know that my built-in network card works, and we know that my network cable works. We have basically the same computers.. his network card is built-in as well. Things we have tried include disabling his built-in and trying two other network cards (one of which is new--the other one wouldn't work in my computer, either, as a test, so we think it's broken, hence buying another), using my cable, and.. some other stuff I can't remember at the moment. His errors alternate between a network cable being unplugged and it showing that it's there, but that there is limited or no connectivity--the status thingie shows that it is sending data (small amounts) but not receiving anything. And it still refuses to work. It's very frustrating.
And yes, of course, that means that we missed the family reunion. I feel pretty crappy about that, but at the same time, I can't imagine making that trip with her as cranky as she's been. On the bright side, we have finished buying/hanging pictures and stuff in our bedroom! It is DONE. We still have terrible furniture going on in there, but the accessories are brilliant. I need to take a picture of that when we get the mess cleaned up. We actually bought two more frames tonight for the blank walls, but we realized that it was too much with everything else. Now we just need to hang things up in all the other rooms. Bare walls are nice, right? Oi. Having a house is a lot of work. It also makes me hungry. I'd better go make sure that the ice cream is still good.
