As I suspected, the snow was gone by 8 a.m. this morning! But it is really cold with all this wind we are having. I'd rather have about 20 degrees colder as long as we didn't have this winter long gale force wind that blows in off the ocean, brrrr!
Below, new tires are on, I filled up the squirter thingie with some freeze your butt off bug juice, changed the oil, and we are ready to roll!
Here's what's currently driving me insane...
This is hubby's new smartphone. He has always had the crappiest, cheapest phone available since he does have a history of dropping them, sending them through the wash, etc. I was having a "good wife" moment and thought in honor of his promotion and he will most likely be in charge of his shop and need to keep in all forms of contact with his "peeps" he deserved a decent phone when he got back. I was thinking of getting a new iphone and just giving him my old 1st generation iphone but it's so big that he would never carry it around in his pocket, rendering it useless if he doesn't carry it! So I selected this little one, the Flipout from Motorola. Nice size, pain in the ass to set up! It's not just the phone, it's my husband's fault too! Started out by me having to manually enter in ALL our contacts since it's not very compatible with our iLife (read: everything is apple in this house!) - AND I couldn't ask for his SIM card since his phone broke on deployment and I believe the SIM card is sitting somewhere on the bottom of the Arabian Sea.
Next comes trying to sync all his email and other random accounts. They are a mess! In an effort to stay in some sort of communication with us (heart's in the right place LOL), he sets up accounts as needed (nightmare!) depending on where he is and what he is able to access from that location. He's got ship's email, squadron email, home internet provider email, Skype, iGoogle, Google Talk, Yahoo Chat, Google Chat, 2 Gmail accounts, Facebook... there's probably more I don't even know about, and all have DIFFERENT passwords that he can't remember half the time and I'm doing this from half a world away. UGH! I've been at it since 5 am today and have it all done except the most necessary: "smart"phone won't sync the email! Smartphone, indeed.... I will stick with Apple, completely seamless from my desktop and every thing I've run into in the 4 years I've had it! Okay, I'll move on now...
Here's what Finn was up to last night!
The kids have been driving me completely insane this week, I won't sugarcoat it - I'm sure part of it has to do with the imminent arrival of daddy, but come on, give a mama a break! Loch is Mr. Backtalk lately, and Finn goes into tantrum hysterics over everything these days. I get the feeling that when hubby gets home I am just going to fall out from exhaustion and emotional upheaval from making sure they had a "mom" every day, when there were times the past 7 months where I had fleeting fantasies of walking out and taking a road trip to anywhere but here! Not much longer, though. I keep meaning to do a post about what life is really like for us left back home, the good and bad, but somehow always find it easier to ignore the white elephant and keep on keepin' on!
One thing I WILL do, is share what I found on the internet last night... this object is currently the focus of my daydreams.... :)
