It’s Christmas Day! What the hell are you doing checking some glorified redneck’s blog on Christmas Day?

Santa came to our house last night, dropped off toys for the boys, ate some cookies, drank some milk, and watered his reindeer from the bowl we left outside.

Today the boys will play with their new toys, we’ll have a couple of grandmothers over for visiting, and everyone will open their gifts.

Merry Christmas, y’all,

Bullgrit

We’re back connected to the Internet. That was a long three days without cyberspace. No checking email, no checking or updating this site, no checking FailBlog.org for my funny fix. It feels like waking up from a coma.

But right after I got our network up and running, and started writing this, Cowgrit’s laptop stopped playing nice with the wireless router. So cancel all the happiness I just implied.

I worked on that diabolical appliance for an hour and just couldn’t get it to connect. I think the wireless hardware has died. I’ll have to get another one. Meanwhile, my “loaner” computer will be the only one for all of us.

<sigh>

Can nothing just go smooth for us in this move?

Bullgrit

It didn’t snow in our area, and the roads were clear for moving. Although, it was terribly cold: around 30 degrees all day.

So, now we just have to unpack everything. I may or may not have a post for Monday morning. I don’t know if I’ll have my computer set up in the new house in time. I’m taking it down from my mother’s-in-law house now.

Bullgrit

We own our new home. We move in tomorrow. [Updated: see bottom of this post]

Schedule for Saturday:

Movers will arrive at mother’s-in-law house at 8:00 to collect our things there, and then take these and all our stuff from storage to new house.

Our new refridgerator will be delivered.

Our new washer and dryer will be delivered.

Cable company will install TV, Internet, and phone connections.

My new computer desk will be delivered.

Our new TV stand will be delivered.

Our new sofa and chair will be delivered.

Pizza will be delivered.

Headaches will set in.

Ibuprofen will be delivered.

Exhaustion will take over. Sleep will follow.

The rest of our lives will begin.

Bullgrit

Update:

We had originally scheduled our move for Monday 12/21, but we called the movers and asked could they move us on Saturday 12/19. They didn’t have an available slot for us, but they put us on their wait list in case someone else cancelled. Fortunately, someone cancelled, and we took their movers. “Yay, we can get into our new home two days early!”

But now our area is under snow storm advisory. It may snow and ice on Saturday. The movers just called us and gave us warning that if the conditions are hazardous (remember: this is the South), they may have to cancel and reschedule another day for the move. The only days they have available right now are Tuesday and Wednesday.

So, if the weather gets bad tomorrow, instead of moving two days earlier, we may end up moving one or two days later than we originally planned for.

Oh joy. Nothing is ever easy.

Bullgrit