HOME FIXES

Today was a day of fixing things around the house.  The handyman came to paint doors, make shelves, paint shelves and put in locks.

Then the electrician came to fix a light and that made me real happy.  I have not had a light in my kitchen for about 2 months.  I can see when I cook again.

Until tomorrow...

HORRIBLE TRAFFIC JAM

Today I was driving back from a clients office and I was cruising along and all of a sudden the traffic came to a sudden stop.  We inched along for about 10 blocks only to find out the entrance to the freeway was closed in both directions.  Ugh!

I followed the crowd like a lemur inching along for about 1/4 mile.  It took about 40 minutes.  Then I finally figured out how to get back on the freeway.

The whole time I was happy I had the top down on my convertible since it was one of the first sunny days in months.  It was a bit chilly but sunny.  I was worried that my GPS was in the trunk and I had no idea where I was.  I was hoping that if I followed the line of cars they would take me back to the freeway.  They did! 

It took me 1.5 hours to get home when it normally takes 40 minutes. 

Until tomorrow...

COMCAST

I finally called Comcast. After about a year of having cable issues, I am finally fed up.  Over a year ago I had Comcast come out three times and they said they could not figure out the problem.  I gave up when I went on vacation and then I got sick with meningitis.  I could not begin to think about dealing with Comcast.  Then I was too busy to deal with my cable issues.  For any of you who have ever had to deal with a difficult issue with a cable company or phone company, you know what I mean.  It is rarely ever one visit from tech.  It is multiple visits from the tech support people.  Each person telling you another story about why the ___ is doing ____.  For my cable it is always: you have too many cable boxes.  You need a booster.  You don't need the booster.  A cable cord is bad.  Are you sure it isn't your TV?  Your splitter went bad.  I have heard it all.  The cable still has problems.

Maybe next week it will finally get fixed.  I can hope!

Until tomorrow...

OSCARS

Okay what do we say?!  It was so crazy.  I saw a post today that said: "I saw LaLa Land win and turned off the TV."  Ha ha.  They missed all the chaos.

It was a good time.  Just the right amount of politics and humor.  It had just enough glamour.

Until tomorrow...

FOSTER/ADOPT GROUP MEETING

Today was my foster/adopt group meeting at my home.  There were 5 guests.  I made hummus swirls and my homemade "reese's" peanut butter cups.  Someone brought homemade lemonade.  We talked for three hours.  It was a good gathering.

We all talked about where we were in the process and speculated how long we would have to wait to get a child.

Until tomorrow...

ORCHIDS

I went to a orchid show today.  I was given a free ticket so I thought I would head over for a bit.  I was not sure what it was all about.  It was a big orchid festival where there were thousands of orchids I could purchase.  I was essentially chaos.  I only stayed about 30 minutes.  The orchids were beautiful but it was crowed.

Until tomorrow...

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

I went to see the play A Thousand Splendid Suns tonight with my friend S.  It was really good.  It was almost just like the book.  The actors were so awesome.

Until tomorrow...

ANIMATION SHORTS

I went to see the Oscar Animation Shorts.  I really liked three of them.

• Piper about a little piper bird learning to eat.
• Pear Cider and Cigarettes is an adult animation about a guy who needs a kidney.
• Pearl is about a musician who gives it all up for his daughter so she can be all she can be.

It was a fun time.  I just love animation films.

Until tomorrow...

IT DIDN'T RAIN TODAY

Just one thing: It didn't rain today.  Ah...

Until tomorrow...

QUICKBOOKS

I finally had to deal with moving Quickbooks from my old dying laptop to my new computer.  I have a very old version so upgrading was not an easy task.  I was on the phone with tech support for almost 3 hours.  My old file version from 2008 would not upgrade to 2017.  So tech support had to take the file and upgrade it from 2008 to version 2012 save it and then upgrade it to 2017.  It took forever.  They were very nice and I really lucked up since Intuit was having a 70% off sale on Quickbooks.  Nothing better than finding out that the item you need and have to buy just happens to be on sale 70% off.  Yay!

It is all done and I am finally able to invoice my clients again.  Hooray!

Until tomorrow...