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Thursday, June 12, 2008

No Internet!

The night before last we had thunder storms. Nothing to worry about, right? Well it depends on how addicted you are to your internet. The storm took out our internet. I know! The horror! On top of that, my IT professional, aka my husband, had to work late. Alas, over 24 hours without internet. It turns out the lightening reset our router back to the factory settings.

The irony of all of this was that Wed. is my day to post for New England Mamas. My post was written in draft form on Tuesday night, but I lost our connection before I could edit it much less be able to post it the next day. I forgot about it until lunch yesterday when I just happened to be at a blogger event at Mom Central with none other than 5 New England Mamas.

Yesterday was a fun day. I really enjoyed meeting other bloggers and my older son (OS) acted like getting picked up by a friend's mom from preschool and taken to the friend's house for a playdate with my younger son (YS) was the equivalent of going to Disney World. YS seemed to be in good spirits too. After baths and an early bedtime, let me just say early bedtime again because I couldn't get over my good luck, I settled down on the couch to do some blog reading. Alas I still couldn't! Fortunately, later on in the evening So You Think You Can Dance was on and although normally I would wait for the Big Giraffe, I decided to go ahead and watch. Yeah, I know I could have read a book, cleaned the house, made bread from scratch while sewing homemade clothes for my kids in the meantime, but I just wanted to relax. What did people do before the internet? What did I do before the internet because it sure wasn't washing the floor with toothbrushes. I had internet for the first time in college so I before then, I'm pretty sure I spent large amounts of time on the phone.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: It's amazing how something that is a convenience can become so important.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 6:17 AM   6 comments
6 Comments:

  • At 6/12/2008 8:26 AM, Blogger T said…

    Thanks for coming to our lunch yesterday--it was so great to meet you! You are so welcome back to Mom Central anytime and we look forward to getting to know guys in the coming months! Make sure you email me if you're interested in those Ringling Brothers tickets!
    Abbey :)

    abbey@momcentral.com

     

  • At 6/12/2008 10:38 AM, Blogger Jen of A2eatwrite said…

    I watched SYTYCD last night, too. I think it's going to be a great season!

     

  • At 6/12/2008 2:12 PM, Blogger Heather said…

    I'm the same way with my internet.

     

  • At 6/12/2008 8:42 PM, Blogger painted maypole said…

    i remember using the internet for e-mail, but otherwise thinking it was too hard to find anything worthwhile. Enter google and high speed connections... and that was it!

     

  • At 6/14/2008 8:09 AM, Blogger Lisa said…

    Completely understand what you mean. I get all twitchy if I don't get my internet/bloggy fix!

    Yeay for early bedtimes! And meeting lots of other mom bloggers!

     

  • At 6/14/2008 8:49 PM, Blogger Tracee said…

    They had to go next door and talk to their neighbors. My mother had only one car and my father took it to work. When I talk to her about her life as the mother of 4 - she spent a lot of time going back and forth between her house and the neighbor ladies.

     
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