I've been at work 9 hours a day ( that includes lunch since I don't come home anymore ), I'm going back to school half-time and they require lots of attention when going online, full-time mom who has to make dinner and do laundry and cleaning. Luckily the kid has no problem doing dishes. So I haven't been posting too often.

So I just want you to know that nothing major is going on. I'm making lists of the things I need to do to prepare for company coming in January and I've got to start counting days regarding that, too.

There are so many things I need to do, things I want to do. I've got to go grocery shopping this weekend, probably tomorrow if the store I want to go to is open, so that I can feed the Kid.

So every holiday I am either bleeding to death or sick, and of course there are the times that I am both. This holiday I am both. I am still a bit under the weather from the horrible head cold I was experiencing last week. I'm sure for Christmas I'll be both again because that is the holiday I am usually sick and bleeding for. I know, you so wanted to read about this didn't you?

Well, since the Kid isn't going to take a shower yet I'm going to take advantage of the hot water and go do so myself. Ok, go imagine me all soaking wet in a steamy hot shower covered iin suds. You know you want to.

So I have been almost completely kid-free this weekend. She went over to the Mom's house with her cousins twice and spent the night, last night she went over to a friend's house and spent the night. Over the last few days I've only seen her a few hours. But I got her to clean her room while she was here! The threat that I was going to do it Monday and Tuesday while she was in school and I was off work must have worked.

So Friday after I dropped her off at the Mom's I decided to do a little shopping. I bought some groceries and I bought some stuff for the bathroom. I got a really nice shower curtain and liner (you know, the fabric curtains that tie back) and I finally got a trash can in there. The trash can came with a toothbrush holder, soap holder, and cup. I couldn't pass it up for 4 bucks. There are still a few things I need in general. Side dishes being one and shampoo being another. But I have enough to where I can wait a bit.

Today so far I've done a load of laundry, dishes, swept the kitchen floor and wiped off the counters. I still have to vacuum and finish cleaning in the living room. Monday and Tuesday I am going to spend hanging and folding the laundry that I haven't been hanging and folding.

The only thing that irks me is that I know when I get home from work on Wednesday that the house is going to most likely be a mess again. I don't know how she does it, but the Kid enters a room and a tornado follows. She can't find this, she can't find that, she absolutely needs it right then and there. She tears things apart looking for it and it wasn't even anywhere near where she was looking. I've tried to tell her where stuff might be in the past but I'm always wrong.

Anyway.

I'm trying to get everything in order so that I can relax the week I have company coming in January. Alright, I'm off.

It's a whopping 17 degrees, or it was when I got home. I turned the heat up a degree or two and made dinner. Was thinking of doing a load of laundry, but then only my room would get warm and not the rest of the house.

But Velvet is helping keep me warm by laying on me. Although I can't tell if I am keeping her warm and she's just covering part of my arms. Hehe.. I am thinking of getting the heating pad. I love my heating pad. It's old and decrepit but it puts out good heat.

i got to talk to Honey today. I've been a really bad girl during work, too. I've been texting him now and again using my cell when we aren't even allowed to do so. Well, if the New Girl (yeah another one) can talk on hers all freaking day then I don't see what harm it is going to do when I am sending a text during the quiet times and then putting it away again.

I am taking the christmas dishes we received as a gift last year to work tomorrow and putting them in the back of the Techie's car so she can take them to her professional Ebay friend and sell them for me. I haven't opened them and that means they have never been used, so I might get a good price for them. I'm hoping anyway.

I also plan on getting my fiberoptic angels sold, too. I don't use them and think that they'd be better off making other people happy.

Well.. I am off. Laters.

I'm here at work using the CursedCube's computer and for some reason whenever I login to this computer it completely wipes out all of my stuff. I can't access anything work-wise (email) which is fine since I'm on lunch. The problem is that it doesn't have any fonts that I use normally. So everything seems to be going to the sans-serif or serif fonts and it's driving me nuts. I can't stand it. I don't know why it's doing this. I'll have to ask the Tech to figure it out for me.

Well I have to get back to work. Laters.

If there is a place where a lot of negative emotions and people have been can that area become cursed over time? I have a theory!

My theory is from the Cursed Cubicle at work. This cube has had negative people working in it since before I started working here, so that's 5+ years of built up negativity. I think it also eats Time as a treat throughout the day. Like when I spend my lunches on the internet using this computer, time passes so fast that it's almost as if I never really had a lunch at all.

Every person that has worked in this cube since I've been here has been fired, with one exception. We had one lady quit because she couldn't seem to work the hours meant for her position and refused to work anything but what she wanted, so when discussed with her she quit.

The last person who worked in this cube moved to the one next door when the coworker formerly in the last cube quit and moved on to another company. Though the new girl keeps threatening stuff already. Something about wanting a raise when she starts taking client calls and something about her 90 days (she's still temping) being up she may just leave. Oh boy.

Alright. I have to go for now because it takes three minutes to shut this computer down. You'll never notice me gone though.. I'll possibly add more to this post this afternoon at the front desk because we are blessed today. Be back soon.

So I'm back. A lot of time has passed, too. Like almost 2 hours! I know, you really missed me.

So far the Tart (partial nickname for the psychotic drama queen in the office - perhaps PDQ would work?) has been up here several times whining and crying about this or that. I knew it was going to be 'a bad day' for her when she got to whimpering as I gave her the first call this morning.

Alright, well. I finished entering data regarding some stuff and now I could use a break to get up and walk around. I probably won't bother though. Every time I get up to walk away for whatever reason the phone rings.

I've got aol radio playing and I've got aim express up (talking to the techie that's leaving us way too soon) and I'm posting here. Being bad all around I am. Perhaps in need of a beating? Maybe.

Erhm. I gotta go. New Girl had to tell a client he couldn't have HOLES in the side of his house.

... and the City.

Yes, I knew the word sex would get your attention. Every now and then I watch Sex and the City and I wonder if there really are women out there who live the way they do. Alone, yet enjoying being alone, yet wanting a man, yet not wanting to be held down.

Say Huh?

Anyway. Why can't they just be happy? I know, I know. It's a TV SHOW. But come on. They have great lives, great jobs, beautiful homes, wonderful friends.

Then you have to wonder.. all those questions that get asked using the articles written by "Carrie": Do they ever really get truly answered?

You ever have one of those days where you just want to lay in bed all day? This is one of those days so far. Except, it's Velvet and I'm the bed.

My wonderful kitty cat can't stay more than three feet from me for some reason. She loves me up. This is just not her. She's been doing it for so long now that I've almost gotten used to it though.

So I don't really have any plans for today yet. I was going to do a load of laundry or two and clean. Hang out on here and not sure what else. I forgot to bring a monitor home from the office so that I can attempt to bring the old desktop back to life. Ohwell.

Ok.. why do cats have to sit in the basket of clean laundry and bathe themselves? No, it isn't a riddle. I really do want to know. Laters.

Just posting to let everyone know I'm still alive.

I've been so tired the last few nights.. ok, weeks, that I've been slacking on the posting and even started drinking coffee at night.

So things with the new job have been going very well. Still a little freaked out that the boss gives kudos out to me all the time. Told me I have pretty eyes in the middle of discussing something with me too. He also asks me if there's anything I need or if everything is ok. It's pretty cool to have a boss that not only wants to ask these things but also wants an honest answer.

The one guy who does maintenance for the building and runs errands, etc, bought lunch for me and another guy yesterday. Then today he turned around and asked if I wanted to go to dinner tomorrow night. At first I said no, because I thought he was wanting to go out as a couple. As soon as I said no, he replied 'not like a date or anything, just dinner' and then the phone started ringing so I haven't discussed that any further with him. He's a nice guy, I think he'll make a great friend and I think he will get along really well with Honey. Perhaps I can find a nice young lady to go out with that's single who I can introduce him to. Never know.

It's weird though because this is the second guy at the new job who's been interested in asking me out or wanting to know if I'm available. I was always hit on when I worked at the other office but they knew that I wasn't interested in seeing anyone and then when I opened up to that, that I was with someone.

So things with the new job seem to be going well. I'm enjoying what I get to do with the graphics and so forth, too.

I'm supposed to write a story for my Honey and I have some of it in my head but I've been so exhausted that I haven't even gotten to start it yet. I feel like that is something I need to work on. I really want to and I miss writing. I figure if I can write a paragraph or two a day that would be great. I think I'll try doing that starting tomorrow.

I haven't gotten to talk to my Honey at all today. He called me and got disconnected and every time I call him I end up going to voice mail. I'm sure he's swamped with doing stuff regarding work and getting things settled regarding moving. We were talking on the phone last night and we didn't get to talk then either because we got disconnected. So I'm feeling a little forlorn about not getting to talk with him and let him know that I'm still all his and that I don't have any interest in these silly guys who don't ask if I'm available before asking me silly questions.

Things have been going well with Honey, even though he isn't here and he's missed, I know he'll be here as soon as he can. I would rather him have everything in order (even though I harrass him about being here by my birthday) and taken care of so he can come home and stay. We'll see what happens.

So I'm just in need of some extra time lately and some extra energy. I'd like to get the house clean and I would also like the car to get fixed and working properly. The car has been acting up constantly so I have the Dad-like figure's truck to go to work for the week. I also got to do a little bit of shopping for household items. He is going to look at the car when it gets a bit warmer. We are thinking that the issue is electrical and possibly has to do with the security system. We are also thinking of taking this car in and seeing what I could get for something that runs properly. Or a vehicle for him so that I can borrow the truck until he can completely go over the car in his own time.

Other than the car issues things seem to be going fairly well. It's kind of nice. Ok, I am out of here. I want to go do something else and I think I've pretty much gotten everything up here that I wanted to. Laters.

Why does time seem to be so short? I finally answered the girl's phone call, the one from the bar, who's been calling me three times a day. She's really just aggravating! She needed to know if I was doing anything Saturday. I had told her over a week ago that I was going to the bar for my birthday. Which is a fucking holiday! She wants to know who's all going to be there. What the hell does it matter who's going to be there? So I told her. I invited all kinds of people from work. I invited my sister and her friends. I am picking up Honey at the airport Friday night and he will be there. What the hell? Everyone is going to be at the bar. It's a fucking holiday! Everyone I know from the bar, will be at the bar!

I told her I hadn't called her back because I haven't had the time because I've been working, and yes, I do know that you called me at work today regarding your application. I couldn't talk, I knew it was you, but there were people around and I couldn't tell you I knew it was you. I've been trying to get things in order for my Honey, but I feel like I'm running out of time. Plus with people who just can't leave you alone for a few hours, even though I didn't answer the phone, it still aggravated the hell out of me.

Plus the professor in this class is giving me a hard time about stuff I've explained three times now. The sites do go together, one is the business side, the other is the demonstration of what the client will get. Why is that so difficult to understand? I sent my post to the tech girl to find out if I sounded bitchy. She said no, I sounded knowledgeable. I hope they read it in that tone!

So.. T-Minus 2 days. Actually, one day since he'll be arriving ON Friday. I have a lot to do before Friday. I guess I should get my beauty sleep! Laters.

Today was a long day at work. I had hardly anything to do and I didn't get to work on my homework either. That kind of sucked. I got to post some responses to the other homework already done, though. That helped.

The boss is sometimes aggravating. He calls me to make phone calls for him and then the phone is ringing and wants to know why I haven't called the person yet. Ok, I had two lines ringing and a customer at the window. You have a fucking camera centered on me, look at the damn thing.

So I've got my homework done and posted and uploaded. It was easy. I'm kind of feeling weird about these classes lately. I expect them to be challenging and they aren't. I like the fact that they are easy though because it means I'm really good at what I do. I took extra time to do the stuff I had to do tonight even though it was a ten minute assignment.

So far I've gotten straight A's again, yay me!

I've been working on a new splash page for SE. I've got to add our new blogger, Deviant Savant and I'm changing the image since I swapped from Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9 to Adobe Photoshop CS2. The current splash was saved in layers in psp format and Adobe can't open it, so I'm making a new one. I know several people who will find it hot and bothered, I know we did over here.

Well, it sounds like my honey is out of the shower so I'm going back to bed. I had a nap earlier and I'm drinking coffee. I've got a back massage planned for my honey so I don't have to worry about not getting enough sleep tonight.

The electric went out last night and we kind of freaked regarding Jack ( new pics coming soon ) because he's a tropical lizard and we didn't know when the electric would be back on. I had Honey call his friend to find out what to do. She's pretty fucking knowledgeable and I love that we have someone to go to if we need assistance! She was amazing when it came to Honey going to buy a lizard in the first place.

Ok.. I think I'm gonna get going now. He should be done. Laters, Sweet Dreams!

Honey will be returning home, cat included, tomorrow. I am waiting patiently. I know it's only been four days, but having someone with you all the time, talking, snuggling, watching tv, playing games just gets taken advantage of. Then when they leave for even a short period, it's strange. You're so used to them being there to talk with and they aren't there.

I had 80 emails from the blog in my box today (I got 2 more as I was deleting the other 78) from porn sites trying to get my readers' attention, but guess what? MT has a built in catcher. Instead of posting all of those trackbacks to my blog, it catches them so I can review them. I junked them all. I know you all want the pr0n, but too bad.

And I swear Jack was playing peek a boo with me. Yes, Jack the Dragon was playing with me.

Ok, I'm off.

So the plan was to start getting up earlier, say about 630 in the morning and to get ready and relax a little, perhaps even posting before going to work in the morning.

My alarm, as I told it to do so, went off at 625. I didn't get out of bed until 711.

-Sigh-

Ohwell. Perhaps next week.

When I first started blogging it was years ago, I think perhaps the first one was at Diaryland. I thought previously that it had been at Diary-x, but I believe I was wrong. I can't remember why I had started blogging. I didn't think it was all that great of a thing to do, spilling your life all over the internet is what it seemed to me that people were doing.

I have been thinking about this as I try, once again, to build this blog back up to mean something. It seems that every time I was on track and doing well, something would happen. A server would die and everything was lost because I was too naive to back things up. Something would happen and I didn't have the money to pay for the hosting, this happened twice with this domain and another. I was on my own and had completely forgot about having the expense. Although, I do blame the people I have my domain name with, not the people I have the site hosted at, they are great, just the domain name. They don't send any notification that you have a bill due or what the details of how they got the amount that you owe them. They send a bill and expect you to pay within FOUR days. Unless I live in the same county, there's noway that a check is going to get there in four days. Anyway, on to the original topic of this post.

When the site was gone, I missed blogging horribly and I understood more about why people blog. It's a way to get all that creativity out that's just waiting to burst. I have two blogs that I currently use regularly. I have Disillusioned and then I have a blog at LiveJournal, no I won't post the link here (if you find it, you find it) that I use for the privacy options they have. I had a blog over at WordPress while the site was down and it has fallen into ruins. I have thought about bringing it back recently as I brought another blog back over at BlogSpot.

I'm not sure exactly why I brought the one back over at BlogSpot other than the simple fact that I can use it to earn more money from PayPerPost once I get three months worth of posts and they approve it. This is the only thing I can think of why I had brought it back, but I think I may use it as a televsion show blog. I wouldn't mind having another blog to review books, either.

See, this is how I think. But this is my main blog, my one true blog. I always post here unless there is some form of technical difficulty that prevents me from doing so. The name disillusioned came to me when I couldn't figure out a name for the blog in the first place. The name of the domain itself - Sweetly-Evil.Org, came from my AIM screen name. Disillusioned is my way of tearing away the veils I suppose, or it used to be anyway. I always complained about work, family and general stupidity here. I kept losing the blog though and a lot of those posts are completely gone.

I can understand why though. Perhaps letting my negativity spew out into the world wide web isn't the best way to go. That's why I have the LiveJournal, so I can keep all that negativity from affecting others I care about and people who really don't want to see someone who's whining and crying about how unfair life, work, or whatever happens to be plaguing me that day is.

So through all the years that I really have been around, most of that is all gone. But I have evolved into something more since then. Someone who is more conscious of those around her. Yes, I still get urges to kill people. I still want to TMK those who agitate the living heck out of me but I simply don't see much of a need to put that on all of my readers. I want to help people who have the issues I do, if I can.

I tend to hold a lot of rage and anger deep down inside. I don't let it stay there as much and I try very hard not to pour it on others. I keep it tightly locked up in LiveJournal where only I have to see it. And I seem to be seeing less of that anger, that rage. Perhaps I am evolving into a better person. People always seem to think I'm sweet and innocent and they'll even tell me that. I know better. I am mean and I will always be mean, but I will do my damnedest not to let you see or hear just how mean and uncaring I can be. I want to change. I want to be a better person who simply enjoys the people and places around her.

I don't mention him often because I'm not always looking at him (don't ask me why, he is quite fascinating when he's hunting, jumping, and even just plain basking) constantly and I haven't posted any new photos (if any at all) because it's hard to get a good photo when he's curled up in the corner of his tank passed out cold.

I'm talking about Jack, our Chinese Water Dragon. I'll include a photo at the end of the post, it's an old one, but it's a great one. Anyway, we feed him crickets. He loves hunting crickets and I hate feeding him meal worms even though he loves those, too. I have to dig out the meal worms from sawdust and then hope they really are alive (they like to play dead). Then I have to throw them right to Jack so that when they wiggle he'll see it and snatch them up. I prefer the crickets because as I shake the bag into the tank he'll snatch one right out of the air and then run over and grab another one as soon as he's done with the first.

Anyway, not the last time, but the time before we had bought a dozen crickets for him and the Little Lady wanted to throw them into his tank. So we let her. At least two, I'm thinking two anyway, got free. Meaning as she was shaking the bag somehow they made it to the log which is close to the top of the tank or the fountain and jumped out. Remember now, Jack's terrarium is in our bedroom at this time and we are constantly having to sleep to the sound of crickets chirping. It's a pain in the ass, but we can handle it. I'm not twitching yet anyway and I haven't attacked the crickets yet.

So the last three days, I'll get back to the point now, I've been watching this damn cricket wander around the living room. I think it's the same cricket anyway, it's huge and I can't miss it. It crawls along the living room floor and last night it was on the couch, I blew on it to keep it away from me (most insects hate being blown on) and he went behind the couch. Now he's back on the floor in the part of the living room I saw him in yesterday. So this cricket is quite the adventurer. He made it out of the bedroom and into the kitchen, which he still explores as well, but he hasn't made it across the living room and out the door to the front room. I think he knows that Dusty is in there and Dusty will attack him if he notices.

We have had a cricket make it outside before, but that was just from the front room when we were buying 5 or more dozen at a time (we were trying to get them to make little crickets so we wouldn't have to buy crickets all the time, but that didn't go as planned). The cricket that made it outside stayed real close by the door, at least in people terms, he was only a few steps away, off the cement and into a patch of grass.

The cricket that made it outside found cricket friends by singing to them and they came to rescue him from the patch of grass. They took him in and made him part of their family. Ok, so I can only imagine that they would, but we know he wasn't there anymore after two days or so. We were actually quite proud that he made it to a new home, even though he had been told (I tell the crickets what they are when we buy them) that it was food for Jack.

I'm waiting patiently for this cricket that's wandering between the bedroom and living room to try to incite the other crickets still in the tank to revolt and become free. I don't think I would be able to handle almost 2 dozen crickets jumping and crawling around. I wish Dusty would come in and eat this one or pounce on it, or whatever the heck he does to them. It just unnerves me that Jack's food is wandering free.

Anyway, here's a photo of Jack from a few months ago:

So I went to WidgetBucks to update my widget. Obviously that is what you do if you're going there. They sent out an email stating that they've updated their system and that the widgets were going to need updated.

I get there and decide to change my widget from being digital to books - which I've been waiting for books to become available, I find them more favorable as gifts because they aren't as expensive and they aren't easy to break and they can be valued and passed along. I know, lots of and's in there.

Anyway, I changed the title of the widget three times and it still says Go Digital. Go figure. I updated the code each time and pasted the new code in, rebuilt the template and refreshed the page. So when it decides to change the title, perhaps it will. Or maybe this is a glitch? Either way, I'm off.

So I am making this afghan for Honey. I don't think I have enough yarn to complete the full afghan at this time, but I will be sure to be working before I get anywhere near the end. I have not even officially started the second row yet. I'm not working it in a plum/dark purple, but midnight blue. The lady who posted this pattern suggests not working it in more than one color, but I plan to do so anyway. I will post a photo of what it looks like when I do complete it.

I also made this scarf twice, one that was 100 rows long and another that was 70 rows long. One was for the eldest niece and the other for the youngest niece of Honey's family. They enjoy getting handmade items and I thought since the eldest is moving away to live with her father for a bit it would be nice to have matching scarves.

The scarf I made for the girls also had a matching hat, which is able to be turned into a beanie and I made that for the Little Lady, it turned out amazing and she loved it. I literally made it Christmas Eve right in front of her and finished it around 1 am. Instead of single crochets, I used half-double crochets. They look and feel so much better to me than single crochets, they are also, in my opinion, more sturdy.

I wish I would have had the blue that the scarf was made in, but I didn't, so I made them in the Soft Sage color that the baby afghan was made out of. I made Little Lady's beanie out of off white because she preferred it to the sage. The Soft Sage color is like a light mint green.

I've really learned a lot of new crochet stitches, too since I have restarted this hobby. The LionBrand yarn website has a great tutorial section on how to do certain stitches. I can't do them all yet, but hopefully someday I will, well the crochet ones anyway, I don't plan to learn how to knit, crocheting is complicated enough for me!

Honey brought me flowers this morning. They are flowers that his mom was going to have him throw on the compost pile because they were giving her a headache. I understand why, their scent is easily overwhelming. But they haven't given me a headache and they are especially pretty so I am going to keep them. I don't have a fancy vase to put them in so I put them in a cup from where I used to work. The purple color of the cup looks good against the yellow and white of the flowers.

I talked the Little Lady into smelling the flowers and letting me take a photo, then Dusty decided he wanted to smell them to, so I got both of them smelling the flowers. It's been a rough day keeping him off the counter today.

My best friend informs me, and she should know since she has been working in a flower shop, that they are mini daffodils. I'll believe her because I have no clue!

I moved them from the edge of the counter to the center of the counter after taking this photo because I don't want them to get knocked over. Not only would that damage the flowers but then I'd have to mop up water and wipe down the counter again.

Off for now!

I want to be mean. I know it's wrong of me to be mean, but what if someone is mean or rude (or whatever form of mean) to me first? I don't call people and say 'Who's This?' like I'm from the Inquisition or anything. If I call someone and I don't know who answered the phone I state "This is Chelle, I'm calling for so and so do I have the right number?" and if they say "No." I thank them and hang up.

The numbers we have are new to us, still barely a month old, and being as the place was a no-contract business they hand out numbers like candy. So obviously we have both been getting phone calls and text messages from people who are expecting others to answer. I don't appreciate being asked "Who's This" when someone calls me on a number that I was given (ok ok so I said YES give me that number when they told me what it was).

Anyway, I think when a woman calls me (because we all know how us females can be when a woman answers the phone and they are possibly calling a man) and says "Who's This" as if they are going to shove their hand through the phone and bitchslap me I'm going to say "The Other Woman" and hang up.

I'm sure I'll start a huge rash of divorces, but who cares. Who taught these people manners? I learned mine by practicing them often. And I'm tired of the "You called me, who are you?" and then they text message me because they don't believe they have the wrong number.

Yes, I am alive and well. I've been reading voraciously, again, and getting laundry and cleaning done as well. I've finally started on the bedroom. A little at a time and it'll get done. Don't believe me? Go check out Kate's newsletter at I Think Therefore I Blog. She'll set you straight.

Other than trying to keep up with housecleaning and reading I've taken some new photos. The ones with the focus on the crescent moon did not turn out. I don't know why, I thought I had set the camera on top of the car or truck for balancing purposes so I wouldn't shake, but they turned out horrible. Very blurry and very shaky.

Here are other photos that I have taken:

Well that's all for now. Be back soon.

It's pretty easy to hate the internet when you have as many issues as we have been having lately. At least on the laptop anyway. Honey's computer has decided that it can no longer access the C drive and therefore won't load windows. We are planning to get him a hard drive (10 or 20 gigs) to put the operating system on so he can access the hard drive again (it's a 500 gig hd) and to find out if it's a bad sector or something more.

So you would think that since the Little Lady is not home and his computer is inaccessible that there would be complete access and the speed of light when it comes to using the internet on the laptop.

I'm still waiting for that to happen. We are extremely lucky anymore if a page loads. If it doesn't I hit refresh three or four times and after that I either give up, or if it is something I want to load, such as one of the blogs I own, then I close the window and type the address into a new one. It's a huge pain in the arse having to go through this with almost every page I want to visit. I feel very luck being able to have more than one window open at a time, with content, of course.

I have gone from doing maintenance (disk cleanup/delete all internet files/defrag) to unplugging the router to reset it and shutting down the computer and then rebooting the router. I have done all of these things straight in a row (and defrag takes forever even though it's done every week) with no real results. The only other option would be to have Honey's parents call the cable company (which they truly dislike doing, then again who doesn't) and have them check the lines from their end and, if necessary, physically. That won't happen unless they are having the same issues and I am ok with that.

Basically we are lucky if Google loads and if we have an actual internet connection when it does. Sometimes even the lovely little blue circle indicating that we have internet access vanishes for no reason. The lights will still blink away on the router and sometimes we can load pages when it's gone. I have no idea why but it happens, even with those that aren't cached.

If we are lucky, which lately our luck has gone to hell, it'll resolve itself. Let's hope so. Laters.