Finding Joy in Snarkville

I used to have a schedule.  After sending the boys off, I’d make coffee, sit down and blog.  My schedule is so far gone that the only thing that remains today is I make coffee.  Seriously this summer has thrown me for a loop and a half — so many things to share, so you get a list:

1. Remember me cutting down trees?  Well, it didn’t work.  It seems that I only thinned enough out in the upper canopy of FrankenYard to allow for MORE swaying of the trees and WORSE TV.  We’ve been back to cut more, but seriously, the trees that need to go at this point aren’t safe for ‘woman with hacksaw’ kind of cutting.
2. So, as you can imagine we have given up TV.  We will be putting the TVs on the street later this month.  Oh, wait, we aren’t.  We are getting cable.  Seriously. Stop laughing.  After careful research, we found that the 6 months of nearly free cable followed by the “Oh, my, make the bleeding stop” rate came out to exactly $28 more than we’d pay for satellite for the same year.  So, for $28 we are getting reception — now you understand right?
3. But wait there’s more.  You see with cable we get a REAL TIVO box again.  I miss TIVO.  Seriously, none of the non-TIVOs can compare to the goodness of TIVO.  (If I’m seriously honest, our first DVR was the Ultimate TV and that little Microsoft product was the best at the time — it took TIVO a few years to catch-up.)  But I get TIVO again.  TIVO, which will arrive on Monday.  TIVO which can not be set-up with a Cable Guy, because apparently shoving a card into a slot is HARD.  So my cable install appointment that would have given me clear TV yesterday has now been moved.
4. Enough about my TV woes.

My schedule will change again in August as I prep for school to begin (must.stop.crying).  I am still waiting on the supply list from the school, but Duke’s backpack arrived this past week (Thank you Queen Mum and Dad) and he loves it.  Now if I can only find shoes that meet his approval.

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