Oh! I forgot I had something to bitch about.
The other day, I had to finish up a bit of paperwork at the kids’ new school and since my MIL is here, I left all the kids (including Kayley) home so I could fill out paperwork with peace and quiet. I was filling out “emergency contact” information and realized, whoops, I don’t have my mom’s new work number. (She got a new job last November.) And, I don’t have her physical address committed to memory. AND, I don’t know my dad’s work number at all. Soooo, I called up Kayley and tried to talk her through looking up some phone numbers for me on the internet.
I swear to you, I think God was having a laugh over all of it, watching me try to remain patient and keep my cool while talking Kayley through doing something so completely foreign, you’d think I was talking her through landing a plane or something. Girlchild can navigate Club Penguin like nobody’s business, but look up a phone number? Forget about it! She did eventually find a phone number for me for another store, so I could call THAT store and get the number for my mom’s store.
Before I gave up and did that, though, I decided to try out the Mobile Browser on my cell phone. I don’t do much fancy cell phone stuff - hell, I JUST signed up for Twitter a month or two ago - so there was a slight learning curve, there. And I have to say: it sucked fucking ass. Once I FINALLY got to “Dex Online” I couldn’t get the interface to look up more than one phone number for me. It gave me the first number I (kind of) needed, even though it wasn’t the right one, and then every other look up I did took me back to the original search results. Lame! Have I mentioned how much I HATE wonky shit, that only works half-assed, and leaves me all angry because I could have just brought my stupid laptop with me in the first place and figured out everything I needed on my own, via some schmuck’s unsecured WiFi signal?
Bah. The only thing that made it all better was getting a pedicure on my way home. Got to take advantage of the kid-free moments as they present themselves, y’know?
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Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married to an enginerd named Paul, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism. In addition to playing Barbies and pretending to eat plastic food all day, Laura spends most of her time folding clean laundry, obsessing about the amount of sugar her kids eat, and vacuuming up Polly Pocket accessories. She's obsessed with Yo Gabba Gabba, red wine, and Family Guy. She also regularly contributes to How Do You Do It? and authors the following blogs:
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jentifred
June 19th, 2008 at 9:34 am
My phone’s built in browser sucks, too. Go get Opera Mini. WAY better.
Kim in SLC
June 19th, 2008 at 11:14 am
A pedicure! I haven’t had one yet this year. Must put that on my to-do list.
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threeundertwo
June 19th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I had to discontinue my internet access on my phone because I was spending $$$$$ surfing the internet.
My kids are all over Webkinz but they go completely blank when asked to manipulate the stereo remotes. Or refill the printer with paper, for that matter.
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