No Food, No Internet, No Cable, No A/C...

Steve says that I have it so "bad" off. Actually with the list of things we don't have, I'm still doing fine. I just like to complain at times. Hopefully our food shipment should be coming any day...considering that my husband has volunteered me to cook for a few people on Thursday night, I hope it comes soon. If not, I'll have to really be creative on what to make. I tried to tell him that we should just go out to eat, but he said that the people are in town all week and will be sick of eating out by Thursday night.

No internet has made me really productive at home. The house is completely organized. This is like a new record for me. In all of our other places, I have just got organized in time to move again (jeez...I hope this isn't a sign that we will be moving again...Steve keeps joking that we will be in Russia by Christmas). Now, I am working on my mom's scrapbook of her trip to Beijing that I have promised her to be done for Christmas. Supposedly, the internet is to be hooked up by month's end...they better hurry since there is only one week left in the month. Of course in India talk, by month's end could very well mean by the end of this month, by the end of next month, or by the end of the following month. Who knows?

Yep, we don't have cable television. We did have it when we moved in. However, on Tuesday night, the house was struck by lightning (Steve thought he had been shot...he had never been in a house that had been struck by lightning and it scared the living daylights out of him...for me growing up on a farm, this was almost a yearly occurrence and I had pretty much anticipated this was going to happen...I had even thought to unplug my computer). The satellite receiver plus both satellite cable boxes were damaged. Also, one DVD player was damaged. Also, the air conditioning in the family room is out. All of these issues are to be fixed on Monday. For some reason, I'm actually confident that this will be the done on time. In the meantime, Steve is about ready to go nuts without TV. It's not like we get a lot of channels, but he has to have it on at all times. I on the other hand hardly ever turn it on...there's just nothing on to watch. Since the DVD player that went out is in the bedroom, we have now found our old portable DVD player and hooked it up to the TV...I knew I was dragging that thing around for some reason.

So, here's to having a good week of getting everything repaired, installed, and delivered. Crossing fingers and toes and holding my breath!