Limited Service

I have not been on  the computer for a while, we have had "limited Service" basically this mean no internet. It started going off a year ago ,but a week before gala day, the worst possible time, it got really bad, sometimes it would be off for a few days. sometimes hours,  calls to EE to sort it out have been a nightmare of speaking to Mumbi in India and people who are following a script so every call got more and more frustrating as they sent out engineer after engineer ( 2 last week), who just kept saying the problem is not with us but the company!  aaahhhrrr!!!! its been a frustrating nightmare, but it has highlighted the point of how much we rely on the web and possibly have a slight addiction to it. I remember buying my first PC when i lived in Germany about 2001 from the NAAFI and cost £1000, which i had to take a loan out over a year to pay for it, it was very  rare that i went on the internet back then as it tool about 10 minutes to dial up and was super slow and to be fair i didn't really know what to look up, it was just a novelty, i did get an email address, the same one i still have and i bought a few bits from ebay, but that was as far as it went. After that i used it for booking holidays and looking things up, but it was still only occasionally i went on it till 2007, when my friend suggested joining myspace so i could chat to her over it, which i did and thats how i met Paul.
One night having a few drinks i decided to get some "friends" on my profile ( i was still very new to it all) so i did a search of people in the local area and saw Pauls profile and for some reason ( he had a hot picture!) decided to send a friends request, he replied and we got chatting online one evening and he asked me out for a date! I was really not expecting it and said i would have o let him know the next day. I told my mum and decided it would be ok as we would meet in a pub and worse case i would leave, really it was like a blind date. I was so nervous when i met him, i only stayed 3 hours,( he always teases me about that!) Paul offered me a lift home but i declined as i didn't know him and was super wary, after all he could be anyone, but he messaged me before i had even got home and we just hit it off and spent hours taking on the phone about 3 hours each night so the next week when we met up it felt like i had known him for ages, and the rest is history as they say.

Well that was a slight digression from what i was posting about!

So basically my internet has been pants for the last month, I have realised that i am on here a lot, specially with sorting out gala stuff, that takes a lot of time, emailing and messaging people, making sure the gala has a presence on facebook and finding things to post to keep it in everybody's minds, but i suppose that's the way things are now and i sometimes wonder how we managed before.

I have to admit though that apart from the frustration of having things that have to be done and not being able to do them, its been nice to have a break from it, i would have anyway as its been so lovely out side, we haven't been inside much over the last couple of weeks. For the first time in ages i am reading a book, its strange as i use to read up to five books a week, years ago before i had kids, then i suppose knitting and reading blogs on line and magazines in the shop took over, but at oxfam last week i saw a book called the knitting club, its real summer chicklit and as of 2/3 of the way through it doesn't really have a story but its nice to sit outside reading and watching the kids play. Its bliss actually and the best bit apart from the kids having fun is while they are outside, they aren't messing up inside!!!, i know that's bad, but it gives me a bit of a break as well and i can alternate my time between, reading, doing the necessary chores and loads of washing, (i think everything has been taken down, removed and washed now!!!) and knitting. I am a lot more chilled out when the weather is good and the kids aren't under my feet. One of the best things about being a stay at home mum is taht i can sit out when its nice, i remember all to well the lovely days i was sat in work only for it to rain on my days off!

So this was a random post, i will up load my pictures from this week now i think, then perhaps i better let Paul have 5 minutes with the laptop!!! x