I am so Glad to Be Back!

I am really hoping the Internet does not go out again. I have calculated that I have six missed posts to make up so the other bloggers who have been blogging this whole time are not cheated. It's okay because, thankfully, I love to write!

I just hope that all of you out in cyberland, who do not know me don't think I am some flake who just gave up and went to take a nap. I couldn't sleep if I had tried. I thought at first that it would be fixed in an hour or so like it usually is when there is an outage - but of course not! I'm so glad I had the company of my faithful pooches, cats and rodents.

What was very frustrating is that everything went wrong all at once. My wonderful brother, who would have helped me and blogged for me from San Diego, happens to be in Italy for 2 weeks. My friend, Christina, has been out kyaking all day and her husband is in Las Vegas. My friend/sister, Juls, who would have also helped has been sleeping so she can work tonight. Having Sharon post the one she did was next to impossible since she is vacationing with her husband, Karl, at their mountain home retreat. She only had her cell phone and had to be outside so she could hear me and she had to holler to Karl who was inside trying to get the post up on my blog! On top of that, the connection was so poor, Sharon and I could barely hear each other and the phone went out once. What a friend!

And, I could not use any of my neighbor's computers because they were all having the same outage. By 3 p.m. after listening to the Charter Communications recording "We are aware that there is an outage in your area ..." for the umpteenth time, I called Susan, not realizing I was on the verge of a complete hysterical meltdown which I had as soon as she answered the phone. Sorry, Susan. I am sure she thought someone had died or something. I hate to see how I cope then! So, it has been an unexpectedly stressful day. What a relief to just be able to sit here and vent (and for a good cause too!). I feel much better now.