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[the_rck]

Scott and Cordelia went to the store last night and remembered to buy all of the extras, the it-would-be-nice-to-have-that things, but forgot the must have that they went for-- bread for Scott's lunch. He decided not to go back and simply to use a tortilla instead.

I'm having a lot of trouble with Google chat and docs right now. My mail inbox keeps updating, but everything else is giving me a continuous "We're having trouble connecting to Google." message. Everything but Gchat and Gdocs indicates that my internet connection has remained stable and continuous. It's very frustrating because I have a friend who's online who I'd love to chat with. Even before the official connection problem, I was having trouble. I'd type something in the chat window and hit return, and Gchat would tell me it was trying to send the message. It would continue 'trying' for fifteen to twenty minutes and never go through. I would still get what my friend sent, so there was some sort of connection there. Reloading the site helped for about five minutes and isn't really a good solution if it has to be repeated that frequently.

I think I am going to sign up for iddyiddybangbang. I considered five different fics, but two were likely to be too long to finish in time (and I wasn't sure exactly what to do with either one) while two others might very well have ended up too short to meet the minimum word count without a lot of padding. The remaining story is already over the minimum and is, I think, about half done.

My foot and ankle are giving me trouble today. I spent twenty minutes to half an hour continuously on my feet yesterday as I made lunch and did the dishes. Most of that time was spent searching for the hamburger buns that I thought Scott bought on Saturday (I remember seeing them!). They were nowhere to be found. Cordelia looked, too, and couldn't find them. When I asked Scott later, he had no idea where they might be. I'd already looked three or four times in all of the places he could think of. So maybe he didn't buy them after all, and I'm just remembering seeing hamburger buns after some other shopping trip. I ended up giving the kids the last three slices of bread with their chicken patties in lieu of buns.

At any rate, my plan is to stay off my feet as much as I can manage today. I had to load the dishwasher and run it so that we'd have dishes for lunch, and I'll have to cook lunch (unless I can persuade the girls to do it. I suppose that's at least theoretically possible).

Scott is 95% certain that he's working 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. He says it will take a miracle to get him out of it. He's going to have to grill tonight. There's no way around it. We finished off our leftovers last night, and I don't see doing carryout again so soon. Scott won't want to do it, but it's too warm for me to use the oven, so grilling is the only way we'll get meat for dinner for the next few days.

Our guests brought spring rolls and baklava. The kids have been eating the spring rolls, but they haven't offered me any (I haven't asked because I'm not sure their mother sent enough for me to have one, too). The girls are getting frustrated because the boy is refusing every option they offer for the three of them to play together. He's playing a Lego Wii game, solo, and won't even consider a three player Wii game instead. I'm not sure if I should intervene or not. The girls have gone off to Cordelia's room for the moment. I think they're reading Rick Riordan books.

I still haven't found that missing library CD, but I also still haven't gotten down on the floor to look under the couch. I need to find a flashlight for that, and all of ours seem to have wandered off.

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[evalerie.livejournal.com]

I apologize for contributing to time spent on your feet yesterday. :-S

Most smart phones can do flashlight, so maybe that's an option for looking under the couch.

[the_rck]

If I'd been thinking, I'd have sat on the steps. I could have without trouble. Well, except during the watering part of things.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll see if I can figure out how to get my phone to do that.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

I have a flashlight app that turns on the camera's flash and leaves it on, as a bright light. But for everyday wanderings around the house I sometimes just pick something with a fairly white screen and use the light from that.