Up North (& Out There doing it)

You spent a month where?

Went to Yoga again. Think that makes it trip #4 for me. If I had more time, I'd be going a lot more I think. I'm digging the physical results.

Today, had a substitute instructor who was late getting there (or actually just on time) and a 'new' student was pacing outside nervously so we were chatting. She got into Yoga when she had an extended stay in the hospital (over a month) -- didn't ask for what. But she never quite settled down, and did tell me that she walked to the studio.

The instructor asked the same question and inquired if it was a mobility issue this woman was in the hospital.

'No, it was a mental issue. I was in the psych ward for a month'

Come again? That was not what I expected to hear. She seemed well enough adjusted and thinking about it, after reading another book about incarceration, ('Orange is the New Black') that at least she was able to get access to Yoga 3 times a week and clearly her stay helped her get back on her feet again.

Today was supposed to be the Day

Today was supposed to be the day.  The day that our family got bigger. But almost like an out and back, the whole thing from the day it came scratching to a halt to now is as many days from when it was on to the halt.

The apprehension of today has been growing like  water from being warm to a slow boil. And it's been hard. But the day was finally here and wasn't sure what to expect.   I wasn't sure how sad it would be.  But both of us had it our minds what the small goals for the day and really just in an effort to get it through it.

Turns out -- it was nothing like I would have expected. 

First off, S left to head to the train and I left to drop the boys off.   My phone battery was dead so atypical, I just left it home to drop the boys off and get out for a run.

But whenI got to daycare, one of the women in the office stopped me and said that I needed to call S because she had tripped on the stairs at the train station and hit her head. 

What? So instead of going to the hospital for another little one, we were going to the hospital for possible head injury. By the time I connected with S and got to the train station, apparently the bump had gone down considerably, which is a little scary because it was still big. She was walking with her hands in her pockets, going through her day and just thinking about how she was going to do it. Then all of the sudden -- BOOM -- right on some metal stairs. OUCH.

After a couple of hours -- all clear from the Dr, but just such an unexpected day. 

However, it ended on a really nice family dinner and it was great.

A good one, not to miss...

This is a good post from 4/2 that I just put up. I dig it, and think you will too. 

I know that I almost ran out of gas

So I was putting in almost as much gas as I could into my car. But it's not an SUV

Nearly $75. Ouch!

Houston, we've got a problem

So after 8 days with my Fitbit (which I'm loving), it cracked and it's been a downhill spiral every since.

They are sending me a replacement for free but it's a little quick to be 'broken' considering this is designed to be something that is worn constantly and I've been treating it very nicely.

Catching up

I'm catching up on a lot of stories so forgive me for the huge data dump.

Spam is so weird

Went on vacation last week (Disney World -- lots to post about that soon) and came back to tons of comments on my Why Run 2 blog that basically has been dead for 2+ years.

So strange. How could you even write an algorythm that would surface that and then get attacked by spam comments?

Wrong KDaddy

The 'wrong' KDaddy:

 

* owns a 2008 Hummer H2 in NY

* Has applied for a job maintaining foreclosured and abandoned residential buildings in CA.

 

Weird

Bound to happen. Surprised it took this long. Probably going to happen a lot more

Ran into a neighbor of ours who I haven't seen in a while. She can be a little socially awkward, but right at the end of a rather pleasant conversation, she asked how Shannon was doing and when the baby was due.

Totally as any normally socially adjusted person would ask, but it was just the first time for me that happened. It happened to S a couple of months ago and really shocked her. Today, I thought I handled it pretty well, but it was hard none the less.

And I feel like it's going to keep happening up until 4/20/11 and beyond.

At least I could say, yes, didn't work out as planned so we've taking the family to get away from it all to Disney World. And we leave tomorrow! :)

Phone service

I've been so over my VZW service that I've been looking for something new. I went and checked out T-Mobile and was actually pretty pleased. The price is great, the data speeds are amazing (consistenly 4MB down and up) and way way way faster than ATT or VZW but with only one big issue. Coverage.

We went on a little get away in CT and walking down mainstreet, I've got 4 bars on VZW and no bars on T-Mobile. No bars. as in can't make a phone call.

After hemming and hawing about it for a while, I decided that I just couldn't give up VZW (and I was getting creative -- maybe I'll just get a VZW pre paid for emergencies) etc and go back to 2002 (when I
switched to VZW) and have to worry about if I could make a phone call.

That just seemed like too big of a step backward.

VZW then promptly wasted 3 hours of my life trying to get a new BlackBerry working for me.  But they did do one thing right for me. I gave an Android device a try on their network which I actually loved but the battery life was abizmal. I can't have a phone that can't even make it through the business day without getting recharged so I tried to return it, unforutnately, 20 hours after the 14 day return window
had passed.

It took a long time, but I finally got them to take the device back after I basically said I've been a long time VZW customer and I need a favor here.  Finally the rep came back and made it happen, mentioning the reason that they were able to do it and convince her manager to make it happen was that I had a record of always paying my bill on time.

Who knew doing what you are supposed to do as a customer would pay off and make the difference when I'm in a jam.

But, the one thing that I did discover is that TMobile has amazing data speeds and I can't wait to get their MiFi when it comes out in a couple of weeks. Totally worth it.