If you haven't noticed, we at Happily-Ever-After-Land have been a little absent from the bloggy world lately.
I swear, it wasn't me.
OK, maybe it was me a little bitty bit.
Well, first off, the in-laws were in town for a week. And as with any addiction, the last thing you want to do is let outsiders SEE just how addicted you are. So I stayed away from the computer, you know, to show how much I do NOT have a problem.
Because if you can have a computer on in your home and not be glued to it, then you're not an addict, right?
Then we took off for four days in Monterey, California (which is gorgeous, by the way). Hubster made sure he had the laptop packed. Maybe because I had reminded him, oh, five or fifty times. I was jonesing by then, and was very hopeful that computer time would be alright whilst the wee lass took her afternoon naps and after she went to bed. But, lo and behold, the internet at our lodgings cost MONEY. And, apparently, The Hubs doesn't think my bloggy interests are worth $9 a day. Couldn't argue with him about it, though, cause only an addict would argue that point, and we were still with the in-laws.
But that's OK! Eventually we made it back home. Except by then we had one day to get packed and ready to leave for a 10-day trip to Iowa. Well, me and Miss Priss. Hubbawubba gets to take a cruise off the California coastline for a couple weeks, compliments of The Navy.
So we drove down to San Diego, where our flight and his boat were taking off from. We had a couple days before leaving, though. "Great!" I thought, "I'll have some downtime to at LEAST get a post up so people don't think I'm dead!" And I promptly spent the morning attempting to connect the laptop to the FREE internet connection.
How many people does it take to hook up one computer to the World Wide Web?
Well, I'll tell ya, a whole lot! Especially when the entire phone system is out on base (did I forget to mention we were staying on a base?), which is necessary for the DSL to work, and they have no idea when it will be repaired.
And this, folks, was the moment I realized that The Universe just doesn't like my blog.
Why? I dunno. I always thought I spoke nicely of The Universe. Maybe I looked at it funny one day. Maybe The Universe thought I was getting a little too big for my britches, what with my growing following of, like, 5 followers.
But The Universe couldn't stay mad at me for long! I just batted my big brown puppy-dog eyes, squeezed out a couple tears, and got the bottom lip quivering. (Incidentally, this is also a favored technique when trying to score the last piece of chocolate cake from The Hubster.) We never did get the internet to work in Cali, but we're at Grandma's house now. And we may be freezing our patookies off here in the Midwest, but at least I've got my mom's laptop to keep me warm!!!
We'll be heading back to Cali after the first of the month and back to some semblance of a normal routine.
Do you suppose my addiction has been broken, what with all this time away from my beloved computer?
I think it's going to take a lot more than a short break to reverse the brainwashing that's been done on me!