Home Sweet Home
So I've just wasted 2 hours of my life trying to pay £2.98 online for the first two episodes of CSI Miami before episode 3 comes on at 9 o'clock. I tried paying with my UK bank card...said I needed an issue number even though most websites stopped asking for the issue number when they put the 3 digit super secret code on the back of the card. So I call NatWest to get the issue number but still no go. So then I try my VISA card, both of them actually but they too were rejected. Sometimes credit card companies get leary of small amounts thinking some thief is just trying out the card before they go buy a £5000 stereo with your card. So I call VISA and they tell me no, my card is fine. In fact they approved three merchant *pings* of $1.00 each! So I sent off an "I'm not impressed email to Channel 5". Fat lot of good it's going to do me. I am doomed to watch the last season of CSI out of sequence. lol! I could care less really, David Caruso has to be the most annoying actor on the planet, but I got stubborn because I hate it when things don't work and I'm all about instant gratification these days. There's two hours I'll never get back!
So...where was I? oh yeah Home Sweet Home. We've been back from Canada since Thursday morning and Katrina and I are still up in the middle of the night, wide awake. We got up early enough this morning that we should be back on track by tomorrow. Jet lag is so much easier if you have to go to work or school the next day because you just get on with things. Luggage is still in the suitcases...I can't seem to get around to emptying them out...especially since I just have to repack them to go to France on Sunday. We're only going camping so we just need shorts and tshirts and a pair of flipflops. No DVD players, no DS consoles, cell phones, battery chargers, makeup, and all the other sundry crap I take with me when I travel. I don't think the bottom six inches of Katrina's suitcase ever even saw the light of day. I take way too many clothes with me and they end up wearing the ones I just washed anyway. We did do a little shopping for school clothes in Toronto and bought too many books and crafts, as well as the obligatory annual Roots handbag! I had to buy a duffel bag to put it all in! *sigh* I never learn!
Ten days in Toronto turned out to be not so bad after all, although it goes without saying that the M-I-L got on my nerves big time. But you know she's nearly 81, has virtually no short term memory left and can barely make it up the stairs to bed at night, so what kind of bitch am I to complain about it too much? Besides, it's the last time the girls will visit her in her home, so the 10 days was probably a good idea. She will be moving to a retirement home in September and her house will probably be sold to pay for it.
We got lots done in Toronto...I already posted about American Idol which was a hoot plus we went to Ontario Place, Toronto island and Canada's Wonderland with various friends, inlcuding a woman from my pilates class here in London who happened to be visiting her mother in Toronto at the same time we were there. I hardly know her but she has a daughter a year younger than my kids and it turned out to be fun.
For my birthday, my sister the massage therapist gave me a fab massage and took me to Body Blitz to take in the waters. It was awesome. First the warm salt water pool, then the steam room, followed by the plunge pool (holy crow! that was cold!), sauna, plunge pool again, then the hot hot hot green tea pool. Sipping chai milkshakes. I could get used to doing that on a regular basis let me tell ya.
So now we're back and the girls have tennis lesson for the rest of the week, my niece is coming from Canada on Friday and we're off to France for a week with friends from the girls school and friends who moved to Singapore at Christmas. Then one week showing my niece around the touristy hotspots and back to school. Just.like.that.
oof. I'm tired. Ironing has done my back in. ta.
So...where was I? oh yeah Home Sweet Home. We've been back from Canada since Thursday morning and Katrina and I are still up in the middle of the night, wide awake. We got up early enough this morning that we should be back on track by tomorrow. Jet lag is so much easier if you have to go to work or school the next day because you just get on with things. Luggage is still in the suitcases...I can't seem to get around to emptying them out...especially since I just have to repack them to go to France on Sunday. We're only going camping so we just need shorts and tshirts and a pair of flipflops. No DVD players, no DS consoles, cell phones, battery chargers, makeup, and all the other sundry crap I take with me when I travel. I don't think the bottom six inches of Katrina's suitcase ever even saw the light of day. I take way too many clothes with me and they end up wearing the ones I just washed anyway. We did do a little shopping for school clothes in Toronto and bought too many books and crafts, as well as the obligatory annual Roots handbag! I had to buy a duffel bag to put it all in! *sigh* I never learn!
Ten days in Toronto turned out to be not so bad after all, although it goes without saying that the M-I-L got on my nerves big time. But you know she's nearly 81, has virtually no short term memory left and can barely make it up the stairs to bed at night, so what kind of bitch am I to complain about it too much? Besides, it's the last time the girls will visit her in her home, so the 10 days was probably a good idea. She will be moving to a retirement home in September and her house will probably be sold to pay for it.
We got lots done in Toronto...I already posted about American Idol which was a hoot plus we went to Ontario Place, Toronto island and Canada's Wonderland with various friends, inlcuding a woman from my pilates class here in London who happened to be visiting her mother in Toronto at the same time we were there. I hardly know her but she has a daughter a year younger than my kids and it turned out to be fun.
For my birthday, my sister the massage therapist gave me a fab massage and took me to Body Blitz to take in the waters. It was awesome. First the warm salt water pool, then the steam room, followed by the plunge pool (holy crow! that was cold!), sauna, plunge pool again, then the hot hot hot green tea pool. Sipping chai milkshakes. I could get used to doing that on a regular basis let me tell ya.
So now we're back and the girls have tennis lesson for the rest of the week, my niece is coming from Canada on Friday and we're off to France for a week with friends from the girls school and friends who moved to Singapore at Christmas. Then one week showing my niece around the touristy hotspots and back to school. Just.like.that.
oof. I'm tired. Ironing has done my back in. ta.