Today's Burning Question

So, how was the play?

It was good. It was very good. It was funny, and beautifully directed and well-acted, and it was an amazing experience to hear, essentially, your child's voice coming out as the words of actors. She threw in a few inside family jokes here and there, which K and I enjoyed immensely. It was great.

Leaving for performance #2 in ... about an hour and a half.

I am totally wiped out. I got home around 10.30, but didn't get to sleep until nearly 12.30. I was just wide awake. I hope I can do better tonight (and tomorrow night), but at least now I know what I want for Mother's Day: I want to crash. I want to lie here like a lump and do nothing at all. If I feel like, I'll put in a wash. But that's it.

In other news, I finally pre-ordered our Harry Potters today. I have no idea what took me so long, but at least the store hasn't got its act together 100% yet, so they haven't been giving out numbers or anything, so I guess we haven't missed anything or won't be too far back on a line because we didn't order them the first day.

I had an interesting day in Hearing Aids World. You know, they replaced my new ones, rebuilt them from scratch, actually, but they're still not good. They're well programmed for my hearing, all that is good, but for some reason, the one of them (the one that's actually a hearing aid and not just a microphone/transmitter) randomly changes, just mutes itself a little bit from time to time with no warning or reason that anyone can see. It's very frustrating. If I turn it off (which I usually do by opening and closing the battery door), it resets itself and works fine until next time, which could be in an hour or could be in a minute. Anyway, not a good thing, and I was going to the audiologist today and I was afraid that this would be it, the moment he turned and became not the nicest person in the world, but would be all "Well, that's the best we can do."

Instead, he said "That's not acceptable. And your warranty won't even start until we make these work. And we will make these work." He really is an amazingly good guy. He says he's going to be on the phone tomorrow morning, not with customer service, as usual, but with their tech support department, and he'll call me at school and hopefully tell me I can come over right after school and he'll know what to do to fix them. The really cool thing is that he doesn't even work in this office on Thursdays, but he was going to to finish up some things, and now he's devoting a big chunk of his day to me and my problem. Oh, the other really sweet thing he did was that when he first walked into the room and saw me sitting there, he said, "So, how was the play?"

What else can I tell you? I am already so behind on this week's TV! I think if I can't fall asleep tonight when I get home, I'll put on last night's Idol, or maybe just skip a step and put on tonight's Idol, since I'll read all over the place tomorrow who got voted off; it won't exactly be a surprise. And they always show performance clips on the results show anyway. Yeah, that's a good idea. And hope that I fall asleep before it's over.

Blogarithm does kind of work, it turns out. I sent them an email that said I never get the emails they're supposed to send me, and now I get them. It would be nice if I could get the updates a few times a day, since mostly I already knew about the updates they're sending me via other channels, but it's a work in progress. I also read about something today called pageflakes.com, so I'm looking into that too, and blogrolling. So that's my Mother's Day present, tinkering with bloggy stuff.

Maybe I can catch an hour's nap here ..

watching Still Standing :: entry #006/1458