I feel your pain on all counts, except my mom hasn't moved anywhere. I think I need to have 'the talk' with DH about our cable bill this week. We are paying way too much for cable. Sayonara, Food Network. Hey, come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I actually watched anything on Food Network. I usually just put it on there and then forget and go off and do something else. Still, I know I will miss it.
Anne
When you start to cook, as when you begin to live, you think that the point is to improve the technique until you end up with something perfect, and that the reason you haven’t been able to break the cycle of desire and disillusion is that you haven’t yet mastered the rules. Then you grow up, and you learn that that’s the game.
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
). I was driving DBF's giant van back to my place, keeping an eye out for a looooong parking spot, and lamenting my perfect little city car that got 40 MPH and could be parked anywhere --but that was destroyed last fall, while I sat in Friday traffic. Boo-hoo, job gone away, car gone away, Mom moved away...I recognize wallowing when I see it!
But then...then...I got home to find a little card hanging from my door knob: "Before you read this, you'd better sit down (but not in front of your TV)". It was from Comcast. Informing me that they had done an audit of the neighborhood and found that I had been getting expanded cable service at the basic cable rate. Oh noooooo! Where I once had a crystal clear picture on FTV, I now have..fuzz and snow. Whaaaaaaaa!
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