Christy Matte

I’m honestly just too drained tonight to say anything wise, clever or even intelligible. Some days you just have to know when to hang up your pen and take a break.

Good night.

[For those without kids, or those who clearly need to enhance their kids' library, that's a nod to "Jamberry" by Bruce Degen - fun to read out loud!]

Yesterday I bought a Blackberry. I’m a gadget fiend who has been limping along with a cell phone from 2001, so you can imagine just how excited I am. Unfortunately, Amazon.com [when they're good, they're very, very good, and when they're bad, they're awful] triggered some sort of flag on my account that T-mobile was delaying my approval and that my phone wouldn’t ship. After a ridiculous amount of phone relay back and forth (and across continents) and some conference calling with both companies, Amazon declared that they were having trouble approving the $0.01 charge for the new phone. And, yes, I got a wonderful deal. I know it was probably some sort of fraud trigger, but it’s a bit demoralizing to have your one cent charge declined. In the end, my phone apparently shipped, but that flag is still on the order. Not sure what’s going on there.

Anyway, hopefully I’ll soon be bloggin’ from the ‘berry. Cross your fingers for me.

Despite so much rain

Cookout fun today with kids

But glad to be home

I’m trying to get into the blogging habit by blogging every day for at least the next month. Supposedly if you continue to do something long enough, it will become a habit.

We’ll see.