Well, I'm back.

Where was I? (In case you're asking, although you might not be… and yes, I am feeling slightly insecure about my self worth right now.)

We left last week, on August 18, for a impromptu vacation, in which we went to Missouri to visit my husband's parents who had not, as of yet, met their newest grandchild, our darling baby Mickey.  

Upon returning this past Saturday (date escaping me at the moment), we discovered that our house had apparently been struck by lightning.  

Total damages?  Our air conditioning unit, our water softening unit, our security system,  the hand-held telephones (fried at the base and therefore unusable), the VCR, the DSL router which supplies our internet, and my desktop computer (a Dell Dimension 8300 which I had custom built to my own specifications in 2004 and upgraded several times in the past 2 years).  

After frantic calls to American Home Shield (home appliance insurance), our insurance agency, Verizon and several technicians of various kinds… the security system and the Internet have been restored *pets laptop lovingly*

The people fixing our AC have been dicking us around and my desktop -- with all my Sims, Paint Shop Pro and various programs I've downloaded over the years -- is in the hands of a repair guy whose phone call I am awaiting while biting my nails.

The laptop is great but it's not meant for my Sims 2 games (meaning I shouldn't install all the expansions I have if I don't want the laptop to burn up on me) and I would be lost without PSP.  

Please pray for my desktop, dear friends.  I would be lost without it.  

The heat is not making any of this any more fun than it (naturyally) souunds.  Mickey is covered in heat rash and miserable, I'm sinusy and everyone is cranky.

Well, that's it for the complaints.  Maybe my next post will be a happier one.