Homesickness - part 1

Skipping ahead (or back, however you want to look at it) to Monday, October 27th:
This last few days have been really nice. Bill and I unloaded our PODS container almost entirely by ourselves, with Miriam strapped to my back. (One of the Elders in our new ward came by on Sunday to help take care of a few big ticket items "we" just couldn't get). Even so, I am enjoying our time all together and feel okay about being in Georgia. Bill leaves this morning to go to his first day at work!

Today (being Monday, Oct 27th remember) things are set up for us to get internet and phone service from comcast. I must say I had NO IDEA how much I was depending on this until the tech showed up at 3:30 looked around and said "I can't do it, your phone jack and cable jack are on opposite walls with doorways in between." This is how it is, by the way, in EVERY ROOM. We discuss this and that, I shake my head because they won't run cable across the floor, walls or ceiling because we might sue them if someone trips over it (give me a BREAK you stupid sue happy people), and in the end we reschedule for November 8th (so I can figure out how to "arrange" the rooms to "trick" the next tech - no joke) and he leaves. Never mind that in Cheney we ALWAYS ran our own cable around the rooms and suddenly I am grateful for Cheney Cable who hands you a modem and a nice long cord of cable and sends you on your merry way.
After the tech left is when I started to feel slightly paniky. I'm on the other side of the country from everyone I know and expecting to have fabulous phone service + free long distance and internet access by now. And they just resheduled us for NOVEMBER 8th. Practicing my deep breathing and trying not to hyperventilate because - hello - still mom to an 11 month old we went outside to play.

This my friends was the first day I felt homesickness. All I wanted was to call my dad and Brenda today. Without spending buckets on my pay as you go phone (which I've already added money to several times since I left Washington 2 weeks ago). It hits me how much I miss them. Pretty much I've dealt with this every day since that first crash last Monday.

We now have internet. We decided November 8th was absolutely unacceptable and made them come back on Wednesday. They still wouldn't do it and posed no real suggestions as to what to do instead (meanwhile I dropped the ball and my phone was off/charging all day while Bill was calling telling me just to plug the phone directly into the box - which the technicians NEVER SUGGESTED). I told them to please set up the internet and cancel the phone order. So there we go. I am really NOT impressed.

Besides all this Bill enjoyed his first day and first week at work. I am working on unpacking (still) and trying to keep Miriam entertained. Life is a little different with only one car! One day I will really have a clean organized apartment (yes I know this will last about 10.2 seconds).