When I got a note on my door last week from my Internet provider (Comcast) letting me know they were going to screw with my service upgrade some part and leave me without a connection from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, I thought, “that totally sucks!” But then the more I thought about it, the more I thought about how productive I might actually be around the house and with my kids if I had a forced Internets-free day. So let me tell you what a day without the Internets looks like for me.
- Get myself dressed
- Feed kids breakfast
- Remove and store two trays of strawberries (that I picked at the farm yesterday) from our new dehydrator
- Start a load of laundry
- Change the world’s poopiest diaper ever, which actually required a partial bath to get the boy clean
- Dress the kids
- Get myself breakfast
- Put clothes in dryer (it looked like rain at the time, so no line drying), put another load in washer
- Clean up the livingroom and vacuum
- Make lunch for the kids
- Lunch for me = tortilla chips and salsa (that I made yesterday) and some leftover hummus (also made yesterday)
- Usher the kids outside to play
- Cut and prepare about 15 apples (on sale at Vitamin Cottage) for dehydrating
- Get clothes from dryer. Move clothes from washer to dryer
- Start folding laundry
- Put Julian down for nap
- Get the rest of the laundry and finish folding it all
- Help Ava make a caterpillar out of an egg carton
- Wash umpteen dishes from yesterday and today
- Make, with Ava’s help, a small batch of strawberry freezer jam
- Clean up my new kitchen mess
- Read some new books (that came in the mail from a book club Ava belongs to) to the kids
- Make tortellini with spinach for dinner
I think that’s it. :oP
Then Jody got home from work. We were still without a connection (two hours past the time we were supposed to be) so he called Comcast and got it straightened out (cuz apparently just bitching about it, as I had been doing, wasn’t enough to fix it).
What a day. It’s amazing what I’m able to get done when I am unable to access my drug of choice the Internets. My conclusion is that maybe my service should be knocked out once a week. Comcast, can we arrange that? (Wait! Did I just say that outloud???) ‘Cause we both know that a self-imposed Internet-free day ain’t gonna happen. (And don’t even tell me I’m the only one.) :oP
Stumble it!
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