[To start: Thanks so much to everyone who left such kind comments on my last post, right when my husband had rushed off to be with his mom, who's in the ICU. She's still in critical condition, but she's stable, and although no one seems sure of what happens next, this is---for now, at least---good news.]

Needless to say, it’s been a crazy week or two, here. All of the things I’d planned to tend to before the kids headed back to school, all of the fun things we thought we’d be able to squeeze in… well, not a lot got done. And now school is starting in a couple of days, and I’ve been telling everyone how “I can’t wait for school to start! I’m going to have so much time to myself, again!”

This is because I smoke crack.
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[I'm using this image here of... ummmm... a man shoveling, I think it is, because it looks tedious. Not because I am a man. Or doing any sort of shoveling. Nor do I live in a red triangle. Hey, the longer I look at that graphic, the more wrong it seems. Anyway. Pretend it's more appropriate, will you?]

Yesterday morning I set my alarm for 6:00 sharp and hopped right out of bed to do the work I normally get done on Sunday night, but hadn’t, on account of I was taking three entire days away from the computer. (Oh, I know, I posted here on Friday. That, my friends, is the miracle of future-publish. I really did take three days off.) I had taken a long weekend to relax and on Monday morning I felt so much better, except for the part where I didn’t.
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Did you happen to catch the New York Times article this weekend about cable companies switching their billing to be dependent on your amount of bandwidth usage? The article is called Charging by the Bye to Curb Internet Traffic, and here’s the crux:

Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers. Others are online all day, downloading big video and music files.

For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country’s largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active subscribers by placing monthly limits on their online activity.

Time Warner is conducting a trial of the new fee structure in a Texas town right now. Comcast and AT&T are talking about following suit. And I am terrified.
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Hey, remember that time when I had a whole week to myself and just couldn’t think of anything I needed/wanted to do? And I just wasn’t sure of how to just properly relax? Remember that? Wasn’t that funny? Gosh, that was a long time ago, though.

And by “long time ago” I of course mean last week.

It just feels like a long time ago, because this week, it’s back to business as usual. Actually, it’s more like business as all hopped up on speed. (Dude. Did you happen to spot my business over at Target buying multiple bottles of Sudafed, or anything?)
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