Life at our house

Needless to say things are a little crazy around our house these days. We're trying to not only ready the house and ourselves to bring home Charlotte next week but we're trying to finish up all of those "projects" that we've been wanting to do for a while but haven't gotten around to. So we've got a list of things that we want to get done that's about a mile long and only so many hours to do everything! And so yesterday was the perfect example of why you shouldn't try to get so many things done in such a short amount of time!

Jason has been waiting for months and months and I've been fairly excited also to get new phones. We decided that we were going to make the switch to AT&T and iPhone's because we felt like pretty much the only engineers we knew that didn't have some type of crack-berry. So a few weeks ago when we were at Best Buy we talked to the cell phone guys there and they told us how easy it would be to port our numbers and set up our new phones and all we had to do was come in on the day that our contract expired and they'd take care of it. Our contract expired yesterday so we made plans to meet for lunch at Best Buy and get it taken care of.

If you know much about cell phone contracts we had to cancel ours yesterday in order to not have to pay the remainder of the billing cycle. Since we're trying to be frugal with our money right now and we really wanted those iPhone's we were determined to take care of everything yesterday. So we sat down with the guy at Best Buy and after about 20 minutes he told us he couldn't help us because we were still under contract. I showed him our contract saying that we were no longer under contract but he said he couldn't do anything to help. I almost had a breakdown in Best Buy thinking about when else we could find time to do this and about the rest of the billing cycle etc. Trying to cheer me up, we went to lunch and then I met Mom to do a little more shopping at Babies R Us. Then I went home to wait until Jason could get off of work to go to the AT&T store.

In hindsight we should have gone there from the beginning. I now will advise everyone to ALWAYS go to the main store to do anything with cell phone's. They're just so tricky that really, only the people who really work there know how to do anything. We were in and out with two new iPhone's and ported numbers (and thus a cancelled precious contract) within 30 minutes. No muss, no fuss. Thank goodness that worked! So we headed home to make pizza for dinner, play with our new phones, and do other various tasks.

Got home, Jason put the sauce on the crust and then proceeded to tear our fridge apart looking for the mozzarella. We had planned to make pizza this week so of course we had mozzarella, right?!?! As it turned out we had mozzarella but in the form of the string cheese that I've been eating as a snack and not the shredded variety. This is the kind of day it was yesterday. :) So, we scavenged and took those string cheese sticks to the shredder and made our own shredded mozzarella. While we were shredding Jason told me that he thought this would make a good blog post. I mean, who shreds string cheese just to finish making their own pizza?? Apparently, we are those people.

In the end yesterday was a good day. The car seat and stroller are now in the car awaiting their installation later this morning. Our phones are now pretty much set up and accepting calls. We loved the season finale of How I Met Your Mother and were super excited yesterday to find out that Chuck has been picked up for another season so we know that even if we don't have time to watch Monday night TV in the fall we can record our favorite shows for later. And we got to mark quite a few things off of our to-do list which is getting shorter and shorter. I guess that's good since our time is dwindling also! So now I've got to go and get ready for the car seat installation and the manicure, pedicure, and cut and style that Jason so graciously talked me in to getting!