shell's tired of waking up tired

So I was in Michigan, where I cooked and baked All the Things (spanakopita, kiss cookies, kranse, decorated cut-out cookies my sister made, Swedish pancakes, and mushrooms at Xmas dinner) and put up with my mother's constant complaints. I was super duper looking forward to getting home and chilling out with season 2 of Runaways on Hulu (which I'd managed to watch a couple of episodes of at my mom's), among other things, and reading All the Yuletide fic.

I got home very late on Thursday night after some snafus with Ride Austin, and I found that nothing was working. The power had gone down at some point, and now my cable, modem/wifi, and home phone were all borked. There'd been something about a cable being cut on the apt complex discussion board back on the 22nd, so I thought maybe that was it. I got on the phone with Uverse and spent 35 fruitless minutes trying to convince them that no, it was NOT my modem (which had been replaced less than a year ago), then finally got them to schedule a tech to come out--in SIX DAYS (on the 2nd).

So I spent 6 days only able to connect via a hotspot on my phone or ipad, which went through data faster than you can believe, so that for the first time ever I went through all of my data & got charged $15 for an extra gig (the fact that I'd spent a lot of time driving around Ann Arbor using my phone for directions certainly didn't help). The tech came (40 minutes late--although I was texted he was running late, and it was raining like crazy out) and took approximately 60 seconds to determine that I was 100% right that it was not my modem and was a problem with something completely outside my apartment. He then spent probably another 30-40 minutes outside fixing THAT, then came inside again, and finally by about 4 I had everything working again.

The upshot of this is that I have only barely begun to scrape the surface of Yuletide, have not read here at all (I was trying to limit my time online and also not read recs for fic I couldn't really access), and ended up rewatching 3 seasons of Farscape on dvd while unable to watch anything BUT dvds.

I also had to spend a bunch of time on the phone with the Uverse people arranging to get prorated for all the time my services were borked.

Anyway, I'm alive, I'm okay, I still have some time off before I have to go back to work, I'm getting my hair cut and colored this afternoon (thank fucking GOD for that), and I have finally watched the rest of the Runaways eps. I've even caught up on some of my massive stack of comics and New Yorkers. It's now time to take down all the Xmas stuff, which I'm not in the mood to do. I had a quiet new year (watching Farscape and dreaming of the next night, when I'd be able to surf the web and watch anything I felt like), as I usually do. Hope all is well with all of you.