Maybe I overreacted a little

Okay, so I’m almost done with my dossier.  Yeah, I’m a little surprised, too.  It’s amazing what having gone through this once does for your ability to pull together a bunch of mundane information in an incredibly small amount of time.  That, and the fact that I’m doing this at the office, where I have a notary outside my office.  All I’m missing right now is my police report and my medical letter, both of which I will get early next week (if I can figure out how this traveling notary thing works).  This is by far the most productive I’ve been in months; quite likely the most productive I’ve been this year, in fact.  

Anyway, to add to the great success of the day, I was able to finally program my remote control, allowing me to watch television for the first time since June 20th.  This is huge to me. I’m not one of those people who think that they’re more intellectual than others by virtue of the fact that they don’t watch tv – or even better – they only watch certain erudite programs.  Ha.  Not this girl. 

We moved in June into a lovely house that had recently been remodeled.  All of the rooms had been wired for cable, of course, but the owner of the house IS one of those guys who doesn’t want to be known as a tv watcher, so none of these cables were actually pulled through the walls.  Some guys I know were able to rig up a cable box to the movie projector (yeah, the owner doesn’t watch tv, but he did build a home theater, I guess to watch really smart films), but I needed a fancy remote control to actually use the cable box, which is in a utility room away from the theater.  SO, enter the Logitech Harmony something or other.  Very fancy – very complicated (it’s taken me two evenings to figure out simply how to change the channels, let alone adjust the volume or watch a dvd) – very pricey.  But very worth it.  I just changed channels without walking down the hall and through the garage to the utility room.  I love technology and I heart this remote.

August 15, 2008 - Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Adoption, Red Letters Campaign - Adoption Journal, technology, television