29 Jan

The one where I had no TV or Internet all weekend.

Author: Elizabeth

***Don’t forget, tomorrow is my FORTIETH birthday! Please stop by and leave me a Happy Birthday comment, the post will stay up until I get at least FORTY comments. If you want to toast me with a glass or shot of something, just please make sure your kids are not around lest Meredith Viera jump out from behind your sofa with a Today show camera crew and ask you if you really NEED that alcohol. I’ll probably start drinking around 8:00 p.m., while commenting on the American Idol Open Message Thread over at Mamapop!. Because that show is SO much better when it’s a drinking game too.***

So, in other news, I wanted to reply to everyone who commented on my post about the Today show, but on Friday night we lost our cable. No cable signal, no Comcast “High Speed” Internet access. For the WHOLE. WEEKEND. We had to do stuff like watch DVDs, read books, swim at the Y. And while it is, in fact, possible to live without TV and computers, I have to admit I was about to go out of my mind when the Comcast guy showed up this afternoon. Turns out, a weird vine-thing growing on our neighbor’s tree had wrapped around the cable and pulled it right out of the connection.

Also helping me not commit cablecide was the fact that for my birthday, my Dad and Stepmother bought me a one-hour massage at a day spa, and since my Stepsister was the masseuse, she kicked in another thirty minutes. So I got a NINETY MINUTE massage today. It was heaven. Then we went to lunch and I ate a Belgian waffle with strawberries and whipped cream (what? it’s my birthday).

As much as I would love to sit here on the computer for the rest of the night, I have to take Nathan to Cub Scouts which means I’d better make some dinner or something. Hope to see you all back here tomorrow, I’ll put the Birthday post up first thing in the morning, then show me the love with those comments!!

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23 Responses to “The one where I had no TV or Internet all weekend.”

  1. jess says:

    Reading books? No cable television/Internet? Oh NOES!

    Seriously, my condolences. I will be back tomorrow for the birthday comment.

  2. meno says:

    Happy happy birthday. A ninty minute massage? That is heaven.

  3. roo says:

    Happy Birthday! And many, many more!

  4. Happy birthday!

    I’ll do a shot for you later (right now it’s 8:00 am).

  5. Suebob says:

    Ok, here we go – en espanol, no less:

    Estas son las mañanitas, que cantaba el Rey David. Hoy por ser día de tu santo, te las cantamos a ti.

    Despierta mi bien despierta, mira que ya amaneció. Ya los pajaritos cantan. La luna ya se metió

    Que linda está la mañana en que vengo a saludarte. Venimos todos con gusto y placer a felicitarte.

    Ya viene amaneciendo. Ya la luz del día nos dio. Levántate de mañana. Mira que ya amaneció.

    Feliz cumpleanos, Elizabeth!

  6. Happy Birthday! Have one for me too! And I wonder what Meridith would say about this “B is for Beer” baby shirt and my post about it…
    http://thatslifev2.blogspot.com/2007/01/b-is-for-what-i-came-across-this-baby-t.html

    Meridith probably just has her nanny watch the kids when she wants a drink anyway.

  7. Kelly says:

    Happy belated b-day! Hope it was a good one!

  8. CPA Mom says:

    No Tv or internet. I would have jumped out a window. Seriously. Or read a book I guess.

  9. Anne Glamore says:

    Happy birthday! I’m turning 40 next month and am feeling a little… not immortal.

  10. squawks says:

    happy birthday! i turned 40 exactly 3 months ago (to the day! go 30ths!) and i’m here to tell you, it’s not so bad. have a great year.

  11. Tammy says:

    Happy Birthday! I will have some kind of drink for you later!

  12. Hygiene Dad says:

    Hey Happy Birthday. My 40th is tomorrrow.

  13. margalit says:

    Happy 40th Birthday!

  14. raine says:

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOMAN!

  15. Stacie says:

    Happy Birthday!

  16. Lance says:

    Happy Birthday to another Aquarian!

  17. YEA! I’m an Aquarian, too. Happy Birthday.

  18. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
    (sorry if I’m late but just saw the thing on sarah and the goon squads blog sending bloggers your way!!)

    Hope you had a great birthday!!

  19. Anita says:

    I was lurking about on Sarah and the Goon Squads page… and saw it was your birthday…….

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
    HAPYY BIRTHDAY TO ELIZABETH!!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!

    TAKE CARE AND ENJOY YOUR DAY!

    ANITA

  20. Devra says:

    You’ll live a hundred years.
    You’ll drink a thousand beers.
    Get plastered, you bastard
    Happy Birthday to you!

    And if you go to BlogHer 07 I’ll give you one of my drink tickets to celebrate this momentous occasion!

    XXOO

  21. a weekend without the internet? I remember those days.

    Don’t know how i’d cope now. :)

    Anyway happy birthday! Life begins at 40 and all that.

  22. Susan Webb says:

    Sorry I’m a bit late but happy birthday for almost 2 years ago, this is a great blog!

  23. Tracy says:

    I would love to have gotten a 90 minute massage. Talk about a real pleasure!! It can get expensive though at a spa. I recently started looking into massage chairs to relax after a long day in my own home. Ones like this Panasonic massage chair are kind of spendy up front but they work great and you do not have to make an appointment.

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