Life Lessons Learned

I drove 5+ hours to northern Utah (with the kids, without my husband, and with a baby kicking my bladder nearly constantly) over the weekend to spend some time with family. We had a wedding shower for my brother's fiancée, we played pinochle, we ate tons and we tried not to pull our hair out as the cousins (my kids and my sister's kids) had so much fun together (and fought occasionally)(I like parentheses).

I largely avoided the computer, but on Sunday afternoon I checked my gmail account, my hotmail account, and my facebook page. I was on for about 10 minutes total. Then I logged off the guest side, and about 15 minutes later my dad logged on to his network. The computer freaked out, and started saying we had a virus (but it looked fake) and had to enter our credit card information to spend $49.95 to get their anti-virus protection. It wouldn't let you get out of it; it kept popping up and you couldn't access anything else on the computer.

Lo and behold, my parents' antivirus protection they had on their computer had expired at midnight that day. So approximately 13 hours later, I logged onto facebook, and it downloaded a virus on to my parents' computer, and because their antivirus program had expired less than 24 hours earlier, it wreaked havoc on my parents' computer. We had to call my computer genius brother to come fix it. And it wasn't easy. And, of course, they updated their antivirus program immediately afterward.

Lessons learned:
-Always keep your antivirus protection updated.
-Try not to feel like a jerk because you practically ruined your parents' computer over 5 minutes of checking facebook.
-Drop your facebook account because the potential viruses aren't worth it??

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This morning, Ethan woke up with a sore throat. He didn't have any other symptoms at all, but he was sure he couldn't go to school without a pocketful of cough drops/sore throat lozenges. And, of course, we were completely out. So I packed up the kids and we went to the store to get lozenges before dropping Ethan off at school. It was 8:30 in the morning, and the store was very quiet. As I was leaving, I heard, "Hi, Erin!" I didn't have my contacts in, and I had taken off my glasses because I feel like a complete doofus when I wear them. I couldn't figure out who it was until I was about two feet away (hi Meladie!!).

Lessons learned:
-Wear a shirt under your coat, because you will feel self conscious and wonder if anyone notices.
-Decide whether you want to look like a doofus (because of your glasses), put your contacts in, or look like a dork because you can't see anyone.
-At least brush your hair before going anywhere in public.


P.S. I will be posting the recipes for the lasagna and breadsticks soon. I'm just lazy. In fact, I may be posting every day this week, after only posting once last week. It's feast or famine around here!

P.P.S. My Google Reader has an insane amount of posts in it. I may read them all, but I may not comment on many. Just know that I love you.

P.P.P.S. I am about three weeks behind on responding to e-mails. Again, I'm just lazy. I will get to it eventually. Sorry.