30 November 2001
Last year: "I can't find it!" I wailed.
Cautious optimism. Our IT person sent out an e-mail yesterday asking people to report any problems or issues they'd noticed with the changeover in internet service. I wrote her back to tell her that I could no longer retrieve my POP mail from my personal account.
(I was risking nothing by doing this; she already knew I had been getting my personal mail that way. And I specified in my reply that if it was a change in policy not to allow it, to just let me know.)
She didn't respond to the e-mail I sent her, but this morning when I logged in, there were several e-mails in the folder I use for my personal mail. I sent myself a test message, and a few minutes later, there it was!
So it looks like the loss of my personal e-mail access was accidental, not deliberate. I feel a little happier now.
Of course, I'm still not thrilled with the idea of logging in to my browser each time I want to use it, so I'll still be logging in to it once each morning and then leaving it minimized all day.
I'm about to drive Matt crazy, I think. I've been nagging him to hurry up and decide on gifts for certain people so I can go ahead and place my Amazon.Com order before their free shipping deal runs out at the end of this weekend.
Matt, on the other hand, is in no hurry. "It's not even December!" he groaned at me yesterday. Whereas I want to make sure Amazon has plenty of time to get the packages to me - they've been known to take several weeks in the past, and some of these things will have to be shipped elsewhere once we get them.
Ah, well. The decisions I'm waiting on from him are for his best friend, his mother, and his brother; if he doesn't decide by Sunday, I'll go ahead and place the order I've already got (around $200, covering a good half-dozen or so people) and he can take care of those people on his own time.
I think this coming Wednesday I will go do some actual shopping. Several friends are getting gift certificates, and several people are getting things I don't want to trust to online ordering. I just hope I can find the main present I want to get for Matt, or I'm going to be fresh out of ideas!
Anyway, I think the middle of the week will be less hectic than trying to go on a weekend. The middle of the day in the middle of the week would be even better, but I can't really afford to take the time off from work. (Well, actually, I can, but I'd rather save the leave time in case I get sick, or need to take a mental-health vacation in a couple of months, like I did this past August.)
Now I'm trying to decide when to make Christmas cookies. The ones that have been requested are the "moon" cookies - K.T. offered to help, even.
The first dilemma is that my mom is the one with the cookie molds - so do I bring everyone over to her house? Or do I get the molds (and some extra cooling racks, because I don't have anywhere near enough) and actually make the cookies at my house?
The other dilemma is that Kevin's new work hours are strange and peculiar - so do we make cookies on the weekend, when Matt and I have plenty of free time, or do I offer to do them on a Tuesday evening, when Kevin is free? I seem to remember that he wasn't crazy about these cookies, but I might be remembering wrong.
Any other baking I can do by myself, in the evenings. It's just that you need at least three or four people to make moon cookies - five or six is better.
I need to stop talking about cookies. I'm making myself hungry.
Word of the Day:
nomenclator - 1: a book containing collections or lists of words; 2: one who gives names to or invents names for things
Song of the Day:
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Currently Reading:
- whatever's closest when the bug hits