Summer has begun

We are not through with school yet for this year, but the crazy summer schedule is in full swing already. We run all the time it seems, and when we are home it is a mad rush to catch up on chores. Unfortunately the chores are winning this week. Today was supposed to be art co-op, but our hostess cancelled. That should have given me plenty of time to clean, but instead I have spent the day nursing a bad headache. You have to love all the pollen this time of year. I have new pictures to post, but happen to be sitting at the wrong computer at the moment, so those will come in a later post.
While I am whining, I may as well mention my bad technology luck of the last week or so. For about the last 9 months I have had the env2 for my cell phone. I have been happy with it, small, cute, qwerty keyboard, what more could a girl ask for? Well a couple of months ago, Maddox decided it needed a bath. Or maybe it was thirsty. Whatever it was, he dropped it in a glass of water. Allyson happened to be close enough to grab it and pull the battery off before any real damage could be done. Unfortunately it got wet enough to void my warrantee. So fast forward to last week. The charging port became loose or broken, and the phone will no longer charge. Great. Short term I activated my old razr, which is pink and cute, but no keyboard. This will just not do. I ended up finding an older Palm Treo on craigslist and activated it yesterday. I like the phone and the pda features, but am no longer able to use the internet because it is not compatible with the new plans. Bummer. The bigger issue though, is that it also isn't compatible with Verizons contact back up system, so I now have to input 90 contacts by hand.
In the midst of all of this phone chaos, my computer decided to develop problems as well. This is MY computer, not the family one, my brand new pink Dell laptop. I get Dell tech support on chat (I love the option of tech support chat rather than having to call them on the phone!) and it turns out I have a bad hard drive. How does that happen? They solved the problem by sending me a refurbished hard drive via Fed Ex. I just got done installing the new hard drive and am ready to start installing software and we will see where we are at.
I certainly hope I don't have a 3rd technology calamity on the way.....