One wedding and a surgery

Chloe had her surgery last week-- no more options for motherhood for her. She did great--was back to normal by the following day-trying to keep her calm is the toughest part. She should have her stitches out this week- so she can get back to her normal crazed self.

John went to Jane's wedding (Kate's daughter) on his own last weekend. We didn't want to leave the dog in a kennel- so I opted to stay home (but still keep the new dress, shoes and bag!) Not a bad trade-off. He had a good time--most of the family was there- so he got a chance to catch up and spend some time with Steph. Wedding went off without a hitch--and evidently everyone had a great

On the other hand, John's PC died- so had to send it in to HP. Naturally, it arrived back with the hard drive re-imaged. So, he lost some of the photos that weren't backed up. But at least the data made it on our backup drive. But, all emails are gone- and now we have to reload all the software, etc. What a pain. He still doesn't have email working--so we're sharing my PC until we can get it fixed. On top of all that, our car had to be towed back to VW (key wouldn't go in the ignition..) and our cell phone has taken to making calls on its own. (What a way to make new friends- the phone will repeatedly call the last dialed number). Since this is our 3rd phone in less than 90 days, we got a new one (an upgrade, at that). It was supposed to arrive via FedEx for Saturday delivery (yesterday). But, turns out that they don't do Saturday delivery here--so we had to follow-up on that as well. Does anything work anymore? Needless to say, it's been a very frustrating week. (Oh, almost forgot the taxes-- we had some strange investment that gave us tax credits on our income taxes --never really understood it. Well, the partnership was liquidated and the properties sold--giving us a gargantuan capital gain on our income tax (totally unexpected). We owe a ton of money to the government --and also to the State of Massachusetts. And, to add insult to injury- it put our income into a bracket that disqualifies us from the Bush tax rebate!