Have you ever had one of those Mondays where nothing seems to go right and many things seem to go “fall off the rails”. Not in a tragic way, but worse than normal days. Well that was my Monday.
I slept horrible Sunday night, it was one of those long tossy turny kind of nights where nothing brought me relief or sleep. Fan on, fan off, fan back on. Blanket on, blanket off. Pillow between the knees, pillow back out, feet up, feet down, left side, right side, back, adjust head pillows, etc. Use the bathroom, play soft music, glass of chocolate milk, listen to audio book, etc. From one-thirty in the morning until I gave up at seven nothing worked. So Monday morning I was expecting it to be a very groggy brained tired kind of day.
Normally I babysit Brittney’s two little children on Monday’s but she had one of her bad migraines so she wasn’t going to her painting class at UNI. In a small way I was relieved only because I was so groggy and tired, and now I could get a nap or two in during the day. Things seemed to be going ok.
I would have also thought from the email I received that morning that it would be a great day. You see, I had ordered through my cell phone company a new iPad because the one I have is at least 7 years old, a dinosaur in iPad terms, and it was starting to fail more and more.
I don’t have the hefty money that it costs to go buy one, so I opt to buy through them and just pay a small monthly charge forever. I knew it would be a few weeks because Apple is extremely slow right now with new products coming and covid concerns that has slowed down everyone.
Two full months later it had finally arrived! Hurray! Ok, kill the fanfare because the agent at the cellular store ordered the wrong one. Yup! I had very specifically stated I didn’t want the lowest GB model, I wanted the next one up. I received the lowest one. I could reject it and have her order the correct one, but that would be another two month wait or more because that size was even harder to get. Yay me.
So hence the lack of enthusiasm about my iPad arriving. I went and picked up my wrong iPad order and brought it home. It’s not as thrilling to open and set up a new electronic when it’s not really the one you wanted, but I made the best of it. Years ago I lowered my expectation bar down to zero, so now nothing really surprises me or disappoints me. I started going through all the set up steps, and then it asked me if I wanted to transfer all my old iPads information to it via the iCloud. Why yes please, that would be wonderfully easy!
Nope, not as easy because apparently at some point in time my auto backup to the cloud for my entire old iPad had been switched off. Luckily my photos were still saving there, but nothing else. So I went through all the steps on my old iPad and told it to run a complete backup. It told me it would take at least 4 hours.
During that waiting time I decided to have a snack. I got a little convenient snack pack out that has almonds, white cheddar cheese and dried cranberries and started snacking happily away. I also had cut an apple up for the squirrels and had kept a couple pieces so I was munching on those as well. As I was eating I noticed something kind of hard in my mouth, so I extracted it and saw it looked like a bit of a tooth. I have a tooth in the back that has a slight crack in the top, so I thought that was it. Nope.
My top lip began to have this very odd sensation of something very sharp going across the inside every time I chewed. I went into the bathroom and looked into the mirror and there it was, a big piece of my front tooth had chipped off. Its had a very tiny chip in it for decades, but this one looks like I used to play hockey and caught a puck with my front tooth.
Awesome. Just what I needed. The tooth next to it is capped and has been since I was twelve. I broke it off after ice skating in our homemade backyard “pond” and after removing my skates and walking up the small hill to the house I slipped and landed front teeth first onto some ice and broke that tooth in half. Now I guess I’ll end up with a matched set.
It was now supper time and I was just going to get out the chili I had made over the weekend. I set the table with the usual bowls, spoons, glasses and chili crackers and waited for Jay to get home so we could each nuke (aka microwave) ourselves a bowl of chili. No, I do not put it in a pan and warm it up, are you kidding?
At around six-fifteen, I decided to go ahead and start eating so I scooped some chili in my bowl and hit the button several times to make it cook it for a couple of minutes. There is a soup sensor setting on my microwave, but its faster just to hit the 30 second button numerous times.
My chili bowls have little handles on them similar to a coffee cup, so when it was done I reached in and grabbed it by the handle. Not even thinking it may be the temperature of the sun. I almost dropped it midway over the stove, but willed myself to quickly set it down on the counter before yowling in pain from my now burnt middle finger.
I ran it under cold water for several minutes and then got a cold wet paper towel and wrapped that around my finger for good measure. I sat and ate my chili and crackers in silence.
Jay got home a few minutes later and I smiled showing him my new front tooth situation. His instant comment was “go to the dentist.” Guess he doesn’t like my new look. The upside is, I always wear a mask when I’m out and about, so no one will even notice!
After supper I checked my iPad again, and over the next several hours it gave me a new estimated time of being done. Five hours, twelve hours, eight hours, it was as if it were taunting me. I wonder if it knew I was replacing it with a newer model? I had started this whole process around two in the afternoon, by eleven-thirty that night it was finally done!
Now the new iPad finally recognized that there was data in the iCloud for it to fetch. It took what seemed like hours to transfer the information but not as long as it took to put it there. Finally that was done and it asked if I wanted to install the newest update? Well of course I do. There went at least a couple more hours of time.
At around two-thirty in the morning my new iPad was finally ready for me to open and check it out. Nope. Wrong! It wants my apple ID and log in first. Well who on earth can remember that? I have it written down in my “big book of everything I need to remember and can’t”, but that was out in the living room.
I went to get up to make a bathroom run since I was wide awake and in the process I knocked my container of water off my shelf. I have one of those “cubby shelf units” that holds canvas bins in it for storage. It was half full of water and the lid hit the edge of the cabinet and came off spilling all of the water on the carpet. I brought a towel back with me and pressed it on the carpet, no harm, no foul right?
I had Alexa turn on my small bedroom lamp and only then realized that the water had also spilled out on top of the shelf where my phone laid. It was a little wet but not bad and had dripped into one of my top clothes bins and gotten a few socks wet. Nothing too tragic, just annoying.
I had decided not to go into the living room for the information I needed because Jazzy was sleeping in there on her favorite spot on the couch. Most nights she can’t be troubled sleeping on my bed with me. If she does grace me with her presence it’s only for an hour or two and then she abandons me for the couch.
I could shut my bedroom door at night so she’d have to stay in there with me, but I think she likes the couch better as its in front of the window and she can be on guard if she needs to be, protecting us from field mice, owls, and the occasional random leaf that blows by outside. I would not want to take those responsibilities away from her.
In the morning I woke up to a new iPad waiting for me to log in, (I did) a middle finger that thankfully didn’t blister and is just a bit red with a big dent in it the shape of a cup handle, a front tooth that still has a giant chip in it, and a happy Shar-pei who had a good nights rest and is outside making sure the squirrels don’t get too close to the house.
I am still waiting for my new iPad to finish uploading all of the programs from my old iPad but happy to say it is chugging along nicely! Sometimes the joys of new technology are real.
Until next time…
Stay safe, wear a mask, and social distance.
Toni