Hopefully you still have some ice cream left so I suggest you help yourself to a large bowlful, relax hopefully in your special chair and catch up on what you have missed.

Well, a 30 minute nap fixed a lot of my Grumpy.

Service just is not what it used to be. Sorry you had such a hard time. DH retired at the end of June and he's spent a lot of time on the phone trying to get things sorted out. Why do they have to make it so difficult.

Oh my! What a day you had. I hope all is working as it should be now. And hmmm on the stressed spelled backwards I prefer desserts myself.

That one was a doozie! We had some wind and rain off of it ALL the way over here and we're a long way from Lousiana and Texas. I'm glad you are better sorted out.

Gosh, what an awful problem to have to deal with! Have you considered getting a "lift chair" for the stairs? The people in my family who have gotten one say they work very well.

Update: 2 more calls to internet, phone, tv provider to finish up details of the problems. Got up this morning and (next problem) my power went out. Tree fell on the line. So, power out briefly, but over an hour to recover from it. Reset programmable thermostat, the freezer in the basement, reset the clocks on everything electronic, microwave, oven, couldn't get my old computer to re-boot - something got messed up with all that off and on ten times power surge. Finally figured how to restore in safe mode, with which I was not familiar, but it was all by trial and error. The phone message machine ... I'm sure there was more. Oh, yeah - the cable tv. Starting to feel like "they" should put me on salary. Went out and surveyed the neighborhood and it wasn't the dead tree I had noticed this week and called to the attention of the homeowner. So, I called the power company and gave them the address of that dead tree, as sometimes they will remove in advance if they feel a line is in danger. Don't want to go through this again any time soon.