Today is fired. I woke up to find out that my mother-in-law died in her sleep last night. We knew the end was near, but we are both still sort of numb.
Then there is our lovely weather with -26°C as the high for the day. Not a big problem and I hope it stays that way. We heat with electricity. Probably most people in Quebec heat with electricity. So, I worry about the electrical grid with all the extra strain.
And DH went to the Bell site to finally upgrade our landline to a touch tone line, rather than the pulse line that we had kept. We were hoping that upgrading to newer infrastructure would give us more a more reliable internet connection. No, we don't have internet with Bell, but our internet provider does use Bell's lines. Now, we don't have internet at all. I am only managing to use the internet because, I'm using phone data. I have set my phone as WiFi hotspot. Normally, I don't use much data and various promotions have given me a decent amount of data, at least considering that it resets on the 9th. Plus, I'm ticked off by the new phone plan. The amount extra that we are paying for a basic, tone phone line, with nothing else has gone up by close to $14/per month. That's more than I pay for a "landline" through the cell network, which has unlimited, Canada wide calling, voice mail, etc. included. I am a very grumpy person at the moment.
