Have I mentioned that both my laptop and camera are broken? As in, neither will even turn on. Just in case you were wondering why we’re in beautiful SoCal and not posting pictures.

Of course I haven’t mentioned it. Because I don’t like to type hundreds of words using only my thumbs. But you guys deserve an explanation, so here I am on my iPhone typing away.

The wireless on my laptop didn’t work for weeks after arriving here. In Indiana? Fine. Here? Nothing.

So I was taking beautiful pictures and not being able to post them. It was frustrating. We chatted online with HP, since it’s hard to talk on the phone to people with heavy accents while three children play in a two bedroom apartment. We did everything they told us to do, including a complete factory reset of my computer. And when nothing worked, they hung up on us.

Yeah, I’m not buying HP again.

Then, about two weeks ago, thanks to Facebook and fabulous friends, I finally had the wireless working on the laptop because I had reset the router. For a couple days, I had both working laptop and camera. Hence the previous picture post. But our Internet wasn’t secure.

While Josh’s family was visiting I asked his dad to set up a password again. But the wireless on my lappy wouldn’t work whenever he had a password set up. Then he found something that said earlier versions of xp had problems with passwords that weren’t all caps. And since we had done the factory reset, my lappy was an earlier version of xp. I had installed the updates but not the updates to the updates.

Only… Once he figured this all out, he went to turn on my lappy and it refused. It was all, “You think you got me figured out?! Well take THIS!!”. And died.

So, in short, the lappy was being a typical HP lappy.

The very same week, my camera died.

We were taking a short hike on a dirt trail. My camera was in the stroller since a certain little boy didn’t want to be in the stroller. Olivia was pushing the stroller. And, by the way, the camera was in its case. Anyway, she went to push the stroller down a <12" step and the camera fell <12". I wasn't worried. It was in its case. But afterword, it wouldn't take pictures. I looked at the SD card slot and the little door was completely broken. Like someone had taken the camera out of its case and stomped on it. To this day, I have no clue how that could have happened. So something in there is broken and the repair guy said it could be $300 or $30 to fix it. We haven't given the go-ahead yet. So yeah. We must be meant to live the summer technology free. I'm a little afraid for the fate of my phone. And that's why you haven't heard from me lately. Now excuse me while I go stretch my thumbs.