Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Why I haven’t been blogging much lately.

Two months ago (months!), I called our utility company in Glasgow and arranged for our gas and electric accounts to move to the new house. It is, of course, still not done. For those who don’t know about getting utilities connected in Scotland, let me just tell you that there may, possibly, be an industry somewhere that’s less well-run, but I doubt it. They can’t connect your power, disconnect your power, bill you for your power, figure out where your power comes from, or (probably) spell the word POWER. I have no idea how they manage to dress themselves on a daily basis.

Since then, I’ve logged so many on-hold hours just trying to get gas and electricity to the new house, I’d qualify for overtime if this was my actual job.*

*[Or you know, if I had an actual job…