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HOW HARD CAN IT BE??????????
I'm beyond frustrated.
WEEKS ago, I asked MIL if she had a skype account. I explained that I would really like to see the kids while we are away. I went on to say that if she didn't have one, I would gladly come over and quickly set it up, show her how to use it, ect.
She tells me she has one but she doens't remember the password.
ummm. ok. can you look into that? yes? no?
I politely ask if she can check it out and get back to me.
4 days ago I check progress on this. there is none.
Last night - after an exhausting day - I was supposed to be packing. instead, starting at 9pm - I spent TWO+ hours trying to get some kind of video call set up with my inlaws.
we were trying mobile to mobile. macbook to ipad. mobile to ipad. macbook to mobile.
They couldn't figure it out.
Finally I said " you know what - let's forget skype. MIL has an ipad so she can use facetime with my itouch. that should be simple."
but NO. she can't remember her appleid. doesn't know what email to use. has no clue even what first and last NAME its under... and then there's that pesky password issue again.
I'm so tired.
Re: HOW HARD CAN IT BE??????????
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
She's being passive aggressive.
She is doing this because it's her way of controlling you in this situation so she can exert some kind of power over you. As much as I KNOW you want to see the kiddos while you are away, the more you bring this up, the happier it's making her.
H was with me trying to help them. So he didn't get any packing done either. yippe.
a week.
I feel fine just speaking the older two on the phone. I just really want the baby to see me once in a while.
I'm plotting my revenge. I thinking about making a long ass video of me saying bedtime prayers and telling the kids to request it every night.
we eventually got the skype account to work, but then we couldn't get her video camera to share.
I'm telling you the truth when I say I wanted to harm someone.
this could have been dealt with weeks ago.
I would amend this to say that Floyd should set up the new Skype account, with a new email address and password, and write out that information and tape it to the computer monitor.
With duct tape.
What?
So, Floyd's IL's are taking care of her children while she's away, a very nice thing to do, and because they aren't technologically inclined they're being passive agressive?
Thank them for watching your kids and call it a day FFS. What did you think people did before Skype?
THE RE-RE'S ARE HERE! yay!
I'm trying to take advantage of an opportunity afforded to traveling parents TODAY. see - we don't live 'back in the day' where we didn't have computers.
Why do you buckle your kid in a carseat? they didn't do that shiit when we were kids?
I'm going to go over tonight and hopefully I can accomplish this.
I was cracking up though b/c FIL was listing off all her "go-to" passwords right in front of H and I.
"Well is it ABC? what about XYZ? maybe you used 123?"
I was all:
I don't put my kids in a carseat as a favour to someone, it's to keep their heads from getting smashed up and living a lifetime of challenges if they live at all.
Your IL's have trouble with technology but are kind enough to take your children while you go on vacation for ONE WEEK.
I know, the differences are subtle. Give it a while and you might get it.
Yes, we crawl out of the woodwork when the stupidity level gets too high to bear keeping our traps shut.
Why do you make everything more dramatic and difficult than need be? Yes, this could've been taken care of weeks ago- if it was so important to you then you could've made sure it was actually taken care of weeks ago, no? If I have technologically impaired people taking care of my kids and I want them to be able to utilize this amazing technology that we do have now for traveling parents, I get on it and make sure it happens. I don't "plot revenge" passive-aggressively when it doesn't happen five minutes before I'm supposed to go away.
And if you do have the time to go there and fix it now then what is there to be frustrated about?
LOL!
My parents used to own a gas station in the 90s, and my uncle would come over, hand me his debit card and say "1,3,5,7". I was really hoping he only did it at our store, and not everywhere else...
I guess it just cracks me up. They are in their early 50's. not old.
and I just don't understand why anyone who can't download a program has the desire to have an ipad. what are you going to do with it?
I have no problem with technology-phobes. whatever. but you usually don't see them walking around with smartphones and all that other shiit. right?
I honestly haver no idea wtf my dad does on his ipad and iphone. I think he was just like a little kid who HAD TO HAVE ONE. He reads books on them, but he already had a sony reader.
haha. my mom would do something like that today.