I spent a lot of time on the internet chasing my tail today.

Dexter has not been sleeping well lately as another tooth is coming in. In fact, he is due to wake up any minute now, so I have no idea why I'm still online, other than trying to get some closure for the day. Not sleeping, so I was hoping to sleep in with him this morning as we didn't have to be anywhere, like we have had to all week.

The phone rings at 8am. A collections call for someone who doesn't live here. When I explain it to the woman, she proceeds to tell me that SOMEONE is using our phone number to obtain credit, but can't (won't) tell me anything more. This perks me right up, and starts a frenzy of Equifax requests and fraud alerts for all three of us. I call Citibank as well, where a very nice woman in their fraud department talks me down out of the tree by explaining that the collections woman was yanking my chain. She applauded my proactive efforts, and the told me to call her department back after I saw our reports if there was anything amiss, for us to proceed further. This took a good hour.

Once Dex went down for a late morning nap, I then cleared out a couple months of emails, unearthing a bunch of Facebook requests. I have poo-poo'ed it for a long time. Today I took the plunge.

And it was a fascinating and gigantic time sucker. I thought having a blog was bad. This Facebook thing is crack. It was easy to set up, but the searching through of friends was what sucked me into a vortex. Hopefully, after the frenzy of today I can get back to normal. Just a fleeting novelty...