I'm Back Online!!

Greetings and Salutations! I've been without a computer
for two weeks. That's two weeks of boredom, withdrawals,
and craziness! lol I had been having some little problems
with my 'puter for a while, but they kept getting worse
and worse. I finally took it to my "computer guy" and
every time I'd call to get an update on the progress of
my wonderful machine, the diagnosis was so hard for
me to hear. Finally we decided it was terminal! It was
like loosing a friend, the thoughts of my computer not
coming home was almost more than I could handle.
I would no longer hear that loud whirling noise when
I started it up, yes, a bit annoying but a noise that was
music to my ears at times.

My "computer guy" thought he'd saved all my
favorite sites I had bookmarked..... not! lol Somehow
he didn't get everything saved, so now I have to go
back and try to find all my stuff I had bookmarked
and save it again. I'll never find it all again, I had
hundreds of sites saved, all neatly tucked away in
files. Gobs of soap making sites and recipes, tons
of sewing sites, free patterns, and tutorials, plus
all the other little odds and ends goodies I had
marked. Oh well, nothing can be done about it,
it's just one of those things, it couldn't be helped.

Soooo... the new computer arrived last night in it's nice,
sturdy box all wrapped up in clear packing tape. We
unwrapped it and slid it in the desk, hooked up all those
wires, cables, and phone lines, turned it on, and to my
surprise.... there was a tiny little whirling noise coming
from the inside of my desk! Ahhh... such sweet music
to my ears!! My pacing stopped, my tremors subsided,
and all was right with the world again!! :) And here I am,
ONLINE AGAIN!!!!!!!! YOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

My computer dilemma is just the last in a long streak
of mishaps! It's unreal what all has went berserk
around here the last little while. The lawn mower
doesn't want to start most of the time, the truck
battery took a spell of going dead every night,
the mower decided when it was running it would
just go whenever and where ever it desired... it's
run over my wrought iron table, a chair leg, the
Grandmonster's sprinkler, hit the flower garden,
and tried to climb the side of the shed! While
mowing I ripped out a rubber drain hose that
connects to the furnace, it came crashing through
the under penning of the trailer and wrapped
around the blades of the mower before stopping.
I've been battling ants all summer, the
exterminator believes he's finally poisoned them
enough that they won't come back this time. I
stepped on a snake, tangled the weed eater up in
some wires to the central air unit, the central
air quit on me the other day and was shooting
warm air into the house... had to get that fixed,
Cassie sat down in my favorite glider/rocker and
one side of it fell to the floor, the dryer has been
acting weird, and now my puppy is sick! Not
enough though... it spread to my Mike!! His
new lap top computer, after 30 days of
ownership got the dreaded "blue screen of
death" which means it was basically trash!
He took it back and they had to give him a
whole new lap top. Then last night I'm talking
to him on his cell phone and all of a sudden he
couldn't hear me! We thought it was fixed this
morning and low and behold it finally shot
craps too..... off he went to the store to buy a
new cell phone! When does it end???!!!
Hopefully our little crappy streak of luck is
coming to an end.... we can't afford much more
bad luck!! lol :) Oh! I forgot one! My digital
camera shot craps too... had to go spend
almost $300 on a new camera. Like I said,
I hope it ends soon.

Ok... on to better things. I made a bunch of
glycerine soaps last week. I had so much
fun doing these crazy little things. I made
most of them from the clear glycerine soap
base and added a light color so that you can
still basically see through them. They are
made in a popsicle mold. They are so neat
looking and so realistic. Honey Wayne kept
wanting to taste them and Jaylan kept
grabbing them sniffing. I'll try to post some
pics tomorrow. They are getting pretty
popular on the net, but haven't hit my area
yet, so I'm the first around here to have
them available. I took a few with me the
other evening to show a friend at the local
restaurant, ended up selling 6 of them
right there. I think they'll be a big seller
for the Octoberfest this year.

I finally got my new bedspread, shams, and
curtains put on. My bedroom looks
completely different! I washed all my walls,
every piece of furniture was washed and
lemon oiled, everything glass was washed,
and I de-junked the whole place. I keep
thinking I'm in the wrong house! lol Now
the sad part of all this, I've had this new
bedspread for a year and a half, but didn't
want to put it on until I gave my bedroom
the once over, can you believe it took me
so long to do? I should be thoroughly
whipped with wet noodles!!

Jaylan spent the night with me last night
and went home this evening. She didn't
want to go, but my nerves couldn't take her
spending another night. I love her to pieces,
but she requires so much of my attention that
I can't get anything done when she's here. If
I turn my head for a second she's found some-
thing new to investigate. But she is a lot of
fun and actually pretty good company. We
went on a 4-wheeler ride yesterday and came
up on an apple tree. She thought it was so neat
that we could pick her an apple off that tree.
She ate her apple as we went down the road.

Ok... gonna hit the sack for a few hours! My
eye lids are starting to get pretty heavy.
Hope your week is filled with
Sunshine and Rainbows!!