Last night D. was trying to load a Rosetta Stone Spanish program onto his desktop computer.  All of the sudden the connection to the internet conked out.  I did everything to get it going and absolutamente NADA!  So, today after I got done reading a vampire novel, I got on the phone to see if I could get tech support.  I called Cableone and the tech didn’t know shit.  I called Norton to remove the program that D. bought about a week ago.  I had tried to remove it myself, but it seemed as if the damned thing was possessed.  I could not uninstall it.  After being on hold for about 15 minutes, I finally got this nice lady on the phone.  Crap!  We were on the phone for over two hours trying to get the damn Norton installer, internet, and another one that I forgot the name of uninstalled.  I appreciated this woman’s help, but she kept putting me on hold.  Also, I had a difficult time understanding her.  I don’t mind people having accents because I love to hear people speak with accents, but this time my patience was wearing thin…with myself.  I was not paying attention because I was getting burned out, so I would miss some of what she was saying.  FINALLY, we were able to delete the freaking program.  I tried to get the internet going and pffffft nothing.  I called Cableone and spoke with a delightful man named Charles.  He was patient and had the best sense of humor.  Turns out the modem is F’ed up.  A service person is coming out next Friday to exchange the modem.  We have laptops, so we are not without the internet.  Still, it sucks having someone come out to the house and having to wait for them to arrive within a window of two hours.

I pouted for awhile, had a Pepsi, and figured out that this is no freaking big deal. Shit…the importance that I put on having a nice computer to access the internet.  I am lucky to have a job, house, car, and health.  I have four dogs that drive me nuts and so does D., but at least I am not alone.  Sure, we have a house that has not sold, it has been on the market for a year and two months. It could be worse.

After almost two years of not posting to this blog, I got a comment.  Thanks to Sandra, I came back to my blog.  I had forgotten all about it until I was reading my e-mail and saw that WordPress had contacted me.  So, I just had to appre

It has been two years since I created this blog and then, as usual, I quit writing for various reasons.  I won’t bore you dear readers with all of the highlights and crap  that has gone on the past two years.  Oh, but there have been some good things as well.

I am off to a fresh start!!!

I am sitting here debating whether or not I should purchase two sets of fake reindeer antlers for our labs.  I have always wanted to take pictures of them with antlers on their heads.  I am not a dog owner who buys clothes for dawgs, but this year, I have been obsessed with the idea of buy them antlers.  I am enjoying the spirit of Christmas.  It snuck up on me this week.  Well…it kind of started a few weeks ago.  I was in TJ Maxx.  There is a huge one by where I live and I swear they have the most beautiful ornaments and Christmas decorations I have ever seen.  The day I went in it was to buy a mirror for a bathroom I am renovating and I walked through the Christmas decoration isle.  I had, on purpose, began my anti-Christmas tirade of  I cannot believe all of this stuff, people overspending…like other individuals’spending should be any of my business, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.  All of the sudden I saw some red boxes stacked very neatly on a table.  They were Lenox ornaments. 40% off!  I started looking at them.  There were beautiful wreaths, a snowman, a gingerbread house, bells and other Christmas images…all Lenox.  Now it wasn’t the name brand that attracted me, instead, all these ornaments are so beautiful. I began to look at other ornaments like the ones that look like shiny metal.  I must have stood in that aisle for about an hour looking at ornaments, mantle decorations, and santas in all shapes and sizes. Later that  day, I experienced the same feeling when I stopped at a garden specialty store.  This place has just opened and I wanted to browse. This place also is packed with ornaments, but these are Shiney Bright vintage ornaments.  Hell…ornaments that were popular when I was a child are now called vintage. *sigh* While I looked at these, I had a fond memory flood…I recognized a lot of them.  When we were growing up, my brother was an ornament freak. Every Christmas, he would buy a box of ornaments to hang on the tree. I didn’t experience a sense of emptiness but I just got very happy because I saw some of those lights that have water in them and when they heat up, they begin to bubble.  Also, I saw a star that is just like the one we used to put on our tree. I enjoyed looking at every ornament that was in the store.  I am glad the manager and the clerks didn’t mind.  They are very proud of their new store.

Every Christmas, our department buys gifts for the family of a single mom or dad who is a student.  I never participate in this because I was always too busy and/or I wanted to avoid going shopping.  But this year, because of my ornament tour, I decided to sign up to buy gifts.  For this Christmas, it is a family of three little ones.  They are family #41.  The oldest is a seven year-old boy, and his sister who are six and four. What impressed me about these children is that their wish lists are very modest. Clothes, underwear, hair ties for the girls, and small toys.  The most expensive toy on each of their lists was around $40.00.  I chose to buy a few presents for the four year old because she is very interested in Dora Exploradora.  I figure that if I was a child, I would love Dora Exploradora and her buddy Diego.  On Friday, D and I went to Target.  Every year he buys a couple of presents for a his friends’ son who this year is seven years old.  This child is the only grandchild so he gets a busload of giftevery year. We always get him simple stuff usually one toy which is popular that particular year and an educational toy. Really, D picks out something he would want if once again he were a little boy. I am on a credit card diet, so I had budgeted a limit of $25.00 for the gifts I had to buy. I had planned to buy a toy and some article of clothing for my little person. Target was having a sale, so I knew I would get more for my money if I went there. D and I split up so we could get done faster with the shopping. He couldn’t make up his mind so he came to get me.  I talked him into getting this Transformer computer.  He picked out some thing that shoots nerf balls. Like I said, I let him pick whatever he wants.  We went over to the Dora Exploradora section, and I selected a little Diego toy and a Dora Exploradora castle with a track and little car.  This would ring up to twenty dollars, so I had five dollars left for something else. I had found a couple of dollars in my purse and this would take care of taxes.  I saw the cash register that the little girl wants.  It was on sale.  I told Dave about it and without thinking twice he said, “I’ll get it for her”  After that, we went to the clothing section, and he picked out a cute hoodie and I got the blouse that matched it for her.  I was surprised that he picked out a hoodie and he explained to me, “I know they are popular with kids because they are not allowed to wear them where I work.”  The rest of the afternoon, I felt so good about this shopping expedition.  I like Christmas again….