The Usual

As is probably obvious, the computer situation is still in limbo. They think it might be the motherboard and my "tech guy" is working at getting me a new one.

Work is still busy... scanning... counting... indexing... auditing... not much else. I've been putting in some extra hours, but it still doesn't seem to progress very fast.

During the week I was able to spend some time with my family here and got to snuggle with new baby Anna for most of an evening! It was good for my soul and the highlight of my week. I can tell it had been a couple weeks since I'd been around much, the boys are growing like crazy. They seem to be inches taller than the last time I saw them - crazy I know.

Friday night I went to a scrapbooking crop with a friend of mine at a store up in Hendersonville. I got 5 pages and done and a sixth one ready to do. Then I spent some time on Saturday working at home too. I did the page I had ready to do plus a couple more, these were all for my big (12x12) "this is my life" book. Then I also completed a few more pages for my little (8x8) portfolio book. I also realized that there were some pictures that I was missing that should be in my portfolio stack. I did some reading and even took a nap. Then yesterday I spent most of the day looking through all my pictures from about 1996 on. Just did a lot of reminiscing and was also able to pull out several sets of the pictures I was missing for my portfolio project. The nice thing about that project is that each project is individual, so I can add to it anytime, even if I find more later that I was missing. Then at the end of the evening I watched some TV and worked on my afghan. I realized that I'm going to run out of the one color that I'm working with and so now I have to make a determination on what to do - probably the first option is to see if I can find something that matches, but it won't be easy. Second option would be to finish without it, but I'm not sure I will be happy with the results of that. Third option would be to take out part of what is done and change the pattern enough to accomodate the amount of yarn I have. Not really what I look forward to doing either, but will probably end up being the case.

So, being frustrated with it and not wanting to decide last night, I started a new one while watching a movie - The English Patient. It was good, but I never figured out who the guy was without the thumbs - until near the end, I thought he was the one that had the affair with Mrs. Clifton, then I found out that was actually the patient. So I'm still lost, I got that they called him Moose, but in all the flash backs I don't know who he was and why he'd come back to find the patient and wanted to kill him. Can anyone help me out?

So tomorrow night I'm going to my next play - Forever Plaid. I've never seen it, but it's musical and comedy so promises to be a good show. I'll let you know...

I guess that's really about all for now. I know there are many of you that I owe emails to and I promise to make good on those as soon as I can. I was really wishing for my computer this weekend to do some of those, but patience is a virtue they tell me, so hang in there with me!

God bless and may you all have a blessed week. For those of you who may not know, please pray for my dad this Wed night (US time) he is having surgery to have a surface cyst removed from the top of his head. It has been infected and he's been on antibiotics since they returned from Australia and the doc thinks it best to go ahead and remove it. They are doing it outpatient, but he will be put completely under. Remember my mom too as she will be waiting during the procedure. Thanks.