The Family

Well…Ramona sent us chocolates…not just any chocolates, truffles from The Chocolate Fetish.

We devoured, we raved, no truffle was left uneaten. So without further ado I give you our reviews and opinions:

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If at first you don’t succeed (at a good haircut)

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I recently discovered that Swarovski makes beads, not just the little crystal creatures. Some of them look really great…I am super excited!
I was thinking, the might make a lovely adornment for costumes!
linky to a seller

Pat is out of the hospital.  They did not find anything in the angiogram.  I wish they had.  Not something serious, but something that would have explained the problems.  They said he had some blockage and needs to lower his cholesterol, but it was not serious enough to require ballooning our or putting in a stint.

Maybe it was stress……   maybe it was something they didn’t find……    I don’t know.  Like i said, i wish they had found something simple so the hospital would have been worth it and we could all breathe easier knowing the problem was fixed.

Gossip….. It is hard to know when it is discussion and when it is gossip…. when it is a legitimate expression of concern and when it is gossip… when it is people discussing a problem for the purpose of finding a sloution and when it is gossip. It is a problem within my family, my brothers and sisters. I can understand how it happens… one person is upset or concerned and they talk to someone… and that person adds their 2 cents and passes it on to someone else. But, when is it gossip??? Sometimes the line is hard to define.

There is a current subject… I just learned that much of what i have been told and believed is, shall we say, incomplete. Whether that is strictly from insufficiant information or if information has been discounted as unimportant at some point and dropped, i do not know, but it makes me question everything i have been told. The thing that bothers me most is that i have passed along this incomplete information which decidedly slants things; I have made statements and agreed with conclusions; I have thought bad things and said so.

I am now trying to tell everyone the new information in an effort to make things right, but who knows how much good it will do. Some people have formed their opinion and do not wish to look at the new information that puts things in a better light.  I feel bad.

I prefer to givre people the benefit of the doubt, to think the best of people. I do not like realizing that i gossip……..

There was a mantra Christina and I had…    Be Debt Free in 2004 2005  2006!

By the end of this week we’ll have paid off every credit card that we carry around with us.  The only line of credit we’ll have open with a balance is our bill for our washer/dryer set.  That one is still interest free so it is the last one to get paid off.   (beggining of May, that’s the payoff goal on that one)

I can now happily say that we’re soon to be full on deadbeats* and it feels good.  Not having a monthly payment to plan for is going to be a great thing.

* That’s the term I’ve heard (some) Credit Card employees give to people who pay off their balances in full/on time.  After all, they don’t make any money that way.

Just posted a comment on “Pat’s Hospital” to update.  He has a new room, #527.  Thinking I should have made that a new post…

Of course, you all know where Pat is and what his # is, but i looked up the hospital where he is and it does look good.  He is in  room 532…    I called, but he did not answer.  I will try again later.  Probably no new news till Monday anyway.

interesting article on migraines

Chris….   I ran across a bunch of free smileys….   i downloaded them expecting them to be somehow all set up to use or to come with directions, but of course they were just the pictures.  They also had speech bubbles which i thought was a cute idea.  The little bubbles, i suppose one would make appear when someone typed in, for example, (awww)  but how in the world do you tell the program to do that?????

I should search for the answer.  I haven’t done that.  I will.
Chris……   I am so fortunate to have you for my tech…   I talked to Nathan tonight and told him to get online and i would talk him thru getting on the message board.  I pointed out that if we were all using the message board, he could keep us posted there instead of having to make calls and have us call him.  He said that he could, but he would have to go get his laptop out of the truck and hook it up, and went on to tell me the troubles he is having with his desktop computer.  He said that when he gets online everything is fine.  He hooks up to his current internet provider.  He opens yahoo..  but when he tries to download anything or to send a message, the computer wants him to privide a password for his (something starting with V) connection.  Apparently they use V— at work and for some reason he hooked his home computer up to V— once, and apparently it reset something.  He does not use V—.  So he will type in his password and it will just pop the password window up again because, of course, it was unable to connect.

He says he has disabled everything he can think of, but the problem persists so they only go online with is work computer, which is hard because sometimes he works late and the kids need it for school.  :)  When he comes hom, his computer is sometimes more eagerly awaited than he is.

And all the time, i was thinking, that is just a setting…  Chris could find that in a moment because he would know where to look and what the setting should be.  But there is Nathan fumbling around in the dark, disabling things that probably should not be disabled and making changes that could be messing him up, and not able to find the offending setting…

Sigh…….  i did not volunteer you.  🙂    I fight that urge….      but every family needs their own techie!!!!!  How do people get along without one????