Aaaah! EverCrack!

Oh my God! I am so sorry, everyone....I somehow managed to get sucked back into EQ (Everquest) and I have neglected my online family. Of course, as my wonderful man pointed out, I was tuning everyone else out as well. So, I took a much needed break from the computer, so I could spend time with some of the "real" people in my life, and now that I think I have my addiction under control, I am back!

Let's see, what's been going on? Well, for starters, I have been watching Live! With Regis and Kelly EVERY morning, because damn it, I'm gettin' me a new van!! It's my new religion!

I started a newsletter for my whole family, and surprise, surprise, no one wrote back. I gave them my phone number, email address, and home address, and practically begged for them to send me information on how everyone is doing, so I can include it in the next months newsletter, and not a single person has even MENTIONED the damn letter, with the exception of my brother when he called me to say "Guess what I got in the mail today....This really crappy newsletter done by some woman who won't leave me alone...." of course he was only kidding, but he's the only person to mention the damn thing. I think I will do a few more months, and if I still haven't heard from anyone by June, then I am just going to give up.

Uuummm....OH! And I'm finally FINALLY in control of my finances, and by the end of the year, I should be completely out of debt! YAY! So I will actually be able to buy a house by the time I'm 30....I'm hoping for a LOT sooner than that, and with Dave's help, I am pretty confident that it will happen.I've been a horrible "Cookie Mom" with the whole Girl Scouts thing, but then again, this troop kind of blows. None of the moms are really involved, you can tell that most of them are just there to give their daughters something to do other than bother them, and even the leader doesn't really know what the hell she's doing. So I think I've given up on this year’s troop, and I'll just wait until next year, when LeeAnna will be a junior.

I'm applying to be an electrician’s apprentice. There's a ball straight out of left field, right? Me, all girly-girly, is going to be applying for "man's" job. But, I was reading up on the programs that are available up here, and I qualify beyond what they are looking for, and the pay is OUTRAGEOUS!! If I was to get hired, I could be out of debt in something like 2-3 months instead of 11. And they subtly hint that they are looking for woman desperately because woman RARELY apply for these positions. Which is an added bonus....plus, my first husband was an electrician and through "osmosis" I learned quite a bit. Even though I can go into it not knowing a damn thing.

My cousin got married last month. That was a shocking phone call. She calls me from Vegas, right after the ceremony, and tells me she just got married. This is the woman who, every time I talked to her, she would tell me she was happily in love, that T was the perfect man....then I would call her a week or so later, and she hated him, she was moving out, she never wanted to see him again, and I would talk to her a few days later, and she was back in love with him. And it kept flip-flopping like that. So you can imagine my concern when my bestest friend, whom I love so dearly and want to literally chop the head off of any man who hurts her (and I'm not talking the head that sits on top of the shoulders...mmmhhhhmmm), calls me and tells me that she just got married. But so far, she seems very happy. And still in love, and loves being a wife. I guess her problem in the past was she was always with men who refused to make a serious commitment to her. Well, I wish you nothing but the best woman! Prove us all wrong sweetie! And don't take marriage advice from me or any other person who's been divorced as many times as I have! LOL

Thinking, thinking ... well, I think that's all the update my poor tired little fingers can take for now! And don't worry, this time I am back for good! I have a little note taped to my monitor reminding me to post....its right under "Enter to win van at Live's website!"

Until later, Ciao!

Great!

So I get my computer back, and then I can't use the damn thing because we had a major power outtage last night. The power was out for 5 hours. Of course, the power couldn't go out during the day when it wouldn't have freeked the kids out so much, but instead went out at 6 p.m. when it's as dark as midnight. Thankfully I have some very resourceful neighbors who happen to have a LOT of flashlights! Thank you again J&K!

But I finally got to sleep and managed to get myself back on a normal schedule. Hopefully. If I can actually manage to sleep tonight, then that means that I will be back on schedule.
But while I was sleeping I had some funky dreams. I dreamt that Dave had gotten himself another girlfriend and kicked me and the kids out of our house and was being a major asshole to us. Keeping the car and everything. (Can you say "issues due to previous relationships"?)

Well, Mother Nature, who just loves to tease us Alaskans, has begun the "Spring Break-Up" tease again. I went outside yesterday to come face to face with melting snow, water dripping off of the rooftops, and VERY icy roads. Oh, and of course, the high winds that knocked out the power for 5 hours. Oh, did I mention that the power was out for 5 hours? (I've never been through an outtage for that long, so it was kind of new to me!)

Well, that's about all that I can think of that's new. I'll be on later to give an update of the past month that I've been MIA.

Until later, Ciao!

Been a long time, eh?

So you guys are gonna love this. I finally figured out what the heck has been wrong with my computer. One of my Christmas gifts to myself was a new memory chip (512) and a new video card for my computer. Now, being the intelligent and cautious person that I am, I logged onto the HP website to make sure and get the specs for my machine so that I wouldn't buy the wrong things. The website tells me that my computer needs PC2700 DDRAM. I copied, pasted, and printed the page, went to CompUSA with the page, said this is what I need. I get the things I'm supposed to, install them correctly into the computer, and BAM! All of a sudden I'm having major issues with my computer. Of course, I had been having problems before hand, but nothing as bad as the system refusing to enter into SAFE MODE!! After 2 weeks of futile attempts at solving the problem, and 2 weeks of ignoring the machine, hoping that refusing it my attention would cause it to miss me and start behaving-all of which were fruitless efforts of course, I finally decide that I can't live without it anymore, and I can't really afford to take it to a repair shop...especially if I can fix it myself. So I open her up, for what seems like the 100th time in a month, and for some reason beyond explanation, I decide to leave the new 512 PC2700 in the system and take out the 256 that was in their when I bought it. As I'm sitting on the floor in front of my desk, head propped on the keyboard tray, fingers crossed, waiting for the 8th system restore to finish up, I see it........ There on the sticker that labels the 256 stick of RAM, the tiny little sticker, on the RAM that was installed in a COMPAQ FACTORY!!!! it says PC3200!! Somewhere out there in a freekin' factory that produces my computer is an unkown person who one day either on accident or out of sheer stupidity decided to place a PC3200 256 DDRAM stick in a computer that is designed for PC2700 DDRAM. A whole friggin month of pulling my hair out, glaring viciously, and sometimes REALLY wanting to kick the damn thing, all because some freek didn't do their job right. WONDERFUL! Tomorrow I get to call the company and see how they plan to fix this problem. All I want is the correct 256 chip that is supposed to be in there. Especially since I lost a TON of VERY important documents. (they could be really nice and send me a 512 to put me at a gig!) :)

So there you have it! The reason no one has heard from me in forever!

Happy New Years everyone!