My computer took ill last Friday and had a massive BREAKDOWN. Yikes, I have had to limp along with only my laptop, I really don't know how people use them as their one-and-only machines because typing on them drives me mad, but anyway, it's what I had to use while my Mr. Fix-It was/is working on fixing my beloved 'puter.
It appears I may have picked up some kind of nasty virus during my internet travels. The virus struck very quickly - paralyzing my machine and setting off all my anti-virus programs!!! Everything started going haywire ... So Mike & I headed down to Fry's for some 'puter parts and he has been working on it the whole weekend. Apparently, if I didn't have some many &^5#*! pictures, games & graphics on my machine it wouldn't take 1/2 as long to fix & reinstall everything. I say .... such is life!
So anyway, I kinda have my big computer back but not entirely - I am not sure how long it will take but at least I am able to get on the internet to play & post.
10 Shades of Grateful
10 Things I am Grateful for this weekend:
- A good friend's nephew finally got a new {heart} & the transplant went well ...
- A Happy Birthday Celebration for Mike ...
- A wonderfully relaxing weekend ...
- Sunshine - glorious sunshine ...
- A moving & thoughtful Service this weekend ...
- My family & friends ...
- A Great Lunch with some friends we hadn't seen in a while ...
- Mike is really enjoying his new job ...
- Making outstanding choices this weekend & being happy with them all ...
- Having 2 very nice chats with Dad ....
A B-Day Celebration
Friday was Mike's 47th B-day and we had a kinda mixed-up backwards birthday! Not sure why we did ... it just worked out that way. Gifts, Cake then Dinner!
The backwards birthday began on Thursday when Mike opened one of his presents from me - a year's worth of DEXTER (aka:Showtime). We are now watching season 3 on Showtime OnDemand and will then be able to catch Season 4 on regular Showtime - it just began airing. I am so happy because I was able to get a SUCH a GREAT deal on it when I called to order. It is usually $18.00/month in addition to regular cable costs but I got it for FREE for the first 6 months (because I'd just switched from Vonage phone service to Comcast and they were happy about that) and then it will only be $10.00/month for as long as we have Showtime continuous service - which will probably be for as long as DEXTER is around.
We ended up switching a lot of Comcast (our cable company) services recently because of that whole switch over to Digital cable - not sure if you guys in Canada were subjected to this but ... what a boondoggle it turned out to be ...
Anyways - it was the death of Rabbit Ears! An icon of my childhood was disappearing - never to be seen or used again. So, I bought Mike an old pair of rabbit ears from the 1940's for posterity ...
You know I swear we had a pair just like this when I was little - I am sure they had the little dial and twisty space-age looking wire in the middle ... anyone else remember?
Kate bought Mike a growler of porter from a small micro-brewery just down the way from us called Mac&Jack's. She is going to take him on a brewery tour when they have time before she leaves to go back to school.
Then before we left for dinner Mike wanted to eat his cake which was really a cupcake from the New York Cupcake shop. Yum! They do make a mean cupcake!
After gifts & cupcakes we took Mike out to dinner at Famous Dave's BBQ. Mike & I first went to a Famous Dave's when we were out at Mariner's Spring Training in Arizona a couple of years back. We loved it and were excited when they opened one up in our neck of woods.
We visited, laughed & enjoyed each others company ...
Drank some fruity drinks (well, Kate did & gave Mike to try) ...
Shared a giant plate of BBQ ...
- And then went home to watch some Dexter -
A great B-Day!
Happy Birthday Sandra
I hope the B-Day fairies were good to you!
Hope everyone has a great Monday
- N -
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