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Back in the saddle

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:49:20 +0000

I’ve been away a lot longer than I ever expected. As previously mentioned my computer has been extremely sluggish and I’ve sort of been avoiding it altogether lately. Strangely enough, without doing anything to it, it appears to be acting much better today.
Not a whole lot going on in my life at the moment. GM turned 14 months yesterday and has 2½ teeth on the bottom and almost a full tooth up top. He’s still not quite walking on his own, but he’s certainly trying. I’m starting to get a bit worried about his communication skills – or lack thereof. Besides babbling ‘dada’ he really doesn’t communicate. I’m really not sure that this is normal, but he’ll be getting his next set of shots in the second week of July so I’ll be sure to talk to the doctor about it.

Saturday 9: Happy Father’s Day Eve

1. How long since you have been with your dad? He lives in the basement, so … yesterday.
2. How many siblings share your dad? one younger brother
3. Will you see your dad tomorrow? definitely, we’re going to my brother’s for a BBQ
4. Do you give him gifts on Fatherâ€™s Day? usually, but he never really wants anything
5. Have you ever had a tough time in your relationship with your father? absolutely. we’ve been through a lot of tough roads, but are finally starting to see more eye to eye
6. What was the last thing that you did with your dad? we went out for dinner Tuesday night
7. Growing up, was your dad tough on you? yup, he was the disciplinarian
8. Are you close to your father? yes, I would say so
9. How long since you have spoke to him? a couple of hours

More speed please

Thu, 08 May 2008 06:20:59 +0000

I’ve been cursing and swearing at my computer lately. It’s been running more and more sluggish and it’s driving me crazy! I’ve become somewhat complacent with the slowness because I’m not prepared to do a clean install. I’m the type of person that likes to do things all by themselves without anyone’s help. That has also gotten me into trouble in the past. I really should look for a computer repair service to do the work for me instead of me guessing what’s causing the slowdowns. I managed to move the paging file onto an external drive to try to free up some system resources, but I feel like I’m just grasping at straws. If I took my computer in or even had someone come out and look at it for that matter, maybe I’d finally see some speed again.

Pull my wishbone

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:47:33 +0000

Why can’t there be an easy compromise when it comes to holidays? I am now faced (once again) with dealing with 2 families (his and mine) who want to see us for Thanksgiving. Of course both sides want to do Thanksgiving on the Sunday. Unfortunately that means that my family loses out because ‘you’ve seen them more recently’. Things were definitely easier BGM (before Goober Monster) when I could’ve just said, ‘fine, then you go to your family and I’ll go to mine’. How does everyone else deal with holidays? It seems all complicated now.

Priorities

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:32:23 +0000

I can’t believe all the stuff I have on my plate at the moment. When I stop to think about it I get all uptight. Of course there’s Goober Monster. He always comes first, but then there’s this website I’m working on for my Dad’s curling club, and finally the big move & all the packing that goes along with it. The hardest part with the move might just be getting my hubby to actually part with some of his old crap. He is a serious pack rat and just looking around our apartment gives me a panic attack. I mean, we only moved here nearly 3 years ago, yet it must’ve been so awful that I blocked it out of my mind because I don’t remember any part of it. Since we’re now in an apartment getting rid of stuff (garbage) is really simple because of the dumpsters. But if we drag crap that we don’t want to the house, then we have to dispose of it at the other end on a weekly basis. Retard seems to think that we have LOTS of time. He figures a week should do it, but I think he’s insane. I’d rather have everything done and be sitting on boxes than to have to scramble at the last minute.

My little guy’s another story. Goober Monster’s been awful cranky the last couple of days and managed to wake up at 04:30 this morning. *groan* I have to admit he’s really an amazing kid and has been sleeping straight through the night since about 2½ months. He usually goes to bed somewhere between 19:30 & 21:30 and used to get up around 05:30, but in the last month it’s more like 07:30/08:00. I know I’m lucky and truly thank my lucky stars, but it was hard getting up this morning. I suspect we’ll be seeing some teeth pretty soon as he’s been crabby and munching on his hands more than usual. My little boy’s growing up. *sniff sniff*

Then there’s the website. My nemesis. I took on doing the website for my Dad’s curling club almost 2 years ago now and it’s been interesting at the very least. I think I’ve gone through probably 4 different people who were responsible for it and each of them had different ideas for what it should be. I am now working for the most picky and opinionated person I have ever met. While all the others had suggestions, they mostly let me be the designer since that’s what they hired me to do. Now this woman thinks she knows everything like ‘I want the text to be verdana because the type you’re using isn’t very clear…’. Great except that it already is verdana! And every time I turn around I’ve got a list as long as my arm of changes to be made. I just finished setting up a members only password protected area with 1000 members only to find out that it’s not going to work as planned. Without knowing the background and how long this has been going on (which I certainly won’t bore you with) you can’t really get a sense of the stress, but trust me, it’s whopping.