It’s diaper day!!! (If you really care to know what that is, email me, heehee)
Well, I’m sitting here, wondering if E’s going to stay asleep or not. If I get by the 10 minute mark, I should be okay…
Well I won one of the auctions on Ebay hehe. It’s just an old Ste. Genevieve postcard - but it’s kinda cool. I mailed off payment tonight. Which reminds me I need to email the seller… Okay, I emailed her…
The other auction I’m bidding on isn’t over until tomorrow morning. I’m bidding on the Poseidon expansion pack to Zeus. I’ve been playing Zeus lately when I am either bored to death or am giving Elijah a bottle. I can put him on the nursing pillow and have my right hand free for the mouse. It’s either that or sit at the tv and I can only take so much of that. Steve sometimes asks me or tells me, that is, I’m on the computer too much and why do I do that? Well for the same reason he watches tv - to unwind. Sure I will watch tv, but sometimes I’m more entertained here I guess because I’m doing something with my hands and/or mind (web design or something). So really, what’s the difference?
Anyway, I am the winning bidder for that game so far, but I almost am wishing someone would outbid me (for now) because I might end up spending as much after shipping as if I bought it at Sam’s Club. At Sam’s, they’ve got, I think, all four cds to the Zeus and Pharaoh Games (both have an expansion pack each). I already have all three but Poseidon, so if I bought it there, I guess I could give someone the other cds. I’ve been putting off buying it because I don’t need the other three cds though. We bought Pharaoh back when we had the old computer and bought a new hard drive for it. We each picked out a game and I’d been wanting to get Pharaoh. That’s me, I like those city-builders and I love ancient Egypt! Then later I got Cleopatra, for some reason, I don’t remember - maybe I bought it for my birthday or something. And last Christmas, I bought me Zeus on ebay - only paid $5 for it and I think $2 shipping and $1.30 insurance - $8.30 total - so that was totally cool. It was brand-new, never opened, and still had the price tag for like $59. Blows my mind why it was ever that expensive to begin with…. But then again, if you go to the official Zeus site and click buy now, it takes you to amazon.com and they are saying Poseidon is like $23 or something. At Sam’s the four disks are only $14 or $15. I love Sam’s. :-)
Enough babbling about games lol. But I still have not beat all of Zeus and I am going to do some troubleshooting cause I’m having to skip levels because I meet requirements for an action, but that action won’t occur.
N-E-Way…
Today Elijah and I went out to L’s for this homeschool nature journaling thing. She tricked me into it - I got there and she’s like, you’re helping with the preschoolers lol. I’m afraid I wasn’t much help though. It was just too much to lug Elijah around in the stroller and try to understand what she wanted me to do. But luckily P was there in charge - and all the moms were with their kids, so it was good. I had to drag his stroller up a hill though that was really pathless and rocky. It wasn’t too much fun until we got to the top and could come down the road. But he started to get crabby, so we left earlier than I probably normally would have stayed.
I ran into Steve on my way home, he’d worked in the area too and so I followed him almost all the way home (I had to make a stop at the PO though). It was kind of interesting because on my way up to Lynn’s, I saw him at McDonald’s. :-)
Then when I got home, I cooked - yes, cooked hehe. Made some Broccoli/Potato/Cheese Soup and Italian meatloaf (which was damn good if I do say so myself). Also made this dessert, but we haven’t had it yet because afterward we went out to his family’s house.
I was out there to install Norton 2004 on their computer (they recently got a new one). I did so and promptly had to remove some spyware! Arg what a trip. Last week or the week before, they had like 6 viruses that their factory-installed version of Norton had caught. A Trojan spy thingy and then another type of Trojan. What is people’s deal that they have to make viruses to ruin other people’s lives? I remember the time I opened a virus on the computer in the tv station where I worked. Talk about mayhem. It wasn’t a bad one though, it just crapped out all the *.jpg files on the computer at the time. I think it may have messed with something else, too, but the computer still ran fine. I was tricked into opening it though - somehow it made me believe that it was a *.txt file. And I kicked myself for months after that. I mean, how could I have been so stupid??? They found out later and the tech guys took care of it, never knowing where it came from lol.
11 hours, 57 minutes to go on my auction…. lol
Well… dunno what else to say…. probably should shut my big mouth though because this has already been a fairly long entry.
Waiting for Erin to go do her laundry and come back to the computer… should go do mine… yeah right…
ooooooh, I Dream of Jeanie is on…
Monthly Archive for October, 2003
Everyone stay away from my stuff on EBay. Lol - that’s all I have to say about that. Don’t outbid me or I’ll get ya!!
So I just set up Sheila one of these things, she should be writing her own first entry right about now. The address is http://younwhagirl.com/blog/ - we named it freakish findings. hehe [EDIT 07/04: she's now at her own domain, and it's called gibberish :) [/EDIT]
Steve’s up there with Elijah, who is also currently known as mr-crabby-butt, so I won’t be able to probably spend too much time here now. Plus I’m hungry so I gots to go get something to eat!
Went to church tonight - Elijah was a really good boy there, I was totally surprised. He made everyone laugh during invitational because he burped really loud during the song. After church and my meeting, I went over to the Rec Center to talk to Paul. Looks like we will be going along with the scavenger hunt on Friday after the Harvest Festival. We won’t, however, be going along for laser tag. It’s over the river in ILL and they won’t be back to Festus until around 7am. Since we have to be back in ILL by 9am, it’s just not a good idea. But Paul says he welcomes help with the youth, so there will be plenty of time for me to do something like that. :-)
Well I guess I’m gonna go eat ’cause I’m really hungry!!
Remember when I said Elijah was sleeping through the night? Well, I shoulda kept my big mouth shut!!! :-P
Today was boring….
I got up…
I fed the baby…
I cleaned a little bit…
I made some important phone calls…
I put him down to sleep…
He woke up right away…
He screamed in his bouncy seat…
He screamed in his swing…
I fed him again…
I put him down to sleep again…
He woke up right away again…
I took a nap with him…
Steve woke us up…
Steve fed the baby…
I made supper…
Steve left for some over-time work…
I talked on the phone with sleeping baby in my lap…
Steve came home…
I fed the baby…
I put the baby down to sleep…
He woke up right away…
I rocked the baby…
Steve rocked the baby…
I rocked the baby…
Steve went to bed…
I came to check my email…
Elijah fell asleep…
I put him in bed….
He didn’t wake up right away…
I wrote in blog…
I hope & pray that baby stays where he is - asleep.
I go to bed.
Good-night.
Elijah is finally asleep, and so I am going to write real quickly before I head to bed. I am beat. Last night we went to my cousin Rachel’s wedding reception. They were married three weeks ago in Vegas, so they had a reception for family back home. We enjoyed ourselves - it was great to see everyone - and I even learned more about Blackjack. :-) It was also nice to leave Elijah at Steve’s family’s house for a “night off.” That was the first time we have really left him anywhere. After the reception we had to go to Walmart to get some things for today. So we did not get home until after one, I believe.
Then I got up fairly early this morning and we got ready to head to see my great-grandmother. I love her to death, but I am not too fond of going there. She has Alzheimer’s and never remembers us. She was more responsive today than the last time I saw her, however. She said hi to us when we said hi and when my uncle asked her, “can you see the baby?” she said “yes.” So we took her picture with Elijah. I hope that in years to come he will treasure that - I mean, how many kids get to have their picture taken with their great-great-grandmother? Of course, I guess every year younger ones are made great-greats…
From there, we went to Elephant Rocks to eat lunch. I love that place, but not today. It seemed to have gotten colder from the time we left the house until then. And it kind of sprinkled rain a little bit here and there. Nothing too serious until after Steve and I left however. But I wished that I had brought a sweatshirt, I had a jacket but it’s just not the same sometimes. Could have stood to have a hat, too. Elijah wasn’t having too much fun there, I think at first he was cold, but then later I think he was bored. We had him bundled up in so much crap it was so funny. And he had his little hat with the long ties on - I love that hat - wish I had one for me. :-) So when everyone else went to walk the trail, we decided to go, it was just too cold and we didn’t want Elijah sick (or me, miss-I-don’t-seem-to-have-an-immune-system lol).
From there, we drove back to Pilot Knob and looked at Fort Davidson. As many times as I’ve been through PK, I’ve never been to the fort. So we took a quick look at it and drove around a little bit then headed home.
Tonight we change the clocks!! Yay!!!
Well gonna go now cause I am getting really tired…. :-)
Wow has Elijah been crabby today! Well, he started out okay, but after he refused to take a nap this afternoon he became increasingly crabby. Maybe he is cutting teeth or going through a growth spurt, who knows. But we do know that he does not have a fever, and he does seem to be eating more today than usual. So needless to say, I have not gotten much done today. Now he’s up there sleeping on the couch next to Steve who is watching the WWE. I was in there for a while, but I can only stand so much of that crap, hehe.
Okay my computer just beeped… and I can’t figure out why the heck for…. hmmm
I am reading an article about how yes homeschoolers are socialized. Duh. Been there, done that, knew it already. lol
Well tomorrow is my cousin R’s wedding reception. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone - haven’t seen most of them since the beginning of August, some since the end of August. Several have been asking about Elijah, so they will be happy to see how big he is now. When I saw them early August, he was only 2 weeks old and only like 6 or 6.5 lbs. Now he is probably double that!
Then Saturday we will be going to see my great-grandmother - I think I already mentioned that? Okay old news then.
Sunday is the baby dedication - mentioned that already, too.
Hmmmm…..
Oh - so I’ve been doing some bidding on Ebay these last few days. Found this really cool “old” book that I really wanted, contained some sketches of and stories about Ste. Genevieve & her old buildings. But this jerk went in and out bid me - his bid was literally 45 seconds before the auction closed. I checked my mail and saw I’d been outbid and went to remedy it and found it was closed - I was so mad. So I was bidding on a similar book (only it doesn’t have sketches) but it has become too rich for my blood. I think it ends here in an hour or so. But I do have winning bids so far for a Ste. Genevieve old postcard and for the Zeus expansion pack, Poseidon. :-) Hey a girl has a right to play a good game every now and then. I’ve got Ste. Genevieve saved in search so it emails me every time something comes up with those words as keywords - maybe I can get a good collection of old postcards. There were several last week, but I did not bid on any of them. Should have. Grrrr.
Well anyway I guess I could go now. I hear Elijah up there and Steve will probably be yelling for me in a minute!!
Well my computer is up and running again, but it is taking me forever to get everything reinstalled, redownloaded, etc. It drives me crazy to have to do this yet again. I’ve even had to download my websites because I’ve made a lot of changes to them since my last computer backup, two months ago! So once I get this thing back to where it should be, I will back it up again. Let’s just hope it doesn’t crash before then!!
I took Elijah to get his photos taken today. These would be his three month photos. We went to Walmart ’cause they’re cheap- it kinda adds up when you do it every month. So we are getting a ton of photos for a small price, and it’s a pretty good one too, he’s actually somewhat smiling. And then for another $10 I got them all on disk. That’s a pretty good deal, considering if I wanted to get a 8×10 (or similar sheet) of every photo besides the two we’re already getting, it would cost me another $100. They do the package for cheap, but after that ever sheet is $20 a piece. So on disk, I at least get one of each. The only problem is the shots on my disk are screwed up - they’re really whitewashed. So I called back and she said that they’ve been having problems and that they will get me another disk. She said that they got a bad batch of disks (floppies) and that’s the problem - I don’t think that’s right - the disk works, it’s just the pictures are whitewashed. All I can say is that the photos better not come back that way!!
Anyway other than that my day has not been too eventful…
Well I did call the church and talk to P about helping with the website… and set up our baby dedication for this Sunday (we’re way behind in this)… also found out that someone, who must have been stalking it, registered my grandpa’s website after it fully expired before we could get it back. Ticks me off, too because now it’s just a page of links. It’s like they were waiting for it to fully expire so they could buy it, which is what I was doing. They registered it on SATURDAY!! Blah. But all I have to say is that I tried my hardest, and losing the domain in the first place was not my fault. I told them from the beginning to change the contact info to them from me, and when I was getting the “your domain is going to expire in n days” emails, I forwarded them all to them. So this is not my fault. If it’s not my fault… Why do I feel so bad about this? Oh well, hopefully they will figure out something to do instead.
I guess Saturday I will be going down to see Grandma J at the Home with everyone else. Then we’ll be going to Elephant Rocks. I love that place. :-) It will be so neat to get Elijah’s picture with Grandma J - she is his great-great-grandmother!! I don’t know if Steve will be going with me or not, he had some plans in the works, so he has yet to decide which to do.
Okay, well I guess I am going to go to bed now, because Elijah’s been asleep for an hour now, so I guess he’s not going to wake up. A lot of times, I lay him down and he’s up again in 10 or 15 or 30 minutes; you never can tell. But he’s been doing real well since Saturday night, once he gets to sleep, he’s actually been sleeping through the night. Actually, these last two mornings, I’ve had to wake him up and feed him, because it’s been like 8 and nearly 10 hours that he’s been asleep! It was like he turned 3 months and the light switch went on telling him to sleep through! So I hope it stays this way - I’m getting the best sleep I have had since before I ever got pregnant! hehe.
Once again, and I am so mad, my computer has crashed. I was just minding my own business last night, checking my email, when I started getting some errors and it locked up. So I restarted, no big deal, right? Well then it will not restart, not even in safe mode can I get this computer to come on. So I tried everything. Even scan disk and virus checks locked up. Finally, late into the night, I got the virus check finished - no viruses. And the checker is up to date, too, it updates itself every week. I ended up reformatting it, but that is not working right either. When I run scandisk, it’s showing at least two bad clusters - one of which it says runs the Windows System folder. So I’m screwed I guess. I wonder if this has anything to do with when the power went out last week. I was on the computer at the time and the lights started flashing and appliances humming until they finally went out. Now that I think about it, I think it’s been acting pretty funny since then. And I haven’t really used it that much since then either, I don’t think.
But what really makes me mad is that the other day I took a few minutes to back up all my folders in Outlook and downloaded all the backups to my websites but I didn’t yet get to put them on a cd like I usually do every month. My last backup cds are dated 8-6. So ARG that means I lost a ton of stuff. I’m hoping that most things I can get back however. But there are some website favorites I needed and I found some Ste. Genevieve stuff for my website that is now gone and I can’t get it back (long story) and of course all emails are now gone. Ironic thing is, the week before last, I forwarded all emails I wanted to save out of my Yahoo account onto my Outlook. The idea was from there to always have a back-up on cd. Which I guess I would have had if I were not an idiot. So all that is gone now. Emails I have saved for years that I needed, important ones concerning my website, etc. I only have now what I had gotten in the last 7 days from Saturday on my PocketPC, it doesn’t even contain the ones I had just collected before the computer crashed, the PPC didn’t have time to sync with the computer. So anyone out there who has emailed me since, say, Friday, please do so again. Either account is fine, I can collect holifieldweb through Yahoo.
Arg
Arg
Arg
Arg
But I am thinking that this computer is shot. I want a new one anyway. Someone out there want to give me some money for a new one? (Please?) lol. *sigh*
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