Catching Up

Yesterday I got up with the thought that I would start catching up on the things I had been putting off for so long. But first my husband came to me and said the computer was down...could I take a look at it. Windows wouldn't load and all we had was a black screen with bad news on it. After about 1 1/2 hours of poking and prodding and rebooting I finally got Windows to load. Not the way I wanted to start my day of catching up. By now I'm quite agitated and need to take a break (of course lol).

My next thing to do was pre-register our bookings for the cruise we are taking...the family Christmas present this year. The 1st booking went through fine, printed out the fun pass and on to the next. The next one was for the kids. Couldn't get the computer to accept them no matter what. So I emailed my sister and she said this was a common problem they had too. So I called the Cruise lines and they "fixed" it for me so I could finish. OK, that's done.

I was also going to call the insurance company and try and figure out the changes they are making to our policy but wasn't up to it by this time. Was going to do that this morning but was confronted with another problem. Yes, the computer again.

Last night at 10:30 the digital TV, phones and our computer all stopped working. This has happened about 6 times in the past month. Everything goes out at 10:30 and comes back on the next morning at about 10:00. Of course at 10:30 I'm starting to relax and watch TV and catch up on my you tube, my space, facebook etc. Doesn't look like that was going to happen so I went to bed and was hoping it would be working when I woke up this morning. Well, it didn't but it was only 7:30. I called Time Warner and told them the problem so they are having someone come out today and check it out. I laid down until 10:00 and got back up to check things out and sure enough everything is working again. I don't know what goes on between 10:30 pm and 10:00 am that makes everything quit working. Hopefully the technician will figure it out today.

So anyway, don't know if I'm going to fight the insurance company today or not. But besides that I have about 6 months of paperwork to catch up for my husbands business (don't tell him lol). Since it's the end of the year I need to put it in high gear and get these numbers caught up. I will continue to work on that today.

Besides all that I have a million things going through my head of what I need to do. Thinking of what we need to pack for the cruise. Wondering if I can take my pillow lol. I can only sleep on my pillow, I might have to settle on taking the pillow case and hope that will be good enough. I need to go to the grocery store but I really hate to do that. I like Melissa to go with me but she's been too busy lately so I'm on my own.

Today it looks like I'll be working on paperwork since I have to be here for the cable man. What a fun day...I'm sure I'll get sidetracked along the way somewhere!

Thanksgiving

This year we stayed home and had Thanksgiving at our house. Melissa and I cooked dinner and Chris and Kelly came in from Houston to visit. It was very nice, we hadn't seen Chris and Kelly for over a month so it was great they were here with us. Next year it's Kelly's turn to cook lol!!

They did it!!!

Brooke and Derek won the DWTS Championship this year!! Well deserved I might add! Congratulations!!

Getting ready to cruise!

Vacation planning complete! It will be me, my husband, Chris and his wife Kelly, Archer and Melissa. Melissa wanted to bring her boyfriend but I had to say no lol. I'm really looking forward to going on this cruise, I've been wanting to for a long time. I hope it's as enjoyable as I've always imagined it would be.

Vacation Planning

Okay, tomorrow I am going to quit procrastinating and start doing research for the cruise we want to take in December while the kids are on break. It's #1 on my list of things to do so I should get to it lol. Archer has said he doesn't want to go but hopefully we can talk him in to it. Melissa has asked if her boyfriend can go in Archer's place lol. We will probably see if my oldest son and his wife want to join us also. So I'm hoping to find some good deals. I'll be checking in with my sister for her opinion, she's an expert at planning cruises. Hmm, maybe I should just have her plan this one lol.

DWTS update

Dance #1 Cha Cha

Dance #2 Quickstep

Dance #3 Paso Doble

Dance #4 Viennese Waltz

Brooke and Derek have come in 1st place on the judges leader board for the 1st 4 dances.

My new cell phone

Very nice phone but the lavendar color was the selling point lol.

DWTS Season 7

Yes, it's back. DWTS season 7 starts Monday September 22. I don't know why but this is my favorite program to watch. Maybe because I always wanted to be able to dance and never could. This is my favorite couple this season so wish them well.

Vacation??

My husband has decided that we should take a vacation in December. He wants to go on a cruise (Jackie, if you're reading this I need your help since you are the expert). But I wasn't real excited about it because of finances and he got a little annoyed. Like I said before, my brain left for vacation without me so I am having a hard time thinking lol. So I'm supposed to be researching this and the first part of the research is emailing my sister. Which I will do as soon as I post this blog. Time's a wasting so off I go!

What happened to August?

I just noticed that I didn't blog anything for August. And September is half over already. It's not that there isn't anything happening, it's just that my brain seems to have gone on vacation without me.

School started in August. Melissa is a sophmore in High School and Archer is a Freshman in College. Archer is loving College...making a lot of friends and having a great time. Melissa is doing good in school but she doesn't like the school she's going to. It has over 2000 kids there and is just too big. She wants to go to a magnet school instead. We'll see how she feels next week.

I got a new cell phone this week. A lavender phone that came with everything but the kitchen sink. Of course all I use it for is to call out and receive calls. But I loved the color and it was a free upgrade so what the heck. Who knows, someday I might want to take some pictures, film a video, listen to mp3, surf the web or use some of the other options that I have no idea how to use.

So as you can see, not much is happening here. Just life going on from one day to the next.