Well, after having to struggle with my broken escape key (thanks to emma deciding to have a little fun and pulling it off, and breaking one of the little hooky type things to the hinge itself on the keypad or whatever) I FINALLY have a new one. I had thought about not replacing it at all but I gave in.

I went to the HP website in hopes of maybe being able to find a replacement but according to them, I had to send my laptop back to them for a whole new KEYBOARD. And now looking at it, maybe that might not be such a bad idea. My laptop is now a year old.. well soon to be a year old and my keys are looking quite worn. LOL

Anyway, I thought NO WAY am I going to send it back for a whole new keyboard. The cost of the money factored in, until I was told that it wouldn’t cost me anything, but this IS HP we are talking about. I didn’t believe it. I didn’t want to be without my precious shiney for any length of time.

So I looked on Ebay, hoping that maybe I could find the key I needed there and I just so happened to find one. However, for some reason, the first one never arrived (at least I don’t think it did) and I finally in the last day or two FINALLY got it. Now I have a fully functioning keyboard again and I couldn’t be happier.

I was a bit nervous about Ebay, though many people swear by it, just because you really never know what you may (or may not) get.

Anyways, I am really appreciative to the Seller and I thank him for sending me a lovely new key!

Wow, I really can’t believe the end of 2008 is already upon us! It seems like just yesterday when the world was going crazy with worry about everything going beserk at the turn of the millenium, and here we are, nothing major happened, and its nine years later! It’s just crazy.

2008 has been a tumultous year for everyone. I am glad it’s coming to a close.

In 2008, Ian lost his job for no good reason mind you, (wishes there was some lawsuit we could slap against that family…..ugh) and because of the state of the economy we both have not been able to find any decent employment, despite all the want ads we see in the paper.

Ian’s currently collecting unemployment and that will soon run out. We are in a very tough spot right now financially because hands are tied and there’s no way to move. So completely and utterly frustrating!

I hope to ring in the New Year with a bang and hope good things come out of this mess we (and many others) are in.

Have a safe and happy end to 2008 and may 2009 bring good things to you all!

Current Mood: Grr

Well, after coming to my little site here and not being able to get logged in, I had to email wordpress support for a new password.  Well according to them considering that my site is not hosted on their server they were unable to help me.  Ok, so explain to me why the email for lost password didn’t come in then?  *shrug*  Anyways, they did finally e-mail me back, and gave me a few different options of manually changing the password, which I was finally able to do, and successfully mind you.  I think when I upgraded, I may have screwed things up somewhere along the way.  Hopefully, when the new version comes out, I will upgrade and do it properly.  Until then, I am not going to worry about it.

I’m considering rejoining the Quilting Bee, I love the little bee club, I just haven’t had time to dedicate to it. Really should think about adding that to my New Years Resolutions…

Current Mood: Sleep

Well, since the site was down for a short time due to my current financial situation, I decided that I would treat myself to renewing of my domain. Thanks to Becky, I was able to recover everything without a loss. I am so glad she didn’t remove my site from her server. She is really the best! If you aren’t familiar with Becky or her hosting services, I suggest you check her out. Her link is in my credits section.

Now that I am back, I have upgraded my wordpress software and with it is a new theme! Credit is in the credit section as well.

Hopefully, I can find the inspiration to keep this place up in the upcoming year. I may even set a new years resolution. Do any of you do that? I haven’t for a long time because I find that I never keep them, but there are a few I would love to do.

One of them being maintaining this site that I pay for each and every month and losing weight. I know I need to lose weight, and it can only make me feel so much better about myself, but I severally lack motivation. Even though my apartment complex has a small gym for its residents. Maybe… Maybe I should utilize that huh?

Anyways, eventually, I will clean out my space and get rid of stuff that I no longer need here. I also have some projects in the works but they are super top secret and I can’t reveal that just yet. But when I do, you will be the first to know!

OOOOO! I also got some new siggies over Christmas, and I will get them all uploaded very soon!

Thank you to all of you who provided sigs for me! I love them!

Current Mood: Sleep

Yes… It IS that time of year again, isnt it? Where we all beautify our pretty little sites just in time for the holidays. It seems that this comes earlier every year doesnt it? Didn’t we just carve pumpkins and hand out little chocolatey goodies? Yes, I think we did. Anyways, alright, so I got bit by the xmas bug myself. I always tend to do this. Never blog, never make any pixels, and yet I still find myself dedicated to keeping this domain. I think its because I have a little bit of everything on this site, that I have to much to go to photobucket or tiny url or any of the other free image hosts.

But if I did that, then I couldn’t display all my pretty little things freely could I? Or host some pretty unique forums either. Speaking of, I am in the process of making a new RP forum and you can find it here : Sunset Beach

I’ll clean up and add everything in a day or so. So tired and off to bed. Ciao for now!

Thats all for now!

Current Mood: Smile

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Current Mood: Sleep

You know, i really should probably update this more than I should huh? I should, i know I should, but my life is so mundane. Things have finally settled down with the ex, with an occassional burst every now and again, its barely worth mentioning these days. But eh, whatever.

I also have some tween drama going on. My daughter Sadi is now in the 7th grade, and has her first official back to school dance and she even has a date! The kids name is Elliott and we havent even met, and until tonight, I never even seen a picture of him!

Sadi told me that she was asked by another boy if she was going to the dance, and she said that she was and was going with her “boyfriend”. The “boyfriend” who she doesn’t see OUTSIDE of school! All they do is text apparently. *eyeroll* I suppose I should take comfort in the fact that she doesn’t see him outside of school. Well anyway, I’m getting off on a tangent huh? Why yes. Yes I am. Anyway, I told her he was totally wanting to ask her to to go with him, and her BFF thought the same thing. The way the story got told to me was that it had seemed like he was a bit disappointed that she was going with someone else.

My b-day was two days ago, and I got some really cute sigs from the girls at TMC! I’ll get those uploaded for your viewing pleasure. I have so many sigs, and haven’t updated my sig site in so long, I’ll probably have to redo that completely so I can make sure I got all my sigs uploaded and placed properly.

I also have been a very bad member of Tanya is Crazy. Not bad persay, just not staying up on things like I should be. Which reminds me, I probably should go order this weeks tags while I am thinking about it.

Take care all.

Thanks to Stephie for the bee-uati-ful theme.

I came across www.tanyaiscrazy.com and I just fell in love with her graphics, that I registered for a 3 month membership. I really need to organize my little site here, and add a seperate location for all my memberships. Speaking of which, I bought myself a new membership from Stephie at Odd Pixels, and I got lots of new goodies. I might work on a new theme for this site, but I really love the look of this one. Eh, I’m so indecisive. LOL

Anyway, here’s a sneaky peek at one of my favorites I ordered thus far.

Current Mood: Cheerful

So for the last several years, at least since Harry Potter became well Harry Potter, I was bit by the roleplaying bug. I never really got into it, or got its meaning till now. Well I should say, I had a completely different idea of what it was than what it REALLY was.

Recently, as an attempt to get to the heart of my girl Abigail, I was by someone that “the way I see it she is a barbie doll marching through threads.” to which I of course associated her to be like some sort of GI Joe type girl, complete with the camoflauge and black steel toed boots. Well anyway, I utilized the http://www.eclectics.com/articles/character.html and let me tell you, that is extensive and detailed. Some of the questions were hard for me to answer, I saved the chart and answered most of the questions, which allowed me to discover that my girl Abigail is not some GI Joe type princess but a very neurotic scared yet playful female, who just wants to do whats right for herself. So thats Abby in a nutshell.

It was a very worthwhile project, even though it took a good long while, (part of that had to do with my own procrastination) but it was so completely worth it in the end, when just last night, i did a new bio for her, and was told by the two pickiest women I know that her bio was good, and that she was solid, brought such a smile to my face, had made the whole journey well worth it.

So if you do rp, and need some help with fleshing out, and just getting to your character, use that chart. It asks a lot of questions so you can get to the heart of your character, you can feel them breath, you will know what makes them happy, what makes them sad, what makes them they way they are.

Ok…so here i am again, blogging for the first time in over a month. Just a small blog this time. I am on the lookout for a new theme, not that I don’t love this one, I do, so much in fact, but I think i am in need of a change. I got another one from Val and have tried to modify it, and I will get it done I think in a few days.

I have been so busy playing a new game that came on my new shiney. *pets lappy* That’s right, my wish came true and I have finally gotten myself a lappy. My hubby liked it so much that he even went out and got one for himself. Course, this is coming from the same man who saw no need for a laptop. *eyeroll*.

So anyway, the game is called Virtual Villagers, which is a village simulator where you care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. The object of the game is to grow a small village in your computer: your little villagers need to become farmers, builders, researchers, and parents and make decisions on unpredictable island events! As the village grows and prospers, the villagers become curious about their mysterious island home and the secrets it holds. Aside from guiding the villagers’ day-to-day lives, the player helps them to explore and restore the island.

After a couple of tries before, I have finally managed to do rather well this time around. Unfortunately, my last two attempts wiped out my food supply, before i could obtain new food sources, and thereby causing my tribe to pass. this time around the tribe is flourishing and I have a population of 20. More teens than adults, but thats the point. I havent had any die yet, and my original crew is getting up there in age.

Do check it out if you like that kind of thing.

In other news, I am also looking to be hosted by Valerie, who is the author of this theme, so we shall see how that goes. OMG!! I am hardly EVER on this late, and she just signed in.

I should go talk to her!

Take care!