Back online....finally!

I am glad to report that I am finally back online at home! We bought a new computer over the weekend. We decided to get another desktop since we really have no use for a laptop yet. My computering takes place on my desk in my computer room that I finally got all set up looking nice with my desk that took hubby 5 years to put together. Why would I want to put a computer on my lap?? I guess that's why they call them 'lap'tops. If you put a laptop on a desk, then wouldn't it be a desktop???.....or a tabletop if you put them on a table?? Hmmmmmmm......

Of course, it is very limited looking for desktops because they are slowly being phased out by laptops and the new type of desktops that have all the modem stuff inside the monitor, eliminating the need for that "thing that sits on the floor" as I call it. And those are very pricey. We went to several stores and were lucky to find a few standard desktops in each store. I hope this one lasts as long as my other one did because the next one will have to be a laptop type since the old desktops won't be available.....they will be gone like all the old tube TV's.

I was perfectly happy with my Windows XP and now I have to get use to this Windows 7 that they are selling. I hate CHANGE! I don't like having to get use to something new. I can't find anything. I have no idea where Wordpad is. I can't find the screen savers, so my screen goes black after awhile when I'm not using it. The fonts are so small I can barely read anything. My typing area here is half the page and before it was the whole page. I'm sure I can do something with the fonts but I have to figure that out first. My speakers don't work and everything is so quiet. I guess I have to buy new speakers. The keyboard is similar to a laptop and I like my other bigger clickety, click keyboard. This keyboard lays flat and I like it angled slightly. I'll have to find something to lift up the top end a bit. I'm use to having different things I would click on at the top of the screen and they aren't there now. There's no Yahoo mail thingy. When I click the 'home' thingy, I get taken to Internet Explorer instead of my usual start page like before. Everything is so f'ng different!! and I hate new things....

Okay, so what else is new?? Son hasn't heard anything about the house he wants. I know there are other offers on it and I think his offer is probably too low.

OH OH OH!!.....I am a big "Days of Our Lives" fan, and over the weekend two of the stars were appearing at several Art Van locations. Daniel and Chloe!! I went to the Saturday location and saw them but I forgot my freakin' camera so I didn't bother getting in line. So Sunday, I went to the Novi Art Van and took my camera. I took pictures of them and then decided to get in line so I could meet them, get their autograph pictures and have someone take a picture of me with them. It was so awesome. While I was in line, the other ladies and I were all talking about the show and what's going on and our ideas of what we think is going to happen, etc. The line moved swiftly. I was at the very end with only a few people behind me when they cut off the line. They are here doing charity work for a HOMELESS SHELTER, helping HOMELESS PEOPLE!!!....They were here a couple months ago with 3 others from the show doing charity work for the Detroit Rescue Mission which I support and send checks to periodically, and this time they were helping the Genesis House in Detroit. "Daniel" (Shawn Christian) is from Michigan. So when it was my turn to meet them, I told them how happy I was to hear that they are involved with helping the homeless because I support the DRM also and try and help homeless people, too. They said they wish there were more people like me in the world!!! I got both their autograph pictures and I gave my camera to an Art Van guy and he took a picture. I'll have to post it when I get it downloaded. It was so exciting. Shawn is super cute and sexy as hell and Nadia (Chloe) is so beautiful and thin!! She has a gorgeous complexion.....and they both put their arms around me for the picture....I almost fainted!

So that was my exciting weekend...

Tomorrow I am leaving for Caseville again for a week. Then I'll come back and get ready to start my tax job. I hope the weather stays somewhat nice. Of course, I'm taking my 'babies'.....Keno and Mini Sue.

....oh and talking about Keno....he got out of the yard again! We couldn't figure out how he did it. We were afraid that he climbed the cyclone fence which he hasn't attempted yet. So when I put him out again, I watched him. He went to the back corner of the property where the back fence meets the neighbor's side fence and there was a gap and he started to slip through but I called him and he came back. That area is usually so full of brush and crap that you can't even see the corner in the summer, but now it is all bare and he spotted it. We think that when that tree fell on the fence a few years ago, it must have pulled the post away and left a gap that we weren't aware of. Hubby fixed it so there's no opening now. Boy, if there is a spot anywhere, Keno will find it! He is like a Houdini.

That's about it.....til next time...

Ciao