Happy New Year everyone! Ok, yeah it's still about 3 hrs away yet. I hope this year is the best for everyone. I know mine is starting to look pretty good so far. Of course it will only take one thing to screw it up. But my New Years resolution is to not look at things so negatively so I'll just say that it's going to be a great New Years! I've got ( Read more... )

Well South Dakota's been having a time of it lately. First we have the blizzard of the century where the eastern side of the state was mainly without power. Power poles were snapped off like toothpicks. There are still people out there that haven't had power for at least 10 days. Normally it wouldn't be that bad but the temperature the last couple ( Read more... )

Update on the computer. It had been shutting down at random times but suddenly decided to pay attention and fly right. Huh. Of course I probably just jinxed myself. It's sooo much faster than my old 'puter. I'm going to have to try some graphics stuff just to see what it will do. Or spell check this huge doc that I've got that really slowed the old ( Read more... )

Ah, the day after my birthday and I have survived! The day before my birthday was a little stressful in that my 80gig hard drive failed and the race was on to save the data. Luckily, we were able to do that. Now I'm trying to restore all that I've (let's not say "lost" just misplaced for the time). Now the trick is to access the computer that ( Read more... )

Well here I am, waiting for M's plane to get in. It's about an hour and a half away yet so I don't have to leave for the airport yet. He should have been home last night but they canceled his flight out of Seatac. Crap. Also, yesterday the "Check engine" light came on. According to the manual, either I didn't put the gas cap on right, used bad gas ( Read more... )

Ok. This is something I didn't see coming. There's this guy in my apartment complex, I've been running into him for awhile now. He stopped to talk to me while I was doing laundry the other night and asked if I'd be interested in having a fish fry with him as he's been doing all this fishing. Well, I said "Yes". He asked for my phone number and I ( Read more... )

Last night I gave myself my first "did it myself" injections. Piece of cake. I can't see that this is going to be a problem at all. Probably should go make something to eat. I figured out my budget and it is pure hell. Damn. I'm thinking I might have to break down and get a second job. I had everything worked out and then I got slammed with all ( Read more... )

Thought I'd better update before I totally forgot my username. Nothing exciting has been going on here. I'm being taught to give my own allergy injections due to the fact that I can't stand to spend an hour waiting in the clinic to get a 2 second shot. Ok, that's 4 seconds because I get two of them. Ok, yeah. They tested me for allergies on 25 ( Read more... )

Got braces today. Everyone said how much it was going to hurt but I'm really not feeling anything other than pressure. I think the inside of my mouth is going to be raw shortly but other than that no worries.

The Sturgis rally is over for another year. Yay! The most unusual sight this year was the campground that was flying an Australian flag. I wonder if it was the whole camp or just one camper? Anyway, whoever it was should be recognized for coming the furthest. Other than that, the usual suspects were in attendance. Couple of times I wanted to bleach ( Read more... )