Mom’s Musings

It’s been two-and-a-half months since I’ve posted on the old blog-ola. I simply must break the ice and start posting again, even if it’s only a list of mama-bragging:

• Dear daughter Kayla and her best friend Emmy Lou left today for the Mediterranean, to spend three months traveling in Europe. Kayla has taken her watercolors, paper and pens and hopes to keep an artistic diary of the trip. Have a memorable adventure, Dearie, but keep your wits about you at all times.
  
• Son Seth graduates from 8^th grade this evening and will be singing an original song during the ceremony. Congratulations, Seth!
  
• Daughter Rebecca graduates from high school tomorrow evening. Additionally, she has already completed one year of studies at the community college, medical tech prep, and Certified Nursing Assistant studies. Way to go, Sweetie!
  
• Daughter Lydia has been accepted as a Running Start student, so as an 11^th grader she will begin her full-time college studies in the fall. She tested in at English 101.
  
• Daughter Debra has decided to attend the community college on a part-time basis in the fall, having tested in at English 100 level. She plans to continue with her volunteer work at our local library.
  

 

Don’t let me get started talking about the grandchildren, or telling you about the adventures of my rascally old mom who recently moved to a full-care nursing facility. This wee post may suffice for now.

We are a six-computer household. This isn’t as surprising as you might think, since we were (before some of the children grew up ALL OF A SUDDEN) an eleven-person household.

Up until just recently, one of the computers was the Server computer. We each had our own profiles, which we could open on any computer in the house. We could store all photos in one location, and all of us could access them. Only the Administrator of the Server (meaning one of the uber-computer-savvy members of the family) could make major changes to the system. I became accustomed to this system, and knew how to use it.

About two months ago, the Server computer died of old age. Alas, the motherboard went bad. Since then, my husband has been doing “lots of things” to my laptop, to his computer, etc. He says we will now have Workgroups rather than a Domain, and no more floating profiles. Someday we will be able to share files again.

This weekend, our oldest son, who is generous with his computer-savvy-ness, is coming home to put the finishing touches on the new system. For example, I want to be able to publish from Word again. I know that I use a WordPress template, but we have our own “space” rented from Dreamhost. I just don’t know enough to provide the proper info to set it up again. Sigh. I must be patient. I’ll try to watch my son very carefully, maybe even take notes, so that I increase my computer-savvyness quotient.

My husband succeeded in making my pictures (just the ones stored on this laptop, not all the old photos) accessible again, so I hope to do a PhotoStory Friday post later today.

Did I mention that we no longer have our little digital camera? It died a wet death when a sailboat on which it was riding went belly-up. My daughter has a nice camera, though, so I’ll borrow her pictures once in a while for the old blog.

Thanks for your patience with fewer posts, due to technical difficulties. Soon all systems should be GO!

I am up way too early this morning. I got up because of coughing (I’m much better, actually), and to get a sip of water. Then . . . I remembered that I had washed Seth’s football jersey, pants, and pads, but hadn’t gotten them out to air dry before going to bed. “OK,” I thought. “I’ll just quickly do that.”

First, though, I needed to fold the load of laundry that was occupying the drier.

Then I thought about what an overwhelmingly busy day this day promises to be, so I thought, “I’ll quickly check my email.”

Of course, that led to checking my Facebook account, and how my (Lil) Green Patch was doing and if anyone had stolen my rainbow. Indeed, my rainbow was missing. First I needed to stock up on virtual gardening supplies before embarking on the quest for my rainbow. Thankfully, it was quickly found.

Since I was online (for just a few moments), I quickly checked Google Reader as well, and read what a few friends had just published on their blogs. One friend’s post reminded me that I want to do a Thursday 13 post today; she already had hers up in the wee hours of the morning! So, I started a post, but it ended up too serious for my liking. I saved it, but decided not to publish.

I need to be up for the day in 30 minutes. First, though, I’m posting this silly account of what I did, and kept doing, when I should have been sleeping the past hour.

Hope you all have a good day, and that you got plenty of rest during the night.

Dear friends who keep checking to see if I’ve posted anything for the day:

I do plan to do a nice post today, including pictures.

We had a wonderful day yesterday, but I was too busy and too tired by the end of the day to post anything. Suffice it to say, we went to two picnics, AND it did not rain! The sky looked threatening for a while, but the weather was perfect for the day (which for me means: not too hot!).

We did see an interesting sign while we were out and about, which said: MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU! With that I wish you a belated happy 4th of July!