I Know That's Right!

You never know where you'll find her*, but she'll speak to you just the same. Maybe it's when you crawl into bed, or put on your shoe, or go searching through your sock drawer that she just turns up and startles you, making your heart rate go up a couple of notches.

Just know that we've got some incriminating photos of her, should you ever have a need for blackmail - and the scarecrow is willing to talk.

*Stealthily hiding Gloria the hippo from Madagascar, who says three phrases (including, "I know that's right!") at the slightest movement, is a favorite pastime of E3's.

Thanks To Carlos

I'm back! Online from my usual computer, with no delays, no freeze-ups, no weird stuff. We owe it all to Carlos.

Okay, not ALL of it. Rob tried his best, AND when he realized it was beyond his usually-more-than-sufficient computer knowledge he called in a bigger gun.

Life- it's all about knowing when to ask for help, right?

So, we'd like to give a big shout out to Carlos at pcULTRAcare. If you need online support services, Carlos is your man. Plus, he's got a March sale going on now!

Rob reports, "Carlos is the proprietor of the establishment and worked extremely diligently on our problem. He was friendly, cooperative and easy to understand." All things vital when trying to troubleshoot a computer online and over the phone. From customer service to a long, arduous fight with a deeply buried virus, to chatting with Rob after the fact, he was a fine example of how a service provider should treat his customers.

We've had the speakers turned up at this computer so we could hear various dings and such as Carlos was working away and I tell you, last night around midnight when I heard the sound of Windows shutting down for a re-start I nearly ran down here to see if I could check my email.

I didn't though - Carlos fixed my computer, not my love of abundant sleep.

My Saga Of Woe Continues

Our computer is being held hostage by a virus. Rob has been working feverishly to figure just what is going on so he can look online for a fix, but last night he had to call in back-up in the form of online assistance. Hopefully, I'll be back down there in my usual spot soon.

I've been checking my email remotely from our upstairs computer here - it's the computer the kids use for playing games, listening to music, and checking their email, but it randomly shuts down. My more frequent use of it of late has us realizing how much it shuts down...or maybe it's bailing out more often because we're using it more...who knows. But we might take it in for a look-see when all is well with the other computer.

So, I'm checking my email, and my yahoo email, as well as quick run-throughs on Facebook. But I don't have my address book, my calendar, or my favorites up here, so if email addresses, or website addresses aren't somehow lodged in my brain I'm not able to visit (Glenda, Ali, Julia, and anyone else, please email your blog addresses to NrolvesATyahooDOTcom - thanks!)

Of course, I can't move any photos from my camera to the computer either. And naturally, there are many that I think I'd love to post here...nice excuse for blog slackerness that I can't, eh? The basement room we've been working on is nearly finished, for example, but you all will just have to wait to see the final results.

I'm still having major post-nasal drip from my cold which was over a month ago. I have no photos of this. You're welcome.

In the meantime, I'll share a recipe we created this week. Inspired by some WELL past it's prime Chex snack mix that isn't 'peanut okay' for E3, we mixed up a snack mix of yummy things she likes based on the items I had in the pantry.

E3's Snack Mix

Mix equal parts of:

Quaker Oatmeal Squares cereal (we like the brown sugar flavor)
Honey Nut Cheerios
Teddy Grahams, chocolate chip flavor

The mix was such a hit that we made a large batch and brought it to yesterday's family visit to Aunt Amy in honor of her birthday (which is today - Happy Birthday, Amy! If you're her 'friend' on facebook go say HI.), but this time we added:

Rold Gold tiny twist pretzels

Snack away, my friends

Time To Get Some Air In Those Tires

Spring is coming!