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Getting ready for the long weekend

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My husbands cousin just dropped by for a visit. He works in a car dealership and repair shop so he’s always driving a new car. Perks of the job. Must be nice, eh!

He was just dropping by for a few minutes to pick something up from our house and check on plans for our big family reunion weekend that’s coming up on Sunday. While he was here he was showing me the latest car that he’s driving. It happens to be an Audi. It’s all supped up – right down to the audi tt custom floor mats that he just got for it. As I said earlier – must be nice!

It seems like every time I talk to someone from my husband family they say they’re going to be at the party on Sunday so I guess it’s going to be quite a big gathering! We’d better get there early to help the in laws! My husband went to their house this past weekend to put up a big outdoor party tent. Hopefully we don’t get any big storms that blow it over before the party!

I wish this migraine would go away

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My head is aching this week! I don’t know if it’s the weather or just me. It’s probably me since I suffer from some pretty severe migraines, but they’ve been better in the last few months – until now I suppose.

In the last 24 hours my head has been aching so bad I can barely do anything. Other than going out to the doctor for a scheduled appointment all I’ve been able to do is rest on the couch with an icepack on my head. I have shooting pains in the back of my head and sometimes I have visual disturbances – migraine auras that are something like the code picked up by a barcode scanner. All I want is for this migraine to disappear.

Perhaps if a thunderstorm starts up my migraine will go away once the storm passes?

Waiting to feel better …

Oh and speaking of storms .. when I am feeling better I’ll tell you about the tree that fell on my house a week and a half ago!

Wracking my brain trying to fix my laptop

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Wow, I can’t believe that I’ve spent something like 9 days trying to fix my laptop!


I thought I’d finally figured out what was wrong and fixed it completely two days ago and then I got the black screen of death and audioses.dll error messages. Now I’m working with my old laptop which is slow as molasses, but still faster than my “new” laptop which takes 45 minutes to load. I’ve been trying to fix the audioses.dll driver problem … but if I can’t get it fixed in the next two hours or so I think I’m going to finally give in and wipe the hard drive and re-install windows.

I’m so thankful that I made recovery disks when the new Laptop arrived back in February! I just hope that they work!

Man if I were a drinker (I’m not I’m not!) I think I’d be looking for some effective alcohol rehab treatment centers!

Seriously … I’m surprised that I’m not bald and that I’m still sane after the week I’ve had trying to fix my computer. When my husband came home yesterday after being out of town for three days he asked me how he could help and I told him he could help me roll the car over and over the laptop. Yes at that point I was losing it … but the black screen of death had just made it’s first appearance after I thought I’d fixed the computer once and for all so I think that was understandable.

Wish me luck on fixing the computer!

My tasty dinner plan

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My husbands out of town tonight and I’m on my own for dinner. It’s starting to get a little late for dinner but I think I’ve come up with an idea as to what I want for dinner.

You see … I’ve already got some herb and wild rice made up in the fridge, and there’s also some fresh corn on the cob that I can just pop into the microwave for a few minutes to cook.

All I need is an entree. Lucky for me, I happen to have some frozen chicken “tornados” in the freezer. They’re chicken patties? wrapped in bacon and their perfect for cooking on the electric grill which is just what I plan to do with mine. Yum. Now doesn’t that sound like a perfect meal?

Oh and I even have some desert. I happen to have some raspberry canes in my backyard and they’re producing lovely raspberries right now. I have just enough for a small bowl after my meal. I’m looking forward to tasting them.

The start of another Staycation

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My husband has next week off work. No he’s not on holiday. Unfortunately he’s on temporary lay off from work, but you know what, we’re going to treat it like a holiday. We’re just not going to spend much money – because we don’t have any to spend!

I realized the other day that we haven’t brought our dog to the dog beach yet this year. We normally bring her several times each summer. It’s very odd that we haven’t brought her to Cherry beach yet. So … unless the weather is bad on Monday I think we’re going to go to the beach. Chris and I can camp out on the sand and Midnight can frolic in the water like she loves to do.

Maybe later in the week we’ll get the hitch bike racks on the car and take our bikes to a park with some great bike trails and go for a really good bike ride. If my knee can handle it of course.

I guess you’d call this a staycation. Oh and the Beaches Jazz Festival is on right now, with the Beaches Street Jazzfestival being on next week when my husband is off … so well definitely go and do that. We can even bring the dog to that one if we want. So this is ok. It’s great that we live in a city with so much to do!

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