agh... adventures in laptop blogging

Upon arriving home this evening from our grocery shopping trip I found my computer off. Elijah, who had played it while I tried to sleep off my headache this afternoon said it was "tired". I was a little frustrated when it wouldn't turn back on. :p Vern went into troubleshooting mode & I grabbed Maiah & my pint of fresh blueberries (man, she loves those things) and came up here to flip through a magazine while he figured it out.
He did.
My motherboard is dead. :(
What really sucks is that we can't replace it immediately. Vern does think he has on old one that can get me back up & running in the morning to tide me over, but yeah. I am, at least momentarily, without my computer.
Poor Kori. it's been one thing after another - it's gonna be forever before she sees her wedding pics at this rate.
Poor me too. So much of what I love to do is tied to my computer. Blogging, WoW & all my photo stuff. Yeah. Such a bummer.
I do have those blueberries though! Yum. :) A new fitness magazine too. Yay! And of course, I have access to the best monkey cuddles in the world. So yeah, it could be worse.

Happy Friday!
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Monday Update...

So yeah. It wasn't my motherboard. Or, at least it wasn't just my motherboard.

Might be the power supply? :p

All I know is that I'm still without my computer.

:(

afk

...sorry I haven't been blogging.

It's cold, I'm tired and most definitely sick of being cold. :p 

I vote we bring on some Sunshine.

Yeah. Spring please!

:)

Saturday's to-do list

Sleep in.

...done.

Go to the library with Kirsten.

...done.

Get a nice chunk of Kori's pictures done.

...working on it!

Then upload some to the photo blog for her.

...I totally should!

Read to Elijah.

...done :)

Play some Rock Band2.

...done

Eat too much licorice. And too much pizza.

...done. :p 

Work out.

...partly done.

Do some laundry.

...done.

Blog!

...almost done.

Include a new picture of yourself.

...done

A monkey pic too please!

...done

Aw, that one makes me happy. :)

Okay... now I need to get back to proofing.

Happy Saturday!

Friday morning

So this morning at around 2:30 Vern woke up thinking he needed to take his bp meds. Instead of falling back asleep he laid there feeling like he'd been running a marathon. At some point he came wandering downstairs to Brandon & I looking distraught. His heart was racing and acting like it was ready to jump right out of his chest, and he was more than just a little freaked out. He tried to relax down here & it didn't stop. So I called his mom and away to the ER we went. Some meds to slow it down later, along with an ekg and an hour of observation & Vern is now aware of a congenial defect he has called Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia. Not life-threatening in and of itself, but could obviously compound other things if he were to have an episode at the wrong moment. (His heart rate was 215-ish - a normal heart rate is somewhere between 50-100.) Mine             beats             like            this.   ...hiswasbeatingmorelikethis

So yeah, fun morning. Oh, and today was the day that our local power company had sent around flyers letting us know they'd be working on lines in our area and that there could be outages in the morning/afternoon hours. There was. It's okay - we just took the kiddos to Carls Jr for lunch and playplace time. Hooray.

And then I napped. :)

speaking of man-food

I made the boys some poutine for dinner tonight.

mmmmm...
I must've done ok - Vern said it made him think of Toronto. Yep. Then it tasted like poutine. :)
I didn't partake though. I'm still full from the sandwich Vern brought me home from Gourmandise tonight. Oh man, I heart their curry-chicken-salad sandwiches. So good.

Oh, and if you don't know what on earth poutine is, here's the wikipedia entry. lol
poutine-wiki
Please note, I had no cheese curds so I used chunks of cheese instead. Almost as good.

Happy Valentines Day!

Just wanted to quickly wish all you blog readers a happy, love-filled day. :)

Hugs!

cuteness and other happy things

I finally got us some pictures of Maiah! I didn't get her all dressed up, but Kirsten had just done her hair & I thought they were cute playing on the couch so I grabbed the camera. We did pause to clean up her boogies. Yeah, she's still sick. ...but so stinkin' cute. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So yeah - we totally needed a dose of happy little monkey cuteness around here. You're welcome. :)

Oh, and fantabulous news - Brandon's Canadian passport came today! Now we can both finally prove who we are! We're just waiting on Vern to clear up the tax/financial stuff as our sponsor and I think we'll be ready to file for our change of status. I hope. I really really really hope. :)

Happy Friday night peoples!
Smile! :)

so proud

Of this girl...

This here beautiful girl went to her first audition last night. The local arts council is putting on a musical - Saturday's Warrior. The idea of auditioning was a last minute one. Her friend Kyle told her there were still openings, so her & Kiana did a last minute rush to get a song together. K feels really good about her audition, so we'll see what happens with callbacks. Crossing my fingers for the girlios!:)

Afterward I made these...

 

Yeah, finally. They're so yummy. :)

yeah, that's me tonight

First of all...

It's true. I do. :)

Second of all, after waking up with The.Worst. Headache. Ever. I'm pretty proud of the 4 miles I ran at the gym today. A couple minutes over goal pace for April's 5k, but with time to train & considering I've been sick all week & felt like crud today with my head threatening to explode and all I'll so take it. And smile. Yay!

And since I haven't done one in forever, it's meme time! 1,2,3,4,5!!!

One picture of you today (and one thing you love about the person in that picture):
Ugh post workout, pre-shower :p Kind of mugshot-like. Too many bad shots in a row on here. Must have a pretty picture day soon... :(

K, and um - I've always liked my eyes. At first glance you'd say they're brown, but here's a closer look from that same shot.

Not the best example, but I have a ring of brown, a ring of green and then a dark ring. Kirsten has the same colors in her eyes, but her green ring is dominant and my brown ring is. Oh, and I have a little black spot in both irises in the same place under my pupil. It's something people rarely notice. It's a little detail but I like it. :p

Two of today's accomplishments:
Well, the workout with 4 miles almost at pace was a favorite for sure. And, um... I bought groceries? Cuddled with some cute little monkeys? Yeah, the workout & the monkey cuddles were the bestest. :)

Three things that made you smile today:
Maiah playing Caillou on my computer. My Jr. Mints. P.S. P.P.S lol

Four thoughts to take to bed with you tonight:
Maybe I'll wake up headache-less! I am seriously in need of some pudding. mmmmm... I love pudding. I hope Brandon's having fun at Mo's!

Five things you have planned for tomorrow:
Um, well I'm supposed to make sloppy Joes, and maybe finally the cake balls. (I know, I know - just do it already. I'm just afraid I'll eat too many of them. :p) I should definitely sleep in since it's Sunday and all. Oh, and I'm pretty sure there will be some football on tv... lol Oooh, and if Maiah's feeling up to it I want to do a little photo shoot with her. I've just been waiting out her sickies. Hopefully tomorrow she'll feel a little better & I can get some pics of my pretty little monkey. :)

Those things always take longer than I expect. And all I accomplished with that one was to talk about monkey cuddles & food as always. lol Go me! Well, I did get to share another un-fabulous pic of me as well. So awesome?! :p But yeah, for the most part grabbing memes online is a nice cheat for when you want to blog & have nothing new to talk about.
Yeah, that's me tonight. :p

Sweet dreams!

a quick one

Happy Friday peoples!
Just a quick entry from me tonight. :)

We've got some Rock Band going on here on this brrrr-frickin-cold Friday evening, though Maiah & I are still both miserably sick. :p

I went to help with Elijah class Valentine's Day party this morning. It was fun! (Yeah, they know they were 10 days early - the kiddos are going off track for 3 weeks though.)

We're hoping for some In 'n Out for dinner tonight. ("We" being mostly Brandon & I. :p)

Oooh, last night we went back to Ulduar to get the last couple of dwarves that a handful of us missed for our rusted protodrakes. We got a few other titles & mounts for people while we were at it. Fun stuff. Good night! (Don't mind the raid frames being all skiddleywampus in my screenshot - been pvping lately and was too lazy to get stuff put back in order. Looking at this makes me wanna go do it right now though. :p)

Kirsten is feeling pretty today. I need to grab my camera and take a few pics of her.
I haven't made the cake balls yet. I just might have to do that at some point tonight. Mmmmm...

Aw, my baby girl is so sad - she's so not enjoying this round of sickies. :( Time for cuddles!

Have a great weekend. :)

brrr cold, ridiculously high and super low

Happy February peoples! 

Here in Utah we're starting this month out with some seriously-brrrr-cold weather. As a result I'm all wrapped up in my blanket hoping I don't find a reason to have to venture out walking anywhere.

My blood pressure at the doctors office yesterday was ridiculously high. Like 168/119 or something like that. lol So hopefully when we fill my prescription on Friday and I have meds again I'll start feeling better in some small way. Maybe some of the headaches will go or maybe I'll be able to sleep or something. We shall see. :p

I was a little surprised - my heart rate was really low. Like, the machine double checked that I was still there or something kind of low. Apparently that's normal for someone who gets the amount of exercise I do. They said it makes you more efficient. Yay! Bring on the 5K in April! I'm still not registered for that. I hope I can be soon. :p Kirsten had said she wanted to run it with me, but has wavered ever since and I haven't been able to get Lauren to say she'll do it, so it might be a loner one. I need this though, so I say bring it - no matter what.

So yeah, that's all I've got. :p I'm cold, a little hungry and should really be working on proofing for Kori instead of typing this. :p

Have a great day!

/squishes!