Chatting with Gundi

[ReneT]

sorry to have seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth the past 2 weeks...in anticipation of my vacations this year I've put in some extra hours dong temp work..my new camera should be in sometime next week. (WOO HOO). And I've been working like a dog getting my equipment list organized, price searched, and ready to order ( bit by bit) so I have everything ready for not only ALASKA but for the photo workshop in October. I'm gonna have lots of new 'stuff" to figure out how to use before either event so I don't look like a fumbling fool..have been looking every night for airfares and really just need to set a date for ALASKA ! (Can yu tell where my excitement lies?) SUMMER AND FALL JUST CAN'T COME FAST ENOUGH.

Your trip to Alaska is this summer Carolyn?

[ReneT]

A friend of mine from high school and her son came to town with some of their friends last night, just to get away for the night and to celebrate her son's birthday, so me and DH met them at a place here called Main Event (they has bowling, glow in the dark mini golf, laser tag, etc). We had a great time. I'm sure I'll be using some of the pics in LO's soon. Some of my photos turned out OK, but some are too dark. I'm not very good at taking photos in dark places, inside or out. I need to learn more about that before our cruise this summer so I don't miss any good shots when it's dark.

[carolyn d]

Oh my yes it is.

[ReneT]

Oh my yes it is.

Oh duh! For your trip to see Lisa! I forgot about that!

[Christine]

I have an ITouch, but haven't ever tried to get on DSP with it. Good idea!

I too am loving the new smilies. Especially the drums! Very cute.

so what are you doing w/ your's? any great apps that you know about? I love, love, love being able to surf the web/ post check email etc while I am exercising.

[ReneT]

so what are you doing w/ your's? any great apps that you know about? I love, love, love being able to surf the web/ post check email etc while I am exercising.

I mostly use mine for music. I listen to it at work - it helps take my mind off of stuffing paper in printers all day. :p

DH downloads his fav tv shows to it and watches it on the plane on business trips.

Other than that, just email. I haven't checked out any other apps yet.

[idtwinmom]

Seems I missed everybody today! I got to go shopping - kidless! The last time that's gonna happen unless I go on Thursday mornings! But today was a good day to go alone. I was bra shopping. Did really good too! I ended up with 4 new ones for less than $50 and they weren't wimpy ones either. It was at an outlet store, that knocked nearly $10 per off the price, then one was on clearance ($7.50) and the others were buy 2, get one free! Not bad! I had so much money left over, I got my hair cut. Been needing it bad, but refused to spend the money. Now I should be good until after the move. Will help with the quick showers I'm gonna have to take too.

Well, it's about bed time! Maybe I'll run into one or two of you tomorrow!

[Christine]

Seems I missed everybody today! I got to go shopping - kidless! The last time that's gonna happen unless I go on Thursday mornings! But today was a good day to go alone. I was bra shopping. Did really good too! I ended up with 4 new ones for less than $50 and they weren't wimpy ones either. It was at an outlet store, that knocked nearly $10 per off the price, then one was on clearance ($7.50) and the others were buy 2, get one free! Not bad! I had so much money left over, I got my hair cut. Been needing it bad, but refused to spend the money. Now I should be good until after the move. Will help with the quick showers I'm gonna have to take too.

Well, it's about bed time! Maybe I'll run into one or two of you tomorrow!

good job on your bargain shopping! So was it just a trim? or did you do something new?

[idtwinmom]

Well, kind of a trim, but since the bangs were down below my nose they cut quite a bit from there! Just a bit of reshaping around my face so it lays better than the last cut with out the fuss.

[Christine]

oh good a no fuss hair cut is always essential with 3 young kids :D

[Christine]

Here's a layout I just did for Jemma, that she won for being the BAG lady.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/../gallery/data/6096/thumbs/Jemma-WatchMeGrow.jpg (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/../gallery/showphoto.php?photo=312987&ppuser=62565)
My Dream Come True (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/../gallery/showphoto.php?photo=312987&cat=500&ppuser=62565)

The kit is on its way into the store, but you can get a sneaky peeky from the LO. :D

[idtwinmom]

Yes, a no-fuss haircut will be essential for those quickie showers I'm going to have to take.

How are your 2 weeks going with DH on the dual employed list? Bet that extra cash will be welcomed when it comes in too!

[Beachcomber]

Happy Easter! Hope you all have a great day.

Last night my hubby was baptised at our church's Easter Vigil. :) I have never been to an Easter Vigil. It was pretty cool. We all went outside to bless the new fire. My son got to light the candle from the new fire.He had to wade into the baptismal font and the priest dunked his head in and poured the water over him. After the service there was a nice recpetion afterwards. It was pretty late by the time we got home.

[ReneT]

Happy Easter! Hope you all have a great day.

Last night my hubby was baptised at our church's Easter Vigil. :) I have never been to an Easter Vigil. It was pretty cool. We all went outside to bless the new fire. My son got to light the candle from the new fire.He had to wade into the baptismal font and the priest dunked his head in and poured the water over him. After the service there was a nice recpetion afterwards. It was pretty late by the time we got home.

Sounds like everyone had a wonderful day. Very special. I have never been to an Easter vigil either. We often had Easter sunrise service.

[Christine]

Yes, a no-fuss haircut will be essential for those quickie showers I'm going to have to take.

How are your 2 weeks going with DH on the dual employed list? Bet that extra cash will be welcomed when it comes in too!

no extra cash unfortunately, since he won't be eligible for 401k for a bit, he put practically all of his last two checks into that. LOL what a bummer, but we will be glad when tax time comes around.

[Christine]

Happy Easter! Hope you all have a great day.

Last night my hubby was baptised at our church's Easter Vigil. :) I have never been to an Easter Vigil. It was pretty cool. We all went outside to bless the new fire. My son got to light the candle from the new fire.He had to wade into the baptismal font and the priest dunked his head in and poured the water over him. After the service there was a nice recpetion afterwards. It was pretty late by the time we got home.

yay beachy congrats for your family

[GrandmaCrys]

so did they make it home? :D

They made it home about 7, none the worse for wear. (Well, maybe except for Grandpa! :lol:) We finally talked them into bed at 10:15. The three year old decided he wanted to sleep at the farm (home) and mentioned that about 28 times, but since it wasn't an option, he was "forced" to stay. Not too bad. He did NOT cry to go home and was quite pleased with himself the next morning.

The five year old never mentioned a thing about home. The next morning at breakfast, I told him he should come back this summer and stay for 3 days and he said, "I'm coming for 5100 days!!!" (Grandma's edit: :no: :no: :no:)

We had a French toast and bacon breakfast, the boys got dressed and they and Grandpa went uptown and got haircuts. As soon as they got home and Grandpa got his shower, we packed the car and off we went to Aunt & Uncle's house.

The Sat. night Easter service was awesome and the Christening followed. Everyone from both sides of Alex's family was present so lots of picture taking went on.

Actually, there were three Nikons going all the time and before we all left today, Uncle A. burned DVDs of everyone's pictures for everyone, so we came home loaded!

The Easter egg hunt was a hoot and very much fun (even though it had to take place indoors, due to the earlyness and the cool, windy, dewy outside!!! Everyone appreciated what they got; no one fought over what someone else had and lots of candy was gobbled. The 3 out of town boys were especially pleased that the Easter Bunny knew where to find them! :D

The only problem I'm aware of is that Grandma is too tired to even think of looking at the photos today! :(

I really need to step away from this computer, do some exercise and build my stamina!!!!

Happy Easter! Hope you all have a great day.

Last night my hubby was baptised at our church's Easter Vigil. :) I have never been to an Easter Vigil. It was pretty cool. We all went outside to bless the new fire. My son got to light the candle from the new fire.He had to wade into the baptismal font and the priest dunked his head in and poured the water over him. After the service there was a nice recpetion afterwards. It was pretty late by the time we got home.

Beachy, that sounds awesome!!

[stitchmich]

Seems I missed everybody today! I got to go shopping - kidless! The last time that's gonna happen unless I go on Thursday mornings! But today was a good day to go alone. I was bra shopping. Did really good too! I ended up with 4 new ones for less than $50 and they weren't wimpy ones either. It was at an outlet store, that knocked nearly $10 per off the price, then one was on clearance ($7.50) and the others were buy 2, get one free! Not bad! I had so much money left over, I got my hair cut. Been needing it bad, but refused to spend the money. Now I should be good until after the move. Will help with the quick showers I'm gonna have to take too.

Well, it's about bed time! Maybe I'll run into one or two of you tomorrow!

I really, really hate bra shopping so congrats on your find! I shopped with my DD yesterday for a prom dress! She is pretty tall, so she tried on a lot of dresses that were just too short. Finally we found a beautiful purple dress with a sparkly overlay. Look for a layout in a few weeks. :lol: Then I happened to find my favorite style of Levis in my size... and on sale! That doesn't happen often, so I grabbed up two pair. Unlike you though Lisa... I had no money left over :lol:

[stitchmich]

Happy Easter! Hope you all have a great day.

Last night my hubby was baptised at our church's Easter Vigil. :) I have never been to an Easter Vigil. It was pretty cool. We all went outside to bless the new fire. My son got to light the candle from the new fire.He had to wade into the baptismal font and the priest dunked his head in and poured the water over him. After the service there was a nice recpetion afterwards. It was pretty late by the time we got home.

Congrats, Beachy. How special to be baptized at Easter. It sounds like a lovely service.

I play in the handbell choir and we played at church today. Then a relaxing lazy day at home. Happy Easter everybody.

[stitchmich]

They made it home about 7, none the worse for wear. (Well, maybe except for Grandpa! :lol:) We finally talked them into bed at 10:15. The three year old decided he wanted to sleep at the farm (home) and mentioned that about 28 times, but since it wasn't an option, he was "forced" to stay. Not too bad. He did NOT cry to go home and was quite pleased with himself the next morning.

The five year old never mentioned a thing about home. The next morning at breakfast, I told him he should come back this summer and stay for 3 days and he said, "I'm coming for 5100 days!!!" (Grandma's edit: :no: :no: :no:)
I really need to step away from this computer, do some exercise and build my stamina!!!!



Crys, sounds like a terrific time! And busy... now get some rest, you deserve it :yes:

[Beachcomber]

Crys -- sounds like you had a good day.

Stitchmich -- cool you got some levi's on sale. Sounds like you had a good day today, too.

I don't like bra shopping either. :(

Ok I just saw the Easter Bunny riding down my street on a bicycle! LOL I wish I saw him in time to get a picture.

[stitchmich]

Ok I just saw the Easter Bunny riding down my street on a bicycle! LOL I wish I saw him in time to get a picture.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[ReneT]

Happy Easter guys! I haven't been on much today. We had to work. I'm about to head off to bed, but wanted to say hello.

Crys, sounds like everyone had a blast! I bet the egg hunt was so much fun!!! Get some rest, sounds like you're gonna need it for that 5100 day visit! :rofl:

Lisa & Stitch - congrats on your shopping finds. Bras and jeans are not high on my list of things I love shopping for. I think the only thing possibly worse than those 2 things are swimsuits! Do they TRY to find the most unflattering mirror made and then stick it in the dressing rooms?

Beachie - I loved the Cupid Shuffle youtube video on your blog. I bet that was fun to learn.

Hi Christine and everyone else!

[GrandmaCrys]

YIKES! I mustn't be the only tired soul around here! :D

[ReneT]

Nope, I am dragging today. The doc started me on some blood pressure med Friday, and it is turning me into a zombie all day! DH keeps asking me all day "are you awake". Nope. I guess my body will get used to it, but I'm having a hard time at work today. At least DH figured out how I can get on our work network while I'm here, so I brought my laptop today. So I've been trying to keep up in the forums in between stuffing printers with paper. I've got 2 challenges I need to work on tonight when I get home, unless I veg out in front of the tv and can't get motivated. :rolleyes:

[GrandmaCrys]

Rene, I'm sure not the *expert* here (we leave that to Chris! :D), but if this doesn't change soon, please call your Dr.

DH and I are both on BP meds, one of us a beta blocker and the other a ummmmmmmmmmm....:think: :think: Can't remember! :annoyed: But, I do know, neither of us started out being lethargic!

:hug: :hug: :hug: Take care of yourself, Sweetie!

[ReneT]

The doc told me if I felt tired for more than a couple weeks to call him back and he would change the med, or lower the dosage. I don't understand why I have high blood pressure. My DH is older than me, eats whatever he wants, etc, and doesn't have any problems. I eat right (most of the time), am not overweight, etc and I have bp problems. Weird. I think I'll blame it on my birth mother. That works for me. :D

[idtwinmom]

LOL, Rene! It does seem to be genetic to a degree. In my family, it is low blood pressure. Glad to see you and the Doc talked about it though. I was thinking the same thing as Crys (and I'm not on blood pressure meds). Hope you feel better real soon.

[ReneT]

The weird thing is that I always had low blood pressure before. This getting older thing is just not working for me. I quit.

I am going to bed early tonight, or at least that's my plan as of right now.

[GrandmaCrys]

Rene, do you get enough exercise?

Exercise and a *mad* personality are what get me in trouble! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[ReneT]

Rene, do you get enough exercise?

Exercise and a *mad* personality are what get me in trouble! :lol: :lol: :lol:

No, I'm allergic. :rofl::rofl:

[Christine]

No, I'm allergic. :rofl::rofl:

I am telling you, get that Touch out and exercise, you will be amazed at how fast your time goes by. :D

[Christine]

The weird thing is that I always had low blood pressure before. This getting older thing is just not working for me. I quit.

I am going to bed early tonight, or at least that's my plan as of right now.

yeah like that will happen :lol: :lol:

[ReneT]

I am telling you, get that Touch out and exercise, you will be amazed at how fast your time goes by. :D

I really have been meaning to. I want to tone up some before our cruise. I just need to make myself get up an hour earlier and work out on the treadmill that is just upstairs gathering dust. Ok, that's my new goal starting tomorrow. Seriously. :yes:

[ReneT]

yeah like that will happen :lol: :lol:

I went to bed at 11:30, which was early for me. I had to watch a bit of Dancing With The Stars. Gonna watch the rest after work today. DH is letting me go to the chat this morning before I have to go to work. Yay. :yippee::yippee:

[Christine]

I really have been meaning to. I want to tone up some before our cruise. I just need to make myself get up an hour earlier and work out on the treadmill that is just upstairs gathering dust. Ok, that's my new goal starting tomorrow. Seriously. :yes:

go girl go!!!

Glad you were going to my chat! I was thinking it was Monday, so I took Lex to school etc, worked out, had no clue I was missing my own chat. DUH!!!!

[ReneT]

go girl go!!!

Glad you were going to my chat! I was thinking it was Monday, so I took Lex to school etc, worked out, had no clue I was missing my own chat. DUH!!!!

That's funny. We wondered where you were. We missed you.:)

[idtwinmom]

Oh, Chris, that is just too funny! You thought it was Monday, and I keep thinking it's Wednesday! I'm glad it wasn't Wednesday, but could use another Monday this week.

DH leaves Thursday morning and I'm not ready for him to leave. There is just soooooo much to be done. Of course, he's done pretty good on cleaning out the garage, now he just needs to finish cleaning the front room (that he filled with all the stuff from the garage). We've made 5 trips to Goodwill in the past 2 days and there is still stuff that we are going to try and sell. Or should I say, that I am going to try and sell.

I think we just found him a place to live and at our budget. The boarder they had is moving out and they weren't going to rent out the room again until after summer because of company coming, but since we don't want it for that long, it works for us both. We were having a terrible time finding anyone that would rent for 2 months or less. And they may have a car for him to buy too! So the 2 biggies for his arrival may be solved with one couple. Yeah!

If the sale here goes even half that well.........

[GrandmaCrys]

I went to bed at 11:30, which was early for me. I had to watch a bit of Dancing With The Stars. Gonna watch the rest after work today. DH is letting me go to the chat this morning before I have to go to work. Yay. :yippee::yippee:

LOL! I was so bummed that I forgot about the chat and my boss was out of the office today! :( Then I read forward and saw that Chris also missed it! Not I don't feel so bad! :D

Lisa, I so admire that you're willing to go through all this. My thoughts and prayers are definitely with you and your family on a daily basis!

[idtwinmom]

Well, Crys, I kind of think all you guys praying for us is really helping. Things just keep falling into place in a way that nothing else explains. Even the loss of the job in the first place is turning into a blessing. (Not without trials, but certainly much easier than we really deserve!) I say prayers of thanks every day, and often 3 or more times a day as little things happen. I just find myself stopping and thanking the Lord for all the blessings we continue to receive. So, thank you all for adding your voices!

[ReneT]

Well, Crys, I kind of think all you guys praying for us is really helping. Things just keep falling into place in a way that nothing else explains. Even the loss of the job in the first place is turning into a blessing. (Not without trials, but certainly much easier than we really deserve!) I say prayers of thanks every day, and often 3 or more times a day as little things happen. I just find myself stopping and thanking the Lord for all the blessings we continue to receive. So, thank you all for adding your voices!

I'm so glad things are going in your favor! It's not going to be easy being a single parent for 2 or so months, but the reward will be when you family is reunited in the place you call home.

[Christine]

Oh Lisa, I feel for you. These last 2 weeks of the double jobs was driving me crazy and I wasn't trying to get ready to move. You know you have our prayers and support and come vent anytime :D

[Christine]

Crys I am sure it is MUCH worse that you missed it than me. :rofl: :rofl:

[carolyn d]

I really have been meaning to. I want to tone up some before our cruise. I just need to make myself get up an hour earlier and work out on the treadmill that is just upstairs gathering dust. Ok, that's my new goal starting tomorrow. Seriously. :yes:

I should send my son to you ! ( the monster! ) I've asked him to work out an exercise program for me. I'm going to be doing some hiking in October and need my legs to be stronger.. He's a physical therapist so is in a good position to know how to work with my surgically enhanced bits.. ( no, not implants....ankle, wrist surgeries and arthitis in the back)...

Anyway, we go to the gym..and practice good form for squats. ( large muscle conditioning burns more calories).. ok form is good. then he puts a weighted bar across my back to add resistance... got down about half way and got stuck ! Yup, the bugger put a 45 pound bar on my back !!!! NEED HE REMEMBER THAT I AM OLD, SHORT AND WEAK !!!! Regardless, he did a few more interesting things to me... and later that night I heard him and his brother talking about my "session"......................

BUDDY: How'd the work out go with Ma?
TIM: Good...
BUDDY; Did she try it?
TIM: Yeah, but she got stuck a few times.... you owe me $5.00.

Seems they'd made a bet as to whether or not i would balk at some of the weights he would ask me to use !!! Buddy said I wouldn't try and Tim said I would..

See the torture I endure????????????????

My legs were dead for 2 days !

But today, my butt feels very powerful !

[ReneT]

I should send my son to you ! ( the monster! ) I've asked him to work out an exercise program for me. I'm going to be doing some hiking in October and need my legs to be stronger.. He's a physical therapist so is in a good position to know how to work with my surgically enhanced bits.. ( no, not implants....ankle, wrist surgeries and arthitis in the back)...

Anyway, we go to the gym..and practice good form for squats. ( large muscle conditioning burns more calories).. ok form is good. then he puts a weighted bar across my back to add resistance... got down about half way and got stuck ! Yup, the bugger put a 45 pound bar on my back !!!! NEED HE REMEMBER THAT I AM OLD, SHORT AND WEAK !!!! Regardless, he did a few more interesting things to me... and later that night I heard him and his brother talking about my "session"......................

BUDDY: How'd the work out go with Ma?
TIM: Good...
BUDDY; Did she try it?
TIM: Yeah, but she got stuck a few times.... you owe me $5.00.

Seems they'd made a bet as to whether or not i would balk at some of the weights he would ask me to use !!! Buddy said I wouldn't try and Tim said I would..

See the torture I endure????????????????

My legs were dead for 2 days !

But today, my butt feels very powerful !

Oh my gosh, now I don't have to exercise tomorrow because I just laughed my butt off! Thanks! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[idtwinmom]

I so agree with Rene! I think my seat is wet! (Darn, I just cleaned this couch!)

[stitchmich]

Carolyn, that is too funny! When is your next power work out?

My DH and DS made me go on a bike ride with them in the neighborhood last night. My legs were noodles when we got back. I thought they would be hurting today, but they aren't. I am sooo out of shape. The excerise I get is usually Wii Tennis.... somethings just not right about that. I know I need to do better, but I can't make myself exercise in the morning and then the day just slips away.

Lisa, I am so happy that things are falling into place for you. The power of prayer is mighty. And prayers will surely get you through the next couple of months. I'll bet it will fly by.

[Christine]

I should send my son to you ! ( the monster! ) I've asked him to work out an exercise program for me. I'm going to be doing some hiking in October and need my legs to be stronger.. He's a physical therapist so is in a good position to know how to work with my surgically enhanced bits.. ( no, not implants....ankle, wrist surgeries and arthitis in the back)...

Anyway, we go to the gym..and practice good form for squats. ( large muscle conditioning burns more calories).. ok form is good. then he puts a weighted bar across my back to add resistance... got down about half way and got stuck ! Yup, the bugger put a 45 pound bar on my back !!!! NEED HE REMEMBER THAT I AM OLD, SHORT AND WEAK !!!! Regardless, he did a few more interesting things to me... and later that night I heard him and his brother talking about my "session"......................

BUDDY: How'd the work out go with Ma?
TIM: Good...
BUDDY; Did she try it?
TIM: Yeah, but she got stuck a few times.... you owe me $5.00.

Seems they'd made a bet as to whether or not i would balk at some of the weights he would ask me to use !!! Buddy said I wouldn't try and Tim said I would..

See the torture I endure????????????????

My legs were dead for 2 days !

But today, my butt feels very powerful !

Oh you poor thing but really pretty funny:rofl:

[Christine]

So did everybody exercise today??? I am on the elliptical right now just loving this Touch!!!!!

[idtwinmom]

Not yet, but the laundry is almost done, then I'm going out to weed in the yard (I think that counts as exercise!)

[ReneT]

So did everybody exercise today??? I am on the elliptical right now just loving this Touch!!!!!

I did 30 mins on the treadmill!!!! Yay me!!!! The Itouch definitely helps me get through it.

[Christine]

good job you, Lisa!

[Christine]

I did 30 mins on the treadmill!!!! Yay me!!!! The Itouch definitely helps me get through it.

and good job to rene too!!!

[addicted]

Is this the Ipod touch you guys are talking about? I was on the treadmill earlier today, but need to get on again. Ethan doesn't like me on there too long.

It's snowing right now, YUCK, and suppose to be 70 by next week. I wish it were 70 today.

Chris, did you get your stuff? Let me know if you need help, or for me to kick them on the phone. :rofl::rofl:

[Christine]

Is this the Ipod touch you guys are talking about? I was on the treadmill earlier today, but need to get on again. Ethan doesn't like me on there too long.

It's snowing right now, YUCK, and suppose to be 70 by next week. I wish it were 70 today.

Chris, did you get your stuff? Let me know if you need help, or for me to kick them on the phone. :rofl::rofl:

well all of the rain has got water in my cave :cry::cry::cry::cry: What the heck do I do now? Good news is all of the puters etc are up off the floor and it is not like several inches but the carpet is definitely WET! I can't stand it! I was just getting my cave all back together, it was looking pretty. The house painting is practically finished, I so don't want to start another project.

Heather, haven't gotten the CD yet, supposed to be here at 1:00ish. and no contact #, info etc either. I so hope the reinstall fixes my problem. I found out yesterday my dodge and burn and my spot healer are both having issues too. Grrrrrrrrr. Seems like there is definitely a glitch w/ the brushes portion.

[Christine]

oh yeah and it was the iPod iTouch we were talking about

[addicted]

Oh no, water in your cave. :( :( I'm so sorry!! I hate water in the house. All of our water problems have been from inside water so far. I don't want to finish the basement until we have them all taken care of. I heard you got the disks, so I really hope that will take care of your problems.

[stitchmich]

well all of the rain has got water in my cave :cry::cry::cry::cry: What the heck do I do now? Good news is all of the puters etc are up off the floor and it is not like several inches but the carpet is definitely WET! I can't stand it! I was just getting my cave all back together, it was looking pretty. The house painting is practically finished, I so don't want to start another project.


OH NO! that's terrible :worried: Is this a problem you've had before? I hope it's not too big of a problem.

[stitchmich]

So did everybody exercise today??? I am on the elliptical right now just loving this Touch!!!!!

I walked on the treadmill today!!! Can you make me do this every day? Please? I started with my ipod, then asked my son to bring me his iTouch. Whew! 25 minutes flies by when you're playing a game :lol:

[idtwinmom]

OK, all of you and your iTouch things! How on Earth do you do something like that and walk on a treadmill at the same time? I'm sure I would simply fall on my face!

[GrandmaCrys]

well all of the rain has got water in my cave :cry::cry::cry::cry: What the heck do I do now? Good news is all of the puters etc are up off the floor and it is not like several inches but the carpet is definitely WET! I can't stand it! I was just getting my cave all back together, it was looking pretty. The house painting is practically finished, I so don't want to start another project.

Heather, haven't gotten the CD yet, supposed to be here at 1:00ish. and no contact #, info etc either. I so hope the reinstall fixes my problem. I found out yesterday my dodge and burn and my spot healer are both having issues too. Grrrrrrrrr. Seems like there is definitely a glitch w/ the brushes portion.

Oh No!!!!!!! - to the wet carpet! :pray: :pray:

What?????? You're having glitches? Welcome to MY world, Dearie! Well, mine and Heather's!!! :( :(

Is it your CS4 having issues?

OK, all of you and your iTouch things! How on Earth do you do something like that and walk on a treadmill at the same time? I'm sure I would simply fall on my face!

I'd like the answer to that also, please! :D

And, in answer to *did we all exercise today?* - please tell me that getting out of bed and showering counts?!?!? :confused: :rolleyes: ;)

[addicted]

OK, all of you and your iTouch things! How on Earth do you do something like that and walk on a treadmill at the same time? I'm sure I would simply fall on my face!

This is what I'm wondering also?!?! How do you do it? Are you playing games or looking at applications?

[stitchmich]

OK, all of you and your iTouch things! How on Earth do you do something like that and walk on a treadmill at the same time? I'm sure I would simply fall on my face!

Well, I don't walk too fast :lol: so I can hold the iTouch and play on it while i'm walking. My son has lots of silly, mindless 12 year old games. I was playing jawbreaker, which is the same as Bejeweled. It's addictive. I like sudoku too.

[idtwinmom]

And, in answer to *did we all exercise today?* - please tell me that getting out of bed and showering counts?!?!? :confused: :rolleyes: ;)

I will count it, if you will count driving for nearly 2 hours tomorrow to take DH to the airport! :tup:

[ReneT]

OK, all of you and your iTouch things! How on Earth do you do something like that and walk on a treadmill at the same time? I'm sure I would simply fall on my face!

I don't play games or anything, I just put the headphones on and listen to music to try to distract me from that hideous thing we call exercise. :D

[ReneT]

well all of the rain has got water in my cave :cry::cry::cry::cry: What the heck do I do now? Good news is all of the puters etc are up off the floor and it is not like several inches but the carpet is definitely WET! I can't stand it! I was just getting my cave all back together, it was looking pretty. The house painting is practically finished, I so don't want to start another project.


Oh no Chris. How are you going to dry it up? Do you have like a big shop fan to blow it?

[ReneT]

Well, I don't walk too fast :lol: so I can hold the iTouch and play on it while i'm walking. My son has lots of silly, mindless 12 year old games. I was playing jawbreaker, which is the same as Bejeweled. It's addictive. I like sudoku too.

I need you to teach me how to play sudoku. I just can't get my mind wrapped around that game.

[idtwinmom]

Try playing the picture version first! (They make them for kids with animals or things like that.) Once you have the hang of it, switch back to numbers.

[Christine]

Oh no, water in your cave. :( :( I'm so sorry!! I hate water in the house. All of our water problems have been from inside water so far. I don't want to finish the basement until we have them all taken care of. I heard you got the disks, so I really hope that will take care of your problems.

Would you believe that disk #2 doesn't work?!!!!! Ugggggggh!! Just have to laugh at this point. :lol:

[Christine]

OH NO! that's terrible :worried: Is this a problem you've had before? I hope it's not too big of a problem.

It happened last week but I thought it was from cleaning the walls and that we must have spilled a bit of water, but now realize it must be from the rain. I looked and one of my downspouts was not pouring the water into the tube that we have buried to move the water out into the middle of the lawn, so I put an attachment on and filled in some dirt up by the house where obviously water was puddling. Really hope this fixes the problem. I used my carpet cleaner to suck up a bunch of the water. I probably pulled at least 1/2 of a gallon out of it. I am so grateful my puter is not right on the floor.

[Christine]

I walked on the treadmill today!!! Can you make me do this every day? Please? I started with my ipod, then asked my son to bring me his iTouch. Whew! 25 minutes flies by when you're playing a game :lol:

I know isn't that the best!

[Christine]

Oh No!!!!!!! - to the wet carpet! :pray: :pray:

What?????? You're having glitches? Welcome to MY world, Dearie! Well, mine and Heather's!!! :( :(

Is it your CS4 having issues?



I'd like the answer to that also, please! :D

And, in answer to *did we all exercise today?* - please tell me that getting out of bed and showering counts?!?!? :confused: :rolleyes: ;)

yes cs4. :(

[Christine]

This is what I'm wondering also?!?! How do you do it? Are you playing games or looking at applications?

I go thru my emails, post in the forums, look at LOs, chat on yahoo messenger, check my calendars and if I get all of that done, I play a game. Oh yeah and I usually am listening to music or a story at the same time. :lol:

[Christine]

I need you to teach me how to play sudoku. I just can't get my mind wrapped around that game.

I love sudoku, just start w/ the easy versions. The easiest way to start is to look and see oh there is a 1 in the 1st and 2nd row already, so the box w/o a 1 must have it in the 3rd row. kwim? sometimes you are lucky and there is only 1 box available in that row, so then you know it belongs there. you can also check the other directions rows and see if you can rule any more out.clear as mud right?!

[Christine]

Oh no Chris. How are you going to dry it up? Do you have like a big shop fan to blow it?

much dryer now, let's hope my efforts will work when we next get a big rain. :D

[ReneT]

I go thru my emails, post in the forums, look at LOs, chat on yahoo messenger, check my calendars and if I get all of that done, I play a game. Oh yeah and I usually am listening to music or a story at the same time. :lol:

Wow, I guess I'm gonna have to start using mine for stuff other than just music. I'm gonna check it out tomorrow. I'm so OCD, I get stuck on one way of using things or doing things, and it's hard for me to get out of a routine.

[ReneT]

I love sudoku, just start w/ the easy versions. The easiest way to start is to look and see oh there is a 1 in the 1st and 2nd row already, so the box w/o a 1 must have it in the 3rd row. kwim? sometimes you are lucky and there is only 1 box available in that row, so then you know it belongs there. you can also check the other directions rows and see if you can rule any more out.clear as mud right?!

Sorta.

[Christine]

Sorta.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Christine]

I am about done exercising. Time for the sound off everyone who has exercised today give me a wahoo when you are done

[ReneT]

i am about done exercising. Time for the sound off everyone who has exercised today give me a wahoo when you are done

wahoo!!!!!!!!!!

[stitchmich]

wahoo!!!!!!!!!!

Way to go girl!! I'm going bike riding with my boy a little later. no really... i will.... i promise.

[Christine]

Yay rene stitchie come back and wahoo when u r done

[stitchmich]

Yay rene stitchie come back and wahoo when u r done

WAHOO!!! ...gasp, gasp, huff, huff, pant, pant.... went bike riding with my son and we live in a very hilly neighborhood :p

[carolyn d]

I so agree with Rene! I think my seat is wet! (Darn, I just cleaned this couch!)so glad to be able to give you a giggle !

Carolyn, that is too funny! When is your next power work out? EVERYDAY!!!

My DH and DS made me go on a bike ride with them in the neighborhood last night. My legs were noodles when we got back. I thought they would be hurting today, but they aren't. MEAND YOUR LEGS AREN'T IN AS BAD A SHAPE AS YOU THOUGHT !!! I am sooo out of shape. The excerise I get is usually Wii Tennis.... somethings just not right about that. I know I need to do better, but I can't make myself exercise in the morning and then the day just slips away.

Lisa, I am so happy that things are falling into place for you. The power of prayer is mighty. And prayers will surely get you through the next couple of months. I'll bet it will fly by.

Oh you poor thing but really pretty funny:rofl:You had to see the look of stunned amazment on my face ! Tim is a PT and I figured I could trust him ! And that is what he banked on. literally !

So did everybody exercise today??? I am on the elliptical right now just loving this Touch!!!!!I am not techied enough to master the iTouch... I'd kill myself for sure trying to do that and physical movement at the same time.. breathing would be a stretch !

[carolyn d]

All this talk of exercise.. have we started a new club??

[carolyn d]

woo hoo !!! I just got a notice that my new camera shipped !!!! I may have a new toy early next week !

[carolyn d]

very quiet here tonight... is everyone iTouching and treadmilling ?

[Christine]

[COLOR="red"]I am not techied enough to master the iTouch... I'd kill myself for sure trying to do that and physical movement at the same time.. breathing would be a stretch !

naaaaah it is really easy! :yes::yes::yes::yes:

[Christine]

woo hoo !!! I just got a notice that my new camera shipped !!!! I may have a new toy early next week !

wahooooooo, but you know since you aren't very tech-ie. You better forward that new camera on to me as soon as you get it. Don't want you straining to figure it out. :D
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Christine]

All this talk of exercise.. have we started a new club??

yes we are inspiring each other to be healthier. :D

[GrandmaCrys]

naaaaah it is really easy! :yes::yes::yes::yes:

Easy for you to say!!! :rolleyes:

As far as exercising, I reckon I'll have to shout out a BOO HOO instead of a wahoo! :(

Why can I never find you on Yahoo any more?????????

[carolyn d]

wahooooooo, but you know since you aren't very tech-ie. You better forward that new camera on to me as soon as you get it. Don't want you straining to figure it out. :D
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

HAHAHHA !!! Actually , it has no preset modes.. just the fab 4, (a,s,p, m)..less "icon stuff" to figure out ! I'm so nervous, my bowels are loose ! I just hope I like this thing, seeing as I've sold my other camera ! As of Saturday I will be camera-less until tuesday.

of course, i won't be able to use it without cf cards ! think that would help, huh?

I can always just stop by your house and you can teach me to be techie !

[carolyn d]

yes we are inspiring each other to be healthier. :D

want me to send my son along to be our "trainer"? :rofl::rofl::rofl:
and does being healthier work with peppermint ice cream >>

[carolyn d]

naaaaah it is really easy! :yes::yes::yes::yes:

i'm sure you'd be a better teacher than my kids.. they show me something and do it so fast I can't keep up and then get frustrated with me when I ask them to show mw again !

[carolyn d]

and the post count rises !

[carolyn d]

we need a waffling smiley !!! we have every other kind.. just not one dedicated to waffling ! Hey all you creative types ....

[idtwinmom]

A waffling smiley here and a soapbox smiley from the zeroes! What a great addition to our smiley collection those would be!

WooHoo! I got out and did more weeding this afternoon! And on that new camera!!!!!! Hey - thought the old one was coming to me! :lol:

DH got to Alaska OK. He's settled into his hotel and I bet he's asleep by the time I finish this sentence. He's been staying up extra late trying to get all the stuff cleaned up that he had pulled out in the living room. Now that room is so empty that it echoes. :lol: Tomorrow I may work more on the inside than the outside because I think it's supposed to rain, but we are supposed to have 70 F over the weekend and 80 F by Monday. I'm just can't believe it will be that hot, that soon!

[ReneT]

Easy for you to say!!! :rolleyes:

As far as exercising, I reckon I'll have to shout out a BOO HOO instead of a wahoo! :(

Why can I never find you on Yahoo any more?????????

Boohoo instead of Wahoo-Crys you're so funny. :lol:

[ReneT]

want me to send my son along to be our "trainer"? :rofl::rofl::rofl:
and does being healthier work with peppermint ice cream >>

OOOHHHHHH, I have an idea, let's all get together with your son as our trainer. We could work out every day whilst we talk, then we could scrap and enjoy peppermint ice cream with Chris! How fun would that be?

[ReneT]

A waffling smiley here and a soapbox smiley from the zeroes! What a great addition to our smiley collection those would be!

WooHoo! I got out and did more weeding this afternoon! And on that new camera!!!!!! Hey - thought the old one was coming to me! :lol:

DH got to Alaska OK. He's settled into his hotel and I bet he's asleep by the time I finish this sentence. He's been staying up extra late trying to get all the stuff cleaned up that he had pulled out in the living room. Now that room is so empty that it echoes. :lol: Tomorrow I may work more on the inside than the outside because I think it's supposed to rain, but we are supposed to have 70 F over the weekend and 80 F by Monday. I'm just can't believe it will be that hot, that soon!

Glad to know he got to Alaska ok and it comfy cozy at his hotel. So much is happening. Do the kids understand it will be awhile before they see him again?

[idtwinmom]

Well, the boys seem to understand, DD on the other hand..... But of course, for her it will go pretty fast too. We will talk nearly nightly, and then Skype with Webcams whenever possible!

[ReneT]

Guess what happened here tonight? All of a sudden it got cloudy and windy outside and started raining and hailing. The hail started out at pea size, then marble size. It was hailing ALOT! Before long it turned into golf ball size! The dogs were getting nervous and I could hear police car sirens. Then DH called me and told me there was tonado activity in my area and for me to get the laptop and go get in our tornado closet. For him to tell me that, I thought it must be serious so I did. The hail was bouncing off the ground and hitting the house windows, it was crazy. So me, the lappie, the scrapbooks, the cellphone, and the dogs were hanging out for a bit in the storm closet. I started playing a game on the lappie where I was the owner/operator of a cake shop and had to bake and decorate cakes for customers (but that's a whole other story). Then DH knocked on the storm closet door! He had left work when he heard a tornado was in the area of our house, and driven home in the horrid storm to make sure I was OK! Not real smart probably, but romantic and sweet nonetheless. Then I get a text from DS saying "Don't go anywhere, there's a tornado in your area. I'm almost there." So he came to check on me too! Again, not smart, but sweet. Anyway they were all just funnel clouds, but I'm sure the hail did plenty of damage here tonight. Here's a photo of the storm. There's a rainbow in the background just above the fence. Don't know if you can see it or not.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/HAILSTORM-APRIL-16_-2009.jpg (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=313612&ppuser=127754)
Hailstorm

[ReneT]

Oh, and something else exciting, I got our family portraits in today! I'm so happy with them!

[idtwinmom]

Well, with all the worry you've had over DS, look how sweet he can be! And DH too! I would say he's a keeper. And that is a great photo! You can see the rainbow!

Congrats on the photo's.

Well, I'm off to bed! Good night folks!

[ReneT]

Well, the boys seem to understand, DD on the other hand..... But of course, for her it will go pretty fast too. We will talk nearly nightly, and then Skype with Webcams whenever possible!

Oh cool that you have Skype! We don't have that. but I've seen it. That will be awesome for everyone to stay connected.

[Christine]

HAHAHHA !!! Actually , it has no preset modes.. just the fab 4, (a,s,p, m)..less "icon stuff" to figure out ! I'm so nervous, my bowels are loose ! I just hope I like this thing, seeing as I've sold my other camera ! As of Saturday I will be camera-less until tuesday.

of course, i won't be able to use it without cf cards ! think that would help, huh?

I can always just stop by your house and you can teach me to be techie !

sure anytime! :lol:

[Christine]

want me to send my son along to be our "trainer"? :rofl::rofl::rofl:
and does being healthier work with peppermint ice cream >>

well let's see if we use your son to be the trainer, surely we can sneak some peppermint ice cream in there :yes: :yes::yes::yes:

[Christine]

i'm sure you'd be a better teacher than my kids.. they show me something and do it so fast I can't keep up and then get frustrated with me when I ask them to show mw again !

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: yeah I asked my dd if she knew how to do something on my Touch cuz her friends have them and she practically hid it from me while she was doing it, so I had to figure it out for myself!

[Christine]

A waffling smiley here and a soapbox smiley from the zeroes! What a great addition to our smiley collection those would be!

WooHoo! I got out and did more weeding this afternoon! And on that new camera!!!!!! Hey - thought the old one was coming to me! :lol:

DH got to Alaska OK. He's settled into his hotel and I bet he's asleep by the time I finish this sentence. He's been staying up extra late trying to get all the stuff cleaned up that he had pulled out in the living room. Now that room is so empty that it echoes. :lol: Tomorrow I may work more on the inside than the outside because I think it's supposed to rain, but we are supposed to have 70 F over the weekend and 80 F by Monday. I'm just can't believe it will be that hot, that soon!

yay glad he arrived safely, sounds like you are getting lots done! :tup::tup::tup:

I may have to replace the carpet in the cave cuz it is smelling all moldy. Grrrrrr, but I think the water situation is fixed. I can't be sure until it rains again big time, but hopefully. I have put some Lysol down and I will try to use the carpet cleaner tomorrow w/ some bleach. We have a type of Berber that is supposed to be ok with bleach in the water, so we will see. :cry::cry::cry::cry: and I just got my cave looking all pretty. :annoyed::annoyed::annoyed:

[Christine]

OOOHHHHHH, I have an idea, let's all get together with your son as our trainer. We could work out every day whilst we talk, then we could scrap and enjoy peppermint ice cream with Chris! How fun would that be?

Works for me!!! :applause::applause::applause:

[Christine]

Easy for you to say!!! :rolleyes:

As far as exercising, I reckon I'll have to shout out a BOO HOO instead of a wahoo! :(

Why can I never find you on Yahoo any more?????????

LOL on the boo hoo!

I don't know why we don't line up on yahoo much lately. Probably in part cuz I am hating yahoo, never seems to work properly. On Saturday, we are totally reinstalling Windows, etc. I just am having so many issues w/ my desktop. They are small things here and there, but I have had it, especially when now I can't install cs4 properly, that was the final straw. Hopefully my DSP chat and yahoo will start playing nicely after that.

[Christine]

Guess what happened here tonight? All of a sudden it got cloudy and windy outside and started raining and hailing. The hail started out at pea size, then marble size. It was hailing ALOT! Before long it turned into golf ball size! The dogs were getting nervous and I could hear police car sirens. Then DH called me and told me there was tonado activity in my area and for me to get the laptop and go get in our tornado closet. For him to tell me that, I thought it must be serious so I did. The hail was bouncing off the ground and hitting the house windows, it was crazy. So me, the lappie, the scrapbooks, the cellphone, and the dogs were hanging out for a bit in the storm closet. I started playing a game on the lappie where I was the owner/operator of a cake shop and had to bake and decorate cakes for customers (but that's a whole other story). Then DH knocked on the storm closet door! He had left work when he heard a tornado was in the area of our house, and driven home in the horrid storm to make sure I was OK! Not real smart probably, but romantic and sweet nonetheless. Then I get a text from DS saying "Don't go anywhere, there's a tornado in your area. I'm almost there." So he came to check on me too! Again, not smart, but sweet. Anyway they were all just funnel clouds, but I'm sure the hail did plenty of damage here tonight. Here's a photo of the storm. There's a rainbow in the background just above the fence. Don't know if you can see it or not.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/HAILSTORM-APRIL-16_-2009.jpg (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=313612&ppuser=127754)
Hailstorm

Holy cow! So glad you are safe and you know they love you, huh?! :D

So why aren't we seeing the family picture?

[Christine]

OK it just turned tomorrow for me, so I best go to bed. I just noticed that not only did I pass the 21,000 mark, I also passed the 21,100 mark, while I wasn't even looking! G'nite everyone, see you in the am while I am exercising!

[stitchmich]

HAHAHHA !!! Actually , it has no preset modes.. just the fab 4, (a,s,p, m)..less "icon stuff" to figure out ! I'm so nervous, my bowels are loose ! I just hope I like this thing, seeing as I've sold my other camera ! As of Saturday I will be camera-less until tuesday.

of course, i won't be able to use it without cf cards ! think that would help, huh?

I can always just stop by your house and you can teach me to be techie !

CAMERA-LESS!!! Yikes!:shocked:
:lol::lol:

[stitchmich]

Well, the boys seem to understand, DD on the other hand..... But of course, for her it will go pretty fast too. We will talk nearly nightly, and then Skype with Webcams whenever possible!

I'm glad he got there safe and sound.That's pretty cool that you'll be able to stay in touch so easily. now if he could just reach through the computer screen and help out with the packing, eh?

[stitchmich]

Guess what happened here tonight? All of a sudden it got cloudy and windy outside and started raining and hailing. The hail started out at pea size, then marble size. It was hailing ALOT! Before long it turned into golf ball size! The dogs were getting nervous and I could hear police car sirens. Then DH called me and told me there was tonado activity in my area and for me to get the laptop and go get in our tornado closet. For him to tell me that, I thought it must be serious so I did. The hail was bouncing off the ground and hitting the house windows, it was crazy. So me, the lappie, the scrapbooks, the cellphone, and the dogs were hanging out for a bit in the storm closet. I started playing a game on the lappie where I was the owner/operator of a cake shop and had to bake and decorate cakes for customers (but that's a whole other story). Then DH knocked on the storm closet door! He had left work when he heard a tornado was in the area of our house, and driven home in the horrid storm to make sure I was OK! Not real smart probably, but romantic and sweet nonetheless. Then I get a text from DS saying "Don't go anywhere, there's a tornado in your area. I'm almost there." So he came to check on me too! Again, not smart, but sweet. Anyway they were all just funnel clouds, but I'm sure the hail did plenty of damage here tonight. Here's a photo of the storm. There's a rainbow in the background just above the fence. Don't know if you can see it or not.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/HAILSTORM-APRIL-16_-2009.jpg (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=313612&ppuser=127754)
Hailstorm

Wow, Rene! That is crazy and scary. But how sweet that both your boys came to take care of you. :yes:

[stitchmich]

yay glad he arrived safely, sounds like you are getting lots done! :tup::tup::tup:

I may have to replace the carpet in the cave cuz it is smelling all moldy. Grrrrrr, but I think the water situation is fixed. I can't be sure until it rains again big time, but hopefully. I have put some Lysol down and I will try to use the carpet cleaner tomorrow w/ some bleach. We have a type of Berber that is supposed to be ok with bleach in the water, so we will see. :cry::cry::cry::cry: and I just got my cave looking all pretty. :annoyed::annoyed::annoyed:

If your wet carpet is sad for me I can only imagine how bummed you must be. I hope you can get it dried out. I know what kind of carpet you are talking about... that stuff is almost indestructible. I think it is made from recycled plastic bottles. (DH used to work in the carpet biz.)

Boy, you guys were chatty last night!

[stitchmich]

:yahoo: I am so excited. I'm off on a kid-free weekend with my hubby. Some friends got a place at the beach this week and asked us to join them for the weekend. So the kids will be off with friends while we relax. :tup: YAY!!! See you Monday :cool:

[Christine]

:yahoo: I am so excited. I'm off on a kid-free weekend with my hubby. Some friends got a place at the beach this week and asked us to join them for the weekend. So the kids will be off with friends while we relax. :tup: YAY!!! See you Monday :cool:

Yay!!! That does sound fun! As much as we love our kids it is aalways so great to get away for some one on one time

[ReneT]

Hey guys, I posted the family photos from our photo shoot in my gallery. I wish you could see the actual photos themselves. These scanned images do not do them justice. The actual photos are so much more vibrant and sharp. But at least this kinda lets you see my family. The ones of me & DH were taken outside at my house against the brick wall of our bedroom. The wind was blowing about 50 mph and my hair and dead grass were blowing everywhere, but the photographer just waited until the exact moments that the wind put my hair down and snapped several photos, then he took out all the blowing grass later when he was enhancing the photos. Here's the link to my gallery:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=127754

[ReneT]

:yahoo: I am so excited. I'm off on a kid-free weekend with my hubby. Some friends got a place at the beach this week and asked us to join them for the weekend. So the kids will be off with friends while we relax. :tup: YAY!!! See you Monday :cool:

Oh how fun! I bet you are gonna have a blast!!!!! Enjoy! :tup::tup::tup:

[ReneT]

How did the berber do with the bleach Chris, have you tried it yet? I used to have Berber. It's great for kids and pets and stuff.

[GrandmaCrys]

OOOHHHHHH, I have an idea, let's all get together with your son as our trainer. We could work out every day whilst we talk, then we could scrap and enjoy peppermint ice cream with Chris! How fun would that be?

Yes, a trainer, exercise and ice cream - EXACTLY my kind of combo!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

yay glad he arrived safely, sounds like you are getting lots done! :tup::tup::tup:

I may have to replace the carpet in the cave cuz it is smelling all moldy. Grrrrrr, but I think the water situation is fixed. I can't be sure until it rains again big time, but hopefully. I have put some Lysol down and I will try to use the carpet cleaner tomorrow w/ some bleach. We have a type of Berber that is supposed to be ok with bleach in the water, so we will see. :cry::cry::cry::cry: and I just got my cave looking all pretty. :annoyed::annoyed::annoyed:

Oh, bummer! :annoyed: :annoyed: But, you do not want to live with mold, especially with your allergies!



How did the berber do with the bleach Chris, have you tried it yet? I used to have Berber. It's great for kids and pets and stuff.

Yes, as a matter of fact, it hides stuff so well mine has probably become the equivalent of a landfill without my knowledge! :worried: :worried: :worried: :worried: :worried:

[GrandmaCrys]

Hey! Now I can say WAHOO! Sonny and I just took a 22 minute walk! Hey now! No poo-poohing - it's a start!:D

[Christine]

OK here is the report, queue the town criers. :lol: Does anybody feel sorry for me yet? Seriously how can all of this happen to one person in such a short period of time?I am trying really hard to stay positive, but starting to feel like I must be under a big fat rain cloud! LOL

As you all probably know, we have been painting our house FOREVER!!! Seriously since the beginning of January. All that is left is a bit of trim, hang some doors and touch up a few spots. Do you think, I can get Rob (dh's cousin) to come back over and finish? NOOOOO! good news: it looks great where it is finished.

I just got CS4, but have had lots of problems with the brushes not working properly. Install, reinstall, fuss, fuss, fuss. Now I have found out that we think it is because I have Windows XP Media Center, so tomorrow we are wiping out the whole thing and starting over by installing plain XP. I swear if this doesn't fix this problem and several other little issues I have been having, I am so going to scream! good news: I have a friend who is a puter guru, who is helping me and it shouldn't cost me anything.

I finally got my new iTouch, which was supposed to be for my birthday, but they were having a hard time getting them in stock at my store, so I got it last week. Well there has been something wrong w/ the accelerometer, on w/ tech support for a while this am and they finally said it was defective. Good news: it was so new, I got the store to give me a new one.

My new case that goes on the above mentioned iTouch doesn't fit quite right so it makes the home button not work at all. Works fine when it is off. Doesn't work at all, if it is on. Good news: they are sending me a new one no charge.

The carpet of my office was soaking wet the other morning after a big huge rain storm. I used the carpet cleaner and sucked up about 1 gallon of water from the carpet. Good news, no electronics were actually on the floor so they all still work and I think I have the source of the water fixed, we will see after the next big rain storm.

Then yesterday I start noticing that my office smells very moldy from the water, so now we are wondering if we need to replace the carpet in here. Good news: the carpet is a berber that you can actually add bleach to, so I used the carpet cleaner with bleach water and am now hoping that it will kill the mold and we won't have any more problems with this.

DH just recently had his store close, so he switched jobs. He worked 2 weeks overlapping, so I was basically a single mom as he was working 80 hours a week, now he is down to only 40 hours sorta, since he is the manager and nobody has been managing his people for a while so there are all these problems that he is trying to solve at the same time he is training to know how to use the new computer system etc, get organized, get a clue, etc etc. LOL Good news: The new job will hopefully be better once he gets acclimated.

Sheeesh! Can you believe all of this?!!! I know you have all heard parts of this, but it is just amazing to see it all written down in one spot, so I just had to share. I will try to keep my rose colored glasses on. :D

[Christine]

Hey! Now I can say WAHOO! Sonny and I just took a 22 minute walk! Hey now! No poo-poohing - it's a start!:D

hey it is a GREAT start! :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

Anybody else wahoo for today? I walked for 65 mins or so on the t-mill. Did I already wahoo? Well if not..........WAHOOO! :D

[Raphne]

*passes Chris a big bowl of peppermint ice cream*
Enjoy it, it's hard to find this time of year. . . but you need it more than I do right now! Sheesh, what an awful couple of weeks!

[GrandmaCrys]

Now that Chris has BooHoo'd and Wahoo'd, I'm going to take a turn. Since I already Wahoo'd, guess it's time for my BooHoo!!

As most of you know, newest grandson, Alex was Christened last weekend at the end of the Sat. night Easter service.

My older son (Alex's dad) and I both have Nikon D70s's. My younger son's wife has a D90.

One little baby's Christening, 3 honking Nikons. :D :D

Both Alex's aunts and their whole families, plus Grandma; Alex's uncle and his whole family, GrandmaCrys and GrandpaSonny, GrandpaMark and GreatGrandma were there. The whole family, so to speak!! We even had an extra GreatUncle there from CA., which was so convenient for the *group* photos.

Because of time restrictions, I just have not learned my camera as I should and therefore shoot mostly on *Auto*. (No screaming, please! :doh:)

The other two cameras were set somewhere...not auto.

Pictures here and there and everywhere, plus left and right.

Before leaving for the day after our Easter celebrations, Daddy copied everyone's photos and made DVD's for us all to take with. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

When I finally got a chance to view the photos, I was BROKENHEARTED!!!!!!!! :yikes: :yikes:

In all the group shots, up at the pulpit (where the Christening) actually took place) my camera did a fine job and their photos are so dark you can barely see them! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

And the REALLY sad part is that in all the photos of "big" groups, my camera was NOT being used, because GreatUncle could only manipulate one camera! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I've tried lightening them in Bridge and Photoshop, but when I lighten them enough, there's so much noise, the pics are horrible!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

And that baby is only going to be Christened one time in his life!!!

HELP.....HELP.....HELP.....HELP.....HELP.....

[Christine]

ahhh dang Crys! So sorry to hear that! I would only know how to do the Bridge/Photoshop, but I bet someone around here knows how to help. :D

[Christine]

Have you guys all heard/seen Susan Boyle from Britain's got Talent? Probably so, but just in case you haven't, you have to check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg

[Christine]

I forgot to tell you one other thing. Today Joshie was laying on my lap talking to me and I happened to look in his mouth and in one of this molars that had a filling, the filling was GONE and there was this HUGE hole in his tooth! Good news: he had a pulpotomy (like a root canal but they do it in children) when they did the filling to begin w/ so it isn't hurting him at all, but not sure if the new insurance will be all set up by Tuesday when they can get him in to fix it, so even though we should be covered, I am sure it will be a hassle, but I don't want to put it off any longer than necessary.

[idtwinmom]

Let's see if I can remember what I read:
Chris - it certainly does sound like you have had enough fun for the last 2 weeks. I think you deserve a break, and a bowl of Peppermint Ice Cream.

Stitch - hope your weekend is an absolute blast.

Crys - glad you got some walking in, the best I did today was back and forth trying to clean the floors (and all I really got was dust mopped and vacuuming done). It rained so no yard work today, but I hit it in the morning, hard! So sorry about the photo's, I know how bad that can be. (real sweet ask Carolyn D - she Lightroomed a photo for me that was totally unusable, maybe she would be willing to help you out too!)

Well, I've just been on the phone with DH and now it's time to get ready for bed! Didn't accomplish anything tonight either I guess!

[ReneT]

Chris, bless your heart. Reading it all together like that is just overwhelming! At least all the bad stuff has had a mostly good outcome, but with that much going wrong in such a short period, I would have needed some cake with the ice cream! :D I hope the dentist appt goes well for Joshie next week and the insurance is not too much of a problem.

I watched the Susan Boyle video. WOW! Not what I expected. That was incredible.

Cris, I am so sorry about the Christening photos. I know you are just sick about it! Maybe someone will be able to help figure it out. Crossing my fingers and saying a little prayer. :pray::pray:

[carolyn d]

I forgot to tell you one other thing. Today Joshie was laying on my lap talking to me and I happened to look in his mouth and in one of this molars that had a filling, the filling was GONE and there was this HUGE hole in his tooth! Good news: he had a pulpotomy (like a root canal but they do it in children) when they did the filling to begin w/ so it isn't hurting him at all, but not sure if the new insurance will be all set up by Tuesday when they can get him in to fix it, so even though we should be covered, I am sure it will be a hassle, but I don't want to put it off any longer than necessary.at least with the pulpotomy, he wont' have pain.. make sure you brush the "crater" well to keep food debris from collecting. The tooth can still decay and he WILL NOT HAVE PAIN! That should keep you good until you get the insurance figured out.

Have you guys all heard/seen Susan Boyle from Britain's got Talent? Probably so, but just in case you haven't, you have to check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfgI watched that the other night. Talk about judging a book by its cover ! She is just absoulutely phenomenal.. I just wish everyone would stop talking about her appearance and concentrate on that fantstic voice.

Now that Chris has BooHoo'd and Wahoo'd, I'm going to take a turn. Since I already Wahoo'd, guess it's time for my BooHoo!!

As most of you know, newest grandson, Alex was Christened last weekend at the end of the Sat. night Easter service.

My older son (Alex's dad) and I both have Nikon D70s's. My younger son's wife has a D90.

One little baby's Christening, 3 honking Nikons. :D :D

Both Alex's aunts and their whole families, plus Grandma; Alex's uncle and his whole family, GrandmaCrys and GrandpaSonny, GrandpaMark and GreatGrandma were there. The whole family, so to speak!! We even had an extra GreatUncle there from CA., which was so convenient for the *group* photos.

Because of time restrictions, I just have not learned my camera as I should and therefore shoot mostly on *Auto*. (No screaming, please! :doh:)

The other two cameras were set somewhere...not auto.

Pictures here and there and everywhere, plus left and right.

Before leaving for the day after our Easter celebrations, Daddy copied everyone's photos and made DVD's for us all to take with. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

When I finally got a chance to view the photos, I was BROKENHEARTED!!!!!!!! :yikes: :yikes:

In all the group shots, up at the pulpit (where the Christening) actually took place) my camera did a fine job and their photos are so dark you can barely see them! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

And the REALLY sad part is that in all the photos of "big" groups, my camera was NOT being used, because GreatUncle could only manipulate one camera! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I've tried lightening them in Bridge and Photoshop, but when I lighten them enough, there's so much noise, the pics are horrible!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

And that baby is only going to be Christened one time in his life!!!

HELP.....HELP.....HELP.....HELP.....HELP.....
Send me the original photo file and I will see if I can do something with it! mamamolar@cox.net No promises, but I can give it a go..it really depends on how dark it is. I have a software program for noise reduction which may help.

OK here is the report, queue the town criers. :lol: Does anybody feel sorry for me yet? Seriously how can all of this happen to one person in such a short period of time?I am trying really hard to stay positive, but starting to feel like I must be under a big fat rain cloud! LOL

As you all probably know, we have been painting our house FOREVER!!! Seriously since the beginning of January. All that is left is a bit of trim, hang some doors and touch up a few spots. Do you think, I can get Rob (dh's cousin) to come back over and finish? NOOOOO! good news: it looks great where it is finished.

I just got CS4, but have had lots of problems with the brushes not working properly. Install, reinstall, fuss, fuss, fuss. Now I have found out that we think it is because I have Windows XP Media Center, so tomorrow we are wiping out the whole thing and starting over by installing plain XP. I swear if this doesn't fix this problem and several other little issues I have been having, I am so going to scream! good news: I have a friend who is a puter guru, who is helping me and it shouldn't cost me anything.

I finally got my new iTouch, which was supposed to be for my birthday, but they were having a hard time getting them in stock at my store, so I got it last week. Well there has been something wrong w/ the accelerometer, on w/ tech support for a while this am and they finally said it was defective. Good news: it was so new, I got the store to give me a new one.

My new case that goes on the above mentioned iTouch doesn't fit quite right so it makes the home button not work at all. Works fine when it is off. Doesn't work at all, if it is on. Good news: they are sending me a new one no charge.

The carpet of my office was soaking wet the other morning after a big huge rain storm. I used the carpet cleaner and sucked up about 1 gallon of water from the carpet. Good news, no electronics were actually on the floor so they all still work and I think I have the source of the water fixed, we will see after the next big rain storm.

Then yesterday I start noticing that my office smells very moldy from the water, so now we are wondering if we need to replace the carpet in here. Good news: the carpet is a berber that you can actually add bleach to, so I used the carpet cleaner with bleach water and am now hoping that it will kill the mold and we won't have any more problems with this.

DH just recently had his store close, so he switched jobs. He worked 2 weeks overlapping, so I was basically a single mom as he was working 80 hours a week, now he is down to only 40 hours sorta, since he is the manager and nobody has been managing his people for a while so there are all these problems that he is trying to solve at the same time he is training to know how to use the new computer system etc, get organized, get a clue, etc etc. LOL Good news: The new job will hopefully be better once he gets acclimated.

Sheeesh! Can you believe all of this?!!! I know you have all heard parts of this, but it is just amazing to see it all written down in one spot, so I just had to share. I will try to keep my rose colored glasses on. :DDid you mention that you had broad shoulders and could carry the load ? YIKES ! this is just WAY TOO MUCH all at one time.

CAMERA-LESS!!! Yikes!:shocked:
:lol::lol:UPS attempted to deliver the camera today. But of course, no one answered the door ! I'll get it Monday ! I still have my D50 - she wont' be home this weekend ! Lucky me .

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: yeah I asked my dd if she knew how to do something on my Touch cuz her friends have them and she practically hid it from me while she was doing it, so I had to figure it out for myself!SUPER TECHNO MOM !

well let's see if we use your son to be the trainer, surely we can sneak some peppermint ice cream in there :yes: :yes::yes::yes:yeah... if we live through his workouts ! LOL

sure anytime! :lol:Still want me to drop a smack on the DH's noggin ?

Guess what happened here tonight? All of a sudden it got cloudy and windy outside and started raining and hailing. The hail started out at pea size, then marble size. It was hailing ALOT! Before long it turned into golf ball size! The dogs were getting nervous and I could hear police car sirens. Then DH called me and told me there was tonado activity in my area and for me to get the laptop and go get in our tornado closet. For him to tell me that, I thought it must be serious so I did. The hail was bouncing off the ground and hitting the house windows, it was crazy. So me, the lappie, the scrapbooks, the cellphone, and the dogs were hanging out for a bit in the storm closet. I started playing a game on the lappie where I was the owner/operator of a cake shop and had to bake and decorate cakes for customers (but that's a whole other story). Then DH knocked on the storm closet door! He had left work when he heard a tornado was in the area of our house, and driven home in the horrid storm to make sure I was OK! Not real smart probably, but romantic and sweet nonetheless. Then I get a text from DS saying "Don't go anywhere, there's a tornado in your area. I'm almost there." So he came to check on me too! Again, not smart, but sweet. Anyway they were all just funnel clouds, but I'm sure the hail did plenty of damage here tonight. Here's a photo of the storm. There's a rainbow in the background just above the fence. Don't know if you can see it or not.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/HAILSTORM-APRIL-16_-2009.jpg (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=313612&ppuser=127754)
HailstormGreat shot.. but man, that sounds just too scary ! What good men you have !

Well, the boys seem to understand, DD on the other hand..... But of course, for her it will go pretty fast too. We will talk nearly nightly, and then Skype with Webcams whenever possible!
Thank goodness you have the technology to keep in constant contact ! Imagine what it would be like if you didn't have these "modern" conveniences???
OOOHHHHHH, I have an idea, let's all get together with your son as our trainer. We could work out every day whilst we talk, then we could scrap and enjoy peppermint ice cream with Chris! How fun would that be?You guys can have my share of the icecream (uck).. if we all live !

[Christine]

CaroD- I have some temp dent stuff so I cleaned out the crater and put that in it. I hhave an appt for him on tues but I know the insur won't be set up by then. It will be retroactive though to cover it supposedly.

Ya know as far as susan b though in some ways her appearance might help her because more publicity. If she is going to be on stage etc they can cut her hair or whateve a whole lot easier than fixing her voice kwim that is just God given talent there again I say wow!!!!!!!!!!

[Christine]

Wahoo for me on the elliptical right now until the computer man gets here :D

[GrandmaCrys]

Have you guys all heard/seen Susan Boyle from Britain's got Talent? Probably so, but just in case you haven't, you have to check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg

Chris, I'm so glad you linked that here; when this was running through the GT, I was at work and couldn't listen.

WOW and WOW!!!! Phenomenal!! I had tears running down my face from after the first minute, on, I do believe.

To have had that talent for 47 years and the world denied of it is a crying shame!!

Caro, I'm going to look through the pics today and send you one! Thanks so much for your offer.

[GrandmaCrys]

CaroD, two photos are just now flying out of my computer, heading toward your in box! :D

[carolyn d]

CaroD, two photos are just now flying out of my computer, heading toward your in box! :Dand they are already winging their way back to you ! They were actually only about 1 1/2 stops too dark so if you had put the iso to 400 they would have been perfect ! these 2 only took me about 5 minutes to do so send more if you wish.

[carolyn d]

CaroD- I have some temp dent stuff so I cleaned out the crater and put that in it. I hhave an appt for him on tues but I know the insur won't be set up by then. It will be retroactive though to cover it supposedly.great for the temp stuff ! That will keep it cleaner !

Ya know as far as susan b though in some ways her appearance might help her because more publicity. If she is going to be on stage etc they can cut her hair or whateve a whole lot easier than fixing her voice kwim that is just God given talent there again I say wow!!!!!!!!!!I thnk what bothered me more was the attitude of the judges and the audience.. so ready to make fun and belittle based on appearance rather than just according someone the respect due any person- especially one brave enough to put themselves in front of a global audience. I must admit, tho, that I am VERYsensitive to this ... when I was younger, I was always taunted about wearing glasses ( 4 eyes) and being skinny and a late developer ( flip top flat top) and even my appearance in general ( you're not the prettiest gal in the world but you're a nice person). so, I tend to react very strongly at a gut level.

[GrandmaCrys]

and they are already winging their way back to you ! They were actually only about 1 1/2 stops too dark so if you had put the iso to 400 they would have been perfect ! these 2 only took me about 5 minutes to do so send more if you wish.

I would actually have asked you what that meant, if it had been my camera, but the one was from DDIL#2's D90. No idea where her setting were. :o

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[GrandmaCrys]

I thnk what bothered me more was the attitude of the judges and the audience.. so ready to make fun and belittle based on appearance rather than just according someone the respect due any person- especially one brave enough to put themselves in front of a global audience. I must admit, tho, that I am VERYsensitive to this ... when I was younger, I was always taunted about wearing glasses ( 4 eyes) and being skinny and a late developer ( flip top flat top) and even my appearance in general ( you're not the prettiest gal in the world but you're a nice person). so, I tend to react very strongly at a gut level.

Apparently we were twins! :D Guess I got off lucky, though; don't remember ever being made fun of! Not that I wasn't - I just don't remember most of anything! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I could have been made of horribly, as far as I know, and that could be why I'm such an introvert in my older age!

And, I've changed, too...I started wearing contacts at the age of 18 (when I could afford them myself) and 2 kids and the 30's took the skinny part away! :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[GrandmaCrys]

Actually, Carolyn, regardless what my email said, I am going to send you two more photos....will explain in the message...thanks for your kind offer!

[carolyn d]

I would actually have asked you what that meant, if it had been my camera, but the one was from DDIL#2's D90. No idea where her setting were. :o

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Oooops, sorry ! When I read the meta data, I just ASSUMED the D90 was your camera...

[carolyn d]

Actually, Carolyn, regardless what my email said, I am going to send you two more photos....will explain in the message...thanks for your kind offer!
no problem... I'm waiting !

[carolyn d]

Apparently we were twins! :D Guess I got off lucky, though; don't remember ever being made fun of! Not that I wasn't - I just don't remember most of anything! :lol: :lol: :lol: I remember everything ! How sad is THAT? 7th and 8th grades were the worst years of my life. Luckily, I had a couple of good friends who bolstered my worth (in my eyes) and I'm stubborn enough/thick headed enough to make me more determined NOT to be what others said I was.

I could have been made of horribly, as far as I know, and that could be why I'm such an introvert in my older age!

And, I've changed, too...I started wearing contacts at the age of 18 (when I could afford them myself) and 2 kids and the 30's took the skinny part away! :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Well, I got the contacts too...3 kids didn't take care of the skinny tho... I weigh today what I weighed in High School. . It's just distributed differently. :rofl::rofl: A bit more of a 'southern" direction , if you will.

[idtwinmom]

I thnk what bothered me more was the attitude of the judges and the audience.. so ready to make fun and belittle based on appearance rather than just according someone the respect due any person- especially one brave enough to put themselves in front of a global audience. I must admit, tho, that I am VERYsensitive to this ... when I was younger, I was always taunted about wearing glasses ( 4 eyes) and being skinny and a late developer ( flip top flat top) and even my appearance in general ( you're not the prettiest gal in the world but you're a nice person). so, I tend to react very strongly at a gut level.

Wow! And as gorgeous as you now, I would never have guessed! But it does explain all your comments and not liking to be photographed. (typical photographer, prefers to be behind the camera!)

[idtwinmom]

Well, we have had a really gorgeous day here! I should be doing anything but sitting here (so I plan to keep this short). Got quite a bit of the weeding done and I'm really hoping to finish tomorrow! Monday is supposed to get quite warm, so I really want to be finishing the inside by then. That and the sooner we get the sign up the better. But one thing at a time!

I would also like to report that I have lost 2 pounds this week. Guess all this work is doing some good. Now I just need to keep the process going and I can lose over 15 pounds before DH gets back.

[GrandmaCrys]

YAY, Lisa! Two pounds is awesome!! Keep up the good work.

And I'd like to give a big WAHOO today, also. DH and I again walked!!!

[carolyn d]

Well, we have had a really gorgeous day here! I should be doing anything but sitting here (so I plan to keep this short). Got quite a bit of the weeding done and I'm really hoping to finish tomorrow! Monday is supposed to get quite warm, so I really want to be finishing the inside by then. That and the sooner we get the sign up the better. But one thing at a time!

I would also like to report that I have lost 2 pounds this week. Guess all this work is doing some good. Now I just need to keep the process going and I can lose over 15 pounds before DH gets back.
WOO HOO FOR YOU!!!! At least this is one bonus for extended, extreme anxiety and frantic activity !

[carolyn d]

Currently a big, resounding BOO HOO for me today ( as I sit here munching a piece of pizza while nursing a very small hangover) Seems I went out last night to hear the rock band my girlfriends DH plays in .... arrrrrrrghhhhhh Long Island Iced Tea went down so good, I had another.. next thing I knew I was dancing and drinking my other friend's beer ! Oh GAWD. Lest you all think I'm non functional... I've cooked dinner, done 5 loads of laundry, did a layout, did some photo editing, cleaned the kitchen, paid bills....showered and puttered around my room dusting and consumed a pot of coffee. Will attempt vigorous activity later.. On the good note.. I am not sore from my dance floor contortions. We did have a good time tho.... and had 3 genrations of one family on the dance floor...my girlfriend, her mother and her daughter... Ages 27 , 49, and 70 ! ROCK ON !!!

[Christine]

I thnk what bothered me more was the attitude of the judges and the audience.. so ready to make fun and belittle based on appearance rather than just according someone the respect due any person- especially one brave enough to put themselves in front of a global audience. I must admit, tho, that I am VERYsensitive to this ... when I was younger, I was always taunted about wearing glasses ( 4 eyes) and being skinny and a late developer ( flip top flat top) and even my appearance in general ( you're not the prettiest gal in the world but you're a nice person). so, I tend to react very strongly at a gut level.

yeah I know what you mean, I just loved that they got it handed right back in their face! I think it was the perfect teaching moment for not judging a book by its cover etc.

[Christine]

Wahoos for Lisa and Crys but a boohoo for carolyn. :lol: Wow crazy busy day, and my desktop is still not fixed. :cry: :cry: The anxiety is killing me. Heather's BIL that has been helping me had to take it home cuz we had a baptism and Aimee's swim meet to go to. There was a problem w/ the hard drive, will the trauma never end?!!!!Grrrr

[carolyn d]

Wahoos for Lisa and Crys but a boohoo for carolyn. :lol: Wow crazy busy day, and my desktop is still not fixed. :cry: :cry: The anxiety is killing me. Heather's BIL that has been helping me had to take it home cuz we had a baptism and Aimee's swim meet to go to. There was a problem w/ the hard drive, will the trauma never end?!!!!Grrrr

more like a big BOO BOO !!!!
i MUSTA missed something.. what happened to your puter.. I did see about the small rain forest you had going in your cave.. but don't remeber seeing anything about computer issues.

[ReneT]

Well, we have had a really gorgeous day here! I should be doing anything but sitting here (so I plan to keep this short). Got quite a bit of the weeding done and I'm really hoping to finish tomorrow! Monday is supposed to get quite warm, so I really want to be finishing the inside by then. That and the sooner we get the sign up the better. But one thing at a time!

I would also like to report that I have lost 2 pounds this week. Guess all this work is doing some good. Now I just need to keep the process going and I can lose over 15 pounds before DH gets back.

:tup::tup::tup::tup:

[ReneT]

Currently a big, resounding BOO HOO for me today ( as I sit here munching a piece of pizza while nursing a very small hangover) Seems I went out last night to hear the rock band my girlfriends DH plays in .... arrrrrrrghhhhhh Long Island Iced Tea went down so good, I had another.. next thing I knew I was dancing and drinking my other friend's beer ! Oh GAWD. Lest you all think I'm non functional... I've cooked dinner, done 5 loads of laundry, did a layout, did some photo editing, cleaned the kitchen, paid bills....showered and puttered around my room dusting and consumed a pot of coffee. Will attempt vigorous activity later.. On the good note.. I am not sore from my dance floor contortions. We did have a good time tho.... and had 3 genrations of one family on the dance floor...my girlfriend, her mother and her daughter... Ages 27 , 49, and 70 ! ROCK ON !!!

Sounds like fun. You've been a busy girl today!

[ReneT]

a big Boo Hoo for me today! I didn't exercise. I'm so tired today. Don't know why unless it's still the med, but I thought I was starting to get used to it. A couple of times I got up and felt dizzy again, so I took my BP and it was 129/72, so that's not too low. Who knows? But on the brighter side, I have done very well with my diet this week. So maybe that counts for something? ;)

[idtwinmom]

BooHoo, Chris - puter problems are the pits!!!!!

Carolyn - we do seem to be missing each other a lot lately! Things will get better once I get this house on the market. I'm really stressing over it right now.

Rene - Chris is the expert, but it may still be the meds making you tired and dizzy. Just getting used to the change can make your body feel different.

Well, all this work and I pulled a muscle in my back this morning. It's not too bad and the weeding actually helped it get a little better, but I'm off to veg and lean on an ice pack!

[carolyn d]

yes, we surely are !!! But then again, your life has been beyond frantic- physically, emotionally, everythingly !!! With everything going on , hooting around with me should be near the bottom of the list! We'll connect when you have more time, but know that not a day goes by that I don't wonder how the heck you're holding up. ( or currently , shriveling away) We'll all still be here when you have more time.

[carolyn d]

hey, did you nitice the post count?? finally moving !

[carolyn d]

waffle waffle.. yeah just had to add that ! LOL

[ReneT]

BooHoo, Chris - puter problems are the pits!!!!!

Carolyn - we do seem to be missing each other a lot lately! Things will get better once I get this house on the market. I'm really stressing over it right now.

Rene - Chris is the expert, but it may still be the meds making you tired and dizzy. Just getting used to the change can make your body feel different.

Well, all this work and I pulled a muscle in my back this morning. It's not too bad and the weeding actually helped it get a little better, but I'm off to veg and lean on an ice pack!

Hope you are resting and feeling better!

[ReneT]

waffle waffle.. yeah just had to add that ! LOL

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Christine]

a big Boo Hoo for me today! I didn't exercise. I'm so tired today. Don't know why unless it's still the med, but I thought I was starting to get used to it. A couple of times I got up and felt dizzy again, so I took my BP and it was 129/72, so that's not too low. Who knows? But on the brighter side, I have done very well with my diet this week. So maybe that counts for something? ;)

how's your iron? If you want me to PM your med list I can look at it for you if you would like. :D

[Christine]

more like a big BOO BOO !!!!
i MUSTA missed something.. what happened to your puter.. I did see about the small rain forest you had going in your cave.. but don't remeber seeing anything about computer issues.

It was in amongst all of the trauma lately. I just got CS4 and my brushes were all wonky on it. Plus I have been having other slight annoyances that I have just been living with, so this weekend we reformatted the whole hard drive. As with everything lately, it was 10 times harder than it should have been. But the good news is, I THINK we have it now. :pray::pray::pray::pray:

[carolyn d]

It was in amongst all of the trauma lately. I just got CS4 and my brushes were all wonky on it. Plus I have been having other slight annoyances that I have just been living with, so this weekend we reformatted the whole hard drive. As with everything lately, it was 10 times harder than it should have been. But the good news is, I THINK we have it now. :pray::pray::pray::pray:

weird how everything seems to happen all at once, huh ? What's up with that? Are the shoulders of a mother so broad that we can carry technological burdens along with motherhood, worker, laundress, chauffeur, teacher, nurse, advisor, psychological counselor, cook, bottle washer, housemaid,gardener, professional shopper ( uck) event planner, .... and the list goes on and on and on and on and on....

OH YEAH... WE'RE TOUGH.. JUST PILE MORE S**T ON!!!:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[ReneT]

Hi everyone! I had a very productive day today. I did 3 layouts, cleaned the hot tub so I can refill it, cleaned out my closet and got 4 boxes of clothes to give to Goodwill, and did 2 loads of laundry. Starting tomorrow, the next 2 weeks are gonna be really bad at work so I tried to get as many layouts that I knew were due by the end of the month done. That just leaves one that I know of right now to do. Yay.

[Christine]

weird how everything seems to happen all at once, huh ? What's up with that? Are the shoulders of a mother so broad that we can carry technological burdens along with motherhood, worker, laundress, chauffeur, teacher, nurse, advisor, psychological counselor, cook, bottle washer, housemaid,gardener, professional shopper ( uck) event planner, .... and the list goes on and on and on and on and on....

OH YEAH... WE'RE TOUGH.. JUST PILE MORE S**T ON!!!:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Doesn't it though? Sometimes you start thinking, really this is enough!

[Christine]

Hi everyone! I had a very productive day today. I did 3 layouts, cleaned the hot tub so I can refill it, cleaned out my closet and got 4 boxes of clothes to give to Goodwill, and did 2 loads of laundry. Starting tomorrow, the next 2 weeks are gonna be really bad at work so I tried to get as many layouts that I knew were due by the end of the month done. That just leaves one that I know of right now to do. Yay.

oh good job you! I love days where you feel like wow look at all that I accomplished!

[Christine]

Good morning!!!! Wahoooo for me on the elliptical. So far 40 min. :D

[stitchmich]

Good morning!!!! Wahoooo for me on the elliptical. So far 40 min. :D

Wahoo for you! :tup: but not for me :( We got back from our trip to Charleston last night. Had a fun relaxing time, but ate too much. We were only gone 3 days... How can there be so much laundry!?!? you guys have been way chatty this weekend! I have read through, but won't even try to respond to three days worth of waffling :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Chris... puter still hanging in there??
Rene... girl you were busy yesterday!! I hope you are feeling better.
Carolyn... I loved your comment about "the shoulders of a mother" AMEN, sister!!:D

I've got so much to do today, but I must finish my SWTS. hmmm... can the grocery shopping and laundry wait?

[ReneT]

Wahoo for you! :tup: but not for me :( We got back from our trip to Charleston last night. Had a fun relaxing time, but ate too much. We were only gone 3 days... How can there be so much laundry!?!? you guys have been way chatty this weekend! I have read through, but won't even try to respond to three days worth of waffling :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Chris... puter still hanging in there??
Rene... girl you were busy yesterday!! I hope you are feeling better.
Carolyn... I loved your comment about "the shoulders of a mother" AMEN, sister!!:D

I've got so much to do today, but I must finish my SWTS. hmmm... can the grocery shopping and laundry wait?

Glad you had fun on your trip to Charleston. I have a rule while on vacations - NO WORRYING ABOUT FOOD. What fun is a trip if you gotta worry about calories!

Not really feeling better, but called and talked to the nurse today, so she is going to talk to my doctor and call me back, probably tomorrow.

[ReneT]

oh good job you! I love days where you feel like wow look at all that I accomplished!

Me too!

[carolyn d]

Wahoo for you! :tup: but not for me :( We got back from our trip to Charleston last night. Had a fun relaxing time, but ate too much. We were only gone 3 days... How can there be so much laundry!?!? you guys have been way chatty this weekend! I have read through, but won't even try to respond to three days worth of waffling :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Chris... puter still hanging in there??
Rene... girl you were busy yesterday!! I hope you are feeling better.
Carolyn... I loved your comment about "the shoulders of a mother" AMEN, sister!!:D

I've got so much to do today, but I must finish my SWTS. hmmm... can the grocery shopping and laundry wait?

grocery shopping can usually wait.. I bet there is enough lurking around that you can squeeze out at least a couple of meals with a bit of creativity... but laundry? I don't think so... realizing you need to hamper dip and wear your undies inside out is NOT the way to start your day.:eek::eek::eek:

[stitchmich]

Glad you had fun on your trip to Charleston. I have a rule while on vacations - NO WORRYING ABOUT FOOD. What fun is a trip if you gotta worry about calories!

Not really feeling better, but called and talked to the nurse today, so she is going to talk to my doctor and call me back, probably tomorrow.

I hope they get you feeling better soon. BTW, I love your new avatar... very pretty :)

My only worry about the food was that DH is a pretty picky eater. Not me though... the shrimp and grits were delicious! and don't even get me started on the pralines!

[stitchmich]

but laundry? I don't think so... realizing you need to hamper dip and wear your undies inside out is NOT the way to start your day.:eek::eek::eek:

:rofl::rofl::rofl: I wasn't that desperate!

[ReneT]

I hope they get you feeling better soon. BTW, I love your new avatar... very pretty :)

My only worry about the food was that DH is a pretty picky eater. Not me though... the shrimp and grits were delicious! and don't even get me started on the pralines!

Thank you!

I bet Charleston has a lot of yummy food! I love shrimp, never had grits, and would love pralines if it weren't for the pecans. Don't like those.

[carolyn d]

:rofl::rofl::rofl: I wasn't that desperate!


before you thnk I am twisted enough to have "invented" this. i must explain that hamper dipping is a college thing... the kids will tell you they were spending all their free time hitting the books and just had NO TIME to do laundry.. but in reality, it was intramural sports, beer pong and studying. LOL

[carolyn d]

well ladies, the new toy is here! it sat on my bed, unopened, for an hour while I got up the courage to open the box and touch it ! Battery has just finished charging....and I have just a "bit" of reading to do... the manual is 420 pages long ! GAWD !!! The CF cards came in today too, so there is no excuse for me not to play... Wish me luck ! Off to see if I can electocute myself ! LOL

[carolyn d]

and the post count SLOWLY, very slowly , grows.
waffle waffle.

[ReneT]

before you thnk I am twisted enough to have "invented" this. i must explain that hamper dipping is a college thing... the kids will tell you they were spending all their free time hitting the books and just had NO TIME to do laundry.. but in reality, it was intramural sports, beer pong and studying. LOL

In that order? :lol::lol:

[ReneT]

and the post count SLOWLY, very slowly , grows.
waffle waffle.

If I waffled A LOT I might catch up to you! :yes::yes:

[ReneT]

waffle waffle waffle

[ReneT]

Speaking of which, don't waffles sound really good right now? Anyone up for a trip to IHOP? :lol::lol:

[carolyn d]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... he did every intramural sport availaable, everyday time at the gym working out, beer pong ( dorm champion every year - now that's something a mother can be proud of ! ), Thursday night Karaoke, babe hunting ( never found Ms Right.. but then again, the Physical Therapy students are the lonliest students.. their program is so intense they really don't have time for relationships- honestly) and studying was definitely in there as he graduated with his Maste's with honors in 5 years. ..... I think the actual order depended on the day !

[carolyn d]

If I waffled A LOT I might catch up to you! :yes::yes:
wont' take you much, I'm slow...
right now struggling to get the camera strap on properly !!!

[carolyn d]

Speaking of which, don't waffles sound really good right now? Anyone up for a trip to IHOP? :lol::lol:
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm with strawberries

[ReneT]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... he did every intramural sport availaable, everyday time at the gym working out, beer pong ( dorm champion every year - now that's something a mother can be proud of ! ), Thursday night Karaoke, babe hunting ( never found Ms Right.. but then again, the Physical Therapy students are the lonliest students.. their program is so intense they really don't have time for relationships- honestly) and studying was definitely in there as he graduated with his Maste's with honors in 5 years. ..... I think the actual order depended on the day !

Well, at least your beer pong player went to college and graduated with honors. My beer pong player..........not so much. :(:cry::(:cry:

[ReneT]

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm with strawberries

Nope, don't like strawberries. Peaches or warm syrup.!!!! Add some fried eggs, bacon and hash browns, and I would be a happy girl! :D

[Christine]

Wahoo for you! :tup: but not for me :( We got back from our trip to Charleston last night. Had a fun relaxing time, but ate too much. We were only gone 3 days... How can there be so much laundry!?!? you guys have been way chatty this weekend! I have read through, but won't even try to respond to three days worth of waffling :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Chris... puter still hanging in there??
Rene... girl you were busy yesterday!! I hope you are feeling better.
Carolyn... I loved your comment about "the shoulders of a mother" AMEN, sister!!:D

I've got so much to do today, but I must finish my SWTS. hmmm... can the grocery shopping and laundry wait?
Wahoo on your trip! My computer seems to be doing all bettter now. I hate to get too excited based on my recent luck. LOL

[Christine]

Lol LOL LOL LOL

[Christine]

Wahoooooooooo so exciting. I am the same way. Get something new and then be scared to start using it. When I got my first digi camera, I was dutifully reading the manual and setting up etc. DH picks up the camera and shot the first 5 pics or something. I was NOT amused! LOL

well ladies, the new toy is here! it sat on my bed, unopened, for an hour while I got up the courage to open the box and touch it ! Battery has just finished charging....and I have just a "bit" of reading to do... the manual is 420 pages long ! GAWD !!! The CF cards came in today too, so there is no excuse for me not to play... Wish me luck ! Off to see if I can electocute myself ! LOL

[stitchmich]

Lol LOL LOL LOL

was that just random laughter ? :lol:

[Christine]

Well I don't even know what beer pong is LOL

[stitchmich]

Nope, don't like strawberries. Peaches or warm syrup.!!!! Add some fried eggs, bacon and hash browns, and I would be a happy girl! :D

:eek::eek: don't like strawberries! I love them :yes:

[Christine]

was that just random laughter ? :lol:

LOL again no I was laughing at the deal with the undies. I am on the touch and hit something. Couldn't figure out what I had done. :D

[stitchmich]

Well I don't even know what beer pong is LOL

It a game of ping pong, but there is a glass of beer on each side and if you get the ping pong ball in your opponets glass he drinks it. I love to play ping pong, but I've never played beer pong, though DH played in college a lot i'm sure.

[stitchmich]

well ladies, the new toy is here! it sat on my bed, unopened, for an hour while I got up the courage to open the box and touch it ! Battery has just finished charging....and I have just a "bit" of reading to do... the manual is 420 pages long ! GAWD !!! The CF cards came in today too, so there is no excuse for me not to play... Wish me luck ! Off to see if I can electocute myself ! LOL

oh YAY! forget the reading and just start snapping! :tup:

[Christine]

:eek::eek: don't like strawberries! I love them :yes:
Oh me too they are fabulous!!!!!

[Christine]

It a game of ping pong, but there is a glass of beer on each side and if you get the ping pong ball in your opponets glass he drinks it. I love to play ping pong, but I've never played beer pong, though DH played in college a lot i'm sure.

ahhhhh gotcha

[stitchmich]

Oh me too they are fabulous!!!!!

tuck a slice of cheesecake under them and they're even better :lol:

[Christine]

Oh check me out. I have been exercising for 80 minutes!!!! Wahoo!

[Christine]

Only need 2 posts to get to 21,200. :D have to take josh over for his tooth in a bit.

[Christine]

Waffle waffle 21,200!

[stitchmich]

Oh check me out. I have been exercising for 80 minutes!!!! Wahoo!

that's amazing! Good luck with the tooth

[ReneT]

Wow Chris and Michelle, you guys have been chatty this morning. I'm at work, stuffing 13 printers full of paper over and over and over and over and over again. I'm not at all amused. But at least I can occasionally get on here and check out the forums.

I've never played beer pong either. I just see my son's pics on Facebook that he posts. I'm also not amused by that. DH and I have a ping pong table at our house and he asked one time if he could borrow it for beer pong. The look on my face must have answered his question because he was like, "OK never mind. Just thought I'd ask." Seriously, did he think I would say, "Sure Drew, feel free to use my table for underage drinking. No problem." :)

Wow, 80 minutes Chris, good for you. Wish I could ssay the same for myself.

[carolyn d]

Wahoooooooooo so exciting. I am the same way. Get something new and then be scared to start using it. When I got my first digi camera, I was dutifully reading the manual and setting up etc. DH picks up the camera and shot the first 5 pics or something. I was NOT amused! LOL

well after struggling to get the strap on (of all things!) i'm up and running. Seems it's just a matter, right now anyway, of finding where they've put the buttons to do the stuff I previously did in the menu! So far, so good... the files are ginormous!

I like the focus select and metering select buttons, now on the camera body itself rather than solely in the menu options. Life is a bit easier now. There is a second scroll button to learn. (labled the sub-command dial). But basics are basics.. it's just location !

I may like this thing after all ! Now that the panic attacks are over !

[ReneT]

I have a question, since ya'll are talking about cameras. What resolution should I normally take photos in for use in layouts? I've always taken them in the highest resolution possible, but I don't want to run out of memory on my card when we are on our cruise. My card is 4g.

[stitchmich]

I have a question, since ya'll are talking about cameras. What resolution should I normally take photos in for use in layouts? I've always taken them in the highest resolution possible, but I don't want to run out of memory on my card when we are on our cruise. My card is 4g.

I always shoot on the highest resolution possible and I have two 1g cards. how long is the cruise?

[stitchmich]

Wow Chris and Michelle, you guys have been chatty this morning. I'm at work, stuffing 13 printers full of paper over and over and over and over and over again. I'm not at all amused. But at least I can occasionally get on here and check out the forums.

I've never played beer pong either. I just see my son's pics on Facebook that he posts. I'm also not amused by that. DH and I have a ping pong table at our house and he asked one time if he could borrow it for beer pong. The look on my face must have answered his question because he was like, "OK never mind. Just thought I'd ask." Seriously, did he think I would say, "Sure Drew, feel free to use my table for underage drinking. No problem." :)


oh dear... i shouldn't laugh, but I can almost picture the look on a teenage boys face saying, Just thought I'd ask. :rolleyes:
sorry about the printers... sounds boring. I keep coming on here today because I just can't consentrate on work :annoyed:

[Raphne]

LOL that would be my answer, too-- shoot at highest possible resolution (more options for cropping later!) and buy a couple extra cards!

Carolyn, you'll learn fastest by playing-- go explore lol

And Chris-- whooo hooo! 80 minutes. . . I need a nap just reading about it hehe

[ReneT]

I always shoot on the highest resolution possible and I have two 1g cards. how long is the cruise?


The entire trip is 9 days.

[stitchmich]

And Chris-- whooo hooo! 80 minutes. . . I need a nap just reading about it hehe

:lol::lol: me too, she's making me tired!

[stitchmich]

The entire trip is 9 days.

I'm with Raphne... buy a spare card just in case

[stitchmich]

well after struggling to get the strap on (of all things!) i'm up and running. Seems it's just a matter, right now anyway, of finding where they've put the buttons to do the stuff I previously did in the menu! So far, so good... the files are ginormous!

I like the focus select and metering select buttons, now on the camera body itself rather than solely in the menu options. Life is a bit easier now. There is a second scroll button to learn. (labled the sub-command dial). But basics are basics.. it's just location !

I may like this thing after all ! Now that the panic attacks are over !

I'm glad you are liking it! Cant wait to see some photos. What camera model is it? and ummm... how many pages of the manual did you read? :lol:

[ReneT]

oh dear... i shouldn't laugh, but I can almost picture the look on a teenage boys face saying, Just thought I'd ask. :rolleyes:
sorry about the printers... sounds boring. I keep coming on here today because I just can't consentrate on work :annoyed:

Yes, it's very boring. The only thing that makes it better is my lappie and IPOD, plus the fact that I really only work about 4 months out of the year when we are super busy, except for a couple hours every evening for the business bookkeeping. So I really can't complain, although that doesn't stop me. :D I did get some super new tennis shoes with custome fitted insoles since I stand on concrete all day, so that has really helped this season. Usually by this time, I have blisters on the bottom of my feet, but not this year!

[GrandmaCrys]

well ladies, the new toy is here! it sat on my bed, unopened, for an hour while I got up the courage to open the box and touch it ! Battery has just finished charging....and I have just a "bit" of reading to do... the manual is 420 pages long ! GAWD !!! The CF cards came in today too, so there is no excuse for me not to play... Wish me luck ! Off to see if I can electocute myself ! LOL

:yahoo: :yippee: :yahoo: :yippee: :yahoo: :yippee: :yahoo: :yippee: I am such a *read the manual* before you try the product person. DH; plow right in! :D

tuck a slice of cheesecake under them and they're even better :lol:

:love1: :love1: :love1: :love1: (Couldn't find a :smacking lips: smilie!) :D

Waffle waffle 21,200!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

Yes, it's very boring. The only thing that makes it better is my lappie and IPOD, plus the fact that I really only work about 4 months out of the year when we are super busy, except for a couple hours every evening for the business bookkeeping. So I really can't complain, although that doesn't stop me. :D I did get some super new tennis shoes with custome fitted insoles since I stand on concrete all day, so that has really helped this season. Usually by this time, I have blisters on the bottom of my feet, but not this year!

OUCH! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Glad you got the blisters thing resolved for this year! :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[carolyn d]

I'm glad you are liking it! Cant wait to see some photos. What camera model is it? and ummm... how many pages of the manual did you read? :lol:

I've made it through the first 100 pages.. with some flipping back and forward as I found things I needed to know ...

It's a Nikon D300.

[carolyn d]

I have a question, since ya'll are talking about cameras. What resolution should I normally take photos in for use in layouts? I've always taken them in the highest resolution possible, but I don't want to run out of memory on my card when we are on our cruise. My card is 4g.

If I'm shooting in JPG format, I shoot JPG FINE. But it is a fairly large file. On a 2 GB card with my D50, I could fit over 500 shots per card. In RAW, I could get about 300.
With this new camera, RAW gives me 98 shots on a 2GB card. JPG NORMAL gives me 350 or so... BIG DIFFERENCE.

What you shoot in is really your personal preference determined by what you want to do with them... to print I would definitely go with the best resoloution possible. To scrap, you could easily get away with a lesser file size as it's doubtful you'd be placing the image on the layout at a full 5x7, 4x6... know what I mean???

[ReneT]

If I'm shooting in JPG format, I shoot JPG FINE. But it is a fairly large file. On a 2 GB card with my D50, I could fit over 500 shots per card. In RAW, I could get about 300.
With this new camera, RAW gives me 98 shots on a 2GB card. JPG NORMAL gives me 350 or so... BIG DIFFERENCE.

What you shoot in is really your personal preference determined by what you want to do with them... to print I would definitely go with the best resoloution possible. To scrap, you could easily get away with a lesser file size as it's doubtful you'd be placing the image on the layout at a full 5x7, 4x6... know what I mean???

I see what you're saying. So surely with a 4gb card I will have plenty of space. Plus when we're out doing stuff like the parasailing one DD wants to do, I'm going to take disposable waterproof so I won't ruin my camera, so that should help too. Thanks.

[landofoz]

Girls, since you are all talking about Camera's, I have to ask what is shooting in raw? when you put your card into the PC, what do you see.
I know nothing about this raw thing and am really curious
thanks

[stitchmich]

I've made it through the first 100 pages.. with some flipping back and forward as I found things I needed to know ...

It's a Nikon D300.

Well, that's impressive. Crys, my DH won't read a manual or instructions to anything. I thought that was just a male thing.

[idtwinmom]

Speaking of which, don't waffles sound really good right now? Anyone up for a trip to IHOP? :lol::lol:

Me!!!!!!! Of course, after the last few days I would take anyone else's cooking and just about any food too! :lol:

[carolyn d]

Girls, since you are all talking about Camera's, I have to ask what is shooting in raw? when you put your card into the PC, what do you see.
I know nothing about this raw thing and am really curious
thanks

RAW is a photo format. Essetially, whatever your camera "sees" is transfered to the media card without compression or any in camera edits.

JPG is also a photo format. However, with JPG format, the camera is programed to do some processing by compressing the image and eliminating some pixel information.
RAW does not do that... so the files themselves are quite large.

A RAW file is really only viewable in a graphics software like Photoshop or Lightroom. If you download the photo files to your PICTURES file, you will see an icon labeled NEF but not the image itself.. ( at least on my computer this is true. ) But, I can view them in PS or LR.

The advantage to shooting in RAW is in post processing, especially with LR. Gives you more options for white balance corrections. The same holds true if you process in Photoshop in Bridge. In either application, once you have made your adjustments, you can make them permanent AND change the format to JPG or TIFF or leave them as editable adjustments. ( I think that should be about as clear a mud)LOL

[carolyn d]

Well, that's impressive. Crys, my DH won't read a manual or instructions to anything. I thought that was just a male thing.

it will only be impressive if I ever figure it all out ! I am not techie by nature so everything is an uphill battle. (sigh)

[carolyn d]

Me!!!!!!! Of course, after the last few days I would take anyone else's cooking and just about any food too! :lol:

Oh I so know how you feel.... I get so tired of cooking..everything is boring !

[idtwinmom]

Well, I think I'm caught up! I have been so tired and trying to get so much done I haven't even turned the computer on in two days. I got the yard weeded (still need to finish the back, but it will have to wait until after the upcoming rains). Got the main rooms cleaned and the realtor too all her pics! House will be officially on the market tomorrow. Also - must clean the bathrooms (haven't touched them in days) and my bedroom was a dumping ground for all the stuff I didn't have time to actually go through before the realtor showed up. But the pace can actually slow a little.

Chris - I'm impressed, both your post count and the amount of time on the elliptical!

Carolyn - can't wait to see some of the new pics!

Well, I have a couple more tasks and its off to bed. In the middle of all this I decided to catch a nasty cold. Can anyone tell me why that happens when it's 80 degrees outside?

[carolyn d]

I see what you're saying. So surely with a 4gb card I will have plenty of space. Plus when we're out doing stuff like the parasailing one DD wants to do, I'm going to take disposable waterproof so I won't ruin my camera, so that should help too. Thanks.

to be honest, I never travel with less than 3 cards ! I live in fear the card will become corrupt and I'll loose everything and I never fill a card ! I quit when I have about 50 shots left and change cards.( why put all your eggs in one basket?)

I also pack my laptop and transfer to cd daily... a small price to pay to keep the images intact.

[carolyn d]

Well, I think I'm caught up! I have been so tired and trying to get so much done I haven't even turned the computer on in two days. I got the yard weeded (still need to finish the back, but it will have to wait until after the upcoming rains). Got the main rooms cleaned and the realtor too all her pics! House will be officially on the market tomorrow. Also - must clean the bathrooms (haven't touched them in days) and my bedroom was a dumping ground for all the stuff I didn't have time to actually go through before the realtor showed up. But the pace can actually slow a little.OMG... I'm exhausted just reading this ! YOu poor thing ! My suggestion is a long hot soak, a glass of wine/tea/whatever floats your boat, a good book and bed !

Chris - I'm impressed, both your post count and the amount of time on the elliptical!She has been an elliptical maniac lately... well off to do my pushups and squats...

Carolyn - can't wait to see some of the new pics!need a card reader first.. seems I forgot that little item ! LOL... right now I only have pics of my teddy bears laying across my feet.

Well, I have a couple more tasks and its off to bed. In the middle of all this I decided to catch a nasty cold. Can anyone tell me why that happens when it's 80 degrees outside?Oh I long for 80 degrees ! It's cold and rainy here.. very depressing weather !

[idtwinmom]

It will be back to cold and rainy soon enough! Wrap up warm and I will chat with you all later!

[Raphne]

to be honest, I never travel with less than 3 cards ! I live in fear the card will become corrupt and I'll loose everything and I never fill a card ! I quit when I have about 50 shots left and change cards.( why put all your eggs in one basket?)

I also pack my laptop and transfer to cd daily... a small price to pay to keep the images intact.

ROFL I think we were twins seperated at birth. . . I do exactly the same thing, only instead of burning to cd I upload to 2 different photo sites every night, and don't reformat my cards until I know the uploads were complete!

[carolyn d]

LOL that would be my answer, too-- shoot at highest possible resolution (more options for cropping later!) and buy a couple extra cards!

Carolyn, you'll learn fastest by playing-- go explore lolbeen diligently tryng.. but I'm doing "button and scroll" lessons.. new buttons everywhere.. and different ones where the old ones used to be... I keep hitting odd things ! found a lock lever that didn't look like a lock lever and took me forever to figure out what I did... thought I had broken something !

And Chris-- whooo hooo! 80 minutes. . . I need a nap just reading about it hehethat gal is gonna have buns of steel at this rate !

[ReneT]

to be honest, I never travel with less than 3 cards ! I live in fear the card will become corrupt and I'll loose everything and I never fill a card ! I quit when I have about 50 shots left and change cards.( why put all your eggs in one basket?)

I also pack my laptop and transfer to cd daily... a small price to pay to keep the images intact.

oooohhhhh smart thinking. I'm planning on taking the laptop anyway, so that will work. You're just too smart for me!

[ReneT]

Oh I long for 80 degrees ! It's cold and rainy here.. very depressing weather !

It was 86 here today. Had to turn on the AC for a bit to cool down the house once we got home.

I had a roofer come out to look at our roof today after last week's hail storm. He said it was totalled! Great.

[carolyn d]

ROFL I think we were twins seperated at birth. . . I do exactly the same thing, only instead of burning to cd I upload to 2 different photo sites every night, and don't reformat my cards until I know the uploads were complete!

:love3::love3::love3:That's too funny ! Yes. I've learned the hard way ! I shoot in RAW and it's just too much of a pain in the butt to process and then post to a site...on vacation i don't want to spend any time in post processing, so I just save for when I get home. it's easier for me to just burn a cd. I burn to cd anyway so there is always a hard copy original. I just label and stuff them in either my carryon, laptop case or with the laptop in my backpack. (depends on how I'm traveling)

[ReneT]

Lisa, feel better! :hug::hug::hug:

[carolyn d]

oooohhhhh smart thinking. I'm planning on taking the laptop anyway, so that will work. You're just too smart for me!nope, not smart,,, just have had too many disasters ! NOW I think I am anally overcautious !

[carolyn d]

It was 86 here today. Had to turn on the AC for a bit to cool down the house once we got home.

I had a roofer come out to look at our roof today after last week's hail storm. He said it was totalled! Great.ONG !!! TOTALLED ??? I hope you guys are going to get a second opinion ! how big was the hail??? the size of baseballs? i can't imagine hail totalling an entire roof ! And they say the New England weather is wild !

[GrandmaCrys]

Well, that's impressive. Crys, my DH won't read a manual or instructions to anything. I thought that was just a male thing.

DH: "Destructions are the LAST resort"! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Well, I think I'm caught up! I have been so tired and trying to get so much done I haven't even turned the computer on in two days. I got the yard weeded (still need to finish the back, but it will have to wait until after the upcoming rains). Got the main rooms cleaned and the realtor too all her pics! House will be officially on the market tomorrow. Also - must clean the bathrooms (haven't touched them in days) and my bedroom was a dumping ground for all the stuff I didn't have time to actually go through before the realtor showed up. But the pace can actually slow a little.

Chris - I'm impressed, both your post count and the amount of time on the elliptical!

Carolyn - can't wait to see some of the new pics!

Well, I have a couple more tasks and its off to bed. In the middle of all this I decided to catch a nasty cold. Can anyone tell me why that happens when it's 80 degrees outside?

...because stress compromises the immune system! :( :annoyed: :cry:

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[carolyn d]

GOD MOOORNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNING LADIES !!! WISHING YOU ALL A GREAT DAY .. now off and running to work ! :love1::love1::love1:

[stitchmich]

DH: "Destructions are the LAST resort"! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



...because stress compromises the immune system! :( :annoyed: :cry:

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

CORRECT on both accounts, crys!! :yes:

[stitchmich]

It was 86 here today. Had to turn on the AC for a bit to cool down the house once we got home.

I had a roofer come out to look at our roof today after last week's hail storm. He said it was totalled! Great.

Oh no, Rene! I can't even imagine hail big enough to do that kind of damage.
We turned on the AC for a few hours yesterday evening. I put it off as long as possible.

[stitchmich]

I've made it through the first 100 pages.. with some flipping back and forward as I found things I needed to know ...

It's a Nikon D300.

I looked up the D300 to see what it was.... woweeeee! I'm understanding the 420page manual now. :lol: and 12.3megapixels! I guess those files are ginormous. I can't wait to see some pics. Congrats!

[Christine]

tuck a slice of cheesecake under them and they're even better :lol:

Oh yeah baby I LOVE cheesecake, esp olive garden's strawberry swirl one. :D

[Christine]

I'm with Raphne... buy a spare card just in case

Watch for sales. I just got an 8GB one for $20 wahoooooooo!

[Christine]

I've made it through the first 100 pages.. with some flipping back and forward as I found things I needed to know ...

It's a Nikon D300.

The funny thing is you don't really learn it properly until you need to use it. At least that is how it works for me.

[Christine]

ROFL I think we were twins seperated at birth. . . I do exactly the same thing, only instead of burning to cd I upload to 2 different photo sites every night, and don't reformat my cards until I know the uploads were complete!

LOL lol me toooooo except I use jump drives :D

[Christine]

It was 86 here today. Had to turn on the AC for a bit to cool down the house once we got home.

I had a roofer come out to look at our roof today after last week's hail storm. He said it was totalled! Great.

ahhhh dang u weren't supposed to take over my luck

[Christine]

DH: "Destructions are the LAST resort"! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



...because stress compromises the immune system! :( :annoyed: :cry:

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

:lol: too funny and totally true about the stress Hope u r feeling better soon Lisa!

[Christine]

GOD MOOORNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNING LADIES !!! WISHING YOU ALL A GREAT DAY .. now off and running to work ! :love1::love1::love1:

Have a great day CaroD