Thing 3 found a Lady bug yesterday. My oh my. Was she ever excited. She started squealing at the top of her lungs... trying to catch that silly little bug. It was quicker than you would think... keeping just out of her reach...
Once we got that little lady bug caught, she lovingly looked at it and then said:
"Oh Mama! I'm so 'a-cited' to have a lady bug. I never see'd one in real before. I only see'd 'em in da books!"
Seeing the world through the eyes of my children...
Priceless!

"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates." - Dave Barry

1. Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake
2. Wonderwall - Ryan Adams
3. Let Me Touch You For A While - Alison Krauss
4. Galileo - Indigo Girls
5. New Years Day - U2
6. Cupids Chokehold (feat. Patrick Stump) - Gym Class Heroes
7. Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
8. A Message - Coldplay
9. Typical - Mute Math
10. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani

Bonus: Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.

I'm Back! I'm up and running! YEE HAW!!
Thanks to the generous donation of my sister, Ima10cow, I now have a working, functioning computer. I am soooo happy! I am now saving for one of those spiffy little flat screen monitors so that I can move the computer into the kitchen. Much better location. When I work on the computer, I feel like I have been banished to a cave!
Anyway. I'm back. Sigh. Did you miss me? LOL.
It's Random 10 Friday people. What are you listening to?

1. It's Not Over - Daughtry
2. When The Stars Go Blue - Tim McGraw
3. When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
4. My Town - Montgomery Gentry
5. Whats Up - 4 Non Blondes
6. New Years Day - U2
7. Wanted Dead or Alive - American Idol Season 5
8. 29 - Ryan Adams
9. When You Know - Shawn Colvin
10. Someday We'll Know - New Radicals

Bonus: Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega

OK.
So my computer is still broken. I think the reality is that my computer has gone to computer heaven.
It has ceased to exist.
Gone.
Goodbye little computer. You were such a good little computer, always willing to help me out at a minutes notice. Full of so much wisdom and knowledge. Oh how I will miss you, my little computer. sniff sniff

I was in San Diego this past weekend. Yee-haw it was a total blast!! I hadn't been there in well over 10 years... so it was a lot of fun to get re-acquainted with the city. I would LOVE to take my little family down there! We were able to have some amazing food! Those of you in computer land that know me know that food is a major deal to me. And boy oh boy, did we have some amazing food! YUM!
I have so much to update you all on. The trip was a smashing success! I have all sorts of photos to upload... proof that we didn't kill each other. lol.
I will do that tonight when Jefe gets home from work with HIS laptop. I have really upped the campaign for my own laptop. It is a necessity now. How does a family function without a computer? I think that it is almost impossible now. I am getting desperate!
Must. Have. Laptop. NOW.

I was unable to post before I left on the trip that Thing 2 took first place in the Pinewood derby at church. Yup. First place. Little stinker. He and Jefe really worked hard on that car... they only used the stuff that the church lady gave them... and just painted the crap out of it! They even accidentally broke one of the wheels, and had to superglue it back together! But, if I'm lying I'm dying, Thing 2 won the whole deal. He was clueless as to what really was going on with the whole thing. He was having so much fun running around racing the kids. Jefe had to really explain-- in depth-- as to what really happened! I think he would've been just fine if he would've taken 3rd place or no place at all... he was just having fun.
Anyway... I have much to post, and will do it later tonight with photos and all. I know. You are all just holding your breath in great anticipation of my posts... hee hee
This whole using the Internet at the library thing really puts a kink into my life...
A Great Big Kink!

I just wanted to give a shout out to my sister, Islandmom and her new website... Fontologie.com
It's a pretty sweet site and if you like fonts, like me, you will totally dig this website.
She is pretty talented, and I find myself hoping to be her when I grow up. Go check out her site and then go and tell all your friends!!

"The look, it was like something out of the Adams Family." Simon Cowell, American Idol


1. Mayberry - Rascal Flatts
2. Firefly - Tony Bennett & Kermit the Frog
3. Life is a Highway - Rascal Flatts
4. Ebay - Weird Al
5. Speed Of Sound - Coldplay
6. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
7. Geek In The Pink - Jason Mraz
8. On The Way Down - Ryan Cabrera
9. Never Know - Jack Johnson
10. You & I Both (Live) - Jason Mraz

Bonus: When You Come - Crowded House
And just cause its a nice day.... Sleeping To Dream - Jason Mraz

Thanks to Pandora.com I was able to get this here little list put together, since I had to sign that stupid (we don't say stupid mama) contract to not download crap onto Jefe's laptop. Check it out, its a pretty slick little sight. You can type in an artist or song that you really like, and then the music gods will find all sorts of music that is similar...
Scha-weet! Rock on!
What are you playing?

OK. I sort of disappeared off the face of the earth here for a little while. Let me explain why. On Tuesday, I was sitting, happily I might add, playing on the computer. Thing 3 decided that she should climb up onto the desk to "play witch you mama". She used the actual motherboard for the computer to help boost herself onto the desk... see whats coming? The computer tipped over, and ceased to exist. It no longer will even turn on. I think that it is now beyond resurrection. Its dead and gone. I just need to have that little funeral for it!
Sigh.
So, I have been yanked from a world of being connected to an antiquated world that I do not understand how I even survived! I mean, lets be real people.
Google.
1 word.
Google. How did we ever make it through school without this amazing device? If I want to know something, rather than taking the old school way of actually researching at the library, I go to the source of ALL knowledge,-- Google and there it is, my answer, in 2.1 seconds.
Amazing! Jefe says that Google is really just another word for God.
He (God) is all knowing, and so is Google.
Coincidence? I wonder.
Anyway... I have been disconnected from the world for a week. I had to do some major groveling to get to use this little laptop here... Jefe's laptop. I had promise him a little of this and a little of that... sign a waiver and a contract that I wouldn't download anything... meaning no fonts (gasp) no music (bigger gasp) nothing... sigh. But, my little Internet friends, that was worth it. Just to be connected again.
I feel human... well as human as can be expected!

I made a little proposal to Jefe... I would move all the bookcases from the family room, and get a recliner for him, take the desk in the office down and make a reading room if we could in exchange get a laptop to have in the kitchen to use... all of us use. He hates the bookcases in the family room, he wants a reading room in the office. I think that's a fair exchange don't you??
As you can see, I am pumping up my campaign efforts for a laptop. I had one at one time. But, Jefe gave it to a single mother that needed a computer. I hope she likes it. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad we could help her out. I am just missing my laptop right now, especially since I don't have a computer. Oh well. As Jefe says, no good deed goes unpunished... I'm sure that's not really true. But. People. I Want a Laptop.
Maybe I should start an Internet campaign and start taking pay-pal donations? Humm. That is something to think about!
Ta-ta for now.

Why does he get a laptop?