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I had a fun day today. Our family has a tradition of having “Birthday Breakfast” together. I honestly didn’t care this year if it was Dutch Babies or French Toast. I just wanted cherries. We had a great breakfast together (french toast…it’s the little imp’s favorite and his birthday is in 2 weeks so he’s glad to get mine out of the way!) Hubby has the tradition of taking the birthday person to lunch but today a friend called and asked if she and another friend could take me to lunch. I could tell it really took some pressure off hubby and we just planned to do a family dinner instead. It was a great time. I have always felt like the restaurant we went to is a “chick restaurant” and I always enjoy it there.

For dinner tonight, we did shish kabobs, the yummiest corn on the cob, and baked red potatoes…it was so good.

While the barbecue was going, hubby put together my new porch-knitting chair.  :) 

Tonight I decided to face the music and see if I could get into my Quickbooks files for my business. I had them taken off my harddrive of my dead computer. It only took me an hour and a half to access the files off the disk. Gosh, I think I sweat off 10 pounds trying to get the program to give me permission to get into the files. I have done this before and never had the problem I had tonight. I can’t tell you how sick it was making me to think I had lost all of my bookkeeping for my business. All is well now and I’m not overdue on any bills….whew!!!

I’m still knitting on clue #1 on the mystery stole. I have not a clue how some of the ladies had their first clue completed in a matter of hours. I feel like I’ve knit pretty steadily off and on and I am only on row 79. I’m not that slow a knitter and I haven’t had to do much tinking and no frogging. The pattern is fairly easy if you just go slow and like I’ve said before, I am loving the bead knitting. I have tried and tried to get a picture of the beads but they just don’t show up on the camera. The pattern doesn’t call for a lot of beads, just enough to get the hang of it. I am pretty comfortable with the concept now.

The work week ahead is pretty sparse. Today was my day off, I work tomorrow, am off on Wednesday for the 4th, work Thursday and am off Friday and Saturday because hubby and I are going to a concert Saturday afternoon (Kenny Chesney and Brooks & Dunn!) The dear friend who lent me her laptop offered to work for me on Friday. We’re so ready for a break … recovering from the wedding and all the hassle with all my electronics…. just ready for a break!

Semi-good news on the electronics front. I called on my iPod once again. It’s been almost 2 weeks since they said they’d mail me a label so I could return the defective iPod they sent me. I am pretty ticked because it’s been over a month now since I have had it. The kind lady said she could fax me the label…why couldn’t they do that before? They have tried twice to email the label and once to snail mail it…and always told me all that had to be requested from another office. I told the lady how very disappointed I am in their service. She filed a complaint for me and then transferred me to their customer service to file a complaint myself. Who knows what good it will do but I am really fed up. (did I already say that?) I hope and pray I don’t go through all of this with my laptop, which should have arrived to the repair center by now. I really hope they don’t decide to replace it with who knows what they would offer me.

I think I need to be rolled off to bed…after dinner we had ice cream sundaes and I only ate part of mine. It was a good day even though the Mariners lost tonight.

Tags: blessings, computers, friends, iPod, knitting, mysterystole3

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