It would seem my computer is kaput. It will not load at all. I am unsure whether I will just replace it or have it fixed and hope to retrieve the files I lost from it. I do know that it is driving me crazy not having my computer with it all set up the way I prefer. I am currently typing on Colleens puter and hers is deathly slow due to her memory being utilized to the fullest.

I guess I should look at this as the glass half full and not half empty. I have a puter here to use, but it is not at my desk, and it does not have my bookmarks. Sounds childish, but I hate the disruption in my routine. Thus I have been unmotivated to write, or for that matter get a thing done that I must.

Still, I am in a better mood than I was during my previous blog entry. That has to count for something. Truthfully, I threw a tantrum, privately of course, had a good cry and like Scarlett O'Hara simply decided that I would think about it tomorrow. Well tomorrow is here! And the world has continued, so I must also.

Alannah left for Myrtle Beach this am. It is a school band trip, and she will be home on Sunday. Colleen went back to school on tuesday and although tired has coped well, and already made up most of her work from two weeks out. My house looks like a medical supply company with a walker, commode, wheelchair, cane, and crutches. I have a box full of ace bandages, a freezer full of ice packs, and various rolls of paper tape hanging about. But the worst is over and most of those supplies can now be hidden away in the attic until next years surgery.

Jim is continuing to finalize things so that he can head to Alabama. Once again he is becoming a road hand. Although this a good move financially for our family he has been grumpy and disgruntled. Unlike myself, he handles stress very well for weeks and then becomes an ogre. I am quite sure that the compounding stress of Colleens latest adventure in the medical field , combined with the thoughts of having to leave Mother's Day weekend is more stress then he can handle. I am sure we have been a lovely pair of storm clouds most recently! I am convinced that my meltdown over the computer was more like a snowball of stress that finally started to roll. But I am like that, blow up, then handle the issue.