Holia!

It's beginning to look a lot like Mexico me thinks. I feared it would come to this. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473

The husband keeps telling me we are a third world country now, much like Mexico. When I was in Mexico one of the things I noted was the parks and how unkempt they were. Tall brown dead grass, littered with trash and deep in dust, not many people were seen relaxing on blankets and enjoying a picnic lunch. No money was expended to keep the parks vibrant, clean and green. It seems as though our parks here will suffer the same fate. It didn't take long for the cities to plunge into the red and the services be cut. How long have we been in this depression....er RECESSION?

Our bright, clean, well lit country may soon become dingy, dirty and dark. Basic human services will start to disappear; women carrying babies strapped to their backs in Mexico and panhandling for food and money to feed their family may be a reality here. Mexico doesn't have a welfare system either. Maybe we should all start speaking Spanish just in case we have to annex.

Well, aren't we cheery this morning? I am really. I'm not in a down mood; it's reality and you know how big this country is on reality. It's just a dose of it on a early Saturday morn.

On the upside, the weather here still sucks. Wait. Did I say I was not in a bad mood? Well, let me tell you the good news. The sun is out and displaying it's beautiful smile over the land. Yeah. I see sunshine and no rain. On that note, I'm closing out here and heading for the shower and fresh clothes and I'm promising myself a day filled with sunshine and fun.

A Friday and That's All

With one eye on the weather reports for the north eastern part of the USA, I'm trying not to be bitchy about the wet cold weather here. It rained all dang day yesterday and now water is standing everywhere including on the roads so hydroplaning is a big threat. Though we don't have snowy roads here we do have a huge increase in auto accidents when the roads are like this so I tend to do errands and get off the roads asap.

Yesterday I cleaned up the laptop and the desktop computer of the pictures that were taken January 2010; I moved them all to the external drive for storage where they are neatly labeled in folders by month and year. I printed out the few that I wanted for the new album. Get it? I'm caught up!

I hope to stay current on this. My new printer is awesome although it's an ink hog and after the marathon printing I did the other day, I shot right though that ink cartridge of color. I don't know what the answer to this is. I did go on the web to look for discount ink but it costs as much there as buying it out of Walmart. Maybe in time it will decrease in price.

1926 hrs:

I've been back home and hiding from the weather. It's almost time to wrap this day up and put it away. I'm looking forward to another one tomorrow.

It's WHAT time?

I rolled over and raised to a sitting position while swinging my feet simultaneously to the floor and rising to a standing position. With a few tentative steps, I tested the right foot and the amount of pain I would experience with those first few steps. Tolerable. Minimal hobbling with maximum weight bearing and I was off. Off to the kitchen to brew a pot of fresh coffee and plunge two slices of wheat bread into the toaster. Now why the hell am I doing all this at 4AM?

I'm shivering in the early morning chill. Again. Why am I up this early?

I'm up because once awake, this brain knows no neutral gear. It leaps into gear and pushes past idle to full speed ahead and if I try to continue to lay in bed all I get is anxiety. I would rather be up and around.

Yesterday I moved the printer out of here and installed the Canon printer that was bought before Christmas. It was a necessity as I had used up all the ink in the old printer that really wasn't "old" at all but it wasn't a Canon. It had to go. I wanted to change it out for the Canon because of the print program that Canon has and that program will only work with a Canon printer. I was keeping my fingers crossed that it would be compatible with the new Canon printer and luck be with me tonight, it was! I finished printing all the pictures for the 2009 album, let them dry and put them in that album which is now neatly aligned with the albums past. I was six months behind in this task which I vow to not let happen again. Today I'll buy a new album for this year and print the few pictures taken in January. If I had made a New Year's resolution, which I didn't, it would have to have been a promise to stay on top of this album project.

Carrie is 4 yrs old and each year I start a new album and finish it off at Christmas and end that album. Album #4 was completed yesterday. I think the cuteness factor begins wearing off about this time or maybe it's because getting candid shots of them at this age is near impossible. They learn to pose and sometimes it's a pose that says "take my picture" or it's a view of them sticking out their tongues, making strange faces and gestures which spells the end of anything candid. I taper off so the next album may be a combination of years instead of "a year" in the life of Carrie and family.

In other news and information because, don't ya know, this blog is about any tidbit of boring information I can find to link my brain and memory, I made an appointment with the podiatrist which will come due around the 17th of this month. I want my heel fixed! I'll get two opinions if his offer is to do surgery, something I wasn't anticipating for 2010.

0800

I curled up on the sofa and went back to sleep! It could be the weather. The rain that was predicted is now making it's appearance. Gloomy, wet and cold and under a blanket is the best place to be. A matinee movie might be in my near future!

Happy Birthday Sis!

Today is my sis's birthday and I'm hoping she has a spectacular day all day long, all week long and for the remainder of the year because she is just that special! Our birthdays are in the same month, the 4th and the 24th seperated by a year. Pssst...she's older, said in a faux whisper.

Here's to ya and I only wish we could have spent this day together!