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I'm not much of a poster, more of a lurker and recently (at least since October) I've had little or no time for computer stuff. However, just before Christmas I found myself the accidental owner of a 6 month old Lab mix and she has dominated my life. I have started a new community called the_roxie_blog where I will be posting a bit more regularly so as to journal my experiences with my new pup. If you enjoy that sort of thing please feel free to read; otherwise you won't have to worry that I will be boring my friends list with incessant cute dog stories.

One of my friends had her house broken into Tuesday morning, sometime between 8:30 and 1:30 in the morning. Bad enough the thieves took all their heirlooms, but they also stole the box containing the ashes of their first born son.

I can't think of a punishment suitable for a crime like this.

First, I want to thank amavel_bel for the great layouts and instructions. I'm pretty comp illiterate but I followed the instructions easily.

Drove Mom to Norfolk so she could spend June with my brother and his family. She'll have some time with the grandkids and I'll have some time by myself. I'll be getting her around the 21st and we'll spend some time at the coast.

Joss says it much better than I can.
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Wow - what a year.
First, I'd like to thank Hollydb,Piksa, Inca and itsabigrock for the wonderful Christmas and Solstice cards.
I didn't get to post much over the holidays as I am a retail manager and every year the job gets more overwhelming. Wouldn't change it for the world, however. Here in Carolina the weather has been balmy so sales of coats and sweaters have been tough. Forsythia and redbud trees have started to blossom however - another sign of global warming perhaps?

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great 2007!

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Wow - LJ seems a little quiet - I guess everyone's having fun on the Queen Mary. Good luck and have fun to all who get to attend. I know you'll enjoy James and i hope you bring back lots of pictures.

My computer crashed yesterday. All I get is a black screen when I turn it on. Any suggestions? Now I have to go to Mom's any time I want to read e-mail.

Vacation in 10 days - last chance before Christmas.

sh*t. F*ck.

Just got back from vacation a few hours ago. Had an e-mail from the chair of a committee I'm on giving the minutes of the last meeting I had to miss, which basically threw out everything I've been working on for the last three months and starting over. Then scheduled the next meeting for another day the chair already knows I can't attend. I sent her a nice e-mail telling her I'm resigning due to other conflicts.

Mom had a minor stroke a week before we left but she was determined to go to the coast. Michael and I spent the entire week waiting on her. My brother came down and we had a discussion of what steps we need to take for Mom and how much she is going to be able to do in the future. I was open with my brother on the financial hardships Mom and I have had since Dad died; he was very good and offered any monetary assistance we needed. I still have too much Norwegian in me to ask him for what we need.

It took 90 minutes to get through e-mail and I scrolled back through LJ to the date we left and have paged forward - I'm still only on August 15! Too much interesting posts to skip however.

I'm tempted to sign up for Fall for SX as I've had a plot bunny in my head for about a year - just not sure it fits the requirements.

What a bummer. I just learned that two of my LJ friends will be leaving or taking a hiatus - one because of evilness on LJ, one because of little or no time. I admire both of them and their writings and will miss them in the fandom. We keep losing writers, don't we?

On the other hand, I just discovered I can store fictions on a flash drive and save my hard drive. I'm such a Luddite! But what fun! Of course it takes time to transfer all my stored fics, but hey, its only time. (Does a dance of joy).

Work has been a real bitca for the last week - no day off, 10 hour days. Who'd have thought, in the middle of summer?

The ankle is healing nicely, tho' physical therapy is a literal pain. I have no energy to do my exercises in the morning and too tired in the evening, but I try so I can get released as soon as possible. Even with health insurance, my fall is going to be costly.

Sometimes I feel I'm the only middle-aged person on LJ. I'll be in dialog with one of my friends and feel we made a connection, then find out they are 20 years or more younger than I am. Guess I'm young at heart.

Vacation in two weeks - I'll be out of touch during that time.