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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Maybe it was the ghosts?

The power went out in half the house last night...we had power in our room, but not in Kelsey's room, in the living room and in the bathroom. GHOSTS???

When we got up this morning, there was no power and the furnace had been off for something like over 16 hours...it was a little chilly...

The outage meant the computer that had held on to its internet connection so well despite every other part of it failing (both the floppy and CD drives have been added to the list of dead parts) is now effectively dead. Well, that's not quite true, it operates in Safe Mode, but that's not so useful. So....as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm relying on a temporary solution. Okay, Shannon, just buy a new computer already!

We're glad to have the power back and to have the heat back on. It seems our neighbours had partial power too and the people across the alley had none...we think they had to shut the grid down to fix the problem...oh storm 14. Hopefully it's the last of the storms!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Keeping myself occupied

This is proving to be a bit of a challenge. One can only knit for soooo long before one's wrists and forearms hurt and when one reaches that point, one tries to mentally knit everything one sees.

My goodness, I hate it when people refer to themselves as "one."

Anyway...yesterday my favourite home care physio came to visit. She checked me out, gave me a whole bunch of new exercises and told me I'm off work at least until February 5. UGH...my goal so that I can return to work is not to be pain free, but to be able to walk around the block, unassisted. So I'm working really hard with the exercises, because right now I'm not even able to leave the house on my own.

Kelsey is looking after me this week and my Mom is coming back on Tuesday, but that means I have a five hour chunk of time on my own on Friday (and that's the test) and on Monday and Tuesday I'll be alone when Alex goes to work...so I might be looking for company...

If you have suggestions of things I could do to keep myself occupied, let me know! I have limited computer capabilities at the moment, I can't bend or reach very well and I am still using a walker...fun stuff...and you're all welcome to come visit. I like visitors!

Monday, January 08, 2007

Everything is breaking...

what's going to go next?!?!?!

we got up this morning and the furnace died sometime last night...it was about 10 degrees in the house...brrrr....chilly....

Then while still madly attempting to transfer data from the dying computer, the USB ports failed. No more printing or file saving, but at least I think I got most of it...the last few things I am trying to email from the computer to a large but empty email account I have....it's going slowly, but it's working...or rather was working...

The stem of the computer chair snapped this afternoon, so it's a bit more difficult to see the screen when I'm up above it, but when Alex gets home I'll get him to put a new chair in the office.

Hopefully things will stop breaking...I don't know what might be next, but it could be scary!

Sunday, January 07, 2007

STUPID COMPUTER!

My computer is stupid.

I've been saying that for months. But it's official now.

Last night it froze and then started beeping at us.

Then it wouldn't shut down.

Then it would only start in Safe Mode.

Then I looked at it exactly right and it restarted.

So we're removing all important information from it and never turning it
off again...hopefully it will last until we either get the other
computer sorted out and functioning or until I cave (which I might do
very soon) and buy a brand new computer...that would be a first for
me...

Sigh...

Gotta go transfer some more photos...there are SOOOOOOOOO many of them!

Friday, January 05, 2007

WHOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Whoa...I was taking a nap and woke up to the news and thought I must still be dreaming because they were reporting BC Place Stadium collapsed. Unfortunately, it looks like I wasn't dreaming....

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Movie Mania

What does one do when one has a broken back? Well...I've watched three movies in the past three days...which might be partly to do with the broken back and partly to do with being in a house where there is a TV and a DVD player...

Movie one was a Canadian choice...Bon Cop, Bad Cop. We all loved it and I haven't laughed so hard in a movie for a long long time! I loved that at the beginning you could have the English version with subtitles for the French parts, the French version with subtitles for the English parts or the bilingual version with no subtitles. I was all for trying out my rusty French and watching the bilingual version, but I got vetoed...

Movie two was Little Miss Sunshine. I had heard so many different people rave about it...once again we laughed really hard...how many people don't know some version (although maybe not that particular version) of a functionally dysfunctional family! Cause hey, in the end, family won!!! Plus I loved the horn that wouldn't stop honking.

Movie three is my all time favourite pick-me-up movie, Love Actually. For some reason, no matter what kind of mood I'm in to begin with, I always feel good after watching it. Even today and I was so tired from my short visit to the outside world that I think I slept through most of it...

Oh movies....wonder what I'll watch tomorrow!

Monday, January 01, 2007

My Secret: A Post Secret Book

I found My Secret: A Post Secret Book under the Christmas tree from my parents this year. It was everything I've come to expect from Post Secret, although I will say I was a little disappointed that it was so short. The Secret Lives of Men and Women comes out soon in Canada, so I might have to pick that up...

I haven't been reading much because the painkillers have turned my brain to mush and paying attention for longer than about five minutes is hard, so this book was perfect. But even so, I still whipped through it.

It made me laugh; it made me cringe; it made me cry; it made me grateful.

Shannon's 2007 Reading Material

Well, the time has come. Rather than have that hideously long list on the sidebar, the books (and movies and knitting) are moving to their own "page," which in blogger speak means a post.

books in progress

books just finished