It’s been what 2 months since I last posted? How pathetic am I? Well, I do have an excuse of sorts. I madly finished my Christmas cards, the winter quarter began and I was so exhausted that I used Facebook as my distraction. So much mindless time waster games. I think I’m finally getting over that.

I bought a new laptop the day after Christmas. My old laptop died; it didn’t want to turn on. A beautiful, sleek HP laptop. Very smooth keys. After a very full week at work and administering standardized testing on Saturday, I was in Michael’s to use my gift card when I got the call from Chris. Oh boy. Two weeks after getting it, Logan pushes it off the table and breaks the LED screen inside. I was so exhausted from the first week of school, I didn’t have the energy to be mad or upset. I think I was too near a nervous breakdown to show any emotion.We didn’t get the idiot insurance because I’m careful with my stuff… didn’t account for the boy.  Geek Squad at Best Buy was zero help. They wanted $400 and 4-5 weeks to ship out the computer and run diagnostics. Forget that. We went to Computer Sonics and they gave me an estimate of $225 and 5-7 days. Can’t beat that and they were almost spot on their timing. They did have to send out for parts, but I didn’t mind. A little over a week instead of over a month. Not bad. I wish I had remembered at the time that I purchased the laptop with an American Express card. Oh well. Live and learn.

I’ve started knitting a little. I belong to a club that sends out craft kits. One of the kits was to knit a scarf. They had awful instructions and terrible yarn to start a novice with, but I muddled through and finished it. It only took me 5 months or so to get it done. I was kind of afraid of it because it seemed like it would take forever for me to complete, but a couple of Saturday tests and I finished! The next knitting kit they sent was socks. Kind of afraid of this one too, but this is one project I want to learn. I want to learn to make socks.

Oh! I had a bit of fun this past Friday. I won a Bunco tournament. It was for charity and the grand prize was 3-$30 gift cards to Target. You could say it was kind of a fluke that I won, but I’ll say positive affirmation or mind over matter, helped me to win. For the first round, I got most Buncos… 5! They took the most wins and most Buncos from each table then drew names to fill the rest of the seats. Having had most Buncos at my tables, I automatically moved on to the quarter finals and lost. They did the same thing: take the most Buncos and most wins and drew names. My number was picked, so onto the semi finals. I tied for most Buncos and we did a roll off. I won that, so on to finals and another round of drawing. The final round was whoever roll three 6’s wins the tournament and the grand prize. I kept saying “me” and “six” and “Bunco” in my head. After a few rounds around the table, I won! Yea me! Jackie, my mother-in-law says to shop for the kids. After my make-over last year, I think the kids could use some new clothes and toys.

Well, time to go to bed. I hope I can get back into a rhythm and start blogging on a regular basis again. Tax season is here, so maybe not. (sigh)