I know I've been slacking with the posts and especially the pictures lately, but the truth is, except for the flood there really wasn't much going on that made me want to have my fingers fly across the keyboard. Until now.
The structural damage to the house has been fixed and my oh my, it does look beautiful!! Tough way to get new paint and carpet, but it sure does look pretty. Maybe (just maybe) over the weekend I might actually post the before and after pictures. The only thing left now is for the insurance company to finalize the claim and send us a check. Which brings me to my dream of a few nights ago. I dreamt that the adjuster called and told me he was sending a check for $11,000. In the dream I was ecstatic. (Especially since the claim was for under 8,000). I awoke the next morning really happy about the money until I remembered (about 2 minutes later) that it was just a dream. All that day I tried to figure out the significance of the number 11.
Cue the blog post from my son, Justin last night.(http://bellablueeeyz.blogspot.com/). Start calling me "G-Ma!" The baby is due on 11/11/09...am I psychic or what? No, not psychotic, psychic!!!!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Technology is for the birds
Uugghhh!! I am so frustrated. I'm finally at the point where I know how to operate the digital camera, upload the photos to the computer, put them on the blog, or snapfish, or anything else one might want to do with pictures these days - all with my eyes closed. We have one PC in the house and one laptop. The PC has a nasty virus to the point where we can't even use it. The laptop has decided that it does not want to read the SD card any longer. I give up. I haven't even been able to get a good look at the photos from Florida and I know there are some really great shots in there.
Oh well, I guess we'll have to hire a geek squad member. Right now I'm missing the days of bringing your film to fotomat and getting back pictures that you can hardly make out!!
Oh well, I guess we'll have to hire a geek squad member. Right now I'm missing the days of bringing your film to fotomat and getting back pictures that you can hardly make out!!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The review
I must admit that on the way to the concert last night for just a quick moment, I thought to myself "the band members of Fleetwood Mac are definitely aging - just how good could they be?"
Well - I will tell you how good. They were superb, awesome, fantastic, fabulous, cosmic, amazing, extraordinary,
astonishing, astounding, brilliant, divine, dynamite, enjoyable, excellent, incredible, magnificent, marvelous, miraculous, outstanding, phenomenal, sensational, something else, staggering, startling, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, tremendous, absolutely unf---king believable!!!!!!
Stevie was esoteric, John was exemplary, Mickey was to drums what Derek Jeter is to baseball. But the absolute show stopper was Lindsay Buckingham. His solo guitar performances brought the house down. My vocal chords are paying the price for my teenage actions. Special thanks to my hubby for another wonderfult night. Apologies to Sonia and Bill for screaming in their ears!!
I was expecting them to open with "The Chain" because they usually do, but instead they went right into "Monday Morning" and really got the party started. The played for over two hours, coming out for two encores. The very last song was my all time favorite - "Silver Spring." Who woulda thunk - the Nassau Collesium was an escape to paradise, right here on good ole Long Island.
Tonight they are playing at Mohegun Sun and I so wish I could go!!
P.S. - update on the flood damage - all the structural repairs are complete and the new carpet is down. We have spent the last two days moving furniture back, reconnecting tv's and computers, and putting stuff back on the shelves (so glad I took pictures to remember where it all goes!!) Anyhow, I have had no time at all to look at vacation pictures. I hope to be able to do that and post some tomorrow - we shall see.
Well - I will tell you how good. They were superb, awesome, fantastic, fabulous, cosmic, amazing, extraordinary,
astonishing, astounding, brilliant, divine, dynamite, enjoyable, excellent, incredible, magnificent, marvelous, miraculous, outstanding, phenomenal, sensational, something else, staggering, startling, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, tremendous, absolutely unf---king believable!!!!!!
Stevie was esoteric, John was exemplary, Mickey was to drums what Derek Jeter is to baseball. But the absolute show stopper was Lindsay Buckingham. His solo guitar performances brought the house down. My vocal chords are paying the price for my teenage actions. Special thanks to my hubby for another wonderfult night. Apologies to Sonia and Bill for screaming in their ears!!
I was expecting them to open with "The Chain" because they usually do, but instead they went right into "Monday Morning" and really got the party started. The played for over two hours, coming out for two encores. The very last song was my all time favorite - "Silver Spring." Who woulda thunk - the Nassau Collesium was an escape to paradise, right here on good ole Long Island.
Tonight they are playing at Mohegun Sun and I so wish I could go!!
P.S. - update on the flood damage - all the structural repairs are complete and the new carpet is down. We have spent the last two days moving furniture back, reconnecting tv's and computers, and putting stuff back on the shelves (so glad I took pictures to remember where it all goes!!) Anyhow, I have had no time at all to look at vacation pictures. I hope to be able to do that and post some tomorrow - we shall see.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Forget the flood damage for a fleeting moment - 22 hours til Fleetwood Mac!!!
Tomorrow night, Nassau Colesium, 8:00 p.m. - I feel like 20 again!!!!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Home to a curve ball
I sure wish the curve ball to which I was referring was the fact that the Baltimore Orioles have shown a slight interest in acquiring Pedro Martinez; but alas, that is not it at all.
Home from Florida early this morning. On the drive home from the airport, we were both concerned that the heavy snow storm we narrowly escaped had left its remnants in our driveway and perhaps still had my car buried alive. Nope. We turned the corner and were quite pleased to see that the driveway was clear, as was the car.
Insert key in door. Open door. Did we take a wrong turn on the expressway and perhaps make an unscheduled stop at Niagra Falls? There sure was enough water pouring out of the ceiling to think so, but the scenery - not so much. Turns out the hot water pipe burst, the ceiling caved, and there was a good 3 inches of water in the hallway and downstairs bedroom. Welcome home. Glad you're back. yea, right - I kept telling my husband I wanted to stay in Florida. Too bad he never listens to me.
The good news is we will finally have the new carpet we've been wanting. The bad news is, even an insurance check cannot replace the lost photographs, baseball cards, newspaper articles, sports memorabilia, not to mention at least 20 pairs of shoes, 5 of which were my suede boots. Yea, I've been craving wearing sandals instead of boots, but still...
After hours and hours of moving things, and ripping up carpet, (and doing load after load of laundry from the trip) I have decided that I am done. Maybe tomorrow I will feel like uploading all the pictures from the trip (and there are a lot), but I certainly don't feel like it now.
P.S. We had a great time despite the very cold temperatures for the first half of the week. More on that tomorrow, perhaps.
Home from Florida early this morning. On the drive home from the airport, we were both concerned that the heavy snow storm we narrowly escaped had left its remnants in our driveway and perhaps still had my car buried alive. Nope. We turned the corner and were quite pleased to see that the driveway was clear, as was the car.
Insert key in door. Open door. Did we take a wrong turn on the expressway and perhaps make an unscheduled stop at Niagra Falls? There sure was enough water pouring out of the ceiling to think so, but the scenery - not so much. Turns out the hot water pipe burst, the ceiling caved, and there was a good 3 inches of water in the hallway and downstairs bedroom. Welcome home. Glad you're back. yea, right - I kept telling my husband I wanted to stay in Florida. Too bad he never listens to me.
The good news is we will finally have the new carpet we've been wanting. The bad news is, even an insurance check cannot replace the lost photographs, baseball cards, newspaper articles, sports memorabilia, not to mention at least 20 pairs of shoes, 5 of which were my suede boots. Yea, I've been craving wearing sandals instead of boots, but still...
After hours and hours of moving things, and ripping up carpet, (and doing load after load of laundry from the trip) I have decided that I am done. Maybe tomorrow I will feel like uploading all the pictures from the trip (and there are a lot), but I certainly don't feel like it now.
P.S. We had a great time despite the very cold temperatures for the first half of the week. More on that tomorrow, perhaps.
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