Well, first off, I've been sick as hell. I lost my voice for about 4 days. All this on top of trying to get ready to go out of town, to my mom's. Fun. So, on Easter, I was jumping around through profiles on myspace (going to a friends profile, then on to one of their friends profiles....and so on), and............I found my sister, Amanda. Ok well, she's my half sister. We have the same dad. He died like a month or so before she was born. It was about a month after my 3rd birthday when he died. So, we didn't grow up together, and I only remember seeing her a handful of times when I was a kid. But I messaged her, and she knows who I am, she said she has always known I was her sister, just that she guesses her mom and grandma didn't know how to address it or deal with it so they didn't, and she wasn't at our dad's mom's house very much, and it was normally when I wasn't there, so we never really knew each other. But we've been talking online for the past few days, through myspace and email, and shared stories about growing up, and I've told her what I know about our dad, and emailed her the few pics I have of him. She said she was excited when I messaged her, she said that her husband has always known about me, and that when she saw my message she ran into the living room and told her husband and he looked at her like she was stupid. I'll probably go see her while I'm at my mom's. So yeah, I have a little (but grown lol) sister now, and a 7 year old nephew named Tyler, and a brother-in-law. Weird.

I'm sick :( I woke up with a sore throat, and then the stuffy/runny nose and coughing started, and then the hot, sweaty, achy ickiness has set in. I'm lying on the couch, kicked back with hubby's laptop, while my lil punkin' watches "Dora Splorer", and my big punkin' reads his Highlights magazine. I really, really need to fold some laundry, and wash some more, and vacuum....but I really, really don't want to. Maybe I'll pile the laundry in here on the couch later and fold it :P But maybe not. I wonder if the kids would notice if I went and crawled into bed :P

Ok, so, I took my laptop in yesterday for service. It's been all screwed up for several weeks now. First, it was doing some crazy shit, I don't even remember exactly, but it wouldn't let me access certain files and programs and administrative shit, so that resulted in me wiping the whole damn thing clean and reloading everything. Some point during that, it started giving me power cord issues AGAIN. It would flash in and out of battery powere back and forth between battery and AC power, indicating to me that once again, the pin inside the motherboard where the AC adapter plugged into the back of the computer was loose AGAIN. This would be the 3rd time now I have had issues with that. First time, Gateway sent me a new power cord, thinking that something was wrong with the power cord. Well, luckily, that actually fixed it for a few months. Then it started again, and again they sent a new power cord. But it didn't fix the problem that time. So they had me send it it, expecting to have to replace the motherboard because of a loose pin. Which is what they did....thank goodness it was still under factor warranty. Again, problem solved.....again, for only a few months. So now, the factory warranty is out on it, but super smart me bought the 3 year extended warranty from Best Buy, so I took it in to my friendly neighborhood Geek Squad. They expect to have it for 7-14 days. I miss it dearly already, even though for the past few weeks I've not been able to use it very much, and hubby has had school work to do on his laptop (only about 6 more weeks and he is DONE, getting his degree!), and well, honestly, I hate our desktop. I hate clickety clackety desktop keyboards, and I hate just sitting in there in front of the computer with nothing else going on. When I'm on my laptop, I'm interwebbing, watching TV, playing with the kids and dog, cooking, flipping through a magazine.....any number of things that I need or want to also do at the time. But oh well. And now, my mind is ablank. So thus concludes this entry. :)