Anyone out there have any info or reviews for this product??

I’m considering getting this for Case this year. I’ve heard some great things about it.

Could you share in a comment if you know or have info about this program??

THANKS!

I’m going to share some things with you that have been going on for almost a month. I haven’t had the time nor the emotional strength to sit down and sort my feelings, let alone write a comprehensible post about it.

But I’m going to try. Just try to be patient. There’s sooo much history behind all this mess that it’s hard to explain to people.

Maybe reviewing this will help because it is Michelle’s son who is at the center of my mind and this post.

Michelle is my first cousin who died in her sleep a little over a year ago. August 8th. At that time, she was separated from her druggie convict husband and living with one of my mom’s sisters along with her son. If you’ve been reading recent posts, you might remember references to “Little Man”. This will be my online name for Michelle’s 5 year old son.

For a long time, I didn’t know where his father had taken him. Where they were living. I just happened to see them outside when we were helping my friend move into an apartment across the way in the same complex.

She didn’t live there for long because the atmosphere is really sad and mostly depressing. It is one of the town’s low-income housing developments and a well-known area for the drugged out and welfare “lifers” to live. You know. Just folks who won’t try to get themselves into somewhere better, but moan about how bad it is while they themselves make matters worse.

*sigh* Okay, I won’t head down that rabbit trail for now. Lord knows I might never stop!

There are, however, some very nice people living there as well. People who have just had some really hard times come upon them and they have no choice but to live there. But you’ll notice them easily. They are the ones who go to work each day instead of just laying around the complex all day complaining of their want.

Okay, so… it was only about 5 or 6 months after Michelle’s death that I found out where Little Man (LM) was living and at that time, I didn’t try to approach him. Especially not with his dad sitting over there watching.

I have to admit, as wrong as it might have been… I refused to speak to him or even acknowledge him (Michelle’s husband) after her death… yes, even at the funeral. I just couldn’t. In the year or so before she died, I’d been trying SO hard to help get her away from any influence of her current lifestyle so she could clean herself up and work for a better life.

I’d come face-to-face with R (Michelle’s dh) many times and the fury I witnessed was awful. He talked to me like a dog and THEN would ask who I was. (when he knew full well)

After M getting stranded in a piece-of-junk vehicle over and over, with LM in tow and it the middle of summer with a sorry man who isn’t allowed to have a license that wouldn’t lift a finger to help her ANYway…. GAH!!

—–I gotta go now, ya’ll. I’m gonna swing by LM’s in a few to see how he’s doing. Blast them all… I’m gonna see how he is for myself. More later….

And VERY little, at that!

So at least I did steal a few moments to get a few changes made to this new template. I dunno if there’s even anybody out there reading anymore, but if you are, please tell me what you think.

I realize that this is totally a spring theme and it’s almost fall, but get over it already. *lol!* It was just the most awesomest pretty one, and I’m having a hard time finding a fall themed template with 3 columns and just the right look/feel.
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Ha! I did it! All with no major screw-ups, no missing files, no broken code!

wah-oot!

What? Well, *pththt* of course I see that the side bars are identical and the header info is non-existent. All in good time, my darlings. All in good time.

Right now? I gotta drive my sister to the chiropractor, pick up some toilet paper and see if I can take Little Man home with me today.

I’m attempting to load a new template here. Yes, I know it could be disasterous, but you know me. When I get new digs on my mind, there’s no reasoning with me…

So let’s see how this goes…

Hold tight!

Me. That’s who.

Argh!

Lightheaded, cold-sweaty, headachey, nauseated, yick, yick and double-yick.

I AM SICK!

Ugh.

…being in the middle of making yourself an awesome homemade Moolatte © in your ‘fahn-say’-but-10-years-old Kitchenaid blender and have it QUIT WORKING!!!

Gah! I found this SUPERBLY AUTHENTICAL Homemade Moolatte © recipe and the very first time I tried it, I was blown away!! If you’re a coffee addict, an iced coffee lover :roll:, or a coffee/shake MooLatte-loving whack-job like me, then you HAVE TO TRY THIS!!!

It is the total coffee bomb!!!!

Oh… update? Hubby fixed the slipping blades… they just needed some tightening up. (I’m still trying to figure out how it got loosened in the first place, though…)

Ahhhh…. Mamalatte, here I come!!

Had to make a short post about this cool image/video capture “thing”.

It’s called The Jing Project. It’s a neat bit of software you can download for free. It sits discreetly at the top edge of your screen… looks like the bottom half of a tiny little sun. When you mouse over it, three rays pop out and those are what you use to capture, see history and change settings.

When you’ve captured something, you can instantly, effortlessly upload it to a cool place called screencast, copy the url and the share it… like this:

See?

It’s a neat way to share things you find on the web and are so neat you wanna share the image or video with others in a quick, easy, effortless way!

The key word here is EFFORTLESS.

Give it a try and see what you think.

[this post is a totally spontaneous, unpaid plug for Jing…it’s not a real commercial — *heh!*

Yeah. I figure that LOST has been on for weeks now and I am totally out of the loop, which means I’ll have to either try and watch the episodes online or just never ever watch it til they all come out on DVD.

*sigh* I like to watch them on DVD best anyway, but STILL!! ! How can you expect me to go THAT long without me some Sawyer, Kate and that nasty Ben?!? It’s beginning to get all surreal…yeah, more so than all the weirdo island stuff… now that they are supposedly “back” in the real world once more.

SOOOO many questions left unanswered as of yet. YAAAHHH!!

Okay, so I went looking for some info on my favorite TV series and landed on this site. Where I found the following hilarious video!!

And since I’m a-might partial to Weird Al, I thought I’d just better post it in case any of ya need a good laugh today.

Enjoy!

So… I have a few minutes for an update on what’s been going on with us during and after all the wedding chaos.

Um, thank the Lord!! I didn’t have any dire insulin reactions (low blood sugar) during the whole thing. Whaddya think about that, huh? Truly a huge blessing!

The days after the wedding are a kinda blur for me. We didn’t make it home til almost 11pm that night. The clean-up and transporting home took that long, yes it did.
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Enjoy these. More to come as soon as I can wade through them with PSP.

Yes, ya’ll. I actually have survived all this wedding bru-ha-ha! *whew!*

We had the ‘delayed reception-slash-wedding celebration’ thingie Saturday. It went really well as far as the food and decorating and getting all the pictures together and displayed.

No one showed except immediate family and most of my family was sick or working, so it was a small affair. But that was probably a good thing since we wiped out just about all the food!!! *gah!*

As I type, my photobucket account is frantically uploading almost 200 pictures. WHA!?!?

Yeah! And I have even MORE to enhance and upload!! *sheesh!*

So anyhow… stay tuned for a slideshow to be uploaded here REAL SOON!

I got this link in my email and wanted to pass it along. As most anyone who has been visiting me for awhile would know, my political leaning is to the conservative. I could never be mistaken for a liberal… let’s just put it that way. And while I feel as if there really isn’t a candidate in this race for president that I can stand up and cheer for, I did find this video very intriguing and I think you will, too.

It will take around 10 minutes, give or take, to view the whole thing, but please, take the time to watch it.

For me… it made me feel a little better about the one “choice” that I have in this race. And confirmed that this “choice” is far, faaar better than the alternative.

Thanks.

Now… back to your regularly unscheduled chaos….

We just got back from our anniversary trip yesterday afternoon. More on that later, though…

I can’t believe this has happened, but while Corey and Melissa were still away for their honeymoon, they uploaded their wedding video to Corey’s laptop to free up the memory stick for more video.

Yeah, that means the stick was formatted. The contents erased.

And now?? NOW?!?!?

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