Hello out there in cyber land,

  This morning I would have said it will be weeks til I talk again. I turned on my computer this  morning and it would not come on. Could not even get it to on in Safe Mode. What heartache I felt. Then I just took a deep breath and hit  system recovery. I watched as all my files that had not been backed up yet were erased. I almost cried, but alas did not. I am really doing quite well considering. I have recovered, LOL. I reloaded a few programs and made email request for software on others. Loaded my ICQ,AIM, and Yahoo IMs. Reset up my outlook express. Was momentarily lost about all those addys that are gone from my contact list. Will have to build that up again. Most of them I don't even remember where to begin. I will be definitely backing that up in the future. Printed lists and disks. I still have not reloaded the printer or the scanner but will do that probably tomorrow.

I must say though, that I do not feel the sense of loss that I thought I would feel. I am glad for that. This could be real stressful on the whole family. I had been playing around with the notion of getting rid of a few stealers of time with my computer and internet work. And I just kept thinking no there is way to much  to  still go through before turning this or that off or going to no mail or unsubing. I think this crash was a God thing. He was telling me it is easier than your think. Here let me help. Crash, recover, all gone now. LOL

I think I will be taking His lead on this one and rethink some of the many things I do and put my time to better use. I  will have to keep everyone informed on how things are going.

I have so many irons in the fire it is uncanny. I need to paint my bathroom before putting down the new floor I bought. Paint the hallway and laundry for the  same reason. I have a stack of things to go to the goodwill. They have been there over a month. I just cannot seem to get to town to give them away. I have winter blankets that need washing for the winter. That is always a trip to the laundrymat. Oh what fun that will be. Pray for me everyone to follow the lead that God has so graciously given to me.

On a lighter note and lots more fun. I am going with our homeschool group this Friday to see the Dead Sea Scrolls. I am so looking forward to this. I can't wait. We are getting a 45 minute audio tour of the scrolls. I have seen pictures and shows on them but this will be so much better. I plan on doing a lot of mouth open looking at these wonderful papers. We have a group of 30 adults and kids going. After we spend time learning about the scrolls we will visit the  Science Museum inwhich they are being displayed. The kids always love the dinosaurs, and hands-on room. I hope the butterfly/sloth area is open for us to go into. The butterflies are gorgeous.

Well I am going to close now and chat with my kid about some more history and then reading.

Have a Blessed Day

Tanya