So, my computer has been down. At first, we thought it was the hard drive. After all, I was getting errors that pointed at the hard drive. But then my video started to go, so now it looks like it is both hard drive and video. We bought a pretty good sized external hard drive and I had started to move stuff over to that, but then video got so bad, I just couldn’t do anything with it any more… Big PITA.

I have been on Kevin’s mini laptop for a couple weeks now, and though I am enjoying the take over of such a nice item, I really missed my monitor and keyboard.

I had, in joking stated to Kevin this desire and I guess it got him a thinking…

He crawls into bed this morning, and in a very deep sleep hase, I remember him stating “your welcome”. I grunted huh and he said I would see in the morning… I rolled over and went to sleep, after all, I figured it would be a nice cold can of Dr. Pepper in the fridge.

That was, until I actually got up. After doing my normal morning meanness of waking children from sleeping beds, I went to sit on the couch, where I keep Kevin’s mini laptop, only to see, it is missing!!! OMFG please no! I start my search and what do I find?

The mini laptop is sitting on my desk, connected to not only my monitor, but my mouse and keyboard. The really nice external harddrive is also connected! NICE.

But right now, the external is connected to the husband’s computer, and doing a large file transfer, as my old hard drive, the one I thought crashed, is also connected and working beautifully. So I am transferring files to the external, just in case the old hard drive only works in Kevin’s computer.

I am going between the two computers while drinking Foldger’s Coffee with Hot Chocolate mixed in… Its not doing anything for my caffeine head ache, but nothing I can do about that until I can get soda from the store. 1 more hour!! Knew I should have picked some up when I made the mini commissary run on Tuesday!! 3 freaking days with no soda, my head is killing me!!! Oh, and I am so freaking tired. I could crash now if I wasn’t so excited about transferring files…

I am wanting a fallish design for my blog and all my image files are on the old hard drive. Soon to be on the external. Yes! And I can print out pictures to journal! Two events I haven’t been able to journal since no printer. Now I can print again… lol. Computer, I have missed you!!

Now to just get a new video card and see if that solves the age old question… What is wrong with my computer?!

Memorial Weekend was pretty good. Nothing much really happened.

Kevin and I played EQ2, kids played outside, and we all got some cleaning done. On Monday we had a nice BBQ, and the kids played at the park with water guns. There was more EQ2.

This morning was off, but then with Kevin’s schedule change, it is odd sleeping in now. I think I am used to waking up at 4 to get him going (after all, I woke up at 4 this morning with no alarm….). Got Kevin off to work, and walked the kids over to school. Only had a minor melt down with Derric, the dryer wasn’t done, so non of his shirts were dry. Normally he just takes one of Dokota’s and calls it good, but today, he threw a fit. Dokota had gotten him one of his on the smaller side shirts, but still, Derric just refused to wear it. With a promise of him taking it off when he gets home, we were finally good.

Once I got home, I cleaned the living room up (again) and got to work on my WiiFit. Yhea, I hurt. Today I did the Free Steps, I didn’t watch tv, mostly since I wanted to see what it was all about first. Tomorrow I might. I did the pace run, which I really don’t like. I think mostly because when I put the remote in my pocket, it doesn’t really read it well, and it kept changing my pace, even though I was moving the same. I ended up not really running just to keep the thing from yelling at me.  After aerobics, I tried to do the strength training, push ups with side plank, and realize, I really suck at it! Mostly since I DON’T move at the same pace the “trainer” does… So I was getting yelled at because I wasn’t keeping pace with the machine.. After that, I decided on a little yoga, and moved to the Sun pose. My balance was way off, so I failed that, even thou if you ask my body, I did it right lol.

Yhea, it was time to call it quits.

I grabed two bags of 100 Calorie snack packs and headed to my computer. I got to work on the family website, did a lot of changes. Stop by and let me know what you think. In case you never went to the family site before and want to know what was changed; I changed the kids’ page, got a really nice picture of all 4 kids, thanks to the elementary school holding a family/sibling photo shoot day. Then I linked their individual pages. These were also changed. Before, you had to go to the education page to see report cards, now I linked their report cards to their individual pages. Before, the only thing on the individual pages were their pictures, now it has school stuff… Personally, I like this better.

After I got the family site how I wanted it, I headed up to the BX. I needed a few things and I wanted to just roam.

I found nice water bottles for the kids for this summer. Got a Dr. Pepper, and had found they had restocked the Nike+ sensors. I picked one up and just about ran home to try it out. Soo excited. Until I got the thing in my shoe. For over an hour I walked and walked, and walked, trying to get the sensor to link to the iPod Touch. No such luck. So I returned it. Rather sad. I really hope to get a new one next month. I really want that sensor. I tried everything under the sun to get it to work. And it just wouldn’t.

Came home from returning the sensor and worked on adding my working out page to the blog. Nothing really on it but links to my sparkpage and extrapounds page. Also stats and my Nike+ badge for whenever I get a working sensor and can start working out with it…

Then it was time to pick up the munchkins, so off to the school I headed. Derric was taking his sweet time getting ready, but finally got him out the door. Headed to the main building, wanted to stop by the office to start looking into becoming a Special Ed assistant sub. But the lady in charge of that wasn’t in today, so time to just head back home. Now, here I am.

Thing have been going pretty good around here… Not much really to talk about. The three day weekend did leave me thankful for the week again, but the shift in Kevin’s schedule is just enough to completely throw my mornings off….

Over the weekend, Kevin got me a new toy. He bought me a digital camcorder and I love it. I only seem to have one problem with it, it doesn’t save to the computer for upload. No, it backs up onto the computer in a format that non of my players will play, and trying to find software that will convert and compress has been difficult. The camcorder has an 80GB hard drive on it and it takes the mini SD cards. So it seems more designed for storing memories then sharing… So if anyone knows a good software that compresses MPEG files, please, please, please, send me the info! LOL.

I have a good chance to use the DVD feature this month, Kevin’s dad’s birthday will be in a couple weeks, and I want to create a message from the kids to mail him. I am just trying to think of a way to actually do this… Just having the kids sit infront of the camera to wish him a Happy Birthday would be way to short, so I need to come up with some ideas to make it a bit longer and special for him….

Not much else is really going on… Tuesday I got my FitLinks account set up at the base gym. Interesting program, really worked my muscles and I am sure sore today and I didn’t even do that much! FitLinks is a program for the military to track fitness of their active duty members. Spouses can have an account also, only our accounts wont be able to be accessed online like active duty accounts… Since I didn’t even know about that feature, it wasn’t too saddening to hear that, so I got my account set up. I did 40 minutes on a new form of elliptical that can do three forms of motions, it can act like stairs, short strides, or longer strides. It really is an interesting machine. Hit three target areas without changing machines… I LOVE it! BUT it isn’t in the FitLinks system yet so I could record it. After the “warm up” I headed in to do the Natialis weight machines. It was interesting working with the FitLinks system. Each machine I had to set my rang of motion and my sets/reps. It took me about 4 machines to get the hang of it… So the next time I go in, my info will be a bit off, but that is ok… I just like the tracking it will do!

The hardest part of the FitLinks is that it has a timer for each motion you do. If you do it too fast, it yells at you, too slow it gets onto you. So learning to stay in its set time really was a work out on its own. On one machine (that works the arms), you had to do one rep in 3 seconds…. Normally I am in the middle of my second rep by the three second mark, so really holding the weight added another workout. My arms sure can feel it today, and I didn’t even do a huge amount. So I really think this FitLinks will help in the longer run….

Today, since I am sore in both legs and arms, plus my back is killing me, I think I am going to rest today, then tomorrow pick my legs, and leave Friday for my arms again.. Seperate what I work on, and then when I have a full week to work out, just see about going Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays… But that is a plan for another day… Today, I just want to rest, try and do laundry, and maybe get a little knitting done.

I planned to start going to bed early for now on. Yesterday was a relatively easy day, so going to bed on time should be a snap. Except I spent my time reloading everything into the iPAQ, updating software, updating finances, basically getting it ready to carry around again. I had it all figured out, I finish up the simple task of entering my bills into the calendar for MS Money, sync it with Outlook calendar and be in bed in time to turn into Army Wives. 

Oh how plans fall so short. For starters, there is no way to sync MS Money with MS Outlook. Second, I sat at my computer looking for a way to sync the two, I missed my show. And last of all, never leave a bored person in front of the computer looking up free software. I downloaded and installed a few new games onto my iPAQ. Bad me I know. After downloading and installing said games, one needs to try them out! So knowing I missed the ONLY show I actually wanted to get into, I curl into bed to play with said games…

This is where I am when Kevin comes home way past the bedtime I set for myself. He manages to take the iPAQ from me, but I do manage to talk him into a couple of rounds on Tick-Tack-Toe… He finally calls it quits after beating me twice and calling a drawl twice. He retreats to his bathroom hideaway to read Harry Potter, I turn off the iPAQ and curl up in bed. Here I toss and turn until around 2. I call for Kevin because I am not sleeping at this point, instead waking up even more. He curls in bed with me to try and help me fall asleep.. still no good. So he leaves bed and I start to finally fall into a very light sleep. But everything wakes me up, just not fully consensus. I heard Derric come in, I saw the light of him opening the bathroom door, I registered him curling up in bed with me. After he curled up, lights out completely for me until Kevin wanted to curl up in bed also! Sheesh lol. That is when it finally kicked it what was wrong with me! My leg hurt… So when Kevin joined us in bed, I again was in a very soft sleep. So soft a sleep that I heard my iPAQ reminder for my chores for the day! (more…)