I decided to go online since my brain was going 90 mph but I was having issues logging into the Internet - the modem is downstairs in the office. So downstairs I go at 5:00 a.m. trying to be quiet on the very creaky stairs. I even tried to walk on the outside of the stairs like they say in mystery novels so the stairs wouldn't make any noise so I wouldn't wake up Dad in the guest bedroom - well no matter where you walk on my stairs you will make noise and lots of it. And I had to go back downstairs a second time to unplug and replug in the modem.......
Yesterday I took Butler to the vet to check the boo boo on his butt and she said it looked great! She was amazed that it looked like the open bedsore from a couple of weeks ago was actually trying to close itself. I told her how I try to keep Butler off that side but I know if it was me I'd get tired of laying on only one side so I do let him lay on the boo boo hip once-in-a-while but not at nighttime.
Then after dropping Butler off at home - off to the Verizon store I go with my replacement phone to ask questions about my phone and hoping we can rescue my contacts. As I got in the car to drive to the store I said, "God my contacts are in your hands. I know this isn't a big deal in the scheme of things and if I have to re-enter everything by hand I will. But....nothing is impossible for You." Get to the store and my Droid is d-e-a-d. The guy takes the Droid and HTC (replacement phone) in the back to see what he can do to bring up my contacts. Comes back to me - no luck. I was never told when I purchased my Droid that I could save/export my contacts to the SD card in the phone but I know now to do this :) The guy asked if I happened to know what Gmail account I had for my Droid - I'm like no I honestly have no idea - he thought he might be able to synch my contacts that way. We go through my questions and then need to create a Gmail account so I can download free applications to the new phone. We try several email names but they have already been "taken" by someone else for Gmail accounts. Sometimes I wonder about myself and am amazed that God doesn't slap me upside the head. I finally look at the guy and say try this one: mcfallroni and if it says it's "taken" that means that is my Gmail account for my Droid. Mcfallroni was taken, after two tries at the password we were in my Gmail account for my Droid and the guy was able to pull my contacts and calendar over to my new phone!!!!!
Monday and Tuesday I had a handyman in working on the bathroom floor that I tore up a few months ago and he got it all done Tuesday and it looks pur-tee. But there was a HUGE leak by the bottom of the toilet Tuesday night. After my contacts were restored in my phone I called him to tell him about the leak so when he stopped by yesterday to drop off his bill, he looked at the problem and it was an "easy" fix. He had to replace the screws that are inside the tank of the toilet.
Before, the dark parquet (sp?) peel n stick we had in the bathroom and you can see some of the subfloor. I had all the subfloor exposed except under the toilet and had been walking on the subfloor for a few months.
After, really lightened up the bathroom :) Good, old peel n stick from Lowe's.
I was also able to see my grief counselor yesterday, I hadn't seen her since early February. It was kind of a "check up" like we said to tell her how I'd been doing, dealing with my first non-anniversary without Mike and the first anniversary of his passing and everything else. She gave me a great quote and scripture:
It's not what lies behind you
...nor what lies ahead of you
but what lies within you that matters.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (she thinks)
Psalms 122:8 ......peace be within you.
Another thing I've done is get a new email address. I had MSN and as of June 30th if I want to stay with them I needed to sign up with them and pay a separate charge to MSN for my email. I bundle my Internet and tv with Qwest already and was not going to pay an additional charge to MSN for email. I thought I'd go with Gmail but had a horrid time trying to get through the process of setting up a Gmail account. A couple of girlfriends from church advised to go with Hotmail and I could keep greyhound484@msn.com. I did think about doing that but decided to switch to Qwest and go with a brand new email because.....I know Butler will not live forever and I'm not sure if I'll replace him or not so I didn't want my email to say greyhound. And the numbers 484 in my email represented our anniversary (April 84). Time for a change. But I didn't want an email that would give any personal information away now that I'm single. No mcfallroni61 or anything like that. I wanted islandgirl but that had been "taken". So I came up with islandgirl21@q.com. Why? Because Mike and I loved our times we were able to trade our timeshare in the Caribbean and we always said we should sell everything and just move to one. 21 because that is my birthdate (9/21).
Mom is doing a little better as of yesterday Dad said. She is having an issue with her blood pressure too - it's a little low.
Last night at about 10:15 p.m. the tornado sirens go off and I'm like, "what in the world?" so I turn on the news - there is no weather going on outside at all. The weather guy finally comes on and the first thing he says is that the tornado sirens in WDM had accidently gone off.....................
Another one of my pretty pink hibiscus from Tuesday :)
