Hello! Welcome to my blog. I'm an erratic blogger - sometimes I write loads and sometimes I disappear for days on end. I write about anything that comes to mind - sometimes about life, sometimes about marriage, sometimes about homeschool. I'm recovering from bad experiences in the past and trying to find peace with myself and, although I spend little time on the computer these days, this blog will serve as a journal for my thoughts. I have no comments because I need no-one's opinion on my life - mine is the only opinion that counts.

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I'm married to Tim (beautiful musician and delivery driver), we have 2 daughters whom we home educate, live on the south coast of the UK and have 2 aging cats (Mo-mo and Hemmingway). I love reading, crafts, teaching my children and finding the beautiful in things. I have a love of Japanese culture, homes and decor. I have recently rediscovered life away from the computer and am starting to rediscover ..... me.

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Monday, May 05, 2008

This just about sums things up

I doodled this yesterday. It started off as Toad (the little mushroom guy from the Mario games), then turned into a cross toad and then turned into a cross toad stood next to a busted computer. It clearly shows my state of mind at the time.

Y'see, a couple of days ago our computer decided to just stop working - no loud bangs, no weirdy behaviour, no warning, nothing. It just wouldn't start - or rather, it did but, for some reason, there was nothing getting through to the monitor. Tried a different monitor - still nothing. Tried the main monitor with an old puter and it worked. Hmmmmm. My brother (who knows a lot more about these things than us) had a look and thinks it might be overheating and causing something to "short out" ... or something. Anyway, when we've got the money (which we don't have at the moment), we're taking it to Nami (who does our computer mending) and getting him to sort it out but in the meantime we're stuck with our ancient old pute. I'm seriously hoping that nothing was lost off the other other one and that it will be a simple repair job.

D'ya know what I think the problem is? I think it's overworked and this is a sign. It's a sign that says I simply MUST have one of the gorgeous pink laptops that they sell in PC World and thus put less strain on our main pute. It makes sense! Ahem.

So, this thing we've got now is S....L.....O.....W. It can't handle too much in one go (I know the feeling) BUT it's something (and I'm bloody glad we hung on to it when we got our new one!)

Thingamablog and all my archives were on the other computer so over the last couple of days, Tim has laboriously set everything up and copy/pasted my posts into the archives so that I can carry on blogging using this pute. He has the same problem with his blog but has a lot more posts so is just not going to bother - so no blogging from him for a while!!

So, what else has been happening. Not a lot really. The kids both have colds - Rosie mainly, April just has a bit of a sniffle. I've got the opticians tomorrow - new glasses required most likely - fab, I can really excel myself and see if I can look even more geeky than I do already. Tim rather likes them - it's the saucy secretary look I guess but I don't cause they annoy me by slipping down (I've only got a tiny little nose which just isn't the right shape for supporting glasses). Oh well, better than seeing everything through a fog I guess!