Welcome back, Blogger. I missed you! :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend. Our company graciously gave us Monday off as well, so I had four blissful days, starting with the viewing of The Lord of the Rings on Friday night with Liz's son. This Friday, my cherubs, Rob and I will go again -- this time to the Cinerama, which has wide, plushy, rocking seats and a very big screen. I am hoping my bottom will not go asleep again. The movie was so amazing and captivating that I forgot to squirm enough to keep the blood flowing.

Poor Rob was a Christmas Victim this year. It was one shopping disaster after another for him regarding gifts for me. You know it's tough when he comments that he has no idea what to get you, and you say, "Have you looked at my Amazon.com Wish List?" and he immediately logs in to see if it's not too late to get anything from it. Hehehe!

He did get me a PS2 and Final Fantasy X. This was on Saturday. He played all day Saturday, pausing only to rush out to get a memory card. Testing, I believe, he called this. Sunday was his birthday. I'd gotten him a dart board. He rips it open, exclaims over it, then returns to FFX. I have yet to play FFX.

Christmas Eve...our first time together. Did we snuggle up and watch White Christmas and sip hot cocoa beside a roaring fire? Nooooo...for Rob had ordered a new case and some other thingers to make a new PC as his old one could not handle the new EQ expansion. Rob spent the day using curse words I'd never heard before as he ran into one problem after another assembling the thing. Thank goodness we hadn't bought the boys bicycles to be put together too or my vocabulary would have expanded even more.

Christmas Day, he is still not done. He wakes me with those cherished words, "Mele Kalikimaka, I gotta work on that damn PC." He worked on it all day. He remembered that I had gotten the Windows XP upgrade when I ordered my Dell system. He fished out that CD and installed it on his new computer. By nightfall, long after I had picked up my boys, we opened our gifts (which my gifts were all fabulous! Especially a coffee mug shaped like a tree trunk with an owl perched in it, made by Phil!), I'd made a milk gravy-soaked fried chicken supper and had started reading a book while the boys played their new games, Rob had his PC working enough to sit beside me on the couch and pester me while I read.

"My PC cost less than yours," he gloated. I glanced at him. "How do you figure that?" "Mine cost about $600 and yours was double that." I pointed out that when my PC arrived, I plugged it in and it worked whereas he had just spent two days fiddling with his, not to mention the aggravation of receiving half the parts on Friday and having to wait until Monday for the rest of it to arrive -- meaning a total of four days lost time. Where did he figure he'd saved anything? "Mine cost about $600," he mumbled like a mantra, "And yours cost double that."

Hah. Stubborn guy :)

Last night, he gloated over it, lighting incense and ...oh...well, maybe not incense... and when he took the boys to Best Buy for them to pick out their own Christmas goodies from him, he picked up some sort of XP add on stuff, which includes a spiffy aquarium screen saver. As I admired it from my desk, he smirked, "You can't use this screen saver but I can because I have Windows XP!" Pause. Cackle! Cackle! For of course, he only has it because I'd bought it for myself and he stole it!

More later on as I remember it. Five days is a loooooong time to store up memories for you folks :)

Love and kisses and hugs for CoreyChick, Broos, CosmicTwin and of course, Sheepy.

Welcome back, Blogger. I missed you! :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend. Our company graciously gave us Monday off as well, so I had four blissful days, starting with the viewing of The Lord of the Rings on Friday night with Liz's son. This Friday, my cherubs, Rob and I will go again -- this time to the Cinerama, which has wide, plushy, rocking seats and a very big screen. I am hoping my bottom will not go asleep again. The movie was so amazing and captivating that I forgot to squirm enough to keep the blood flowing.

Poor Rob was a Christmas Victim this year. It was one shopping disaster after another for him regarding gifts for me. You know it's tough when he comments that he has no idea what to get you, and you say, "Have you looked at my Amazon.com Wish List?" and he immediately logs in to see if it's not too late to get anything from it. Hehehe!

He did get me a PS2 and Final Fantasy X. This was on Saturday. He played all day Saturday, pausing only to rush out to get a memory card. Testing, I believe, he called this. Sunday was his birthday. I'd gotten him a dart board. He rips it open, exclaims over it, then returns to FFX. I have yet to play FFX.

Christmas Eve...our first time together. Did we snuggle up and watch White Christmas and sip hot cocoa beside a roaring fire? Nooooo...for Rob had ordered a new case and some other thingers to make a new PC as his old one could not handle the new EQ expansion. Rob spent the day using curse words I'd never heard before as he ran into one problem after another assembling the thing. Thank goodness we hadn't bought the boys bicycles to be put together too or my vocabulary would have expanded even more.

Christmas Day, he is still not done. He wakes me with those cherished words, "Mele Kalikimaka, I gotta work on that damn PC." He worked on it all day. He remembered that I had gotten the Windows XP upgrade when I ordered my Dell system. He fished out that CD and installed it on his new computer. By nightfall, long after I had picked up my boys, we opened our gifts (which my gifts were all fabulous! Especially a coffee mug shaped like a tree trunk with an owl perched in it, made by Phil!), I'd made a milk gravy-soaked fried chicken supper and had started reading a book while the boys played their new games, Rob had his PC working enough to sit beside me on the couch and pester me while I read.

"My PC cost less than yours," he gloated. I glanced at him. "How do you figure that?" "Mine cost about $600 and yours was double that." I pointed out that when my PC arrived, I plugged it in and it worked whereas he had just spent two days fiddling with his, not to mention the aggravation of receiving half the parts on Friday and having to wait until Monday for the rest of it to arrive -- meaning a total of four days lost time. Where did he figure he'd saved anything? "Mine cost about $600," he mumbled like a mantra, "And yours cost double that."

Hah. Stubborn guy :)

Last night, he gloated over it, lighting incense and ...oh...well, maybe not incense... and when he took the boys to Best Buy for them to pick out their own Christmas goodies from him, he picked up some sort of XP add on stuff, which includes a spiffy aquarium screen saver. As I admired it from my desk, he smirked, "You can't use this screen saver but I can because I have Windows XP!" Pause. Cackle! Cackle! For of course, he only has it because I'd bought it for myself and he stole it!

More later on as I remember it. Five days is a loooooong time to store up memories for you folks :)

Love and kisses and hugs for CoreyChick, Broos, CosmicTwin and of course, Sheepy.