Well I'm back!  Finally managed to get a new computer!  Windows 8......need to require another education from what I can tell to run this one as well.  Got it last Friday never set it up until a couple of days later from complete dread of what I was going to have to know about running it as well as always hating to frind out if everything I hook up to it is going to run on it or if I'll be told they're outta date.  And also have to put all the software back on it, if I can find all the software to put back on it!  I never get really excited about new computers since all I think is work and massive bottle of aspirin!!

Did find my stone for my ring, but after I repaired it I can't find the ring now!!  But now everything's lost instead of one piece is gone and I still have one piece.  I do know it's in the house I just haven't seen it or remember where I put it!  probably looking right at it and just don't see it! It's here though, trust me it's here!

Probably would've gotten the computer sooner, but all of January I have been flat out sick with the flu!  For over a week I had one strain, two or three days of almost normalcy and then I was hit with another strain which had me basically camped in the bathroom for over a another week!  Which then aggravated the neuralgia in my face, which had been quiet for over ten years, and woke up in the middle of the night unable to find my lower lip and by morning nearly couldn't find my chin and my right eye was half way swollen shut.  It's far from fun, especially when the nerves hurt continually and have a nasty habit of changing where they want to smart for a while.  They pain moves from one spot to another sometimes every hour or ever ten minutes depending on the way the nerves are feeling at that time.  So I layed around in bed for another week, interchanging an ice pack with a heating pad during the time.....I finally managed to get some popsicles and ate two or three of them and it popped something right above the roof of my mouth and the pain began to go away and the next day I was noticing the swelling starting to go away......sneezing followed by a mouth of pus is generally a good indicator that it might be healing if anyone else has something similar.....yes its disgusting....but it felt so much better afterward tho!

Spent most of this time watching a bunch of new DVD's I received for Xmas;  'Rosemary and Thyme', 'Pie in the Sky', 'Midsomer Murders', 'Bergerac'.....I have a fondness for British television...especially the comedies and even more so with the mysteries!  I have several series, but these were some of the new ones I wanted and for once Mom listened to me!  Ya!!!!

Anywho I never did get to 'So Close To Home' yet.....I could cared less about saving Kirk and McCoy for the last month......I barely cared about bathing or cleaning the kitty pan....so worrying about a Captain and Doctor who should've known better to get into the trouble that they did was not high on my list at the moment.  but I have begun rereading it again and definitely know I need to do something with it.  Maybe burn it....wall paper the bathroom....or actually attempt to rewrite some of it and see if it flies! I would love to finally finish it but I don't know I never seem to get much of an audience for it when I do post it.....I know that's not the point but you always wonder if it's worth working on or getting to the ending or not.....anywho that's my problem to tend with.

I've got a few new stamps done that I will post hopefully tonight!

Much thanks to all who said hi and sent the encouragement and kind thoughts!  Meant a great deal Happy Valentines Day y'all!

--Schematization