Enjoy the silence??
My computer was ravaged by some evil virus of unknown origin on Saturday the 13th (happy bleepin' birthday, huh?) and on Sunday the 14th I had to run it up to my friends hubby begging "please don't reformat my hard drive.... I haven't backed up in eons!" To which he replied "it may be a good thing you didn't back up, as you might have infected your external hard disk too if you had".
Three looooong hours later, Brad was my hero and saved my computer from the virus. I've never seen someone so insanely talented on a computer. I mean, I knew the guy was smart and awesome on computers, but when he was performing miracles on my effed up computer, I was singing his praises louder than ever!
I came home that night happy, but the next day still had weird things going on... pop ups out of no where and virus scans picking up viruses while I was sleeping. I knew it was nothing I was doing. I got a new virus and spyware program that had a better firewall, and it seems to be straightening out, but weird things were still happening. I'm hoping the latest thing I've done will cease the weirdness, but suffice it to say, i still worry that I'll have to reload my machine in the not too distant future.
I've got toooo much on this computer that I can't afford to lose. *sigh*
So.... the birthday was good.... the holiday party was good.... the last week of school was great and now I'm on Winter Break. Yay!
My mom comes in from Texas on Thursday (yes, Christmas) and stays for a week (yes, she leaves at
7:30AM on New Years morning... thanks John!). We'll see family and friends and hang out and play lots of board games, I'm sure. She hasn't seen my "new" house or my "new" dog in person, so it'll be fun. :)
I'm doing laundry getting the guest room all ready for mom's visit, and wondering whether just shutting the office door will suffice. I don't really want to sift through all the papers on my desk to make it presentable ;-)
The kids have been great, and are loving me being home. My mom sent them all their own individually addressed Christmas cards.... tho she sent them on the same day, they didn't all arrive together. "Ms. Sedona Genaw" and "Mr. Chance Genaw" received cards on the same day, but "Mr. Dakota Genaw" didn't get his until yesterday. I made them wait till they were all accounted for before I divied them up. Sedona took right to it and dug in. They're edible Christmas cards... made from rawhide. :) Interestingly, the other two are still sitting on the living room floor untouched, but Sedona's has been devoured. Go figure.
Santa Claus came to school for pictures with the kids, so I took the opportunity to sit on Santa's lap ;-) He came back a few days later and this is from that "repeat visit". It's a more flattering picture of me, I thought.. but isn't he a GREAT Santa? The beard and hair are real! He's a maintenance guy over at another elementary school in our district, and he dresses up as Santa each year for the kids. :) It was a lot of fun!
While everyone is posting pictures of winter wonderlands, I have nothing fun to offer.... it's been rainy here, and wet, but nothing spectacularly beautiful or anything unfortunately. I had a nice Skywatch foto, but because my computer was being stupid, I never posted it. Oh well. It was similar to the one from the week previous anyway, so no big loss ;-)
I hope everyone is staying warm and dry.... I'm off to go and finish cleaning up and vaccuuming up the 6 corgi's I managed to acquire somehow.... Oh, and Sedona is blowing coat.... just in time to look absolutely NEKKID for SoCal. Thanks Poof. Thanks a lot.
Kimberly and her Corgi
The kids have been great, and are loving me being home. My mom sent them all their own individually addressed Christmas cards.... tho she sent them on the same day, they didn't all arrive together. "Ms. Sedona Genaw" and "Mr. Chance Genaw" received cards on the same day, but "Mr. Dakota Genaw" didn't get his until yesterday. I made them wait till they were all accounted for before I divied them up. Sedona took right to it and dug in. They're edible Christmas cards... made from rawhide. :) Interestingly, the other two are still sitting on the living room floor untouched, but Sedona's has been devoured. Go figure. 
Santa Claus came to school for pictures with the kids, so I took the opportunity to sit on Santa's lap ;-) He came back a few days later and this is from that "repeat visit". It's a more flattering picture of me, I thought.. but isn't he a GREAT Santa? The beard and hair are real! He's a maintenance guy over at another elementary school in our district, and he dresses up as Santa each year for the kids. :) It was a lot of fun! 
