It has only been two days, but......

I miss my family! They were ALL just here on Saturday, but already the house is too quiet. There is lots of food left over. That wonderful cake that barely got touched is still here and I can enjoy it as breakfast.

I wonder when we will all get together, and hope it will be for a happy occaision. It was fun the other day trying to ID the younger ones, who had all grown up. Some were more difficult than others. Some looked so much like their parents, it was easy. Some that we do not see as much, were only ID'd because of who they came in with.

All total, we went through all the hotdogs that were brought (at least 40), Dad said somewhere around 60 hamburgers, and about 30 BBQ Chicken legs. I have not yet stopped to count how many people were here. But we estimated that to get a group shot would have to involve a ladder. That is alot of relatives all in one spot.

It was a great day and one I hope that we do not have to wait until next year to repeat.

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I got a new laptop a few weeks ago. Nice...Windows XP, I had heard horror stories about Vista. But some things are just so complicated to get switched over. For instance, iTunes. I got an IPOD a few months ago, and have had great fun putting more songs on it than I will ever listen to.

But guess what? When you change computers, there is some complicated process that you have to go through to get itunes to recognize you as the owner of the machine, because, though it downloads your library, you do not have access to it. So, when I plugged in my ipod, it took away all the songs I had ever purchased and all the other stuff. How annoying.

Supposedly tomorrow a family member is going to fix that. He found on itunes exactly how to do that. I will let you know if it works.

I had chinese food tonight. Yum! Dad's idea, though since Vietnam he cannot stand any of it. But sweet and sour chicken hits the spot every time.

My cousin came to visit today, and we laughed shared stories, talked about when we were little at Grandma's. Recently she was visiting someone and their home was very warm, that brought back memories to her of sleeping upstairs at my Grandparents' old farm house in the summer laying on top of the sheets in the blazing upper bedroom, hoping you could fall asleep, arms and legs stretched so far apart, hoping for any blast of breeze.

It was in the 90s here today, with the humidity making it well over 100. Yikes! Others told me, thank goodness I did not have to go out.

Well, ya'll have a good night.