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I got the itunes thing fixed. Yay! Everything is all fixed and I can begin to get used to my new laptop. It is fun. Having only gotten a sprint card to give me high speed Internet in April, it is still a bit odd for me to be able to be on the computer before 5 PM, I usually waited til after business hours just in case doctors needed to call or other business. So when the phone rings and I am on the computer, it still startles me.

We leave for Myrtle Beach in a couple of weeks. I am so excited I could bust. We are planning what to take (food is top priority, travelling food, we will get the rest when we are down there). It has been in the mid 90s here with the humidity putting it at about 107, so who knows what it will be like there. Of course it is kind of backwards here, as this is August weather, so who knows what the rest of the summer will be like.

I have been fortunate enough to have wonderful opportunities lately. The Redskins Beach Blitz, the coming vacation to the Beach, getting a new ipod, and I also got DVR with High Def. I can't wait til football season, can't wait anyway, but really can't wait because I have heard that is when I will love the High Def. the most.

Anyway, I tape stuff all the time so that when my body switches the days from nights (this happens regularly), I have stuff to watch. I also have a subscription to Netflix which I usually catch up on during the weekend. This past weekend I watched "Untraceable" (scary in the fact that that could REALLY occur, if someone was that messed up), "27 Dresses", and half of "P.S. I love you". Good weekend, topped off by the season opener of the Lifetime Show "Army Wives". If you have not watched it, you really should. Sundays at 10, at least here near DC. It is awesome! And I completely was bowled over by the ending of the opener.

So, I figured I would come up with a way to occupy my time further in the middle of the night when I am up. I started this blog. It is proving quite helpful in making me see the good things in my life while everything else seems SO WRONG. But this is not the place for that discussion.

Suffice it to stay that I may not be blogging a year from now. My dexterity is getting bad quickly, so I may be here on earth, just unable to type.

One other great thing happened today and it is only Noon. Actually two things. An old friend that I had been trying to find for years (we went to college together over 10 years ago) found me!!! That is wonderful (hi David, if you ever find this). And I got a very nice comment offering help with the aforementioned itunes problem (kudos Tanner).

I hope that all of you have a great day and that you are able to stay cool and safe (for those who are suffering from flooding).

Until tomorrow...

What happens when you forget your password...

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It is amazing how complicated life can be when you forget your password here. You have all these interesting things happen and you can't post about them, you know you will forget by the time you get a new password, and some people will wonder why you have not posted in days.

Well, I am 13 days away from leaving for a week at the beach. Myrtle Beach, SC. There is a great condo we found there last year that is accessible and right on the beach. By that I mean, open the sliding glass doors, go across the patio, and either step over a few lounge chairs, go to the pool, or go to "my deck" and down a couple steps to the sand. I call it my deck because I love to sit out there and read or watch people or sleep. It is so great out there.

The beach is so comforting to me, just the sound of it even. I got to thinking, and really I do not walk on the sand, swim in the water, but there is no place I would rather be. I LOVE it. Some are mountain or hiking lovers, I am a beach bum. Bum being the key word.

At the beach we seldom cook. We eat all food that is not good for us, at I already know what one of those stops will be. It is called the Fueling station. It is the best. They make every kind of pizza known to man, and then some. And it is pretty inexpensive. It is a buffet, so you can have all you want. And I forgot to mention their best pizza in my opinion. They make this pizza that is somehow even better than a chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven. Put it this way, last year when we had kind of a family reunion there, we just kept our eyes pealed for when they brought out new pizzas, and we kept eating them. They are heavenly. I better stop before I start to drool.

I hope everyone reading this has a vacation this summer, even if it is just a quiet day in your own back yard. And anyone near South Carolina, let me know, and maybe we can catch up!!

Now that I have re-established my pass word, I will be here more often. See ya!!

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WEEKEND!!!!!

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I really appreciate the comment left by Jeff telling me that I needed to move my counter someplace else in order to not have it pop up every time I posted. I realize that would be a great thing to do, but after checking all the editing choices "posting, creating, edit, moderate, settings, and all under that, layout and under that", I can't figure it out. I tried a few other places to post it, but it would not let me save it. Oh well, thanks for bearing with me. I kind of like seeing that number there each time I come. Lets me know some one else besides me has read this.

My weekend started at about Noon on Friday. That is when we finally got on the real road (even when we left, while we were running errands around our area does not count, only when we are on roads that we do not travel on regularly do I feel like I am on vacation). We stopped at Chick-fil-A for lunch and to me that was a PERFECT start. My favorite fast food. Awesome sweet iced tea.

We got to the place to check in (I got this package that paid for our hotel room, free tickets to the Beach Blitz and also $50 gift card or Redskin merchandise). It turned into this whole thing where they were trying to say we did not qualify, and I was not sure it was going to work.

Anyway, it did, and our room was not only accessible but it was like this little suite. It had a bedroom with a living room and couch with pull out bed, and a kitchen, complete with dishes!!! Friday night we indulged in the best pizza, so good I have been thinking about that pizza ever since we got it last year!!

The convention center the next day was fun. We saw friends we made there in 2006 and have seen each year. That was fun. Then we saw people that we know in real life!!! The lady used to work for my Dad and her husband was there also. That was weird. I did a lot of strange things to get autographs, like yelling at big people who could've squished me, for trying to cut in line. Also, busting through the barrier when the players finished their "clinics" and were signing for kids, I had some people move the barrier and off I went!! I thought all weekend, "I am not from here, I am not going to see these people in the grocery store and probably not until next year, so I went for it!!"

I came home with another autographed football, a clock, a picture, license plate holder, football necklaces like for Mardi Gras, but these are burgandy and gold little footballs, a T-shirt (early bday present from my sister), a puzzle to do and then frame, a book about our HOF inductees, and lots of memories.

I was determined to have a funnel cake while I was there. At the tailgate party Sunday, by the beach, they had a band, some Skins would come out and they had a booth that sold funnel cakes. I got one and the wind starting whipping up. Yep, anyone who has had one is laughing already. That powdered sugar went EVERYWHERE!!!! On the guy next to me, the lady on the other side, on me, my 'chair, EVERYWHERE! I tried to block it from the guy on the left of me, because he looked kind of mad. The lady on the other side was just laughing. But then the wind became sadistic and just kind of blew in a circle. It was awful! But I finished all I could eat, anyway. When I got back to the hotel, I took my watch off and wondered how the band could have gotten so worn in one day. Yep, it was that POWDERED SUGAR!!! Mom found more today on the wheelchair and also on my bag that I was carrying.

I will post more in the next few days about my adventures this weekend. I had to post some of it. It was toooo much fun, and this is turning out to be a really good, relaxing, fun idea.

Have a great Monday evening! Kudos to those who have posted here. I have since changed the settings here so anyone can comment here, registered or not. I did not know that boundary was set.