So Naive

I'm so naive. I was just watching the Royals' game and thought how cool it would be to surprise Lance with a dugout suite for his birthday. He's going to be 35 so it's kinda a big year. I thought it would be so neat to reserve a suite and invite family and friends and have a very unique experience. I thought I would be able to do this for around $500.00. Boy was I wrong.

To reserve a dugout suite, the cheapest package starts at $4,600.00! Yes, that's not a typo - four thousand, six hundred dollars! I'm in shock. With that you get dinner and tickets for 30 people. Only $150/person. That's all. No biggie. I'll just dip into my checkbook and write a check. No problem. Whatever.

We could go on almost two cruises for that price! That's such a bummer. I've always wanted to sit in a dugout suite, ever since they first got them. How cool would that be to be that close to the field and see everything close up? But for that much money? It will never happen. That's too bad.

I guess Lance and I will just have to go The Melting Pot for his birthday. Maybe I'll splurge and we'll get sodas with our meal! So, I guess if anyone has some great ideas for a birthday surprise for Lance I'd love to hear it - my budget is around $500.00!

Sleepy Boy

So just now Brett was watching "Little Bill" right before it was time for nap. I was upstairs working on the computer (getting it ready for it's clean up - more about that later). Then I heard Brett's rocking chair and look over to see Lance rocking Brett. This is strange because I hadn't heard them come upstairs or anything. So I tiptoe in there and Brett is asleep on Lance's shoulder!

Lance rocked him for a little bit more, then put him in his bed. When he came out he said he was watching Little Bill, laid down on the couch, then when he looked over he was asleep! You have to understand, this has NEVER happened to us before! Brett has never fallen asleep while playing, watching tv, in our arms, NEVER! We were both shocked. I'm still in shock. I hope he sleeps well. We had a very tough morning so I knew he was super sleepy, but never imagined he would fall asleep on the couch!

Now, on to my computer clean up. My brother-in-law, who works for one of those Nerd Herd places, is taking my computer tomorrow to clean it up. He's going to wipe my hard drive clean and reload all my programs. There's so much junk on my computer that I don't need and since I'm the only one using it now, there's no reason for him not to do this. I'm hoping he'll be able to reload my Outlook so I can have all my emails and contacts back! Although I have to admit, it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would have been. All the people I regularly talk to have already emailed me so I have their addresses. But, it will be nice to have all that data back! After I write this blog I'm going to be backing up all my photos on DVD's. I have it all backed up on my external hard drive, but I'm paranoid and want that data in another place as well!

I'll still be checking emails until I get my computer back (on Lance's computer) but I won't be able to digital scrapbook or work or anything! Maybe this clean up is a good thing after all . . .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASEY & Sorta good computer news

First of all - HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASEY! Casey lives down the street from me and has three little ones. It's so much fun having friends live in your neighborhood so you can quickly and easily do things with them. Casey is a scrapbooker too which makes her extra special in my book! We're going to lunch today to celebrate Casey's birthday, after swim lessons. She laid down some "ground rules" which were no paying for her lunch. Whatever! It's her birthday, like I'm going to let her pay!

Ok, so on to computer business. My brother-in-law came over last night and looked at my computer and the whole Outlook thing. There's sorta good news in what he told me. First, the reason my Outlook crashed is because I had too much stuff in it. He said if it gets over 2GB it crashes. This is what happened to mine. I save EVERYTHING work related and don't even like to empty out my sent items. Just recently I went back into my sent items from 2004 and found something I needed!

Anyway, he went through this process to get everything back but it didn't work. He left before it was completed because it was going to take a while. I've emailed him asking him what to do so I'm sure I'll hear back from him shortly. But, it's sorta good news that everything is not lost - at least not yet!

And thanks mom for your email yesterday. It's nice to know that your momma reads your blog! Brett had his first swimming lesson yesterday and that's where we're off to today.

It's a new blog day!

Ok, so right now Lance is sitting at my computer trying to restore my Outlook. I'm at his computer, working on this new blog. I really think I'm handling this situation quite well. I haven't gotten upset about it (as I have been known to do when computer problems occur) or cried (although I'm pretty close to that point!).

Actually, I'm ok. I think I know the email addresses of most people I regularly email and for the others, I'll just ask around if I need it.

So as you're reading this you've probably noticed that I have a new look to my blog. I've decided to use an actual blogger site to post my blogs. This is something I've been wanting to do ever since I started my blog. I want people to be able to post comments - not that too many people will. But, it will be fun to see. So, I've given up the idea of trying to make the blog match my website perfectly and just decided to go with what's out there. I anticipate the look of this blog changing often, as I get more familiar with this blogging system.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the new blogging capabilities. If you want to visit my "old" blog entries, go here.