and my blog is down which is a whole nother vent in itself that will probably show up in this vent
Today was portfolio day in Hollace’s class. It is cumulation of a whole years worth of achievements in Ms William’s class.
It started at 12:30 so I left work at 11:45 to give me a little extra time to get there. Working in the basement I had no idea a hurricane of something came through. There was so much tree debree everywhere and all the traffic lights weren’t working. Needless to say driving to the school (15 miles away) was a nightmare. I ended up 10 minutes late and was so upset.
That part ended up being ok because things didn’t start until I got there.
I for some reason I thought this thing would only take an hour but it was more like 2.5 hours! If I would of realized that I would of planned for a half of day. I started heading back to work when I realized by the time I get back, there will only be 30 minutes left to my day and the traffic lights were still out so the commute would of been horrific.
I finally wised up and called the boss and left him a voicemail that I just took a half day and hoped that would be ok.
With my new founded extra time, I was able to get my oil changed for the first time with the new car. The Jiffy Lube guy made me laugh when he was excited he was able to “pop my cherry” being the first to change my oil. They really get excited about that over there because the other guy expressed his excitement about that too. LOL
Now back to my vent. The place I host my web site is totally f**ked up. I am so pissed. My email is messed up again so no one can get email to me and my blogs have reverted to old content and I can not get in to manage or at least save the database files.
I need to find a new host but the thought of changing everything over is overwhelming. I have been with ipower.com for probably 8 years now and am paid up for another year and a half. I think it is going to be a nightmare getting my money back. I so don’t have time for this.
Ok, thank you. I feel much better. I can go pick up the kid from the baby sitter now.
Hmmm - May 28, 2008 -
After my email nightmare where everyone sending me email got an error, ipower finally put me on the new platform and now all is well.
Well everything is good except I couldn’t access my blogs. That was understandable since I changed servers but couldn’t figure out how to fix it so it was off to support again.
I just got a reply to my support ticket asking for the specific URL I am having trouble with and when I went there to grab it, I discovered that at least the WordPress blogs are now working again.
So here I am trying it out.
It was Memorial Day weekend and we pulled up the camper to Manitowoc WI to camp in Pam’s driveway. It was freakin cold (56) except for today. It was in the 80s and Hollace is sick. Poor kid, she has this uncanny knack of first being sick on a weekend. Only it is a weekend technically but a holiday weekend day. Figures. Also it seems that everytime the temp gets to 80 this spring, she is sick. A few weeks ago she was sick (on a Sunday) and 80 degrees. Michael (5) had a fever last night but didn’t seem too sick.
The 3 hour drive home today was so miserable for her. She cried the whole way. Her whole body hurt she said. Children’s Tylenol doesn’t touch her. That is all Pam had. As soon as we got home we got her some Motrin and has perked up considerably.
We went to the parade this morning to see Read (16), Jeff (16) and Will (13.5) march in the band and to see Phil (almost 7) march with the cub scouts.
For those who might be reading this I have 2 sisters in Manitowoc with 9 kids between them. Really they both had 4 each but Cindy is the guardian of Tim’s step sister’s son, Shawn who is 13. I think Shawn really has a good chance at growing up right staying with Cindy and Tim. He eventually will go back with his mom as well as his 7 year old brother who is staying with Tim’s sister in Arizona and her 4 kids.
As usual I am the cool aunt with my Mac computer. I now have lots of video using PhotoBooth and several new compositions saved using Garage Band.
Mom and Dad got to Manitowoc at the same time as we did. They stayed in a hotel this time since the driveway camping is limited to one now. There is no way anyone can get a camper in Cindy’s driveway.
I don’t think mom and dad are doing too well anymore and I think their traveling days are over. Dad is really shaking now. He keeps his hands in the pockets more and then they are out there are major tremors going on. Tim was following him in a car and said he was all over the road.
Mom the navigator can’t do it with her macular degeneration, she can’t see signs. They kept getting lost then she gets frazzled.
Dad hurt my feelings while at the picnic at Cindy’s. It was cold and Tim said something about insulation. He meant drink more beer to keep warm but I made a fat crack on myself by saying I got the insulation thing covered. Tim was like, no, no, no, I don’t mean that. My dad goes, glad you said it cause I was thinking it. Back at ya fat guy.
I apparently don’t remember much about our childhood. Either that or my sisters’ have an amazing memory or I was never around when things happened. I was a homebody so I doubt that. I am bugged by this. I really feel like I live half a life and apparently always have. I got to do something. I got to lose 100 lbs and quit being afraid to live a good life.
Ok got to go, my sick girl just told me she feels like some bacon. It is 7:23 and it will be the first food since 9am when she ate a piece of bread. I doubt she will be able to eat it but we will try.
I have two totally unrelated issues with email. One and the most annoying one is with my web site provider ipower.com. For the last week, off and on, anyone emailing me with my swardraws.com address may get a Mail Failure notification. The way I found this out is that every time I email myself from work I get this notification. And yesterday Kathy reported the same error when trying to email me. I only wonder who is not getting email to me. Doesn’t it just figure that I finally took the plunge with some of my bills to go paperless. Now they can’t email me to let me know a bill is ready. Like I said it is sporatic and I have ipower.com working on it but I am not holding my breath with their support.
The other problem is with my internet provider and outgoing mail. This one is only slightly annoying since I can eventually get the mail sent out. I just have to hit send 6 times or so before it recognizes my outgoing server which is with Yahoo. Also I am getting these email from Yahoo in all my email boxes (including my sbc one) about verifying addresses. All my addresses are verified.
What is really annoying is that I foresee hours of troubleshooting phone time for both of these issues and I just don’t want to, ug
a couple weeks ago it was that stomach thing, now it is a head cold or something. I am not really stuffy like a head cold but have a sore throat and some coughing. I guess that makes it a chest cold?
I am sure this is the thing that RAW was whining about last week. You will hear no moaning or whining from me. I am sure RAW has no clue that I got what he had.
We finally made our appointment to Home Depot to get the process started. John the kitchen designer took my sloppy sketches and designed our kitchen. Even with the higher end cabinets (RAW refuses the cheap particle board) and our natural cherry doors, it looks like we should be within our budget.
We were there for 3 hours. John was really impressed on how well behaved Hollace was during the process. She kept herself entertained. He is use to bored distracting kids and he didn’t see that with Hollace.
Tonight when we got home, Hollace gave me her Mother’s Day present. She can never wait. It was a three page essay written in the dreaded cursive on why her mom is so cool. Definitely something to cherish.
when I get home from work, instead of going outside to enjoy the weather like the rest of the family I sit on the couch and sorta nap. I suppose that could be low level depression. I don’t feel depressed per se, just low on the ambition to do anything. Blah. I got to quit wasting time and embrace life, have fun.
Sherry came up for a visit this weekend. Nothing too exciting but still a good visit. I took her to the bog for a nature walk and just chitter chatted.
the nausea is over with but I still have low energy with no appetite. Today I ate 3 bites of toast (up from 1 yesterday) but my mouth was so dry I couldn’t swallow. I went back to bed and woke up at 11:30am. I then had a banana. The “b” from the BRAT diet right?. Then around 2:00 I had a Zone bar.
Sherry is coming up for the weekend. She was originally until Amy planned on dropping her grandkid over there for the weekend. I guess that plan changed again with Amy’s soon to be ex lost the job he just got by flunking his drug test so our plans are back on.
Right now, RAW and a couple neighbors are putting in our new door. I hope they get it secure before tomorrow when gusty storms come so it doesn’t blow through 
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