Laptop: My apologies one and all for not being able to post very much over the last several weeks, but my laptop problems continue – so with both my laptop and Mama Kelly’s laptop being out of commission things have gotten a bit quiet around here.
It has been over four weeks now and about $500 spent so far to get my laptop repaired. It started out being infected with a virus (due to logging into facebook – seems it is a very common thing to have happen). After paying just over $200 to have it fixed and waiting for two weeks for them to get to it, they then informed me the laptop needed a new hard drive, which meant I had to order disks from Dell so all the original drivers and software could be reloaded – which meant another week of it being in the shop and brought the total up to almost $500. Had I not already spent $200 fixing it from the virus, I would have just gotten a new laptop, which only would have cost me about $600. So now I’m stuck with this one for another 4 or 5 years. we are planning to get Angelgirl a new one for her birthday this May. I had planned on getting myself a new one (with a webcam) at the same time, and passing this one along to hubby, but now that this one is “like” new I’ll just keep it for as long as I can to make the money spent on the repairs worthwhile.
Now that I have the laptop home, it only worked for two days and now it no longer connects to the internet. The third day I woke up, turned it on, and now for no apparant reason msn (whatever that is) is the manager of my internet connection (no idea how that happened) so now windows diagnostic can’t help me, when I run “repair” it can’t “clear the dns cache,” whatever that means. When I try to get to the internet it just says I’m “offline,” even though the wireless router connection is strong. I’ve tried everything I can possibly think of and so has my daughter, and at this point I think it is totally messed up. Since I have no idea what happened in the first place I’m sure whatever we’ve done trying to fix it (settings, etc.) has messed it up for good.
So I am limited to snatching a few minutes here and there online since hubby and my daughter both need the desktop computer a lot in the evening for school work.
Surprises: On the bright side, last week I was totally surprised by having Thursday and Friday off because of the snow. It was a huge surprise because my office hardly ever closes. Thursday hubby (he’s a high school teacher) and Angelgirl had early school closing so to surprise them (since they didn’t even know I had the day off!) I bought lots of Chinese food and a few treats from the bakery for them to enjoy. It was a big feast that they got to enjoy for both snow days and even into the weekend.
This month I am keeping busy planning a surprise birthday party for my youngest sister. She is turning 40. I’m planning to make her a huge brunch with stuffed french toast, spiral ham, a coffee and hot chocolate bar (with lots of toppings), smoothies (the smoothie maker will be her gift), hash browns, eggs (with a variety of toppings), cinnamon bun bread pudding, and few other things. I’m cooking almost everything at my house, but taking it all over to her house. My other sister and her family live across the street so they will be stopping over and I will ask her husband to invite the two neighbors she is friendly with too.
Qi Gong: Last week I had an appointment for a qi gong healing session with a couple who teach Qi Gong. I found their website a couple of years ago and have wanted to take their classes and meet them ever since. They are about an hour and 15 minutes away so it is driveable – though I may spend the night at a hotel when I take the classes so I’m not driving back and forth three days in a row. I will be taking their healing qi gong class in July (Fri. evening to Sunday for two weekends). I plan on taking the advanced class after that and whatever other classes that I can as they become available. One of their instructors is also in New Jersey, and they recommended I take an introductory seminar with him on March 28 – I sent my registration in yesterday.
I am thrilled to finally be beginning my journey to learn qi gong. It is all about healing, working with energy, and to me any way, it is kicking my spiritual path into high gear. Although different in philosopy and practice, it is similar in principle to wicca and takes the “work of a witch” to a whole new level beyond wicca 101 and I think even beyond advanced wicca. It is a moving meditation that is done daily to clear, balance and gather one’s chi energy. It is also system for promoting healing in others, as well as teaching them how to promote healing in themselves (which is one of things I like most about it, because it helps people to take care of themselves).
I will be posting more about qi gong as I take classes, read books, and learn more.
Bright blessings, Lady Rose




























