Wedged in the Backseat

***Text in this color authored by Shena***

Work & Play
We went looking for a computer tonight. We've been putting this off for over a year and a half now. I've been wanting to get a new computer for the longest time...but we just didn't feel like we HAD to have one. Well...we pretty much HAVE to have one now. Our old Gateway is 5 years old now, still running Windows 98 with only a 20 GB hard drive...which is now full. Every time Shena opens a program now, it says we are out of room. We finally decided to just bite the bullet and get a new one...of course nothing fancy. We checked out CompUSA (because we knew they would have a lot of selection and they could answer questions), but wound up buying from BestBuy (I hate that place). We bought an e-machines (which I have since figured out are made by Gateway) that should be fast enough and have a big enough hard drive (100 GB) to last us for another 5 years...I hope. We realized as we got the box down from the shelf that we were driving the Nissan and Shena's two kid stroller was in the trunk. So she had to ride home wedged between the car seats in back with the boys, while the computer got a nice comfortable ride in the front seat. One the way out to the computer store, we drove through a real bad thunder storm...and when we got back to the house our internet wasn't working, so I couldn't get it set up to even go online. I just loaded all of our software that we needed and it now sits next to the old computer, kind of useless until we can get the files transferred over.

Llano Update (Cheeto's Brood)
Shena spent the whole day cleaning the house (it looks very nice). Deep cleaning...like the stove top and the oven and the fridge. She and the boys didn't even go anywhere today.

Arellano Update
Marcos posted some funny pics of Ethan on his blog....you should check them out.

Christensen Update
Kyle helped us out tonight. BestBuy is about 25 minutes from our house (on the other side of Greensboro) and as we looked at the computer we were thinking about buying, I wanted to be sure that it was an ok deal. So I called Kyle and he just happened to be heading in to the house, so he got online and looked up prices on Dell and on e-machines to make sure it was a decent price. I'm bad about calling people, so it was good to talk to him...even if it was just for a minute.

Daily Report
LAST NIGHT:
Sleep: 11:22 - 7:30 - I've been reading "Shadow Puppets" by Scott Card for the last couple of days...it was one of the Ender series that I hadn't read yet...and the further I get into the book, the harder it is to put down at the end of a chapter. I was going to go to bed early because of my late night last night...but I couldn't. Had to keep reading.

TODAY:
Breakfast: 1 bowl of frosted mini-wheats

Lunch: Leftover (from Shena's enrichment meeting last night) turkey and ham sandwiches on croissants (sp?) with swiss cheese and lettuce, milk - a couple of chips a'hoy

Dinner: Leftover spaghetti, covered with cheese, 2 pieces of wheat bread, milk, a couple of cookies