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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/28/2008 12:24:00 PM
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Dove, I agree with Maggie. I hope you have a wonderful time.
I, too will pray for sound legal advice.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/28/2008 1:52:29 PM
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Happy Belated Birthday, Pengie! I'm glad you had a good one.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/28/2008 7:35:15 PM
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I'm so glad he did that for you!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/28/2008 9:45:48 PM
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Shaunii, how exciting about the dog! What type of dog are you going to get?
I still miss my Little Bit who passed away on June 4th. She was a Maltese and just as sweet as they come. Someday I plan to get another Maltese and name her Thumbelina.
For now, however, I still have Oreo, my Australian Shepherd. He is loyal and a good companion. I enjoy his company, but I still miss having a little one in my lap.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/28/2008 11:56:38 PM
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Hey Shaunii! Good to see you! I hear others say the same thing you do about seeing another computer at home. Never had that problem myself though. I hope your new job is going WELL as well as busy. So, why a dog in 3-6 months? Will you be getting yourself a new place to live then? You know a dog that's being bred? That's cool you're on the praise and worship team at church. What do you do on it, sing? Do you play any instrument?
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 11:27:05 AM
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(((((((((((((((PENGIE))))))))))))))))))))
I understand what you mean about looking a person in the eyes when they are in a wheelchair etc. I've worked with kids with all sorts of disabilities when I worked in childcare years ago. They were the best kids of all, in my opinion. They are no less of a person just because they can't walk or whatever. They are just a person who has a difficulty of some description.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 11:35:18 AM
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I have a new photobucket site with photos of both Little Bit and Oreo. The name of it is Pengiesrule. I may add a photo or two of the family as well.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 1:44:23 PM
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Can you give us a link, Pengie?
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 3:12:35 PM
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My Photobucket
I hope this works!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 4:17:56 PM
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Yep! It does! The pictures are awesome! Lil Bit was so cute! And what an interesting face Oreo has. I can see why you chose that name. It was good to see a photo of you, your husband and your daughter. Thank you.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 5:51:59 PM
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Hey Sam! Good to see you! Thanks for taking time to read in your busy schedule. How's the Munchkin? I've been praying for him.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 5:59:18 PM
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He's doing well. The music lessons are going well too. I love when he's practicing and when he thinks I'm not paying attention, at the end he starts this whole improvisation thingy. It's so cute and fun! It's a good sign that he's really enjoying himself!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/29/2008 9:12:53 PM
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Oh yeah, a VERY good sign! It's great that he's enjoying playing so much. I'm trying to remember--trumpet or trombone? I think there's almost nothing better than listening to one's kids enjoying the music they produce. Dove, in this thread, also has musical kids--cello and I can't remember the other. Too bad we couldn't have a CW orchestra and/or band
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Well, ds2 was to come home from Germany tomorrow evening. He has instead made a last minute decision to get a work visa and stay for a while. He's kind of scared but he has his girlfriend there (the prime reason he wants to stay), and the good job that was supposed to be waiting for him here when he returned was given to someone else through no fault of ds2's. He wanted to discussed the pros and cons with me and I pointed out that he may never get an opportunity like this again and that if it doesn't work out, he can always come home. So now I have two sons living far away from me.
Ds4, just returned from Asia (to Vancouver, over a thousand miles from home) and has found a place to live, which he'll move into in a few days. He still needs to find a job but he seems very optimistic about that and had already started the search today. He's hoping to work in an art or music store, since art and music are his two big loves (besides his girlfriend).
Ds3, about whom I have been very concerned because he's living on his own but hasn't had a steady job since Christmas and not a job at all for most of that time, has just been hired by his uncle who runs a coffee shop. This is very good because he felt brave enough to tell his uncle about his anxiety attacks and Uncle is willing to work with that. It also means that he'll have the freedom to go to doctor appointments and such. He started seeing a psychiatrist on Tuesday and, I presume, will be seeing her weekly. I don't know if I said it in this thread or not, but she wants to see me for about 15 minutes this Tuesday to get a bit of background of his childhood--which really pleases me.
And ds1 will start his full load of studies next week. He's still trying to decide on one of the courses. It's an elective but everything he's been interested in has been full or not available to him. He's made arrangements with a prof who was a family friend when the boys were little, who says he can sit in on his class for the first week and there will probably be kids who drop out because they don't like the idea of homework. But what if no vacancies appear? It will be too late to pick something else. And he wants the something else to be in this particular time slot so if he registered for something else, with the intention of dropping it if he gets into this friend's class, but goes to the friend's class for the first week then, if he has to take the less desirable course, he'll have missed the first few classes. Decisions, decisions!
BUT!!!!!!
He fixed my palmtop. Woooo hoooooo! Well, okay, there are still two minor problems but they're minor enough that I can probably take care of them myself. The problems began when I moved from a desktop computer to my laptop and from Windows XP to Windows Vista. For some reason, the software on my laptop would show the data in the Calendar, Contacts, Memos and Tasks, but not the photos, the audio or the handwritten notes. That's been frustrating but as long as my handheld could carry all that I put on it, I was living with it.
Then the palmtop somehow had a hard reset. This meant that all my data was gone. But I didn't panic too much because I still had access to the Calendar, Contacts, Memos and Tasks, on my laptop and so all was good--at least temporarily. But then I tried to fix everything.
I contacted Palm chat support to ask them what to do and was told (by someone in some foreign country) that I needed to buy the CD for the software I require. Since it was only $10, I thought I could live with that. But after we disconnected and I went to the site to order it, I discovered they wanted another $30 for shipping and handling--for a simple CD!!!! When I wrote to complain, the company (not Palm--and again obviously from a foreign country because the English was poor) wrote back to say that they need to charge this to benefit their company. 
Well, I could download free software that would let me at least use those four basic functions I mentioned above, and so I did. But after following all the steps, when I was asked to sync the handheld to my laptop, I couldn't. I tried again, and again and again. I even isolated the folder with my data onto my desktop so I wouldn't lose it, uninstalled everything and tried again. No go. I tried various permutations of that and it still wouldn't work. Now I was starting to get antsy. My book is moving into its final stages of preparation for publication (I have a book cover, Woooooo hoooooo!) and I need to access all my addresses so I can prepare a mailing list to notify people about the book and where to buy it (if you want to be on such a list and I don't have your address, send me a pm with your address--snailmail and/or e-mail; I'm supposed to be getting bookmarks to advertise the book and I plan to include one in every letter I send snailmail).
When ds1 came to look at the whole palmtop mess he simply shook his head at me and while I was banking on the idea that the laptop software would have kept the photos, audio and hand-written notes synced with the handheld even if it couldn't display or retrieve them for me, ds1 wasn't so sure. In fact, he was convinced otherwise. But it looked like it wasn't going to matter anyway. He was having no success after several hours of messing around with things and suggested I just give up and buy a new pda combined with cell phone. NO!
And then, against all odds, he got the handheld syncing with the computer. YAY!!!! But oops! The calendar was missing all the entries from the last 12 or 13 months. ICK! Thankfully, I have backed up my computer on an infrequent basis but happened to have a backup made at just about the same time the palmtop failed and guess what? The calendar I needed was there and all was well. YAY!!!!!! As for the other things, I figured that once I could lay my hands on the proper software that would display those things, I could then take the files from the back up disc and add them into the palmtop data folder. At least I could use the device again. Whew!
I took it to bed with me as I always have (except the last month when it wasn't working), looking forward to what used to be my nightly games of solitaire in the dark after my Bible reading. But first I thought I would write a note on the now empty notepad. I opened it up and to my surprise and against all my son had said, all my handwritten notes were there! Not one was missing--all my cheat notes of people's names in my new church, phone numbers I never entered into my address book and so on; they were all there! So were all my audio files. I have a 75 minute recording of my much-older half-brother (that I've maybe seen a dozen times or so in my life) telling stories of our father. I mourned its loss but now it was there too! So were most of my photos (there's one group missing and I think I know why and how to get them back). I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. I have my palmtop back!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/30/2008 1:54:20 AM
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LOL Maggie and woohoo!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/30/2008 8:07:28 PM
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Praise God!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/31/2008 2:20:08 AM
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WOOHOO about the palmtop, and awesome about DS#3.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/31/2008 2:38:19 PM
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At the risk of sounding like an idiot . . . what is a palmtop?
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 8/31/2008 2:59:52 PM
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No question is ever a dumb question. That's my philosophy.
Well, you have a desk top--a computer that sits on a desk.
You have a laptop--a computer that can sit on the lap.
and you have a palmtop--a computer that can fit in your palm.
I think most people call them PDA's. They include Palm products, Blackberries and so on. I love mine. I've had one for eight years now (I'm on my second) and before that I had an electronic organizer for four years. The later was sort of the precursor to the more powerful palmtops. Different pdas have different capabilities. They all have some version of Calendar, Addresses, ToDo and Memos but then there are those that double as phones, can play movies, browse the Internet, receive e-mails, etc. Mine could connect to the Internet and e-mails if my phone had bluetooth but I'm quite happy to leave those sorts of things to my laptop. What I can do extra with mine is take photos and videos and audio recordings, make notes in my own handwriting or draw photos, and (most can probably do this) download software for special purposes. For me, I have the Bible in two translations, several novels and a means by which I can have the same MSOffice document on my laptop and palmtop, edit it on either and when the two are synced, the document is updated on both. I also have a game of Solitaire on it, which I play often when I have a minute or two to kill here or there. The device goes with me wherever I go.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 9/2/2008 12:39:50 PM
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How's everybody?
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 9/2/2008 5:52:17 PM
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We enjoyed a delightfully wonderful, busy at relaxing weekend in the sun, sand and surf. We spent every hour available at the beach and left the children play. The last day we took them miniature golfing and had a riot. We arrived home last night about 11:30, dropped the kids in bed and I crashed til this morning when we prepared for school. Kids went tired and drained, but seem to have rejuvenated through the day. Now we are back to a daily routine.
Also, I met with a new attorney and signed her on for my divorce case. She explained pertinent data to me that I needed to understand to make a decision for the hearing on 15th. I am hoping this will be of more benefit to me. Also, daughters psychiatrist nailed husband on his visitation dates and had him commit to dates and times before he left the office today.
All in all, things seem to look up right now.
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It was nice. My husband took us all out to a Japanese steak house for dinner. 
which was quite the surprise for me! 
So... that's that... nothing much new is happening... kinda the same things as normal... I'm getting myself ready to become a dog owner in about 3-6 months... 
