The last week of 2004

I hope everyone had a merry Christmas. We had a nice time, ate lots of good food and gave each other cool gifts.

My brother and sis-in-law bought a house!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations to them!

I've done some tweaks and updates to my web site. The most obvious is the addition of the Amber Alert. The other stuff probably isn't noticable.

A friend from FL is in town and I haven't called her. I'm terrible. I don't know why I have such an aversion to talking on the phone. I hate to answer the phone. I hate to make phone calls. I don't know why. It's not because I don't want to talk to or see her so why am I so against calling her (or anyone else)? Maybe the 7 a.m. call this morning from an unknown caller has something to do with my phone aversion. Intrusive calls have taken their toll over the years, I guess.

Yes, I'm still going to join Weight Watchers. I'll be posting about it regularly. Wish me success!

Bad Verizon!

My Verizon DSL service is normally trouble free. But when I have a problem it's next to impossible to get it resolved. My ability to log into my web space (where I keep my web page) via ftp (stands for "file transfer protocol") died Wednesday night while I was trying to help a friend with a project. I let her transfer her files to my web space so I could get to them. I was running out of space so I quickly upgraded my account to add more space. BAD! After I did that I couldn't log into my web space. I called Verizon. Three days and FOUR calls to tech support later and I still can't get to my web space! The last time I had a problem it took calling every day for a week to get it fixed.

So, I upgraded my Yahoo! service so I have more space there (and will be cancelling my Verizon upgrade) and have moved all my sites to my Yahoo! web hosting service. As long as you access my blog through www.niteflytes.us you won't notice any difference.

My mom is here for Christmas & New Year and she brought her special COOKIES and banana bread!!! I think I'll wait to join Weight Watchers until after the cookies are gone!

Woof Arf Sniff

Site updates: I changed the link to Photo's so it now points to my current photo album on Webshots and added link to my Mobile Photo's. I also updated my Blogger profile with a new photo and current info.

Thanks to Google I now have a WISH LIST available for your viewing (and shopping) pleasure. There's only two items on my list but I'll add to it and keep it updated just in case you need a gift idea.

Took the pooch to the beauty salon this evening. It took two groomers to hold her still and work on her. What a hyper dog! I think the experience wore her out. She's zonked out on her doggie bed for some beauty sleep.

Went to the doc today about my laryngitis & have a new antibiotic to take. Hope this one does the job!

Nine shopping days left and am I done? Noooo!!! I MUST finish this weekend!

Lights!

How cool is this? You can control this guys Christmas lights via the web...for real! Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam Take a tour of his web site, it's full of fun stuff!

Silence is NOT golden!

I STILL have laryngitis! It's going on 3 weeks! How long can this last? A word of advice...NEVER look up your own health concerns online. There's pictures out there of things you will wish you never looked at! I'm going to see my doctor tomorrow unless I make a miraculous recovery in my sleep and wake up singing.

I recently revisted a favorite old web site, Bingo Zone. A lot has changed since I last played bingo there. Used to be able to win real money. Now you win points. I haven't quite figured out what to do with them yet. They've added a little chat feature to the bingo games too. I liked that and the people I chatted with were nice.

Two friends are having surgery Friday, the 17th. One is having carpal tunnel surgery, the other is having back surgery. I wish both of them the best of luck and a speedy recovery.

Spreading holiday cheer

Here's a gift for all you gals out there. Make sure you turn up the volume. It's a big file so I'm only leaving it up until Christmas.

Check out my Cellular photo gallery for a few new pictures. Tonight was E's Holiday concert. It was great! I saw a friend who was with a teacher from the school. The teacher had her guide dog with her (of course). She let me give him a little pet and he's SO soft! During the concert my bottle of diet Coke fell over and rolled down the aisle!!! I was SO embarrased!!! At least the lid was on it.

13 Days till Christmas!!!

I'm going to join Weight Watchers. Nuff said about that....


An 18 year old boy gawked at my daughter today in Wal-Mart and his friend asked her for her phone number. She asked me if she could hang out with him and his friends at the mall some time. Uhhh... 15 year old girl and 18 year old boy? HELL NO! OVER MY DEAD BODY! Unless I'm there as chaperone the ENTIRE time. It's not that I don't trust her (and I was accused of not trusting her). I don't trust 18 year old boys with 15 year old girls. End of discussion. He's an adult. She's a minor. I don't care if it IS in the mall and I don't care if she takes her friend Nat along. I told her that any other arrangements other than mom tagging along no farther than 6 feet behind would require discussion of this with her father. She wisely quit while she was ahead. I need a box of hair color and a double dose of my blood pressure medication!


13 days until Christmas? I need to mail my cards!!!

Camera Phone Photo Gallery

I have a camera phone now. I wanted a smaller phone with reception equal to my old phone and ended up with a Motorola V400. It just happens to have a camera. Like I needed a camera phone. My kid wants one too, now that I have one. So what does one do with a camera phone? Play, of course! Click below to see some of the pics we've taken.

Yahoo! Photos - niteflytes's Photos

Decorating Madness

The tree is up and full of ornaments. The village is on the mantle (ok, the top of the entertainment center), the candles are placed around the living room, the mini tree is in the kitchen, the wreath is on the door. Lights adorn the deck and the front of the house along with red bows and garland. A big Christmas polar bear and a spiral tree of lights sit in the front garden. Lighted candy canes lead the way to the deck. Christmas tunes play on the computer, acompanied by coordinating Media Player visualizations (my favorite is the Yule log), Webshots randomly chooses a new Christmas picture for my desktop every hour and when idle the computer plays an entertaining screen saver.
It doesn't stop here. I have my holiday jewlery out, my holiday sweaters are ready to wear...does it ever end???

Best of all, I can work at home if I want to and enjoy my decorations until I'm thoroughly sick of them. Yay.

I'm mostly over my cold, except I still can't talk. Not so yay.