ARRRRRGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well .... some might say that you can't have it easy ALL THE TIME. Though I would love to disagree .... I must admit that quite often .... my life DOES hum along quite nicely for great stretches before a hiccup comes along. I am not complaining mind you- just stating fact. This time it is a majorly inconvenient one- my craft computer is infected. We had "issues" on Tuesday so the Capt backed up files before it crashed major & then started over from scratch. Now we are thinking it may have been in the back up, cuz it happened again today?! BUT, both times I was working with DSE website so I have sent them an email just in case they have a virus that I picked up. It might mean that I have lost all 10,000 pictures & thousands of scrapbooking files if the back up is compromised. Time will tell. it has put a hitch in my Christmas cards .... but again, it is what it is and we will just have to wait & see.

and on a cheerier (?) note .......

it might not be the 12 days of Christmas around here but

my Santa Captain has been in true form the past few days ....

I reached for the remote while at my craft table & looked at it

curiously .... it seemed different ! enter .... a DVR of my very own!!

and then
he mentioned that while we were on vacation .... I went over on texting included

in our plan. Since that was a rare occassion .... we figured not a big deal- not too

likely to happen again either. 2 minutes later (ok, maybe 7) in he walks to let me

know I no longer need to concern myself with "limits". Then my first seasonal

poinsettia showed up (4 of them) .... a couple of them were varigated !! They are real puurdee :o)
probably the biggest relief is finishing up

the Christmas tree so we could get all the boxes back into the attic & out

of the living room (YAY) and ..... my wrist is on the mend and feels about

80% of groovey.