Tresa's Blog

Let me begin by saying I’m much better with a mousepad than I used to be.  I admit I had a serious learning disability when it came to the mousepad?  WHY would they put usb ports on laptops and make cute little mice if you were supposed to used that stupid mousepad?

So after my fun times with laptop, I decided part of my complete dysfunction could be alleviated by using the mousepad.  (Also I am in the front seat, husband is SPRAWLED out in the back with the mac playing mahjong, and you guessed it, mouse keeps falling off the seat) So I’m using the mousepad.  I do discover though that it wasn’t entirely the fault of the mouse when I posted things I didn’t want to, commented with partly finished sentences(might as well cover all internet mistakes here), or switched between tabs on firefox.  It’s also fun when it decides it’s time to leave the page you’ve been typing on for half an hour and for some reason wordpress or blogger DIDN’T SAVE IT! Well I’ve discovered it’s not entirely the “real” mouse’s fault, it’s the touchpad or mousepad, I like wave my hand over it and we are switching around, doing fun things, next it will be signing me up for nigerian bank accounts or something?  So therefore my wrists must be heavy and pushing against the case and the mousepad says I feel  SOMETHING?  Let me change windows and perhaps turn on task manager about 50 times, that’s always good for a laugh.

Have I told you about the J key that kept falling off?  It won’t fall off again since I sort of jammed it on there for like the 6th time,  but it isn’t really something you can hit with a glancing blow with one finger, it’s more like you stick your finger down straight and push with two hands.  Perhaps I exaggerate but if you see some words that are supposed to have j’s ust ignore it, OK?

Anyway that’s what is going on exciting in my life, it’s COLD and snowy where we are and I have a HORRIBLE sore throat.  It’s also my anniversary but we had to spend beaucoup bucks on MORE truck repairs (it will be new soon, just kidding, and oil change is $250) so we aren’t even eating out, but then we eat out like 5 or 6 days a week so……I guess I won’t complain.  (But I just did didn’t I?)  But if I would ever get enough from adsense I could justify this to my husband and …………..

Remember me calling my husband a grumpy old buzzard?  Remember me complaining about my laptop.  Actually it isn’t all the laptops fault, if I would use the mousepad it would alleviate part of it. Well let me tell you what he did that made me feel REALLY bad.

We went shopping for groceries @ that big retailer that employs half the free world only they aren’t really free if they work there.  JUST KIDDING, I used to work there.  Anyway we have been keeping our eye out for a new tv for the truck, the old one sort of fell on the floor and we have other small ones but he just didn’t put one back in here.  So we are in the electronics dept, (the dog just took off with the mouse I swear) and we start down the computer aisle. (a bit of background is required here, I once bought 3 laptops and my big desktop I have now in 3 months time.  We  had a business but STILL).  I tell my husband I am not allowed in the laptop aisle or computer aisle ever.  He says why?  I say you know why, BAD things happen when I go here.  I said remember when I bought all of our computers in a few months and you told me NEVER to go to a computer store again?

We didn’t buy one but he was seriously looking.  We really don’t have the money to spare, try $2000 for license and stick a few more on there for another bill and we just got through paying that much for the last repair.  But that was SO sweet of him to go look for one.  And here I was thinking he was the root of all evil.  BTW that was the FIRST time we had ever looked  buying @ a computer together in 18 years of marriage.

And now I feel like a durned idiot  for cursing him in the previous post but not enough to waste a perfectly good post!

I know how to tether them silly, with usb, it’s the connecting to the internet I’m having problems with.

The reason is here. The reason is  also I ‘ve had the black screen 2 times and weird things are highligted on this page.  I know the demons that posess this laptop are getting stronger.

Seriously the mac is an i book, has os X on it.  This will be gibberish for anyone who hasn’t tried something like this.  I got to the part where it used the phone  to dial up the internet, it connect, tries to authorize, disconnnects.

I did call at&t with this.  The guy told me to use the isp name .com somewhere.   I haven’t tried since then. (I know how to network on a mac but haven’t had nearly the experience on one that I have a windows box. On windows you use a program from at&t to connect to the internet) He admitted it could be done.  At&t doesn’t offer support for  mac.  I asked him if I figured it out should I call back so they could tell other people how to do it.  He said At&t doesn’t support this phone with mac and will not since the phone is a whole 6 MONTHS old and I’m sure is like obsolete.

I belong to a couple geek boards but didn’t find anything there and decided I might find out something by asking here,  nicely.  I really am curious, I’m so close and yet so far.

Sorry for the complete seriousness of this post, we’ve had like 5 blackouts, it changed to another page, make that 6 blackouts……tried to publish this half way though.

I yelled @ my husband today.  I know unjustly and more than once.  In my defense he was taking his grumpy old buzzard pills yesterday (green tea), why do I say they make him grumpy?  I couldn’t read his mind correctly yesterday.  I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether I”m kidding or not.  Right now I’m typing and looking @ scenery (if your new here I ‘m riding with him in his truck) because he is insisting I’m missing bunches of NEW things.  We are taking a back road for once.

The main reason for me getting impatient with him was the laptop and UPS.  The laptop was going slowly and UPS lost a very important package.  They didn’t lose it, it went out for delivery a week ago and was never delivered.  My husband is now teasing the dog and making him get tangled up in the laptop cord.  He’d just as soon I not be on here though.  Not saying he’s needy but today I think his REAL pills make him fidgety, OK I know they do.  So when I’m in the middle of figuring out what’s going on with UPS and other business stuff  he’s getting antsy for me to get on another website to find out about something else.  I lost it then.

He just decided I should be taking pictures?

But mainly this is about the laptop.  First of all I love my laptop.  We’ve had 4 new ones and innumerable thinkpads.  This is an emachine, I know ewwwww but I do have an ibook if you want some class, I can’t get the mac to hook to the internet with my phone though.  They don’t support mac, at&t that is.  The laptop got taken to FL once with husband and son when they were doing hurricane stuff down there.  At that point the keyboard quit working and it looked as if weak acid had been spilled around the edges.  I believe it was son watching movies going down the road, he had NO idea how it happened of course.  I got the keyboard to work again after a few months of using a usb one when I wanted to use this laptop.  So the laptop has a right to be the way it is.  The usb ports are getting worn out I think.  Did I mention the laptop screen goes black when I’m typing on it.  Just on the internet and it’s always come back on.  Did I mention if I lay my hand in the NORMAL typing position and we hit a bump it thinks I either want to go to the bottom of the page and stay there or go back.

We are now reading almost every sign we see in the back Texas country. (that would be my husband is, I’m answering in grunts)

So this is how it went this afternoon.  You have to remember almost every time it’s like standing up on a tossing ship if the truck is going around a curve or hits a bumpy road.  So I think I’ll get the laptop from the bunk and work up here.  I get the laptop, drop the phone that’s tethered to it, that’s ok, it’s only like $100s to replace or used to be.  The dog gets tangled up in the mouse cord, I can’t connect to the internet so I redo the usb and other connection, my battery is getting low, (sometimes I have to take the phone battery out to get it to come back on, only started doing it since I was using it for internet) I drop the mouse, I’m finally connected to the internet, my battery has the red x on it.  The dog gets tangled in the mouse cord.  The dog manages to CLIMB up in the seat and wants to sit on the laptop.  I get the cord to plug in the laptop and push the dog off the seat.  The dog gets tangled in the power cord.  By this time I’ve lost my internet………this is a daily thing and sometimes it all happens and I have to charge the phone, get it all hooked up and we are in an area with no internet all of a sudden!!!!!

My husband asked me if Halletsville or something was on the interstate and I lost it, like as in “how am I supposed to &@#   #@%%$# know, can’t you see I’m BUSY, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WORK??“  I was using the excuse by then that I had to look @ an email to see about fuel tax.  (I really did have to look @ an email but was looking @ blogs).  He’s still smiling and being nice to me.  Sometimes he blows too…..I think I’m getting a headache, have to go look and see if UPS found my package that means we MAY get paid this MONTH.

We didn’t even go into how  how the mouse takes on a life of it’s own and I swear it’s shorting out going across the bedspread in the back, it will open up drop down boxes and click on everything on a page all by it’s little self as it vibrates across the bed.

I am going to have to get a new laptop though, this screen going black and scrolling back is getting a bit old. The dog got tangled up again….  It migrated by itself again, I dropped the mouse this time.  Did I mention that typing random keys will cause it to not be in the box you were typing in  sometimes. Oh and if the internet connection isn’t good I’ll have to click on a comment box like three times while typing to keep typing in it.  AND if I lay my hand on the bottom of the laptop it switches windows, being as I’ve never learned to use a laptop mouse…….

Did you know my husband is quiet when I’m OFF the computer?  I’m sure he doesn’t realize this but I should be grateful he is here and talking I know.

I know how I get behind.  I open gmail and figure out I haven’t read it for days and am really like months behind.  I read all letters from like my kids (they have the addresses I need for the facebook message I started out to answer in the first place)  in my regular mail which is tcscarlet at yahoo dot  com if you so desire to email me and have it read maybe.  I can’t get email off of my blogs because it made me come up with some long weird password and they are written on a tablet that resides somewhere in my computer case which resides under the bed which requires lifting to get to things underneath (who said I just rode around with my husband, I do weight lifting like 10 times a day! LOL).  Anyway I’m on Facebook (email me if you want to be my friend on facebook and I’ll tell you my REAL name which isn’t my REAL name but people know me by it but anyway, like you care @ this point) I’m on Facebook, did I say that?  on my Great Nieces’ photos which she has 112 new ones from Christmas that I missed (I was an Aunt @ 6, that’s how THAT happened).  I skip over to twitter because in my addled condition I might as well be there too (how many tabs can YOU open on firefox) and I see I’ve gone from being on 4 lists to being on 14 overnight so I must figure out if it’s a legit list and I want to be on it. Off limit lists in my book are  blatant money making schemes, deviant sex or any sex lists I guess (includes stripper lists although I don’t know if they have any),  satanic or like Nazi or KKK……have I covered most of the bases?  Anyway all of the new lists I’m a member of are all animals lists (BTW I’m TCblogger on Twitter and I follow who follows me) so all is cool.

In the meantime I’m trying to figure out why one of my blogs has

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To Ret

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@ the bottom of the post (http://animalsthatgivepause.com/).  I can’t find any reason for it to be there so I hope it’s a glitch and go on.  (it’s a glitch, it disappeared, yes everything in html is logical)

In the meantime (did I say that) I’m trying to get addresses for my daughter in law to be and I erase the message on facebook because this laptop does weird things so I have to get addresses and phone number ALL over again……..  and I answer comments on one blog, fix misspelled words on another……. my husband calls this PLAYING on the computer.

So has anyone an answer for all of this, I KNOW some of you all do the same thing and get sidetracked……don’t you?  Lie to me and say it happens to you if you must………

You all know Jeff Foxworthy and think he is hilarious.  Well we live in a place that makes his stories look sophisticated and cosmopolitan.  Anyway various members of the family have succumbed to the local dialect @ times.  My brother and my husband somehow developed southern drawl/western drawl out of it.  My mother was an English Teacher so she doesn’t count.  My daughter worked @ a grocery story that was closer to the lake and thus the true hill people and managed to pick up some of the dialect, even more than she had gotten @ school.

Said daughter came home one day  and we were discussing this and that.  After about 3 prawleys….as in: “It will prawley snow tomorrow,” I asked her to define prawley as I only knew prawn to be something related to a fish maybe.  She said it’s probably but easier to say.  I said like yunt2? for Do you want to?  She said YES, I said NO.  But it’s become a part of family lore.

I will tell one on myself, I thought the written epitome and the spoken were two different things.  I mean I said it ep I tome, which rhymes with hep I home.   Someone did point that out to me though.

I do know people who say pneumony fever for pneumonia though.  And they are serious.

Mother to grown daughter  over phone:  “If you want to see me you have to come over tonight or tomorrow.”  We haven’t seen each other since Thanksgiving.

Daughter: Maniacal laughter because she works two jobs and has 3 kids in sports,  then daughter says “I guess I’ll have to put your Christmas up so the dogs will quit chewing on it.”  Daughter has 4 English Bulldogs and a multi colored  Spaniel.

Mother: “You got me dog biscuits?”

Daughter: “No it’s perfume and they chew the lids.  There is some lotion too.”

Mother:  “What does the lotion  smell like?  Raw Meat?”

She swears it all smells like honeysuckle?  We will see.

We were taking a shower today and I was doing voices for the toothpaste or the door handle or something.  You say you don’t know what I mean doing voices?  The toothpaste wasn’t cooperating and wouldn’t go back in my makeup bag, I said in a Mr. Bill Voice……….”noooooo I won’t gooooo it’s daaaark in there.”

My husband commented that the toothpaste sounded like the dog.

The toothpaste voice sounded like one of my voices the dog has.

Maybe you had to be there?

Most of the time the dog sounds like Pepe Le Pew, the cartoon skunk?  “Awww mon Cherie, let me place my butt against your cheek as we snuggle in beeeeeeed, I vill feeeeeeel so much more shall we say seeeeeecur”?  I don’t know when the dog sounds like Mr. Bill but evidently he doesn’t sometimes?  More about the dog on Animals that Give Pause.

That was right after my husband turned out the lights on me in a bathroom without windows while I was taking a shower.  He expected me to scream or throw a fit.  I didn’t, I just thought it must have gotten really icy while we were inside, and was peering around the corner of the shower when he turned them back on.  But I did not scream!

Not my husband and I but there is a little white dog?

Overheard @ the pharmacy counter after they had given my husband a new prescription that might cause diarrhea, I blurted out loud and clear to the pharmacist and most of the waiting patrons……” We have to get some ivomec“.

Ivomec is wormer for cows you see, will keep the fleas and ticks off too but worms them.  I meant Imodium.  Can we blame this brain flatulence on Lyme disease perhaps?  My husband wandered off like he wasn’t with me saying something about not taking no durn ivomec……..

Seen yesterday @ a busy travel stop somewhere in N. Texas, a lady wandering around with a t-shirt on with the seams on the outside.  Problem was it wasn’t one of those made to look ragged t-shirts.  It was the result of dressing in the dark in the sleeper of a truck.

Overheard on CB….

SA1 “Are we there yet?”  said in a whiny voice.

SA2 “Yeah, this is just a really long driveway with lots of cars on it.”

Feel free to use that line on a child when that question is asked.

Let me make this clear.  I clean the gutters @ my house.  On a tall ladder, when the ground is wet.  Sometimes the ladder tries to go down and I’ve been known to balance it back into submission.  I’m 52.  I resent the life alert commercials.  My daughter calls to see if I’ve broken a hip.  My teenage grandsons still won’t arm wrestle me.  Not too long ago I moved a large deep freeze outside by myself, wooden rolling pins and towels on hardwood.  I detest the senior things I get from AARP.   I moved a couch from one house to another and down to my basement by myself a few years ago and I had lyme @ the time.  (I was angry, was angry when I moved the freezer too, don’t make me angry unless you want furniture moved, come to think of it my daughter and I moved a washer and dryer ALL by ourselves a few years ago from ONE HOUSE TO ANOTHER and we were both mad @ the time)  I’m getting some of those “creases” in my cheeks that won’t go away all morning, some call them wrinkles.  I am not NEARLY as old as my parents were when they were 52 and they were a whole lot younger than their parents were @ 52.

Gimme a BREAK!!  Do I have to get old right now?? Could we put it off a few more years.  I’m pretty sure I don’t have getting sloppily drunk in me anymore but I thought that before the last time too.  4 large quadruples is a bit much for a girl,  what’s a quadruple?  lots of royal crown, little 7 up in a 16 ounce cup.  I’ve started eating right, I haven’t had a brownie in weeks (lindor chocolates on sale do not count as junk food though, didn’t you know?).  Can’t we just do this old thing another day? I still enjoy men opening doors, I seldom get a whistle anymore but they do run to open doors….I’m thinking they are too winded to whistle?  The kids haven’t been gone that long, actually one just left home for the last time (I think) 3 years ago and none of the others have returned.  So I’m not ready to settle down just quite yet?

I was going to let the hair go grey?  Yeah right.  It wants to be this light brown reddish shade when I color it and I’ve decided to just give up and let it have it’s way.  What’s $8 every month or so?  I didn’t say I used EXPENSIVE dye did I?  I’m going to fight tooth and nail, somedays I want to give up and I admit some days I go out in public without makeup which isn’t like me but nobody has ran shrieking yet so it’s all good. I may have to graduate from the generic heavy duty face cream to the high dollar stuff.  Where was this stuff when I was 30 or even 40 and toning my face with alcohol?  Not the crown royal, rubbing alcohol.

So how do you feel about this aging thing they are trying to push on us baby boomer tail end hippies?  Sucks doesn’t it?

Me in the Mirror