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and yes, it is a Merry Christmas, indeed! (at least, so far!....)
We are FINALLY up and running with our ethernet connection at home. After hours on the phone, re-installing WindowsXP, and endless frustration (and a few choice words for certain techs in India), I was finally able to convince the powers-that-be at Dell that our motherboard needed replacing. I think they were still skeptical that it wasn't still a software issue, but the guy came yesterday, installed the new motherboard, and what do you know! We're back online!
IT'S ABOUT FREAKIN' TIME!!!
Now comes the fun part: re-installing all the programs and downloading all the documents, photos, and songs that were wiped....but that's something for another day.... I'm just glad to be back online in my own house!
It's actually starting to look like Christmas around here. We finally got the tree in the house last weekend (it had been sitting in our porch in a bucket of water for 3 weeks!), and I finally had the time to decorate it on Monday. I have to admit, it was kinda weird pulling out the Christmas decorations from the cupboard downstairs -- when I packed them away last year, I didn't think I'd be pulling them out in this house again. Oh, well, the best laid plans.... I guess the Lord just didn't want us moving quite yet. It's frustrating for me, I was really hoping to be out of Scarborough by now, but I'm hoping that will happen this next year. It's really time to get out of here...
Speaking of having packed things away, I have no idea where all my tealights are....I know they're in a box, packed by my mom and me last summer....where, I have no idea....I have all these Christmas candle holders out, and no candles to put in them!!
Anyway, it's nearly Christmas Eve! It's really snuck up on me this year, I must have been busy, or pre-occupied, or something. Christmas has always been a very special time of year to me, time to get together with family that I don't get to see very often, eat until we can eat no more, and celebrate that original Silent Night. It's really sad the way things have degraded into such commercialism, greed, and political correctness that the real reason for the holiday is completely lost - and not by accident!! Whenever you try to remind anyone of Christ, they don't want to hear it. The response so often is, "Christmas isn't about Christianity anymore". Well, then what's it about? Why celebrate it? If all Christmas is to you, is parties and gifts, then you're really missing out! The Greatest Gift Of All wasn't found in the electronics department, He was found by shepherds in a cowshed. If you don't believe it, then just wait - you'll find out sooner or later, and it may just be too late by the time you do figure it out. I pray that doesn't happen....
In the mean time, I'm going to say those words that so many are so afraid to say these days:
We are FINALLY up and running with our ethernet connection at home. After hours on the phone, re-installing WindowsXP, and endless frustration (and a few choice words for certain techs in India), I was finally able to convince the powers-that-be at Dell that our motherboard needed replacing. I think they were still skeptical that it wasn't still a software issue, but the guy came yesterday, installed the new motherboard, and what do you know! We're back online!
IT'S ABOUT FREAKIN' TIME!!!
Now comes the fun part: re-installing all the programs and downloading all the documents, photos, and songs that were wiped....but that's something for another day.... I'm just glad to be back online in my own house!
It's actually starting to look like Christmas around here. We finally got the tree in the house last weekend (it had been sitting in our porch in a bucket of water for 3 weeks!), and I finally had the time to decorate it on Monday. I have to admit, it was kinda weird pulling out the Christmas decorations from the cupboard downstairs -- when I packed them away last year, I didn't think I'd be pulling them out in this house again. Oh, well, the best laid plans.... I guess the Lord just didn't want us moving quite yet. It's frustrating for me, I was really hoping to be out of Scarborough by now, but I'm hoping that will happen this next year. It's really time to get out of here...
Speaking of having packed things away, I have no idea where all my tealights are....I know they're in a box, packed by my mom and me last summer....where, I have no idea....I have all these Christmas candle holders out, and no candles to put in them!!
Anyway, it's nearly Christmas Eve! It's really snuck up on me this year, I must have been busy, or pre-occupied, or something. Christmas has always been a very special time of year to me, time to get together with family that I don't get to see very often, eat until we can eat no more, and celebrate that original Silent Night. It's really sad the way things have degraded into such commercialism, greed, and political correctness that the real reason for the holiday is completely lost - and not by accident!! Whenever you try to remind anyone of Christ, they don't want to hear it. The response so often is, "Christmas isn't about Christianity anymore". Well, then what's it about? Why celebrate it? If all Christmas is to you, is parties and gifts, then you're really missing out! The Greatest Gift Of All wasn't found in the electronics department, He was found by shepherds in a cowshed. If you don't believe it, then just wait - you'll find out sooner or later, and it may just be too late by the time you do figure it out. I pray that doesn't happen....
In the mean time, I'm going to say those words that so many are so afraid to say these days:
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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