Happy New Year!

{the post that froze up and wouldn’t send new years}

just hanging out with the boys tonight

Had to pry my new years kiss outa my favorite 7 year old…he laughed…

Summer got one from Ethan,

but Johnny has been sick and puking every 37 seconds today so he wasn’t new years kissing this time.

Had to keep the boys and us all together because so many guns shooting outside…didn’t want anyone near the windows!

Tonight I’ve been working on cleaning out my Gmail.  Took a notion to join a file sharing group like I used to be in 10-12 years ago and I need to remove all these old LivingCookBook recipes I got stashed in a folder to keep things cleaned up.  I’m not too sure how being in a group would be anymore.  I used to spend more time scanning and organizing than actually crafting that which was so abundantly suggested on my computer

I don’t belong to the recipe group anymore because that was REALLY horrendous to keep up with.  These each have to be imported into the cookbook software and organized somehow…I find it way easier to just use the copy/paste feature and collect just the ones I’m using from AllRecipies!!

I want to make the kids something fantabulous for their birthdays tho and a lot of my patterns from the old days are bad scans…we used to have to worry so much about space and internet speeds.  I remember Tim getting me a Zip Drive where each disk held 100mb and I thought that was amazing…then we moved to CDs…trying to use them like floppies, saving files until the CD was full and then praying it would close…I think I’d dropped out of most those groups by the time DVD writing became possible….NOW….I got two external hard drives – one is 1TB and the other is 2TB…I got them mostly for photos, which are much bigger than they were in the old days, but they also have programs and movies on them with lots of room to spare for patterns in a corner….now we’ll see how I do time wize…seems Gmail holds a lot more than any email I had back in the day so it should take awhile before things bounce around…but…now I got a two year old that has dibs on grandma’s lap every time I sit down at the computer…he doesn’t wanna lookit emails…he wants to play Pet Rescue and watch Chuck Truck youtubes!!

we’ll see how it goes…got 484 more recipe emails from January 2011 to clear out of there…seems I got real out of focus in that year and just shoved all things aside…..

Will have to post if I actually get a fabulous project done or not!!