My 15 Books

#1 The Bible

#2 Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

#3 The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy

#4 Song of Bernadette - Fraz Werfel

#5 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

#5 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

#6 The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

#7 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

#8 Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen

#9 A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

#10 Contact - Carl Sagan

#11 Cross and the Switchblade - David Wilkerson

#12 Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

#13 The Shining - Stephen King

#14 Evidence that Demands A Verdict - Josh McDowell

#15 Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss

These are not in a particular order except for #1

USING ONLY ONE WORD

USING ONLY ONE WORD! It's not as easy as you might think! Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers. Be sure to tag (in Facebook) the person you received it from!

1. Where is your cell phone? HANDBAG
2. Your significant other? OUTSIDE
3. Your hair? GREY
4. Your mother? OREGON
5. Your father? DECEASED
6. Your favorite thing? LIFE
7. Your dream last night? FAMILY
8. Your favorite drink? TEA
9. Your dream/goal? GARDEN
10. What room you are in? LIVING
11. Your hobby? GARDENING
12. Your fear? PAIN
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? HEALTHY
14. Where were you last night? HOME
16. Muffins? BISCUITS
17. Wish list item? SOFA
18. Where you grew up? LOS ANGELES
19. Last thing you did? COOKED
20. What are you wearing? PJS
21. Your TV? ON
22. Your pets? INSIDE
23. Friends? LIFELONG
24. Your life? CONTENTED
25. Your mood? AMBITIOUS
26. Missing someone? CHILDREN
27. Car? SMALL
28. Something you're not wearing? WATCH
29. Your favorite store? POWELLS
30. Your favorite color? GREEN
31. Favorite vacation? OKINAWA
32. Music? ALL
33. When is the last time you laughed? TODAY
34. Last time you cried? TODAY
35. Who will resend this? UNKNOWN
36. One place that I go to over and over? MATSUKAZE'S
37. One person who emails me regularly? DONNA
38. Favorite place to eat? TAYLORS
39. Why you participated in this survey? MISHKA
40. What are you doing tonight? LAUNDRY

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Scary Computer Revealed!!!

Dex finally burned out the cd burner! He is an itunes cowboy junkie, like someone else in our family, and I knew it was just a matter of time. So...I go to staples and buy a dvd burner. I was told cd's sound much better burned on the dvd burner. Great, found one and next step is to install. Well, foolish me, for some reason I thought there would be instructions on "HOW TO" and guess what??? NOT!!! You see they expect you to either already know what you are doing or you are buying the part to have your IT savvy friend put it in or you just take the CPU in and let the pro's do it. Step #1. Google the job you are trying to do, before you unhook everything. Of course, you will not cover all the obstacles that you may incur, but at least you will have something to go by. Step #2. Make sure you have a backup support system, I have several, but could not reach them, Uh Oh.
Here is a 57 year old women, at the kitchen table standing on a rubber mat (I am very static),with screw drivers,canned air and flashlight ready to take this on. I finally figured out how to get the cover off, woohoo, then my first mistake, blowing the inside out with the canned air. I created one of the biggest dust storms in history. I had to wait 15 minutes for the dust to settled before making my next attempt. I was surprised at how simple everything looked inside. Lots of empty space! It took me a minute to realize the burner had to be pushed from the inside to the outside, started to do that, but this large "ribbon thing" seemed to be attached to it. Was there just a holder strap with the ribbon through it or was it hooked to this burner box. I made my frantic calls to everyone to no avail. Well I wasn't going to pull on it, or poke it, might damage something. Thought maybe if I pulled the burner out I would be able to see what the issue was. I tried looking with the flashlight, but it was still to dark in there to see. Finally I pushed some more and the strap thing(I thought was a holder),which was a bar with pins that plugged in, pulled out and it was finally free! I installed the new one in reverse and away we went, back to itunes and making great cd's for our friends and Dex's fellow musicians. I have to tell you, I had a great sense of accomplishment after doing this and will be putting in some more memory and a new VGA card soon! That computer is not so scary after all!

Thank you Mishka!

Thank you Mishka for putting my HaHa kangi on my blog. I love it!

I Finally Made it

Whew! I finally made it through the new conversion. It wasn't too difficult once I realized my password and username. I am finally resigned to keeping a book with the info in it as it is too frustrating trying to remember all the user and pass info for all the accounts on the web. I told Dex, I thought it would be nice if you could buy a box that had all the plug ins for a Tuner, receiver, speakers, sat dish connection, vcr and dvd along with cd player, game connect too. Just a simple box, you connect to and everything works, then a truly easy universal remote that has buttons that say, VCR, TV, CD, etc. We are getting so tech these days, that it is hard to keep up with all the current changes. I try, but as soon as I get it down, it changes. I would pay someone to come out and set everything up, but trouble is, they have to be up-to-date too! I just got an idea for this, what about a device that you plug in your computer that downloads all user/pass and you uplug unless you need it. You watch, someone will have invented it before I get this posted. Happy New Year everyone!

Well I finally made it

Well, I finally made it, my daughters Mishka and Chicken have been encouraging me to start my own blog - Mishka even set the site up for me. All I have to do is write - sounds so easy, right? It (the blog site) would not let me log on, said I need to enable cookies, and there might be a firewall problem. It has taken me about four hours to figure out the settings and yes, I did try to call Mishka so she could check my computer and walk me through it, but guess what? I figured it out all by myself and I am pretty proud of that. When you only have a myopic view of how computers work anyway and your IT friend is not available it can be pretty frustrating. Quoting the Bard "Alls Well that Ends Well...I hope to share funny stories, daily woes (not too many of those) and maybe a little HaHa Haiku.