all of them. of course.
ok, i haven’t eaten all of them. yet.
i’ve been surrounded by all these cookies that i made, plus the xmas chocolate candies that i used for decorating the table, and the boxes of chocolates i received from people at work…but then dad gave me a box of fanny may mint meltaways and WHO COULD POSSIBLY RESIST THEM?
at least i passed them around on christmas day and people ate a few.
but today. today i was so filled with good intentions…
here was my plan for the day:
get up. go to the gym and do weights. take the dog for a run. go give blood. clean up the horrible clutter that is everywhere in the house.
here is the reality thus far:
got up. (so at least i accomplished the one thing). ate a couple of mint meltaways as i read the paper. read e-mails. sat around. went shopping for video cards with kevin who got CALL OF DUTY 4 from randy for his computer, the best game EVER, but he tried to install it and needed a new video card. turns out the video cards are something like $200, so maybe he won’t get to play the game after all, plus he can’t return it because it’s been opened. we also bought other stuff like a new floor lamp.
we came home and i started to seriously eat the mint meltaways while attempting to access my webpage account information. they send e-mails to my old e-mail address, and i tried to update it to my new address but i can’t until they change the platform but they haven’t scheduled that yet but they did allow me to schedule it so theoretically it’s going to happen at one a.m. tonight. and then maybe i’ll be able to change my e-mail address but i’m not holding my breath. the whole thing was kind of a nightmare, and all i really wanted to do was look up my statistics to see if anybody is still reading, and so of course you can see why i needed quite a few more mint meltaways to keep up my strength.
finally I DID IT. i can’t even tell you how. i kept randomly typing in any and all passwords i’ve ever had, and poof, there i was at the statistics, which i hadn’t bothered to check in about a year.
so here’s the weird thing – i had been having around 1,100 visits a month, which isn’t a lot, but whatever, it was ok, at least somebody somewhere was reading. but then, in may, it went to about 2,400, then in july, 5,400 and in october, 14,564!!!
what’s going on with that? it’s gone down to about 5 to 7 thousand a month, but that’s a big jump in the number of people reading this. do you think maybe it’s some kind of webhost mixup? every once in a while i get a random e-mail from somebody who was researching something obscure like the words to “arthur and celeste,” one of my favorite songs which i sang on one of my videos, and i have the 45 record of it and listened to it and wrote down the words for the woman and sent it to her and she was very happy about it. i know my mom’s friend wanda reads it, and randy, and gary, and kevin’s mom, and christine, and probably jerri although i haven’t heard from her in a while.
but anyway, in case there really ARE a bunch of people out there, i promise i’ll be better about writing and i’ll even finish putting up the photos from our trip to austria. which i should be better about even if it’s just wanda randy gary nancee and christine reading.
i have to admit it’s pretty nice just sitting around today, although it’s too bad kevin didn’t take the day off.
it’s getting dark and threatening out now, so it’ll probably rain which means i don’t have to go for a walk or a run. i should still go give blood, but does that mean i have to take a shower? it’s not like my BLOOD is dirty, just mostly my hair.
but would they want blood from a woman who looks a little bit like a bag lady?
whew.
ok then,
day after xmas grace.