Well, me Hearties...I now be WIRELESS!!!!!!!

 Well, we watched the Inauguration the other day. I figured it is definitely history, and I didn't want to miss it - so it counts! - It was very moving, morso than ones in the past. You could feel the wieght of it, the significance - the history.  ....also, as mot of you know from either watching it yourselves, or from hearing it on the news later on - Senator Ted Kennady collapsed when he had a seisure during the lunchen, due to fatigue. - Mr. Kennedy happens to have the same type of brian tumor that my Dad had. - Mr. Kennedy had been diagnosed last year, and underwent treatment, and was up and about again, although with a cane -  but up and about nonetheless. I am glad he is doing better, and if things start going down hill for him too, I am glad that he at least got to go to the Inaugeration and see it in person as he had wished to do.

 
 We've been i n a bit of a holding pattern with school as we wait for the new internet connection here. - Supposed to come at the end of the month. - Captain Hook has been wiring the house, to get ready ( not fun - trust me) -
 After rearranging the room we have school in, I now have to re-configure everything in order to fit a regular computer ( as opposed to my lap top ) and - CH wants to put in a printer. - It's an old one mind you, and not my brand spanking new one ( whatever). - There is no room, so I have decided to make life eiseir for me and took my new one down - The older one is much bigger but CH insists that Kiddo needs it ( hmmm methinks it be CH who really wants it ) .....me? - I don't get it - I mean, call me crazy, but doesn't it make sence to go with the newer one? AND it takes up less space??? (but HA! - What do I know!?!) - and of course this all has to be done TODAY!  - Oh well, back to getting things moved around and packed away and............*sigh* - I need a snow day!

 WE'RE GOIN' TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

 BOO-YAH!!!!!!!!!

 Getting some things done around here this Saturday - cleaning mostly - and for this pack-rat that means it's no small job. - I'm Expecting friends over tomorrow, so most of it will get stashed upstairs where it will be out of sight and I can go through it at a later date - "stash and dash" - of course going through it at a later date is always so much easier said than done.

  Hello all - 

 Captian Hook's Uncle sent me this link, *(see below), to a website that looks to be most helpful. You can sign up for daily emails, and/or join a group near you. - I think I might give this a try. I'm going to call next week, to a place that is near me and see if it is helpful. I thought I'd share the link with all of you, especially knowing that we all go through times of loss in our lives, and that having someone to listen can make such a big difference. I know that all of you who have reached out to me have made more of a difference than you even realize. Thank you my fellow tbloggers.

 If you find that you are in need of such a help, then I hope this site can help you too...

 - PG

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 Well, I'm up again - guess that's good - this morning it was about 5 something or 6 - AM -
 Hoping I'll get tired and fall back to sleep again for a couple hours and then be able to get up at a decent time to start into school. - Trying to get my schedule back to some sort of normalcey (sp?) - It's been pretty crazy and my sleep schedule, wich is always been a bit off - has been more off than Ihad realised i guess - of course not sleeping will do that to you. ;) 

 We kinda skiped yestardays lessons so that we could go to my folk's house and use their computer to get one of the lesons done. I downloaded a couple things while we were there too, so we don't have to keep running over there just to get the lessons done.

 - on that note - Captain Hook has orderedthe faster internet  *YAY!*    It will be installed on the 30th, so we will have to wing it, when other lessons that are on the computer come up. Guess we can deal with that - and I know it will be nice for Mom for us to visit too. - Bonus!

 -Hoping to get some flurries at least today - that would be nice - all this cold and nothing to show for it drives me crazy and is just downright depressing - It'd be nice to have enough snow to make a snowman! ( ok, truth be told, I found that pic of the little Pirate snowman that I posted in my last post. :/

 - well - guess I'm gonna stop for now - *yawn* - see ya all round when I'm awake again later!  ;D

 - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzz!

 - PG

Happy Birthday Brian!!!!

 (Man I'd love to go to that concert!)

 Well, I'm up...which be a feat unto itself! - Been having a hard time sleeping and have had to sleep with the T.V. on every night. - Now ,I normally can't do that, especially with the sound on, as I'll continue to watch it. - but - I had been sleeping with the T.V. on, but turning the sound off. - still - not a lot of sleep. - But the last two nights I have actually been able to turn the T.V. off - so far - so good  - and I was actually able to sleep some - 'I think!' - hard to tell when you wake up a few times during the night/morning! ...

 Today I hope to have a good day with Kiddo with school. We are now in day three - we even got one of the assignments for today, done yesterday. :) - It was getting familiar with the software that comes with the cirriculum. - Yeah, the software works, but the website access doesn't ( due to me having dail-up) - Captain Hook is looking into that today. - So - we have to make a trip to me Mum's to get onto her computer, to get the assignment from yesterday done, and keep caught up. - yeah - I feel like Surr does when he said he doesn't like going out in the cold these days - It's been bitter cold here this week, and is supposed to get colder - Me? - I hate being cold, and don't look forward to this outing today, - but - I do love a good snowfall - and if it's going to be cold, then I want to see something for it - like some SNOW!

 Can we get a day off of school, a "Snow Day" if we are doing homeschooling?  - I vote yes!

 :D

 Well, we be off on our new school adventure! - We be two days underway, and all be well so far!
 - Ok, one major glitch is that we be needin' a faster in ternet connection. some of the lessons be on the computer.  (Can't keep the lil'ens out of any loops where technology be concerned! - no doubt they be usin' it in their day te' day lives when they be all growed up!)

 As fer the rest, the learnin' of hoistin' sails, swabbin' decks, pistol shootin', hoistin' the anchor, how te' dig fer treasure, and one legged races at recess, all be going well! AND Kiddo be enjoyin' it to boot!  - tomorrow we be havin' art class, (tattoo aplication), and Kiddo be especially excited 'bout that! - ( Loves art like Mum does  Arrrr! ) 

- We also git te' make a globe outta paper mache and balloons! ( thou I must confess, I'm not to sure how that is te' be done when the world be flat, - as we all know )

 Well, here's to a'nuther fine school day tomorrow! - and 'member poppets - Eyes on yer own paper!

 ...a poem that was shared with me, that I thought I would share with others - thank you to all

 Well, we finally recived the homeschool ciriculum - BIGGG box of books fer kiddo and fer me. Been reading though and setting up things. - Have taken an extra bedroom that I use for my art, and have it all set up now fer school. Fer Kiddo, new desk, new chair, new books. - Excited!  Fer me, old desk, new stand fer laptop, ( I can actually use the desk again!), and new school manuals. - Excited, but SCARED! Intimidating to get that many books, etc. all at once! - I respect teachers and all that they do, but WHEW!
- But, we'll take it a day at a time. So I'm reading up this weekend and hope to hit the books this coming week! Wish us luck!


 

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  I'm bored - only a few folks on the ol' computer tonight - and when I do see a few I know, they're off to other things and not hanging 'round fer very long.  - I feel talkative - but don't know what to even talk about. ... - I've been missing my Dad terribly  of course   but I'm not sure what to do with that either sometimes.  - sometimes I'm able to remember something good, but I find myself mostly thinking about when he died  I was with him when he passed on  I keep thinking that I wish there was more I could do or have done   ...not sure what would have happened...it all may have happened reguardless ....and even though I knew it was coming...and I knew the inevitable was going to happen before too long...I still wasn't ready for it...guess if truth be told, that no one is ever really truly "ready" for loosing someone ....for them to die .........still can't get used to him being gone  - it feels so weird! ...not sure what to do with that feeling either I guess.....
 
  I did get some cards and stuff that I had given him ...my Mom found them in with some of his things....in his bookshelf in his den...they are precious to me of course, and I'm so glad to have them    ...the're in a big brown paper accordian folder...it smells musty... like our basement where some of the other things were ....Their bedroom still smells like him when I open the door and walk in...it hits me like a wave - a sent I know won't be there forever, as my Mom will most likely rearrange and redecorate eventually ...I know it's something she might want to do, or may even need to do ...I do understand it...but

 ...I also have a hard time with the fact that his voice is no longer on their phone's answering machine....actually his voice was taken off before he passed away, when they got a new phone... I wish I could have recorded it or something   so that I could play it every now and again when I was missing him....lol...guess that would be every day though, now wouldn't it?

 Tomorrow someone from the homeschool place will be calling me - we will go over questions and decide the best cirriculum  &nb sp; I have lots of questions, but they have been very helpful   I'll be ordering the cirriculum now that the placement test has been recieved, and after I talk to the rep from the school   Then we sit back and wait for it to be delivered, and then off we go!  Exciting -- yes - but scary all the same!

 well...I guess that's it for now ...so many things racing through my brain that I can't think strait..and for the last couple of days, typing has been a bit tricky as well!  -

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