Garden notes & TMI about potty time

We went to a friend's house a couple of nights to see some of the Olympics on tv (since we don't have one for now) and since then Stella has been all about some diving and flipping aka gymnastics.  She keeps doing flips and "dives" all over the house.  It's quite cute.

In other news...

and this is BIG news...

The little chickadee I know has been sporting "big girl underpants" for a week or more now.  It is too cool to be without diapers.  It is great!

She was very nearly potty trained in January when we moved and it all got preempted.  Then we were getting close in May and we went on a trip that got her out of practice and when we did get back we moved - AGAIN.  So we've had to focus since early June and she slowly got interested again.  I gave up on the pull-ups "big-girl diapers" as a reward when I heard her say "I don't have to go potty, I'll just go in my diaper" - grr.  I thought, "it's warm enough outside, we'll just play outside today without a diaper on and she'll let me know when she's gotta go potty"  She was cranky and wanted some underpants so I told her if she kept her diaper dry all day she'd get to wear underpants.  That was it.  One day with some fancy 4T underpants by fruit of the loom as her reward and we are done with diapers.  

We were supposed to leave for a trip last weekend and couldn't make it work financially, but I think I'm really glad that it didn't happen.  It was supposed to be potty training time apparently.  Also, I was kinda hoping that the tomatoes we planted would be ripe by now - they are still green on the vine - so strange.  We've had very little rain lately and they aren't in the sunniest spot so I'm guessing that's what it is.  But I want me some 'maters dang-it!

We DO have some great zucchini growing and some beans that aren't as tasty as I'd like for them to be.  I have some spinach that the bunnies aren't eating and two carrots that I hope they leave alone (they ate all the rest).  Our squash died at the last minute and we have one broccoli plant that I think we planted too late.  The lettuce has been mostly consumed by the bunnies so I'm just looking at that one as my gift to them.  

There is a grape vine on the property that seems to put off a northern version of a red muscadine (whatever that may be) and they are getting ripe.  Stella and I check on it when we go out to play.  They are still a little sour, but I'm getting excited about it.  I love sun-warmed grapes from the vine.

I asked the landlord if it was okay if I planted a raspberry bush.  I think it would grow here just fine...we'll see if I get around to it.  : )   I'm already waiting for next year's asparagus crop.  Mmmm.

the saga continues

Apparently it was a fan w/vcable, k36

that's what the service detail statement from Apple says.  I think it is probably more than that, but we'll see if it makes the noise again. 

The computer was gone for a couple of weeks and - I don't want to admit this - I missed it.  I didn't write and I like the freedom of working wherever I want (whether ergonomic or no).  There's just something about checking email on the sofa instead of at the desk.  Also, I really missed having speakers on my computer.  The whole time the Olympics were on I got to see them with no sound...not so very cool.

Anyway, the computer is back.  We are really going to be friends this time.  It only took me a month and a half to warm up to it.  :)

making peace

My laptop and I are starting over.

We are taking things slowly this time, and hopefully eventually becoming good friends.

It has occurred to me in the past couple of days that my old laptop might be salvageable, but I am wondering if it is worth repairing and whether any of the data would be salvageable. We'll see what happens. Someone I know recently had a hard drive die without a back up and described it as something similar to a house fire. You just lose so much stuff so suddenly.

apparently

they don't "do" returns.

and said they couldn't find a problem with my computer...

I'm running it all day today with fingers crossed that it makes the same terror-inducing noises it made a week ago so I can take it to the service desk while it's still making the noise.

I was pissed yesterday when I got the message.

Thought I'd returned it at 9am.

I'm a bit pissed that I didn't take the offer for a trade.   

Since they are making me keep it anyway.

apparently.  

ugh.

It's my magnetic field perhaps

Ben bought me a new macbook a few weeks ago for my birthday. Last week it started making noises very similar to the aforementioned laptop (that would be the sound of a hard drive dying). The noise comes and goes - and the noise is a bit different each time, but generally getting worse all week. Today it sounded like a plane getting prepared to take off. I just closed the computer and walked away.

I decided that I am just not meant to have a laptop right now. I am taking the signs. I am listening. I can repeatedly kill them with my aura for so long. At some point I have to listen. I am trying to be a better listener in so many ways.

Perhaps my magnetic field changed in the past 8 months & now I'm incompatible with laptops. It's not a bad thing since I feel like a better mommie without a computer or tv on to distract me. Reading is good. Perhaps I'll blog about what I've read since we moved up here. It's quite a list. Mostly vampire books. Speaking of which...I think I need to go get one in a couple of hours...

Tomorrow I am wiping the drive - correction, I am getting Ben to help me do whatever is necessary to get my info off there, since I historically don't do such things as they "should" be done. Then it's off to return it.

I am practicing "good stewardship" in the words of my extended father-in-law. I am using that which I already own and not contributing to the continued waste and consumerism that is this society. Plus I'll be saving us quite a few dollars by doing so. If I find in time that I can't stand sitting at a desk and using a slightly more ergonomic setup then I'll go pretend to be typing on my mostly dead laptop. I'll punish my carpal tunnel that way.

I believe this is for the best.