between my horrendous computer problems and helping with a friend's suprise 50th birthday party, i simply havent had time to post here.
my computer has been acting badly for a long time now but it is soooooooo much worse now that i can hardly access anything. It continously fails to load pages giving me either a 404 error message or a timed out message...

i have done everything to try to fix it including having my computer wizard son come over late one night to look at it. the only problem with that was the rascal computer decided to act normally when he was here and it worked like a charm with absolutely no problems at all. Scott did everything he could to find the problem but in the end said he couldnt find anything that was amiss. Of course the next morning i had the same problems again so decided to disconnect the router which helped for about five minutes and then it was back to acting up again!!

i am at a total loss as to what is wrong-- there is no virus, no spyware.... i have a name of a computer repairman and i am going to call him -- he makes house calls so that is good and only charges $40.00. i am DESPERATE.

my friend suzie had her 50th birthday the 4th of february and what an event it was... it was hell keeping the secret from her and her partner sally and our other friend thea and i had to really sneak around to get everything organized . we had a tons of food some of which sally prepared-- she is an EXCELLENT cook-- and some of which a couple restaurants in town donated as they are good friends with suzie.... had a band... and a great hall which was only $70.00 to rent ... plus lots and lots of suzie's friends. each friend brought a star of some kind as a gift and they all were amazing and beautiful-- we had a wonderful, love filled evening with so much laughter my sides hurt like hell the next day. if u would like to see pics of the evening go here

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/swtp15/my_photos

i made suzie a collaged cigar box which i thought would only take a few days to complete but ended up taking way more time than i had anticipated so i was kind of running around the last minute putting finishing touches on it plus my daughter in laws birthday was the day before and i had to get her things all put together... i ended up forgetting to give her two of her gifts in all the confusion and last minute details of suzie's party!!

here are a couple pics of the cigar box -- i think it turned out really awesome and she loved it







gotta stop for now-- my friend thee is here to go to sams-- more later