Ack. I can't change my mood, my computer won't let me. I'm low on virtual memory. What a coincidence! My computer is too!

So my mood should be: clumsy, in pain and silly. Does dA have an emoticon for that? .

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Today I started a stock account.

I've been wanting to do this for quite a while, and yesterday I took beaucoup photos of sky and plants, etc. while on a long nature walk.

So I started it today. It will take me a while to get it all up, for one thing I've injured my left wrist somehow, and it's painful to type.

But at least it's started. I made an avatar for the account. If you can think of something better, let me know!

That's about it. I'm going to go baby my hurty wrist.

Oh. Duh. My new stock account:


Okay, NOW I'm going to go ice up my wrist.

SSDD.

Only a new deviant ID.

And I wanted David Archuleta to win, I really did. Just because he's so... I don't know. He's real. And naive and just cute. The way a real, naive 17 year old boy can be.

There aren't very many of them out there like that. My own 14 year old is less naive... Archuleta was just cute.

But I'm satisfied with David Cook. Good choice America!


Now what am I going to do with my Tuesday and Wednesday nights?

Well, I'm trying to get used to this Nikon...

I absolutely loved my Olympus, and that's the problem. If I never had my Evolt, I'd probably love this camera. And it makes me feel bad because I should be more grateful. I am grateful in that if I didn't have this Nikon I'd be without a camera. Period.

I did that for a few months, after my Evolt was stolen and before I was blessed with this Nikon. It was hell...

So I am grateful, just maybe not grateful enough, and I feel like a jerk for it. I feel like my photo quality sucks. Like all my measly artistic ability was in that Evolt.

My brother (bless his cotton-pickin' heart) just sent me a USB hub for my computer. That way I don't have to unplug my internet modem to plug in my camera to take the pictures off. That in and of itself makes me really happy.

And then, last time I talked to him he told me about how he talks to his grown kids on Skype, and how they all have webcams and have a blast with it.

So, along with the USB hub he sent me a new webcam! So I'll have to get all of it hooked up and send him a thanks via Skype!

Being filled with thanks. That's what I'm working on. Funny how some days it flows so easily, others it's an effort just to even remember the word GRATEFUL.

I am recovering from the flu. Days on end of fevers and chills and I can say that through it all I was extremely grateful for sleep, blessed sleep!

I wasn't very grateful that I wasn't at my own house for the first 3 days of it, but I was grateful that my host is the kind of person that doesn't ever make me feel like I'm a burden. Hooray!

And now I'm REALLY grateful that I've had a full day without one fever or chill or sick sweat. I'm still hacking. I have bronchitis. I have asthma.

I also have a fondness for water. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful I'm breathing on my own. I'm grateful I don't smoke.

I'm grateful I have two wonderful kids at home that know when to leave me the "Hecka Lone" and when to baby me and coddle me and hug me and tell me they love me!

So time to write your gratitude list. What's on it for today?

So where do I start?

Well... I have my own apartment. Little 2 bedroom, just lovely. Wish it was further out of town... I'm not used to neighbors on top of me and beside me, but the building is a fourplex so I only have neighbors on one side and not the other.

I bought all my furniture at yard sales and on Craig's List. It's coming along... Right now it's rather a mess as I was out of town, then sick. Went to the E.R. last night and was told I "might" have strep throat. Hmm.. a few antibiotics and I should be as good as new, right? And why can't I get my kids to clean up? I just don't have the energy to bitch about it...

My van died. It had a blown head gasket, and it was going to cost me $2000 to fix it, so I decided to look around and I found an old Volvo for less than that. So now I'm one of those old hippie ladies driving an old Volvo. You know the ones that drive so slow in front of you that you want to take all your road rage out on them? That just might be me. Be gentle.

I no longer have a camera. I had taken it over to my ex's place to take pictures off of it. At that time I didn't have a computer... and it just so happens that some jerk decided to break in the front door, ransack the house and they TOOK MY CAMERA!

So I have been months without a camera. Then a friend of mine said she'd sell me her old camera, a Nikon... I hate it. Well, I don't hate it, it's far better than no camera at all. But using this one really makes me miss my Olympus. Dang, but I loved that thing.

If somebody wants to lend me $650, there's an almost new camera like mine on Craig's List. Or, heck, my birthday's in March.. Just Kidding! LOL! One day I'll get a new one. A better one than I had before. Good things are worth waiting for.

Hopefully I'll be in here a bit more. Mostly commenting, since I don't have the capacity on this computer to hook up my camera. Thom said I could use his camera if I needed to, though. So I might take him up on it. Hopefully he'll be in once in a while. He just got his computer up and running, too. It's much better than this old thing. I'm a bit jealous. But don't tell him!