Glimpse In A Mirror

Quite A Different Day

My afternoon turned out quite differently than I had planned. My errands ran longer, and included some bad news from the certified letter. Maybe because of that, I took myself shopping for a couple of hours. I went to one of my favorite stores, located about 15 miles away, and discovered that they no longer carry fabrics! It was a odd thing for them to carry, but they had a wonderful selection and terrific prices! I will miss them, but I'm bummed that I didn't get to take advantage of the clearance that must have happend! Bummer.

Tonight, when I couldn't reach my parents (again), I called my sister, Michelle, and asked her about her last appointment with the surgeon. The second surgery has been postponed, maybe indefinitely. While we were talking, she told me that her computer won't go back online, that she spent 45 minutes with AOL technical support. The problem is the ancient modem in her 7 year old computer. SEVEN YEARS! While we were talking, I went out to Dell to see what kind of deals they had on refurbished ones. I wasn't planning to buy her one, but then, we found some deals that were too good to pass up. I ended up with a P4 1.4Ghz with Windows XP and a CD burner, for under $700. What a great deal! Then, as we talked, I also went to Iomega's site and found her an external 100Mb zip drive and some disks for under $100, and ordered them also. I wasn't planning to spend this money, and I wasn't really considering doing something nice for her. It was just one of those things. She is thrilled, and in shock. When I asked her if she wanted the system I had just described to her, she said that she couldn't afford it. And I pointed out that she wasn't answering the question I asked. She said that she will pay me something each month on it, and while that would be good, I'm not in an accounting frame of mind. It feels great to be able to do something that is relatively small on my end, and have it mean so much to someone else. Isn't that what makes the world go around? Being generous with what you have?

We calculated that she could have her new computer as soon as Wednesday, and should have both orders by Friday. Now, she is going to spend some time getting her files organized to move over to the other computer. Her monitor is also 7 years old, so I warned her that it will probably fail sometime soon. She is going to check with our parents to see if they have an extra monitor at their house, they both have upgraded their monitors recently. She will put her old computer in Andy's room, it is still good enough for him to use to write school papers and such, without Internet access. That will help him out, too. Although, I think he does all of that work at Grandma's computer!

I was going to shop up at the Abraham presentation tomorrow, but I've decided now that I will work instead, and I'll catch them in Sedona in a few months. But this time, I'll spend the night up there the night before, really make a weekend of it. During one of my breaks, I'm going to run over to Marshalls and purchase the wrought iron baker's rack that I've been looking at for weeks. I'm so amazed that it is still there. It will be great in my bedroom.

Oppps... there is the timer... my dinner is finished. That means I am finished writing for tonight.