Busy Bee

I have a lot to do today. I did not do any chores on my birthday. Yesterday I had dreams of doing great things, but after PWOC and the library I got a nasty headache/earache combo and that took me out for the rest of the day. Plus, my Dad is coming to visit tomorrow and he'd like a place to sleep and a place to sit at the table. I've got to arrange the things that are still stored in the dining room so that I can expand the table (it's one of the storage areas for the stuff we moved out of the east wing so that we could renovate). Those are the most important goals but not the only goals.
After dinner on my birthday, my husband cleaned up ALL of the dishes. NOT just the ones from baking my cake, no. ALL of them. He even hand-washed what wouldn't fit in the dishwasher. What a lovely birthday.
I got the new, new hard drive yesterday. My husband opened it up and saw that it is about 200gb less than MY hard drive that I PAID for. Sooooo ~ still no laptop. That one has to go back too. Also, I picked up an enclosure for the hard drive that crashed to see if I could retrieve my data. The guy at Radio Shack said it was the right one. It is not returnable. And it doesn't fit. FOOIE. I suppose I'll be spending some time on Ebay soon. As for now, I have to get to work.
I wanted to say, "Thank you" for all the wonderful birthday wishes and the gift verses. So awesome! A special thanks to my BFF IRL HisGirl for hosting my surprise virtual birthday party!
I also received a gift certificate for CBD from my parents(I've spent it 6 times for practice), a check for oodles of dollars from my in-laws, some birthday cards and emails ~ And these lovely words from a sweet friend who shares my same birthday....

Happy, Merry, Fun-Loving, Excitable, Cheerful, Wonderful, Unique, Rule Abiding, Guitar playing, Humorous, Religious, Beautiful-singing, Crab-huntin, Prayer-lovin, Picture-takin, entertaining hostess, humor-writing, Expert on linguistics, Social Butterfly, God-fearing, worldly experienced, Mothering & All the other cool words to describe you: BIRTHDAY to Judi. YAY!!!

*My life is good and I am blessed beyond hope by the Most High God.*

I've Got The Uh-Oh's

So folks - we are out of town visiting the in-laws (and our future homestead) which has really doused my Internet access quite a bit. The uh-oh of it is that my laptop seems to have crashed. I can't know if it's really gone until I get home.
My gracious and giving husband is allowing me to use his laptop here and there - just to keep my blood circulating, but it doesn't have all my bookmarks and files and the like so I am doing minimal stuff.
On the bright side, I have been working on how to organize my crafting area to go back into the newly renovated music/catch-all room with the help of my Father-in-law and Hobby Lobby. You West-coasters may not know what this is, but it is like a Michael's on steroids with really good sales, Christian music and closed on Sundays.
I pray that you all had a beautiful Independence day filled with the thankfulness of living in a free nation!
Is anyone else astounded at the fact that it is July of 2008?? My birthday is coming up. (That was totally random, but I am going to leave it 'cause that's just me)