Once again – as per usual – I am sitting here trying to figure out why I am backwards. I’ve always been backwards, at least according to my mom. It’s 5:22 AM and I’m still awake. I tried to go to sleep but it didn’t work. So here I am. It isn’t like I’m up researching stuff like Ferrari parts or anything. I’m just bumming around the internet a bit on my laptop. Of course, I’m also testing how long my battery really does last, since I was told it lasts about 2-3.5 hours on power saver mode. So far, it’s been on for a bit over a half hour and it’s already down to 72% power remaining. I have an outlet handy though, so if it gets too low, I’ll just plug it in. LOL

I’m listening to a Christian CD right now. It’s a sampler CD I got way back in 1999 or 2000. I love the songs on it. Most of them. There are a couple that I’m not all that fond of, but that’s the way it normally goes. That is why the skip button was invented. In any case, going to church has been going pretty well. I’ve been to Bible study 3 times now and if it hadn’t been for BFL’s mom’s back going out over the weekend, we’d have gone to church on Sunday as well. But we will be going this week because BFL has the overhead – as she does for most Sundays. I’m considering seeing about possibly learning to run it, but the thing is, she’d still have to get up early even if I were the one “in the box.” LOL She’s the driver here – I can drive, but it isn’t my car and besides, if I took the car, how would they get to church??

Oh, and Tara, if you’ve come back and you’re reading this – I do remember you – had to go to your blog and see your picture – and still can’t remember your last name back then, but I recognize you! Let me know if you’re on Facebook – I spend a lot of time there! LOL

Well, in a week and a half I’ll be attending a business seminar. LaShawn went through the seminar a year or two ago, and she actually has all the information and starter kit for it, but we’ll be attending the seminar so I can at least get the basic starter kit & attend the second conference, after which she plans on letting them know that she’s already gone through this and has the package so all we need to do is get everything set up.

Basically it’s a way to set up online stores for various things – we want to do a craft store and possibly a sports memorabilia store – but we won’t be dealing with anything like loose diamonds for anyone who is curious. Just crafts and sports stuff, if we start two stores. LaShawn’s package that she got allows the set-up of multiple stores, so we’ll see.

What on earth are people searching my site for such weird things for? I seriously have some weird search terms. Maybe it’s because I’ve talked a bit about not having a job and needing to get on the ball with my job search, but since I live in Iowa, I don’t think searching my blog for New York job search is a bright idea. :/

Of course, that’s not including all the s-e-x searches and, of course, searches looking for charitable organizations. I suppose that comes with the territory when your first name just happens to be Charity!

My tax refund dropped into my Walmart Money Card on Monday, March 1, just like the IRS said it would. Actually it dropped in on Saturday, February 27, but Walmart Money Card’s system didn’t credit it to me until 3:00 AM on March 1. In any case, we paid a couple bills since LaShawn’s mom got paid and then we started shopping. No, sorry, I didn’t buy anything like a sconce for the walls or anything like that. I bought toys.

First we hit McDonald’s to get some lunch so we wouldn’t be starvin’ marvin while we were shopping. Then we went to Verizon to check out new cell phones – and ended up buying the phones. The Verizon guy ticked us off though because he didn’t tell us the price for the phones (funny how the display never said it was $79.99 per phone with a mail in rebate for $50 that made them $29.99 – we looked) until after he’d already activated the new phones – and since Mom’s phone didn’t work, I just sighed deeply and paid the $224 for the new phones.

After the phones we went to the Family Christian store where I got a new Bible & a Bible highlighter as well as Casting Crowns’ “The Altar and the Door” on CD. Then we hit Best Buy where I purchased a Compaq Presario laptop for myself w/ Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit already installed. I like this computer.

Next was several trips to other places including Chili’s and Walmart – Walmart ended up providing a wireless router, 2 digital cameras, and other assorted items. I also bought groceries, another McDonald’s trip and a KFC lunch. Now I’m waiting on the phone rebates so I can get my dog groomed.

I’ll post pics as soon as the memory cards for the cameras come. I bought them online through Amazon because I could get 2 of them for $26. LOL

Yeah, that’s me. Clumsy. Oy. So if you’ve seen my Twitter since Wednesday, you probably know that I fell Wednesday night. What??? Oh, well here, I’ll explain.

We went to the church Wednesday for 2 reasons. The first is that LaShawn runs the overhead system at the church and needed to make sure the songs were in the computer for it. The second was that Mom has been wanting to start going to the Wednesday night Bible Study again – LaShawn puts the songs in at 6pm, and Bible Study starts at 7pm. So I decided I would get dressed and go with them. If you’re curious why a Wiccan would attend a Bible Study, read this. Anyway.

After Bible Study we went out to Horizon (local place) to have dinner and then came home. Well, when we got home, I grabbed LaShawn’s laptop (she has a program on it that allows her to read the Bible and take notes on it called e-Sword – totally cool – so she took it for Bible Study) and got out of the car to go in the house. Well, the curb is still ice-covered thanks to too many snowstorms and the way the plow goes here. *Note: We do not have a concrete sidewalk all the way to the street, which is why we don’t shovel all the way to the street. We don’t want to dig up the yard!*

So I’m going up the little hill (3 steps) of packed snow/ice and slip. And fall. And drop the laptop, which was fine because it only fell about 5 or 6 inches and it was in it’s padded laptop case. I, on the other hand, was not fine. When I landed, I hit my knees, but they didn’t really hurt. What did hurt was putting my hands through the jagged ice/packed snow that was on the curb. My hands burned so badly I knew they had to be torn up, and I was right, although I couldn’t see how much while still outside.

When I got in the house, I was bleeding pretty badly from my left hand (it was dripping) but now that it’s been a couple of days, it appears that it was just because the cuts and scrapes were in just the right spots on my hand to bleed a lot. My right hand got cut in the padding below my thumb. It bled a bit, but not as much as my left hand – yet this is the nastiest looking cut. LOL None of them are very long or very deep, but they do hurt quite a bit if rubbed or pushed on.

So yeah. I’m a bit on the clumsy side here. Let’s just hope I’m not so clumsy come Monday (or whenever next week my refund drops in…it’s supposed to be on Monday but the IRS said it could be as late as Saturday the 6th). I’m getting some new toys then that I just can’t be dropping.