This must be what it's like to the be cobbler's child.

If you're on Facebook, then you know that FB is a little bit of an obsession with me.  You'll also probably notice that I haven't been on in a few days.  Well.... it was a bad week for our computer.  Jeff is a computer guy, and a very, very good one at that.  He manages the team that manages thousands of desktops at Barclays.  So, since I'm married to a computer whiz, I've turned over all responsibility in that area to him.  Jeff likes to keep us up to date, and that means that we're always on the latest and greatest version of Windows and we just recently updated to Windows 7 - the OS to solve all problems.  Unfortunately, we had a mishap.  Accidentally, all of our pictures for the last two years (the pics that have been uploaded since the last update) were deleted. 

Now, I consider myself a rational person, I do have a temper, but my control over my inner monologue is good and I generally don't say things in anger.  I have to be pushed pretty darn far, and I have some friends who would be happy to attest to the fact that it's not pretty when I do lose control.  I can't recall a time in our marriage, or even before our marriage where I have yelled at Jeff with the spectacular variety of curse words and recriminations that I did the night before Thanksgiving when we realized what had happened.  All the while, I knew of course that Jeff would have turned himself inside out to undo the mistake, but I just wanted to be mad for a while.

So needless to say, I've mostly come to terms with it now and if you have any pictures of us from 2008- 2009, please forward them on!  Jeff is doing his best to try to recover things and that's why I haven't been online for the past few days.  Basically, until he could take the hard drive to work and see if anything is on there, we didn't want to write over any more old information.  It's our very own forensic computer search. 

Here's to a better week!!!

20 things I'm thankful for - not in any particular order

1.  Jeff
2.  The Kids
3.  My parents
4.  My in-laws
5.  My wacky family
6.  Jeff getting up with Maggie most days
7.  Coffee
8.  The dog not having cancer
9.  Facebook
10.  My friends, especially those that keep me sane on a daily basis
11.  Kraft Mac n Cheese
12.  PBS Kids
13.  The rare moments when my kids get along
14.  Contact lenses
15.  Instant oatmeal
16.  Health insurance
17.  Being born in America
18.  Travel mugs
19.  My sense of humor and the fact that I have people that get me
20.  Coffee.... it deserved two slots.

Certainly not my comprehensive list, but not bad for 1 cup of coffee and 8:30AM.