How do I tell my oldest daughter...

...that her grandpa is gone? He's not her biological grandfather but he's been the only grandparent she knows for the last five years. He lost his battle to lung cancer about two hours ago. I went to the hospital to see him one last time and came home around 2am and by then, she was asleep. I don't have the heart to wake her and tell her but I truly do not know how I'm going to tell her that he's gone. We've been preparing her for this for over a year now, since we first found out and we've been talking about it. She's seen him a couple of times this week when he went to the hospital after he suddenly declined on Sunday but it's hard for ME to believe he's gone and I saw him less than an hour before he died! It just doesn't seem real.

Poor thing. First her Aunt Mia moved far away to Tennessee and now her grandpa has died.

Getting just a tad tired of winter here...

I seem to remember a groundhog saying that spring was going to be early. So much for that! We did get our first spring thunderstorm early Tuesday morning and later Tuesday evening. This was followed the very next morning with--believe it or not--SNOW!!! Yes, we got about two inches of snow here following the almost two inches of rain we got the day before. And with the snow came the cold, lows around 15 degrees expected tonight with temperatures going lower each night through Sunday which is expected to be around 9 degrees. Really? I mean, it IS almost April for crying out loud! I'm getting sick of this! I swear, the older I get, the more I hate winter and the more I want to get out of Wisconsin for good.

The computer works again!

Though to be honest, it's been working for more than a week now. I'm SO glad too and it didn't take much to fix it at all. I didn't even have to take it in. I hadn't been allowing Windows to update my computer in awhile due to the fact that one time when I had, my wi fi was disabled. Somehow, the updates got turned back on and I guess enough of them were loaded to take care of the virus problem. When I turned on the computer while talking to the tech person on the phone, a whole bunch of things started scrolling down the screen and the computer was looking for errors. When that was all done, my desktop loaded and I was no longer getting error messages about the virus. Only problem was my computer wasn't able to go online. The tech person was able to walk me through to fix that and it wasn't long before the computer was up and running again just as it was before. Whew! That was a huge relief for me. I did download and install an antivirus and I passcoded the computer so that not just anyone can get on it. I hate to have to do that but John's been going on it while I'm gone and not even bothering to ask me if he could and it was starting to really get to me. Sadly that's one of the many issues we have right now.

So the computer's working and spring is on the way so I thought I would change the template again. At least this one didn't take quite as much work as the last one. lol

Posting from the library.

My computer which is my lifeline as that is the main source of social interaction for me (yes, I know, it's pathetic) is dead. While I was at the store on Friday, John went online on Internet Explorer (I usually use Fire Fox), clicked on a page, and my poor computer was hit. While it still turns on and goes to my desktop fine, I get hit with error message upon error message saying I have a virus and I'm unable to go online or even open a word document. So I'm at the library, catching up on things but only get an hour to use it. SO frustrating. I hate this and I was FURIOUS with John for going online without even asking me. He doesn't feel needs to and it's one more issue we have, his complete lack of respect towards my things. So, I will be taking the computer in tomorrow where I bought it over a year ago and hopefully it can be fixed. If not, I'll be in the market for a new computer. *sigh*