First, if this works, I want to welcome our new niece Calista Leigh Craig to the family! She was born almost a month ago, and we are so excited to meet her! CONGRATULATIONS to Mike's sister, brother in law, and big brother Houston!!
Ok, I am making an attempt to write this on Mike's computer. The last time I tried this, the post was deleted into thin air and I was too tired to try to find it. As my father in law says, it may have been user error. The problem with the computer occurred right after I had just downloaded some new "Glee" songs to my Itunes...do you think that was the issue? I got the Dreaded Blue Screen and everything else. Luckily, one of my husband's first jobs in high school was installing radios at Best Buy. He is impressively good with electronics and told me that he has now fixed everything with my laptop - I just have to find the instillation CD that came with it. Alright - I bought this computer in Mississippi. 4 years ago. I have since moved twice and quite honestly, I am not sure I even kept the CD the night I bought the computer. (Who really thinks they are going to need those things??) There is no way I am going to find this object (and I have been looking through lots of boxes.) Of course, when Mike told me something was terribly wrong with the laptop I responded, "Ok, well I will just go get another one tomorrow." Wrong answer. We are still searching for that darn CD. Tomorrow I am calling Gateway to see if they have that "in their backstock." Wish me luck.
Since I wrote last, we have celebrated Easter and my grandmother and mom came into town. I had plans to make an extravagant Easter meal, but Mike had plans to finish up the semester. My beef tenderloin is still in the freezer. I did get Mike an Easter basket, complete with bunny ears on a headband. He was more enamored by the three bags of candy that I threw in there. Mom and Grandma came to visit because Grandma is graciously letting me have her car. She is no longer able to drive (don't ask her about it - she gets really mad) and said that the best way to deal with the situation was to give it to someone in the family to take good care of it. It sounds sweet, and it truly was, but my sisters and mom both also have a history of major wrecks....I think she made a good choice.
While they were here, we decided to make Mike's mother's famous pasta sauce. From Italy. Secret Recipe. If you aren't getting it with all the capitalization and punctuation, This is Serious Stuff. In fact, I have been putting off making it because really, is it ever going to be as good as your mother's?? (I didn't even get the recipe until after we were engaged!) After a long day of searching for a certain secret ingredient that they don't sell in Dallas, we started the sauce. Mike's mom used to make this every Sunday and when someone in the family walked through the kitchen, they would stir the sauce. I was getting a lot of, "Hey - have you stirred that sauce?" "Umm, is the sauce burning?" Which resulted in me reminding Mike that he in fact also has two hands. All in all, it turned out well, I think. Plenty of time to practice.
What else...our house is falling apart. Since the garbage disposal incident, our air conditioning quit working, and tonight, I went up into the attic searching for leak that was dripping through the ceiling onto the rug. I am pretty sure there are squirrels up there. Thank the Lord that Mike is almost on summer break.
So, that is pretty much the update. Yes, still studying for the bar that is at the end of July. Not stressed quite yet, but sure that will come in time. Ok, I am about to try and post this....
