Like Everyone Else

I've spent the evening trying to get my wireless connection set up for my Christmas present to myself; a laptop computer. I spent hours on the phone either on hold or talking with a friendly technician probably oversees. FInally, I went to the security settings on our desktop, and changed a few settings, and that was all it took. Who knew. So, now, at 11:14, after working on this for hours and hours, I am using my laptop. I'm excited.

I'm hopeful that this effort will be worth it. Good lord. What a fiasco. But, now it works. Somehow.

Kids aren't here tonight. Very quiet. I'll head back to work tomorrow; I have lots of ideas on making things more organized at work, and am looking forward to trying them. I'm ready for 2006 to be a year of changes, good ones, for me, the center, for my family. I know that I am a part of that process, and that some of it comes from prayer, too. I'm going to work on that area, too.

I'm going to spend the year doing things, thinking things that are positive. I've spent enough time in the past, trying to figure out how things ended the way they did. Now comes the time to get up and move on. I have to do it. And, I'm ready. I really feel like it's time for that.

What a relief that this thing works now! What a treat. I'm so excited. I'm becoming like a normal person, with a cell phone and a laptop. I know that isn't all that unusual, but, for me, it is. It's a relief.