Several great things happened today, but I’ll let you decide on the good/better/best part because I can’t pick my favorite. First the bad news. I woke up this morning with my eye swollen almost shut. Again. At least this time I had one good eye to see out of. Later on today when the swelling went down some, we could see that I had a bite of some sort right on the corner of my eye. My bet is on one of the many minuscule ants that I see in our bathroom every now and then. I also have a few huge welts from some other bug on my shoulder and back — I’m guessing mosquitos for those. :sigh:
But I woke up to Josh’s parents in our house! Their flight came in at 4 this morning so Josh picked them up before he left for school. We had a fun breakfast and chatted for a while before and after the kids headed off on the bus and then they headed upstairs to take a much needed nap.
Meanwhile, another part of the good news was unveiled. Art and Barbara brought my new toy — a MacBook Air. I had always said I could never justify paying 4xs the amount for a Mac when the PC version was perfectly adequate, but I finally caved and had it shipped from Amazon to their house right before they left so they could bring it over (they’re still selling the 2010 version here at a higher price than the 2011 in the US).
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| ugly puffy eye, pretty new computer |
So I opened it up and started playing around with it — I LOVE that it automatically found and set up my wireless network. Usually I have to wait until Josh is around and have him do it for me. It is already proving to be a good fit. I loved my netbook, but I always ended up saving things on my desktop because if I let the computer pick the location, I could never find them again. They say “once you go Mac, you never go back,” so we’ll see if it lives up to the hype. I haven’t spent much time on it because my puffy eye started making me feel tired (probably the combo of the antihistamine and having to work to keep my eye open) so I gave up and took a long, long nap (4 hours).
Meanwhile Lucy made dinner and played with the baby and managed the house so I didn’t have to worry about a thing while I slept. I woke up to find Lucy gone and Josh home with the news that our time here has been extended until the boys finish the school year. Our 12 months is up in April and we were trying to figure out how we could get the boys through until the end of the school year . . . but Josh asked, and we received! No news yet on where we’ll be moving to, but Josh has requested Bahrain. Otherwise it will be somewhere in the states, hopefully West coast.
A puffy eye photo is coming as soon as I can figure out how to get photos from my computer to my blog. As easy as the Mac system is, I still need a for Dummies book.
