This has been a pretty good day. This evening I discovered that I still have a program on my old computer that I thought was long gone. I had backed up one of my programs last August; then an over-zealous computer repairman decided to take off Windows Explorer and replace it with Firefox. I lost a database that had been pre-installed on that computer when I got it, but which I didn't have the installation disk for. I lost access to information that had taken me weeks to put onto that computer. Now I can put in my flash drive and bring it up on my old computer. I will need to update it from last August to the present date, but I can handle that.

Luckily instead of going to bed early last night, I remembered that the Fiesta Flambeau Illuminated Parade was being televised. I watched that for two hours and it was really neat. This is the first year that it has been streamed live to other areas.

After church this morning, I came home and fixed myself a chicken sandwich for lunch. I have sirloin steak in the crockpot for supper. I will wait and have that ready when Sis gets home from her trip this evening.

I put the meat in this morning, sprinkled some bay leaves on top and poured a mixture of 1 can of cream of chicken soup and 1 cup water over it. It sure smells good. I have it turned down to warm now.

8:00 p.m. now: Sis got home a little after 6 p.m. We had the steak, steamed broccoli, carrots & cauliflower, and sliced homemade bread. A very delicious supper and we'll probably have the leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

She was very tired after the long weekend. She had taken a lot of pictures while down there, with her digital camera, so we looked at those.

I put ingredients in the bread machine for yogurt bread this morning:

3/4 cup water
1 cup plain yogurt (I used Greek yogurt)
3 1/2 cups bread flour
2 tsp salt
2 1/4 tsp bread machine yeast

Pour it in, turn it on. How easy is that?!

Then I went to Wendy's and had a sausage biscuit and cup of coffee for breakfast and read the morning newspaper.

I was going to go on to Wal-Mart from there and pick up my prescription, but I realized that I would get there before the pharmacy department opened. So I came back home. Around 9:15 a.m. the pharmacy called and left a recorded message that my prescription was ready, so as soon as the bread was done - at 9:30, I took it out, then went to Wal-Mart.

My vacuum cleaner has died, so after I picked up my prescription, I looked through theirs and picked out a Eureka Upright that advertises that it won't lose its suction. It was on sale at what seemed a reasonable price, so I bought it. I haven't opened the box and tried it yet, but I plan to do that later this afternoon.

I did try a slice of the homemade bread after I got home and it is very good. I hadn't used that recipe before. I had a chicken sandwich and a dish of Greek yogurt with blueberries, blackberries and sliced banana stirred into it for lunch.

Well. . . I opened the box and was intimidated by the instructions for assembling the vacuum cleaner, so I think I'll wait until the first of the week.

I had a small chef salad and coffee for supper. I've got to wash my hair and put it up tonight and I think I will just go to bed early.

Sis should be home from her mission trip sometime tomorrow.

After I got off work at noon, I went to Wal-Mart to pick up my prescription and get some groceries. I had called yesterday and specifically asked the woman if the pharmacy if I could pick up my prescription today - as I wasn't sure it was long enough since I got the last one. The insurance company won't pay if they give it out too soon. She said sure, I could get it this afternoon. But when I got there, the girl behind the counter said I can't get it until the 28th (tomorrow). It's not that I was out of pills, I was trying to combine trips and save gasoline. So I will have to make two trips anyway. While I was there, I went ahead and got groceries and a couple flash drives that I was needing for my computer.

After I came home and ate some lunch and rested a little while, I started doing laundry. That pretty much took care of the rest of the day. I didn't realize I had so much to do.


I just finished watching "Who Do You Think You Are" on NBC. Rob Lowe was featured in this segment. I really enjoy watching that program.

Somehow, the instructions popped up on how to do line breaks. Good thing, as I was running out of pictures to put between paragraphs. LOL

What do I do when I wake up and can't sleep? Why, get on my computer, of course, my window to the world. These little pictures that I share have two purposes: (1) I find them on the internet or they are emailed to me and I want to save them; and (2) since I haven't figured out how to separate my blogs into paragraphs, I just put a picture in when I want to start a new paragraph. Whatever works. . .

Now since I've been up and on the computer for an hour and a half, I think I'll go back and try to get some more sleep. Here's a u-tube address I am putting here so I can find it again. Awesome card trick: http://www.youtube.com/v/Uh0CMcLiRkw%26feature%3dshare

Oh come on!. . . All I had to eat yesterday other than that omelet for supper was a couple small pancakes without syrup for breakfast, black coffee, a small pack of peanut butter crackers and a chicken sandwich for lunch, and an unbuttered cinnamon-raisin bagel in the afternoon. Now how did that cause me to gain a pound overnight? However. . . if I step on the scale tomorrow morning and gasp in horror, at least I will know why. We went to Cracker Barrel restaurant for supper this evening and I had the special - shrimp & grits skillet with a side salad and a wedge of cornbread. It was delicious, but way too much to eat that late in the day.

Our yard man came and mowed this morning, so it looks a lot better.

I called my new doctor's office this morning and made an appointment for next month for my first visit.

I fixed myself a microwave omelet for supper (2 eggs, 1 tbsp water, a bit of crumbled cheese, a shake or two of bacon bits) and stuffed what I could of it into a croissant. The rest I ate by itself. Delicious!