Valentines Day Victory

I had a great day! I have been reluctant to work on any of my web pages since my laptop crashed many moons ago. The poor thing was so corrupt they had to reformat the drive and all was lost. Praise God, I had made a backup not long before the crash, so most of my data was saved. I did have to reinstall my software, however, which proved a daunting task indeed because I could not find some of the discs and most of the serial numbers. I had not unpacked any of that stuff since our very disorganized move from California in June of 2006. All my office stuff languished in storage for almost nine months after that and I was just overwhelmed by trying to sort it all out. I still can't run Microsoft Office because I can't find the serial number for it.

So, today at last I tackled FrontPage and began to revamp a bit of ionanet. I just wanted to send a Valentines Day "card" to folks I knew, but in checking the pages which I had designed long ago, I discovered the graphics were missing. They had all resided on my Art4Christ site which I closed when the registration last expired. I never sold much art on it anyway and people were linking directly to my images, loading them to their pages with each hit so my bandwidth costs were at risk of becoming unmanageable.

It took hours, but I finally got the pages fixed and began to recreate some of the free graphics and how-to info I had on the old art site. I had my usual problems staying focused, but was able to recognize when I was drifting and needed to take a break. It feels truly wonderful to have accomplished that! There is much I want to do to my site so it reflects me where I am today. After looking at it with fresh eyes, I see that it seems way too self promoting. I want to get rid of all that.

As for the rest of the day, my wonderful sweetheart gave me some great Disney pins I had been wanting. He knows I enjoy pin trading, so he bought two of each style. We had a quick supper of sub sandwiches from Wal-Mart before I had to leave for Giveback, and when I got home we enjoyed a long and sentimental visit. I had forgotten about the laundry in the dryer and there was no coffee in the filter. He folded the laundry and would have said nothing except he knows I need to be aware of mistakes and write up Error Analysis reports so I can discover when I am vulnerable to "TBI moments" and devise/improve strategies to prevent their repetition. He was so cute about it, saying, "The coffee was a little weak." Living with a TBI survivor/recoverer is not easy, but Richard takes it all in stride and works so well with me on my self therapy.

I had a wonderful and victorious Valentines Day filled with love and many blessings.