Happy Belated Groundhog Day!

We had a few pleasant moments today. We went to Sioux Falls for our bi-monthly trip, where we enjoyed soaking in the sun (you laugh! But it was TWENTY DEGREES and not windy!), laughing with our boys, eating hot dogs at Sam's Club, and shopping for kidney beans, frozen broccoli, bananas, conditioner, diapers, and... a laptop for me!



I know! Can you say, "Woo hoo!" With me now! Okay, so it's not a Mac. But it's MINE!

This wasn't exactly a planned purchase, though we'd been doing some preliminary looking. With the happy combination of some newly-discovered savings bond from the 1980s (thanks, Mom and Dad! and Aunt K, who originally bought them), some extra savings squirreled away (okay, I just hadn't used it to pay off more of our car yet), and a monster good closeout deal at Walmart (half of the Amazon price), plus a few prods by J ("I'll put it in the cart"), here I sit with my first laptop, with Carbonite doing all the hard work of transferring all my writing AND -- are you ready for this?! -- PICTURES AND VIDEOS! -- to this awesome machine! I can hardly contain my enthusiasm. Tomorrow, after I add some more cute pictures to our blog for all you long-suffering loved ones to enjoy -- the first of REGULAR updates! -- I'll start work on my best-seller to alleviate the buyer's guilt I'm sure will descend during my dreams.

Hope YOU all had a great Groundhog Day! (And didn't get stuck in the snow!)

P.S. Another really fun residual effect of me getting a laptop is that J rearranged our bedroom furniture (no need for the desktop anymore, hence the desk could be moved, etc. etc.). Which he did, like two hours ago. God love him!



Sometimes spring comes earlier than you think.