I started writing this from the car Friday morning, on the way to Montego Bay. A beautiful day for a drive, even if the purpose of the mission was to sort out yet another Jamaican postal calamity/bureaucratic bull shi*! I find I sail through such situations smoothly when I put on my happy face and grin with gratitude.
Update: Eight hours later, after a very long day of bureaucratic servitude, the grin of gratitude waned, and I didn’t have the energy to continue this post. I am having an impossible time typing because my keyboard has gone ballistic and refuses to function without an external mouse (which is sitting on my desk at home, oops).
Which reminds me that I’ve yet to share with you the very sad news that my beloved macbook is on the fritz. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt so emotionally bonded to and dare I say, dependent on a machine (with the exception of my first record player, and perhaps my last mac). My mac is my home theatre, stereo, blog center, and correspondence aid. Almost everything to me!
There is no doubt that my creative, artistic and computer skills have grown infinitely in the last few years of relationship with this laptop. And I am sad to admit that this trusty mac is on the fast track to retirement. Hopefully, she will be grazing greener pastures and browsing the net in easy, relaxed fashion in no time. For now I am squeezing every ounce of usability from this workhorse for as long as the keyboard and mouse hold out. Fingers crossed!
This week I’m obsessed with flower forming and polenta recipes though not in combination. The options presented by these two very diverse mediums (polenta and flowers) are limitless. I had no idea! I am including a few pics of recent creations and am considering adding a recipes category.
Have a fabulous weekend!
One Love, walk good, fingers crossed, hope to blog again soon…
Poor you!
I totally get how you are feeling about your Mac because my laptop too is on the way out too. Every so often it blacks out and switched itself off (mid blog – very annoying). It also closes down each time I try to upload photos but STILL I can’t bare to let it go!
Worse thing is, my husband bought me a brand new, shiny one for Christmas, but I just can’t bring myself to use it. Isn’t it bizarre how a computer can become like a comfortable chair that fits you perfectly? What exactly are you supposed to do with a beloved computer once it has retired anyway??
Right! I love my little baby laptop and she’s black! They don’t even make these ones anymore.
I think you and I may both have to face reality soon and look towards letting go. Mid blog blackouts are not a good thing in this biz!
You remind me of Carrie Bradshaw. I dunno if you ever saw the episode of Sex and the City where her beau buys her a new laptop after hers breaks down. I mean she was writer and her dude knew she needed it to do her work. It was such a sweet gesture but she refused to use it, spent almost the same $ amount fixing her own and buying a back up hard drive. She made him take the cute little, purse like, mac back!
Love the flowers, they are Yummy! I have never seen faux flowers look so real. They look like they may smell sweet too!
Hello darling! I’m pleased to announce my old codger laptop is still holding out – although I haven’t had much time to blog recently and so haven’t had any black outs to report.
I didn’t ever see that episode of Sex and the City, but may have to seek it out. I quite like being compared to Carrie Bradshaw … hmmm. Hope you are well and the work is flowing. X