It's a good feeling

GENEALOGY
Wow, I get so far behind on so many things it seems, especially since I started digiscrapping. I am subscribed to quite a few Rootsweb e-mail lists for my surnames to watch them for things to break down my brick walls or to meet distant relatives. I let them go so long. The other day, I went through messages in one of them that I realized were a year old. Goodness, it's been a year since I've read them? I need to get better!

This morning I realized that I have 2,431 messages in my "Wright" folder! Ugggg! To mass delete or to read? That is the question. The oldest message is from 7/22/06? Ugggg! But what if I mass delete and miss that all importang clue? What to do, what to do!

INTERNET PROTECTION
Ever since last Thursday my Kaspersky has been giving me big problems. I had graphic problems which have not seemed to be resolved by them. I am also having RAM issues being caused by them. I'm not so sure any more that I am as happy with this program as I previously was. In all the years I used Norton, I never had these types of problems caused by an update they put out.

IT'S A GOOD FEELING
Last night my son came to me to help him with his homework. He had a 27 page children's book written in spanish to complete and he was confident I could take the photos that he and his partner took and work magic with them for his project. Of course, he waited until the night before the due date to ask me to help. Sigh. When will these boys stop procrastinating!

It did feel good, though, to be needed and to know my boy had confidence in me.

Look, I can put a checker board game between two puppets! Hmm..is the perspective off? I think the board might be sliding off the table a bit, but oh, yeah, isn't the puppet too?
Look! I can make rain clouds over the monkey's head! Now, in the next photo, I can make the monkey hold the checkerboard over his head to protect himself from the rain!

As the story goes on, apparently the checkerboard develops a hole in it and the monkey gets wet anyway.

At some point in the story, the monkey hides in a cave and needs a flashlight. Can you tell I made the cave black? (on each and ever shot of the monkey in the cave--I won't show you them all).


So, I didn't get any scrapping done last night, but I did have quality time with my son until about 11:30 p.m. That's much better time spent I think.

The story ends well with a treasure chest being found as the monkey climbs out of water (yes, the blue bean bag has been the water in previous photos).



I am now down to 2,378 more "Wright" surname e-mails. Can you imagine that everyone wants to be related to the Wright Brothers? Hmm...am I?