Damien has another cold coming on. Can I please know why this kid is constantly ill? Actually up until the "winter" he was doing fine, then we just kept sharing germs, and passing sickness back and forth. Now I get to look forward to what he has now! Which no doubt he got in school because people just love sending their kids in sick. Woo Hoo!!

I went to pick up an item that was given to me from someone who Freecycled it. It is actually for Mike. A Santa Homer Simpson blow up thing for the lawn. It works and is in great shape! He is going to be super happy about it. I actually can't wait to show him!

I can't seem to find my remote and Buffy the Vampire Slayer is on torturing me. This is one of the worst movies ever made. I am losing I.Q. points every time I look up from the computer screen. If only I wasn't so lazy and would get up to change it.

I am hearing things over head (a certain few will know what I am talking about) and getting really depressed because I haven't gotten that phone call yet. I don't know why it is bothering me so much because I know the date, and I should be used to this, but apparently I am not!

~Til next time

Playing with Photoshop

I was so bored today that I decided to mess around on Photoshop with the pix that are on here. I am looking foward to playing with my more recent ones... Enjoy!

Oh no!

I just got off the phone with the geek people... my beloved notebook will be there for at least 2-3 more weeks because my motherboard apparently gave up on life and the replacement is backordered. The "usual" time for backordered parts is 2-3 weeks but can take longer. I am saddened by this because I miss my notebook dearly. Now in researching this I have found so far that replacement motherboards don't always work and the computer ends up not working the same anyway. If this is the case, and I am waiting over a month (all together) to get my computer back that is only going to crap out on me again, you have no idea how pissed off I will be.

The good news is if that happens they will replace the computer, but I want the old computer back before I get a replacement one. I have programs on there that I need to transfer to the external hard drive. I was attempting to do this before I sent it out but it wouldn't boot for me at all.

So it looks like I will be using the crappy Dell for awhile. Maybe I should stop calling it that before it takes offense and stops working too.

If the First children had Autism

I found this on a blog that I follow called Adventures in Autism, and I just had to repost it. It is that good. Now go get some Kleenex.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-stagliano/if-the-first-child-had-au_b_159610.html

You know you want some...

Of my delicious chocolate mousse...

If you want the recipe you will need to ask me for it! All of my friends know I am so stingy with my recipes that the request actually has to be made before I give it up.

Damien helped whip the cream. He was so proud that he rewarded himself by licking the beaters. LOL

Lazy Sunday...

Not so much but it sounds good. I've been trying to get through this mountain of laundry. I went through and cleaned out Damien's toys. I am Freecycling the ones that I am getting rid of. As I was going through everything, I thought to myself "didn't I just do this"? As a matter of fact, I did, right before Christmas. This kid has Toys R' Friggin' Us for a bedroom. I am now doing laundry and light here and there things because the cleaning alone made my back start in. So hopefully by the time Mike gets home the house will be sparkling and ready for him to make a mess of it. Actually, we are going to be doing all the painting and shit so it is going to get screwed up either way.
I'm still on the craptastic Dell, so I have no pix for you. I may go ghetto rig the old IBM to the monitor in the bedroom (Don't ask) and see what I have on there to share. We'll see, right now I am too lazy to even breathe.
~Til next time

It's been a week....

It has been a week since my beloved laptop got shipped off to the geek people to fix it. In the meantime, I have been going through all of the old photos that I have here on this laptop. Here are some of my Dad's house in Dahlonega, Thanksgiving weekend 2007.

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Feeling no pain

As I type this tonight, I am stoned off the lovely pain killer Tramadol and the muscle relaxer Skelaxin. I am feeling pretty sick to my stomach but my pain is minimized so I guess that I can deal with the nausea. Feeling like this makes me wonder how people can become drug addicts in the first place?

So as I sit here alone and high, and being depressed by the evening news. I went though some of the old pictures that are on this piece of shit computer. Nostalgia baby!

The Comeback

I realize that I haven't blogged since 2007, and I sit here wondering, why? Why would the Devilish one neglect her blog? Too busy, perhaps? Or is it that dreaded writers block. My friends will be the first to tell you that I am never at a loss for words. I guess I have to blame it on sheer laziness.

You find me again at the tail end of yet another deployment. This is the slowest part of the whole process. This is where the minutes pass like days and the days seem like years. To be totally cliche "so close, yet so far". As I wait for the arrival of my significant other, I will catch the blog up.

Damien was diagnosed as mildly autistic November 2007, and has progressed greatly since then. A little over a year ago he had NO vocabulary. Now he doesn't shut up! He goes to PSI class everyday from 9-12. He does well in school, but has his moments. He has grown so much. He is a mini-Mike still, I have abandoned all hope of him looking even remotely like me.

We added a new edition to our fur clan over the summer. A Siamese kitten named Draco Malfoy who Damien renamed Sagwa. You know the Chinese Siamese cat. He is cute but a complete jackass. He bites everything and everyone. I am waiting for the dogs to make a snack of him. That would be just fabulous.

This deployment happened to pass through the holidays. Those are always the great ones. When you get the sad reminder that you are a military wife destined to spend the holidays alone when all of the normal people get to actually have those Thanksgivings and Christmases depicted in a Thomas Kinkade painting. No, not us.

Despite this we managed to muddle through and have a decent holiday. This was the first Christmas that Autism didn't take over. Damien was excited about it. He ripped into all of his presents with so much enthusiasm. It was actually pretty awesome to watch.

I am waiting for my computer to come back from the computer hospital that it is in at the moment. I am writing this on the Dell that is the biggest piece of crap in the world, and I have no pictures on here to upload and share with you. As soon as I get my wonderful notebook back I promise I will overload you on all sorts of photographic goodness.

Til Then~