So I am huge Mac fan…ever since the day I converted from PC to Mac I vowed that I would never not use a mac as my own computer again…and despite the last 24 hours’ circumstances I will stay true to this vow. Here’s what happened…

Around 8pm last night my computer started acting weird…the internet was running really strangely and some programs were acting up. This lasted for about 40 minutes until all of a sudden…the unthinkable happened…my mac froze. After having to shut it down manually (ouch) it would not reboot. It would try and try, but I think that the startup drive went south on me.

So after a series of tests and attempts to remedy the problem I was forced to go drop it off at my local ‘fake’ Mac Store. Some of the computer stores in Paris have the look of a Mac store, but there is no genius bar, no friendly service, no database of stored information so receipts aren’t necessary (I had to travel home to get my original receipt for my computer…good thing I shipped this across the sea a year and a half ago!)…Regardless, I left my digital baby with these people that I only sort of trust. I think that this is a good step for me for one day having to leave my real baby with a sitter, but just a bit different…

So if you haven’t heard back from me from an e-mail you sent me…please don’t take offense…my computer got sick and I just don’t have your address to reply! If you could write me back or resend your e-mail (condolences accepted) I would great appreciate it! Thanks and wish me luck on getting this fixed soon…they said it could be up to three weeks! NOOOOOOOO (trailing off into nothingness….)

When I was in the third grade I started wearing glasses…year after year until about four years ago my eyes had gotten worse and worse. I can only read things that are more than 13 inches from my face with my contacts or glasses on…I can barely tell what direction the ‘big E’ on a vision test is facing!

Today I was painting my daughters crib and Jen was taking pictures and I didn’t want to have my glasses on in the pictures so I painted a while without them. I actually think that I painted better because I could only see the area that I was working on and not be distracted by the other areas I still needed to get to.

My sight is actually a funny contradiction to the way I live…I normally live in the future and I daydream more about the future than I do the past or the present. This can be a good thing, but it can also send me into a downward spiral when the future has a lot of things coming my way…like we do right now! (Baby, new church stuff, finances)

For once in my life I am thankful that my body is near sighted even though my life is not…it’s a good reminder that sometimes we need to deal with only what is in front of us and take life as it comes. I’m trying to find the balance of all this!

I put up some pics of our new place…We are getting settled in and trying to acquire some stuff we need to get the place finished. We are loving our neighborhood and getting to know a completely new area of the city…new cafés, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, hardware stores…it’s a fun challenge/adventure…One of these days I’m going to go on a photography walk of the neighborhood and put up pics of the new quatier…later