I now have it...

What it is I am not sure though. Stuffy head, cough, feeling lethargic and just plain poopy ( a Sarah quote). I am not running a fever though it feels like it and chills to go with that, is just so much fun. Of course, being the female in the household means you still have to do the cooking, the cleaning and the laundry or it won't get done. Well, the cleaning isn't getting at least not today but the laundry is almost done and dinner, well Steve may have to go and get it. Because I am dragging now...
ETA: I decided I couldn't wait for Steve to get home and then get dinner. He has varied times for getting home so going and getting dinner myself seemed like a wiser plan.

Sarah is smart, beautiful, etc..

I just had a chat with her about my blog. She, too had noticed the message weirdos. So she went into my site and checked on a few things. She noticed I hadn't done a couple of things to my blog, one of which was that I didn't ask for a verification on my blog. So she walked through it asking me what I wanted and made suggestions then fixed it for me. The verification stops the spamming, which is a good thing. Then she went to my blog and deleted the unwanted messages for good. So I hope this takes care of my blog issues. It is so wonderful to have such a smart child!! I believe I owe her a coffee...

WARNING!!!

As of late I have been getting posts on my blog that lead to porn sites!!! Do not click on these links because many of these have cookies and will infect your computer. I am looking at restricting my web blog to deter this. I will let you know soon what I decide. To my family and friends you have my phone number let me know if you would like to be added to a list of restricted people having access to my blog. Sorry, there are such sick losers out there that think this is funny. :(

Angel challenge...

This month's Kat's challenge is to do a two page layout on an/the angel in your life. She didn't say if the angel had to be with us (living) or not. But I am guessing it is what you interpret your angel to be. I have chosen my late maternal Grandmother Emilia. As a young girl I spent many a summer vacation with her at her home in Bakersfield, CA. Some summers we drove to Las Cruces, New Mexico to visit her brother Eliseo and his wife Mary. I will never forget the summer rain and thunderstorms there. It could be bright and sunny one minute then dark and stormy literally in the next. Sometimes it was both. One summer we went to the Grand Canyon and another we drove to Hermosillo, Mexico to get copies of her birth certificate. The state at the time she was born didn't keep birth records, the local churches did that. The church where my grandmother's birth record was recorded had a fire and a good many were lost, including hers. I believe this was the trip where I had my first adult beverage at eighteen, a Tom Collins, that my Aunt Carmen bought for me. This picture is not great, as it is a scanned copy of a badly handled picture. I believe she was in her early thirties.

A mere ten days...

And we will be seeing little children doing an egg hunt at my sister-in-law Chris'. The cute little one in this picture is her niece Eve from last year. It was her first Easter egg hunt at Aunt Rissy's. It also means I have just nine days before I make my infamous "rum" cake for Easter dinner. I keep saying year after year I want to bring something different but I get moans and faces. It has become tradition so I spend three hours making and then drizzling the "secret" rum sauce over the cake. It is so good! Every year I catch someone scratching the leftovers off the platter.

I hate this time of the year...

Family wants me to do their taxes and then they get snippy when I ask questions. It is not my fault when they don't take their "Mother's" (ie, tax preparer) advice on their taxes. I have repeatedly said save everything that you believe will be needed for your taxes. And when in doubt save anyway! I can always decipher or not use anything they give me but when I get nothing I can't do much else. My biggest peeve right now is our beloved Oregon kicker refund. We have already paid taxes on this darn money and now we have to claim it on our federal and pay taxes on it again! Gripes my butt...

Tax time...

Sarah and Nate gave me their W-2's a few weeks back and I just did the preliminaries, I still need a few things from them before I can finish their taxes. Lisa's is a little more complex since she is paying on school loans and changed jobs last year. So I have just started hers. Ours on the other hand is a work in progress. I have my tax report done from Quicken and gathered my tax papers now I have to go through them and figure out our medical deductions, stock sale stuff and Steve's unemployment insurance. Then there is property taxes, mortgage interest, my outside income and our schedule K for the farm. Thank goodness for Turbo Tax.