The Reason is you

Ok, it's one week into this beast called NaBloPoMo and things are going pretty good. I'm really not sure why I'm taking on this challenge of posting every day for a month. I believe in quality posting, not quantity. But I saw it as a challenge that I wanted to try and so I'm tryin' it.

One of hubby's tasks while he was home was to get the desktops set up. Yes, we have two desktops. One downstairs called Monstro that the kids can use and my little red baby upstairs called Little Red. (yeah, original) I love Little Red; if you go to your bookshelf and pull out a dictionary, that's about the size of my computer. And it's a desktop! (dell studio, if anyone's curious.) Anyway, the real reason I started talking about that was . . . um, I think I lost my train of thought. Ok, hubby's task was to set up my computers aaaand, yes, I have been enjoying having it set up and all of my bookmarks back. Before we left Egypt, hubby's other task was to group all of our digital media into one place. Pictures on one external hard drive, music on another, you get the picture.

I flipped Little Red on and there were all of these pictures from Egypt that had made the dump to my EHD (is that a real acronym?) but for some reason, not wiped from my computer. I made sure we cleaned up afterwards. Oh well, I have been tripping down memory lane the last week. I'm not getting teary or sentimental. Egypt will never be viewed through rose-colored glasses by me, no matter how hard time tries to soften the rough edges. I miss my friends and acquiantances and the memories we made. I don't miss this.

That was me trying to give Jacqui a bath in the morning. Our water pressure sucked big time. So much so it looked like it sucked most of the water intended for my kid's baths back into the tank. Big pain in the . . . you know where. The case usually was that our landlord had turned off the water pump overnight and the tank would take half the day to fill, so if I could give kids a bath between the hours of 11am and 2pm, the water pressure was fine. (that was actually when I would do laundry b/c the water would only trickle out of my washing machine as well.) But let's play the Glad Game, my precious Pollyannas, I can now bathe 3 kids in 20 minutes flat. Bathed, scrubbed, dried, dressed and brushing teeth. (the fourth showers herself. big kids are great.)

I call this "Truck 'o' Meat". Oh the unsanitary! (mode of transport) Yum.

The Lost in Translation signs. I considered getting business cards for Spencer with this sign on them! Nah, not really. (yes, really.) This was at some horse stables by the pyramids. 'Cept the horses didn't look as healthy as that 'stud' on the poster.

Really, I could go on forever, I've got 4 years worth of it! Anyway, I guess I'm just saying that I'm grateful to be here where I am now; a house with a yard, great water pressure, clean meat and a blog on which to share it all with you!