well, i have been having some computer issues these past few days and i haven't been able to post. we had a parental control program on our computer that costs us $4.95 per month. it was freaking out on us and not letting us review any websites at all. since they are closed on the weekend, i had to wait until this morning to call them and get it fixed. turns out that they are discontinuing their filter service and so they helped me to uninstall it and also helped me sign up with another Utah based company that would provide the same, or actually better, service and best of all... it's free!!! so that made me happy. we have parental controls on our TV as well. it's better to be safe than sorry. there were times when i would be flipping through channels and start watching a movie or something and then, next thing i knew, some one would say the f-word, or nakedness would occur. this way, the TV automatically blocks anything that would be considered inappropriate to us. also, on the computer, i was at work one day and i wanted to look up an address of a shoe store. so i typed in what i thought was the web address and a foot fetish website came up! i totally freaked out. if they had monitored my Internet use at the company i was working, i so would have been fired. so now i have the computer thing all figured out. the new web filter is with k-9 and it's free and you can download it from it's website. let me know if any of you are interested and i can get you the info.
been pretty busy lately. my mom is buying a home and it's supposed to close this week. it is probably going to close on the day dadi and i leave for vacation which is not going to be good for her since she needs some help getting moved. we had a friend say that he would help us and so we were pretty excited about having some extra help. but then he goes and dislocates his shoulder. i think he did it on purpose just to get out of helping!!
we're so excited for our trip to mammoth. it's going to be so fun. i just hope that the bears don't come around like they did last time. that was a little scary for me. all three days we were there, bears would approach us to see if they could eat any fish we had caught. we had moma with us so it was even more scary for us. it's a freaky when a bear sneaks up on your peaceful time by the lake. anyways, moma is staying with dadi's brother and his family. i'm nervous to leave her and i'm going to miss her, but i'm really looking forward to a trip with just the two of us. it's going to be nice.
Today, i went to sams club and after my shopping, i went to the deli to get a pretzel for moma and i to share. i always do this. it's kind of a tradition. anyways. there wasn't enough room for my cart in the line so i had to pick her up and carry her while i waited. she always takes her shoes off now when we're in the car or where ever, so i just leave them off unless i know she's going to be doing a lot of walking. well, while we were in line, she started getting fussy and wanted to be let down. so i decided that i would put her down on the ground and get her shoes out of my bag to put them on. this lady on her cell phone next to me says "mam, the floor is really dirty" i just said "it's okay" and i continued to fish her shoes out of my bag. then she proceeds to tell the person on the other end of the cell phone... "this woman next to me just put her daughter down on the floor and it's really dirty and she doesn't have her shoes on!" by this time, i had gotten the shoes out of the bag and started putting them on moma. it irritated me so i said to the women "do you have kids?" she said "no" and i said, .well, when you do, you'll realize that a little dirt won't hurt them". she just looked at me with a blank stare and i finished putting on momas shoes. first of all, i'm not in a public mens restroom, i'm at line in sams club so the floor really can't be too bad. second, why does this concern her? she isn't the one to give my kid a bath" and third, why is it that strangers feel the need to comment on your parenting when you're out in public? it always seems like it's the ones with out kids that are the most outspoken and retarded. so that's my little tangent for the day. but, i swear to you, i felt like getting down on the floor and licking it just to tick her off. i probably shouldn't have said anything at all and just ignored her. that probably would have been the best thing to do, but i couldn't help myself. before i knew it, i was asking her if she had kids and after that, i just had to commit to the rest of the sentence. people are dumb.
so that's about it. just getting ready this week for the vacation and i'm so excited. i want to catch a big fish to put on the wall next to dadi's that he caught a few years ago. that would be so awesome!!