Update!

It’s been a while!  Wow, I’m a slacker!

I have been lax in my knitting, mostly because I’ve been highly pressed for time for the last 2 months.  But now that things are slowing down I’ve run into another roadblock.  I have double jointed thumbs, and double jointed anythings are prone to some arthritis.  My thumbs have always ached when it was cold out or overly humid but lately they have been aching all of the time.  Unsurprisingly, this makes knitting rather uncomfortable.  Surprisingly, playing video games, not uncomfortable.  I cannot explain it, maybe it’s the ergonomic design of controllers, maybe it’s because I don’t play video games non stop for hours at a time but that’s how I normally knit.  Who knows!  So, Gloves = 1 cuff done, Shopping bag = 4 inches tall

But, Left 4 Dead = finished!  We’ve had the game since we got our 360 but we also had Fallout and Bioshock and then we got Resident Evil 5, The Orange Box and Dead Space, so it kind of fell by the wayside.  But one night I decided I wanted to play video games WITH my husband (not by myself or watching him play a video game) so we put in Left 4 Dead and tore through it!  We were both sad it had ended and wondered why we waited so long to play the whole thing!  We might buy the DLC (down loadable content to those who don’t know) but we aren’t sure yet; It only gains us two chapters.  I’m thinking we might rent Left 4 Dead 2 and give that a whirl.

In Computer news, our laptop gave up.  One day it was fine, the next it wouldn’t turn on.  We couldn’t get anything off the hard drive either.  It was sad times.  We decided that what we use our laptop for most is surfing the web and making the occasional document.  A full blown laptop seemed like overkill, so a netbook it would be!  We bought a shinny new netbook (Acer Aspire One) a few weeks later.  It’s lovely!  The screen is only 10.1 but honestly I don’t really watch movies on it so that doesn’t really matter.  At Christmas my dad gave me a copy of Windows 7 to install on it.  Now it is amazingly lovely!  Now it networks with my Xbox seamlessly and I CAN watch movies on it, because they play through my Xbox onto my TV!  Extremely happy about that.  I also like that I can play my music through the TV now since the speakers in my little netbook are not the best.

On a personal note, everyone I know has been in and out of the hospital for the last two months!  Stop it!  All of you!  My Grandma went in for something minor but she has Alzheimer so it’s hard to know what’s wrong with her because she doesn’t even know.  My one friend had a double mastectomy so that was several days in the hospital and weeks of recovery.  And my Godson has been in and out for about 10 different things (he is trying to break your record Oneika!) Bronchitis, bump on the head, allergic reactions, the flu, respiratory issues, and now pneumonia!   He was admitted for observation but the doctors aren’t really worried, they just want to keep an eye on the little bugger.  Get better buddy!

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