Irene is on the way!

Hi all,

I am hanging out waiting for Irene! Mark thinks it will hit Hatteras and turn into a tropical storm. The weather "people" love to hype stuff like this. And since when do earthquakes fall under "weather"??!!

I am finally able to read a book. Nothing deep ... I am reading "Scarlet Nights" by Jude Deveraux. Margy brought me some of Melanie's light reading. Thanks Marg! It feels wonderful to be able to concentrate enough to read.

Not much to say today. Our fridge went on the fritz a few days ago. It was acting like it was possessed. It was keeping food cold and frozen thankfully. But all the lights on the front of the fridge were flashing intermittently and the little door for the ice kept flapping.

Mr Fixit (alias my hubby) went online to research the "fix". Low and behold there was the answer. With pictures. So Matt and I went to Tribles Appliance store and bought the circuit board. Mark and Matt had the fridge repaired in about 20 minutes. Andddddd the floor under and behind the fridge got vacuumed!

Oh, I forgot, my hair is starting to fall out. I am going to buy a wig this week. Totally wierd!

I added a feature (just above Foxie's pic) to my blog that I THINK allows you to sign up to receive an email when I update. I think! Try it out and let me know.

Also, thanks to Wendy, here are some instructions on "How to Subscribe to Judy’s Blog using Internet Explorer":
1. Go to her blog: http://nodramanoproblems.blogspot.com/
2. Scroll to the bottom where you’ll see the following just above Nelson’s pic: “Posts (Atom)”. Click on that phrase.
3. You’ll now see Judy’s blog; but, displayed a bit differently. At the very top, there’ll be a box that says that you’re “viewing a feed” blah, blah, blah. Under that you’re given 3 options to subscribe to the feed (feed is another way of referring to receiving updates to blogs). Click on the one that says: “Subscribe to this feed”
4. You’ll get a little pop-up that asks if you want the feed to show up as “Jude’s Journey” created in “Feeds”. Go ahead and click . Once you understand what’s going to happen you can always delete this feed and resubscribe and have the feed show up in a different place.
5. You’ve now successfully subscribed to Judy’s blog! YEAH!

How to VIEW Judy’s Blog:
1. After you bring up Internet Explorer, click on your “Favorites Center” icon (I have a star icon for this)…this is the same place you go if you want to return to a website that you’ve bookmarked in the past.
2. After clicking that icon, notice at the top that you now have a few options: “Favorites”, “Feeds”, and “History.” Click on “Feeds.”
3. “Jude’s Journey” should be one of the options you now see listed. Click on that.
4. You should now be able to see Judy’s Blog. You can play with the feeds properties (i.e., how frequently it searches Judy’s Blog to see if she’s been updating it) by clicking on “View feed properties…” over on the right side (once you’re looking at Judy’s Blog).

I <3 U all,
Jude