As some or all of you may know, I had another blog/website that I eventually came to dislike. Add in the fact that I pretty much rendered it useless, and here we are. I needed a new site. Everyone and their dog have a blogspot.com blog. I HATE following the crowd. But it seems that this does a lot more than I thought it did when I originally passed it over for the other website. I am going to go explore. Catch you on the flipside.
-Mrs. Kreilaus
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Waiting on that "out like a lamb" part...
The end of March and beginning of April came in like a lion and it's still roaring. There were lots of issues that came up that unfortunately involve other people and I don't know if they would approve of me writing about the issues. Therefore, I won't. But I can go into some lighter, funner issues. :^) My 3rd nephew was born on 4/4/11 and we have had fun visiting him and Miranda while they are in town. My birthday was in there somewhere, we did our taxes in there, too, and Jon opened and closed Rent at The Joint in Catoosa. That actually marked my first time in a casino. I was prepared to spend between $10 - $20 in there and actually got bills for my $2 worth of coins. Somehow, I walked out of there having only spent someone else's $1. ??? Oh well, I suppose that's good. If you haven't been to a casino, I recommend you wait until nightfall or the weekend. During the day is a creepy, creepy crowd. Although it is fairly quiet with lots of open seats. So, I guess it's your call. Shelby and I went out for our combined birthday celebration (her birthday is 4/20/11) and got free desserts that...well...weren't great. But it was the thought that counted! I'm still plugging away with my phone. It's one of my favorite things. It's battery life is not. But I am amazed daily at all the little things it can do and what I let it do for me. Maybe I'll do another post on my newest phone lessons.
Jon is working on getting all of his loose ends tied up so that he can graduate on May 7th. We have no idea what we are doing after that. There are a few options on or near the table, but nothing is set in stone. Hmmm...that didn't seem like nearly as much as we've been through in the past month! Oh well, it's lacking the big stuff, so I guess that's where the bulk of it is. haha Until next time...
OH! I almost forgot the most exciting part! I got another new purse this past Monday because mine was dying...again....
It's my new favorite thing right now. :^D
-Mrs. Kreilaus
Jon is working on getting all of his loose ends tied up so that he can graduate on May 7th. We have no idea what we are doing after that. There are a few options on or near the table, but nothing is set in stone. Hmmm...that didn't seem like nearly as much as we've been through in the past month! Oh well, it's lacking the big stuff, so I guess that's where the bulk of it is. haha Until next time...
OH! I almost forgot the most exciting part! I got another new purse this past Monday because mine was dying...again....
It's my new favorite thing right now. :^D
-Mrs. Kreilaus
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Babies and Technology (Completely Unrelated)
Babies: I took Friday off from work and Jon and I met up with Price, Sarah, and Baby David. This was the first time we'd met him. 5 months old. Then, after that, I took Jon to work and went to hang out with Shelby and her 1 month old Kingston. About a week ago, we learned that Joe and Miranda have the green light and have completed the adoption hoops course for a baby due any day now. And of course we all know that our nephew Dillon is set to have a baby sometime this year, too, making Jon and I Great Uncle and Great Aunt. I've only been doing this Aunt thing for about a year and a half now...wish I could have gotten some more practice in before moving into the Great realm! Oh, and Lyndsey is due to come to Oklahoma around the 1st of April, so I'll get to play with 10 month old Beckham then. WAVE O' BABIES!
Technology: A computer guru coworker of mine told me awhile back that Android 2.2 (FROYO) had been released and kept asking me if I had gotten on my phone yet. I kept trying and trying, but it kept telling me that I didn't have any updates available. Finally, a couple of days ago, I got a text telling me about it and gave me a link to go to. Well, that night, the link wasn't working. Of course not. Duh. So, I get it to work the next day and it was telling me that I was going to have to down FROYO onto my computer and then put it on my phone. Well, I had tried downloading directly to my phone the night I got the text message, but it, once again, told me I didn't have any updates available. Anyway, On Saturday (yes, while at work), I did the hoops jump and got it downloaded to my phone. It doesn't seem like too big of a change, but I'm still kinda new at it, so who knows. I don't really like its style, though...I would prefer a more streamlined look. Then yesterday (yes, at work again...) the same computer guru coworker tells me about a neat new feature on Facebook that I hadn't seen yet. He says something about maybe needing to have the new IE for it to work. So I get on Microsoft's website today and sure enough, there's an Internet Explorer 9 out and I have 8. Annoying. So, I download 9 after reading a little bit about it (Okay, so I read about it as I was downloading...so sue me...). It was talking about a streamlined format and putting the focus back on webpages. Yay...that sounds great. I thought 8 was a little cluttered looking and clunky leaving a very small window to view a webpage on my netbook. I get it downloaded, restarted my computer and fired up IE9. Ummm....there's an address/search bar (which they were making a big deal about, but Delli - my 2004 Dell Inspiron - had a combined address/search bar.....?), a tab showing the page I'm on, a home button, a favorites button, and a settings button....that's it. Now, I'm going to have to give you a little history here for you to understand how this made me feel. I've always been a "favorites" kind of girl. I even have folders in my favorites folder...that's how I roll. That is, until IE 8 came out on my Windows 7 netbook and introduced me to the favorites bar. Cute little mini-icons all sat at the top of my window reminding me to go check out my favorite sites. LOVED it. I was up to 20+ mini-icons and still had room for more. They were all my banking shortcuts, sites I go to once every few months, sites I go to once every few minutes, and everything in between. This devil IE 9 seemed to have eaten them. All of them. I didn't think to write them all down in case they disappeared. I frantically clicked the settings button...no favorites bar option. I then began to go to the more popular ones and "pin" them to my task bar at the bottom. It wasn't going well. Then, I realized that there was a lot of blank space at the top of the window and remembered that I'm on a PC...with the "right button o' magic". LUCKILY, I was able to add the favorites bar, but it was not easy to find it (I literally had to click on nothing...). So, I'm still a little jumpy after that, but I think this is going to work well. :^)
Well, I seem to be fighting a headache, so I'm going to go. Maybe I'll update more later today. See ya!
-Mrs. Kreilaus
Technology: A computer guru coworker of mine told me awhile back that Android 2.2 (FROYO) had been released and kept asking me if I had gotten on my phone yet. I kept trying and trying, but it kept telling me that I didn't have any updates available. Finally, a couple of days ago, I got a text telling me about it and gave me a link to go to. Well, that night, the link wasn't working. Of course not. Duh. So, I get it to work the next day and it was telling me that I was going to have to down FROYO onto my computer and then put it on my phone. Well, I had tried downloading directly to my phone the night I got the text message, but it, once again, told me I didn't have any updates available. Anyway, On Saturday (yes, while at work), I did the hoops jump and got it downloaded to my phone. It doesn't seem like too big of a change, but I'm still kinda new at it, so who knows. I don't really like its style, though...I would prefer a more streamlined look. Then yesterday (yes, at work again...) the same computer guru coworker tells me about a neat new feature on Facebook that I hadn't seen yet. He says something about maybe needing to have the new IE for it to work. So I get on Microsoft's website today and sure enough, there's an Internet Explorer 9 out and I have 8. Annoying. So, I download 9 after reading a little bit about it (Okay, so I read about it as I was downloading...so sue me...). It was talking about a streamlined format and putting the focus back on webpages. Yay...that sounds great. I thought 8 was a little cluttered looking and clunky leaving a very small window to view a webpage on my netbook. I get it downloaded, restarted my computer and fired up IE9. Ummm....there's an address/search bar (which they were making a big deal about, but Delli - my 2004 Dell Inspiron - had a combined address/search bar.....?), a tab showing the page I'm on, a home button, a favorites button, and a settings button....that's it. Now, I'm going to have to give you a little history here for you to understand how this made me feel. I've always been a "favorites" kind of girl. I even have folders in my favorites folder...that's how I roll. That is, until IE 8 came out on my Windows 7 netbook and introduced me to the favorites bar. Cute little mini-icons all sat at the top of my window reminding me to go check out my favorite sites. LOVED it. I was up to 20+ mini-icons and still had room for more. They were all my banking shortcuts, sites I go to once every few months, sites I go to once every few minutes, and everything in between. This devil IE 9 seemed to have eaten them. All of them. I didn't think to write them all down in case they disappeared. I frantically clicked the settings button...no favorites bar option. I then began to go to the more popular ones and "pin" them to my task bar at the bottom. It wasn't going well. Then, I realized that there was a lot of blank space at the top of the window and remembered that I'm on a PC...with the "right button o' magic". LUCKILY, I was able to add the favorites bar, but it was not easy to find it (I literally had to click on nothing...). So, I'm still a little jumpy after that, but I think this is going to work well. :^)
Well, I seem to be fighting a headache, so I'm going to go. Maybe I'll update more later today. See ya!
-Mrs. Kreilaus
Monday, February 28, 2011
Week Summary
Gonna have to sum it all up again:
Saturday 2/19/11 - My 2 dogs had a playdate with Shelby's 2 dogs and her mom's dog. It went pretty well and all dogs got tired out. (Success)
Monday 2/21/11 - Jon left for ACTF at Amarillo, TX.
Tuesday 2/22/11 - My BFF's little sister Shelby was induced to start having her baby this night. BFF Lyndsey also flew into town this night.
Wednesday 2/23/11 - We got our new baby grand piano moved into the house. Through a slight emergency, I actually had to come home with the movers to let them in the house. Through this emergency, I also had to tell Jon that the move was happening while he was gone. I had wanted to keep it a secret to surprise him. Oh well. Shelby had her baby this night, but I was already home (Mounds) and asleep by the time I got the news.
Thursday 2/24/11 - After work, I went up to the hospital to meet baby Kingston and of course hang out with their whole fam. Got to hang out with Lyndsey, too, one-on-one (Well, with her son Beckham). I think we both needed that.
Friday 2/25/11 - Was Sarah's birthday! I celebrated with her in my heart. :^)
Saturday 2/26/11 - Went over to Thomas and Shelby's house to try to help out as much as possible for the new parents. Not sure if it was successful or not. :^/ I really wanted to help, though. I helped with some chores, sometimes with the dogs, and tried to help with Beckham. Found out that Jon didn't win his competition. We were both kinda bummed, yet kinda relieved. At least it's done now and we don't have to worry about tweaking and taking it to Nationals.
Sunday 2/27/11 - Jon came home. :^D He took his piano apart and cleaned it while I watched for some of it and blogged for the rest of it. :^) Things are going back to normal. However, it seems as though I'm going to have to get one of these "kid" things if I want to fit in with my friends now...oh, peer pressure!
-Mrs. Kreilaus
Saturday 2/19/11 - My 2 dogs had a playdate with Shelby's 2 dogs and her mom's dog. It went pretty well and all dogs got tired out. (Success)
Monday 2/21/11 - Jon left for ACTF at Amarillo, TX.
Tuesday 2/22/11 - My BFF's little sister Shelby was induced to start having her baby this night. BFF Lyndsey also flew into town this night.
Wednesday 2/23/11 - We got our new baby grand piano moved into the house. Through a slight emergency, I actually had to come home with the movers to let them in the house. Through this emergency, I also had to tell Jon that the move was happening while he was gone. I had wanted to keep it a secret to surprise him. Oh well. Shelby had her baby this night, but I was already home (Mounds) and asleep by the time I got the news.
Thursday 2/24/11 - After work, I went up to the hospital to meet baby Kingston and of course hang out with their whole fam. Got to hang out with Lyndsey, too, one-on-one (Well, with her son Beckham). I think we both needed that.
Friday 2/25/11 - Was Sarah's birthday! I celebrated with her in my heart. :^)
Saturday 2/26/11 - Went over to Thomas and Shelby's house to try to help out as much as possible for the new parents. Not sure if it was successful or not. :^/ I really wanted to help, though. I helped with some chores, sometimes with the dogs, and tried to help with Beckham. Found out that Jon didn't win his competition. We were both kinda bummed, yet kinda relieved. At least it's done now and we don't have to worry about tweaking and taking it to Nationals.
Sunday 2/27/11 - Jon came home. :^D He took his piano apart and cleaned it while I watched for some of it and blogged for the rest of it. :^) Things are going back to normal. However, it seems as though I'm going to have to get one of these "kid" things if I want to fit in with my friends now...oh, peer pressure!
-Mrs. Kreilaus
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Few notes from the past few days
On Saturday, I bathed the dogs.
On Saturday, I bathed my phone.
On Saturday, and still now, my phone still works.
I have christened my phone "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
On Sunday, I went to work.
Sunday sucked.
On Monday, I got double bad news.
On Monday, I ate at Lanna Thai for dinner.
Lanna Thai was delicious.
Yesterday kinda sucked.
Today was a short day at work, but it was weird.
Today, I got my key stuck in the back door at work for 5 minutes.
I don't know...just weird things.
-Mrs. Kreilaus
On Saturday, I bathed my phone.
On Saturday, and still now, my phone still works.
I have christened my phone "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
On Sunday, I went to work.
Sunday sucked.
On Monday, I got double bad news.
On Monday, I ate at Lanna Thai for dinner.
Lanna Thai was delicious.
Yesterday kinda sucked.
Today was a short day at work, but it was weird.
Today, I got my key stuck in the back door at work for 5 minutes.
I don't know...just weird things.
-Mrs. Kreilaus
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