Lions and Tigers and Viruses, OH MY!!!

Today started off with a bang...lol a bang of coffee of course, but then it proceeded to become interesting when I tried to get online to check my email...noticing for the last several days the computer was acting funny, I quickly thought, well my virus protection will take care of it...unbeknownst to me, that our virus protection had expired, and me merrily gathering viruses by the boat load...decided to continue on and never gave it another thought, until....well my computer just decided it would not work unless forced...I think some might call that a strike...I call it deserving of being thrown across the room...but since it really does not belong to me, but to my husband...I decided to try and check a few things out...When suddenly, there it was...Virus Protection Expired!!!!!!!!!! Ahhh well, yep that might really be a big problem...so after several minutes, which may have actually been an hour or more and 5 complete and unprovoked shut downs, I finally found what I thought was a Free AntiVirus...now let me tell you...they were full of bologna...nothing about it was free except for the stupid little annoying bar it downloaded above my screen...Anyways, I was really becoming distraught as I do have a little bit of my photography on here and I know I would never be able to retrieve it...I call my beloved and oh so smart husband Danny to come home (it was 10 minutes until his usual lunch time) and help me figure this out before I completely destroy everything...lol
So in his kind and gentle way of putting things, I heard Good Grief Woman, what did you do? LOL
He was so sweet though and helped me fix the problem by buying a program to get rid of all the gunk that had built up over the course of no protection at all...and installed it for me...I was so relieved to actually be able to get the computer to start and not crash within 10 minutes after it took me 8 just to get online...only to find out the reason for all the problems...145 different viruses were invading my computer...WOW 145, almost made me feel like I needed to go take a bath...LOL...so now our laptop is running smoother than it has for many days and I feel, well Safer... :)

But on to a different subject...
I have exciting news...well it's exciting for us...
My cousin, who is actually more like my sister will be moving back up here soon...she has spent the last 5 years down in Texas, and I have missed her every single day...but she had her reasons for going and a momma does what she has to do...
She has decided to buy the house that is on our land, that my fil moved there to use for rental property...it is perfect for her and her daughter, and she wants to homestead right along with us...I figure 25 acres is more than enough for her to get in here and get dirty right along with us to :) She is very happy and I am so thrilled to have my women folk close to me again. I have spent many years dreading certain seasons, because all my people were gone and even when you make the best of it...you always have that longing for the ones not there with you...
She came in last week and brought many of her things with her...lol it was so funny to see her pull up in a midsized car, that was packed and loaded down like it was an SUV...lol I had to tease her about blowing the spring hinges on her doors...So we did alot of unloading and getting things in the house and in the rooms they belonged, but we ran out of time to unpack them and we even started painting her kitchen, it is a beautiful shade of a soft green and I fell in love with it, although she still isn't convinced...maybe it will grow on her.. Anyways, we had a wonderful part of the week and weekend thru monday..many good laughs and just good quality time all together as a family...Oh and she went to church with us sunday morning and evening worship services as well...she even went to the ice cream social after services with us and got to meet everyone...I was so happy to see my little family there, I felt so blessed that I just broke out in tears, although I didn't miss any of Danny's sermon...lol
But the fun had to end sometime and she had to go back down to texas monday afternoon...but it has worked out even better than expected because tuesday she got a call from one of the places she turned in her resume up here and they offered her a nice job with enough pay to live on...she was thrilled and called to let us know, she was turning in her 2 week notice to her employer and would be here a month sooner than expected..which completely made my day...I so love getting good news like that...but the bummer to the end of the conversation, was she was supposed to come back down this evening to bring some more of her things (the big things, fridge, bed, couch, etc...) with a trailer and truck that her blood sister was suppose to bring to her, but never showed up for some reason, so now she won't be able to be here till either late tommorow night or sunday evening...and then turn around and be back down to texas on monday evening... :(
Well I reckon I have talked your ear off enough for now and since it's late, words are becoming foreign to me, so I guess I had better get to bed for now..
Love and Peace :)