I am back - AGAIN!

Thanks Noreen, I am thrilled (so far?) It will be great to be able to work on a doc and not have it either freeze or crash and lose everything I've worked on. I can remember way back when, working for an architect and the computer was set up to auto back up every file, and you could set it to do it every few minutes or so. Sure wish I could auto this one. I never remember to save anything until it's too late. I know, I know, you are supposed to at least name the darned thing when you start the file, and I can't even remember to do that! So if something happens, it's an 'unnamed doc' which really does a lot of good. LOL Well, hopefully I'll not have to worry about it anymore.

This is a Pentium IV with 80gigs, and 256 k, with windows xp home edition. He was supposed to put Office on it, so I'll have to get the cd and do it myself, but he'll loan it to me for n/c. All in all I got a good deal.

Well when I hit a birthday with a big 0 I decided to count backwards from then, so I'm getting younger!! I keep telling DD1 that we'll soon meet in the middle! She's not convinced Love to all the youthful folks on here Christine (who swears that the more yarn you've got the younger you are)

When Matthew was about 14 we were in one of the grocery stores in town and goofing around (as usual... he always says (even now) that I'm more like a friend than a Mom). Someone spoke to me and I didn't recognize her at first, and she said "You haven't changed at all since I saw you when we were kids. You still look like you're only about 15. Your son must be doing wonders for keeping you looking so young." I figure that's what kept my Mom looking so young for so long too... she was a big kid at heart, just like I am. ;o)

By the way, when my Mom passed away at the age of 85 and after suffering (and living with the after-effects of) two big strokes and the loss of her long-time husband, she still had quite a bit of brown left in her hair. A salt & pepper effect, with a bit more salt in the last couple of years of her life. My oldest sister's hair was / is much greyer than my Mom's ever got to be. And my Mom had the BEST complexion of anyone I've ever known in my life.... soft and not a blemish to be seen, and very few wrinkles for her age... she was well into her 60's before she started getting wrinkles at all, and then they were more like laugh-lines. At the funeral my niece looked at all of us and then turned to me and said "Your skin is more like Nana's than anyone else's in the family." Guess I lucked out... but I DO have my laugh-lines... and unfortunately I have a few more smaller wrinkles from all the years that I smoked (I'm kicking myself now, wishing I had never smoked... my Mom never smoked or drank at all). What's really sad is that I can see the "smoker's wrinkles" on a lot of younger kids faces now... and they don't even notice them themselves... they'll be soooorry!

Daddy, however, had a lot of deep wrinkles that started when he was quite young. My Mom used to joke "He has wrinkles because of being with me for so long!" LOL Then seriously she told me that it was likely because he had been out to sea for so long in the Navy during WWII, and then worked at a very hard labour job until he retired... all very stressful and he was never allowed as a child to express emotions, so he always held things inside. Oh yes, and he smoked for MANY years too... from the time he was 6 (unbelievable, huh?) until the day I quit smoking, and he just quit cold-turkey... I think he was about 67 ot 68 then.

Gem

Christine! I know a lot of friends who've done that! And wasn't it Jack Benney who remained eternally THIRTY-NINE? LOL Hugs, Noreen

Hi Norma! Your computer sounds rather modern. I am happy for you. I hope you will be able to type for a long time yet. Congrats. Best: Pirjo

Mom used to say she was 29. When my brother passed her, she called him her older brother/son. LOL