What a Week!

“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.”~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. "
~ Denis Waitley

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten." ~ Neil Gaima

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Weekend Wordsmith offers the word ashes as the word of this week.. That word was offered by someone else to me as a prompt for a short poem not too long after we fulfilled a promise to my beloved nephew Shane.. The following is my poem from that
Prompt....


Ashes to Ashes

cremations mourners sing
red tailed hawk follows
daisies downstream

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
10-10-2008

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Friday Frustrations offers us a chance to vent.. I could blow my top and might still have some left over frustrations....I am so grateful that today is Friday and thus ends a long and frustrating week.. I haven't had a week so long and frustrating in a long time.. But even the worst of times move on..and this week really needs to move on!! My Grandma Morris once said "If wishes were horses; everyone who ride!" to which my Daddy replied.. "And if a frog had a glass ass he would only hop one time..." This week I have felt like the frog with the glass ass... I have been lost without my own computer and I feel so bad hat I have lost pictures and stuff again.. I'm a moron.. I downloaded from the camera and kept planning to make a disk.. I had unfinished writing projects on there.. I had unprinted scrapbook pages on there too.. I have kicked myself a million times already.. Someone left me a comment that they would cry if their computer died.. believe me I have cried and cried some more.. I am thankful to My baby girl Em that she recognizes the state of desperation I would be in without a computer at all.. I hate using anything that belongs to someone else.. But still I am thankful she has loaned me her laptop for a few days.. yesterday I made a comment on facebook that if everyone on there gave me a dollar I could get me a brand new jam up and jelly tight Computer. I was shocked when not a living soul offered me a buck.. Oh well.. something will turn up.. I actually had a spare computer but it hasn't been updated in a long long time.. it has no Ethernet port.. it is obsolete.. again I am a moron.. I should have updated the spare as I updated the one I used.. I was a betting person I'd run out right now and spend a dollar for a lottery ticket.. on the other hand with the way my luck has been this week.... when I scratched it off it would say I owed them money! Dave is right now trying to get something.. anything to work.. he has four or five computers with their guts hanging out in the floor of the room we are supposed to be painting... he is trying his very best to build me a Franken-puter!! WHAAAAA!!!! I want mine back with my chicken pictures and all my children dancing around on the screen saver... Tana' and Jenny hopping with a beach ball between their knees!! Dave chased my chickens and posed for three hours and now my stuff is gone! gone! gone!!!! Mama said I was being mean and should be ashamed.. I am... well I'm trying to be.. OK I'm not!! I'm FRUSTRATED!!! I hope you have had a better week than me! I'm trying not to be mean.. but I am not really succeeding very well... Hopefully you will Have a great Night!!
Patsy

Oh yea and this week's advice for the kids.. Have a back-up.. a back-up plan and a back up computer!! And don't be a moron... put your important stuff on a disk!! Other than that I am too mean tonight to offer any good advice.. except well I love all Y'all bad kids..

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And...here we go!

1. One week ago _I had my computer and though it was slow it was working__.

2. _I started practicing to be mean __ when I was young.

3. Mama told me _to quit being so mean and to be ashamed_.

4. __Lets cry together_ you and me.

5. Take your time _ building the franken-puter...I'm thinking that won't work_.

6. __This too_ will pass!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _eating supper and going to bed and pouting some more_, tomorrow my plans include _Painting a room.. the new pantry_ and Sunday, I want to be over the pouting and quit being mean..(I'd really like to be on a new computer by then but we know that ain't happening!).. I'll try.. but well.. I'll try_!

I'll Be Back!

"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."
~ Dustin Hoffman

"The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire."
~ Dave Barry

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."
~ Bo Derek


I wonder if anyone noticed me not being here? Maybe not... but just in case I am going to attempt to make a quick post before this crazy DSL modem flashes; then blinks off and on; and turns red all around. It drives me completely insane. I want to take it outside and lay it out on a cement slab and beat the crap out of it with a hammer... give it a good reason to blink and flash it's lights at me... See I told you.. Completely insane...

It might not be so bad if Tech support could offer me some tidbit of helpful advice or might say they were having DSL trouble in my area.. I try desperately not to call them.. I restart the computer and restart the Modem even though God knows it restarts itself every five minutes...
Or even sooner if it catches me trying to do anything important or maybe it will let me get almost a whole poem wrote before it wipes me out... It hates me I think!..And NO I am not going to be playing any games of any kind that will automatically cause it to restart.....

I have everything that can be disabled... disabled... I have downloaded stuff that one of the first of them swore I needed to make it run better... Then the next one told me to disable all that new stuff.... And still my modem laughs at me and blinks his red light and flashes the green one that is never supposed to flash and the women on the other end of this God Forsaken phone line says.. " Now we PING!"... I screamed at her that "I CANNOT PING!" I am not on-line and she says I am ... she argues that she can see me on-line and Now we Ping!... I scream for her to PING ME! I cannot PING HER!

I tell her that I have red lights and she says P-I-N-G- as if I need her to spell Ping... I am still looking at a million time restarted Moden that has a blinking light where it is supposed to be solid green and a red one where there is supposed to be no RED and she is spelling Ping to me... I ask her if this is my Box.. she says it is and informed me that I paid for it when they hookered~( as she said it!) ~me up.. I decided right then that I was going to kill my modem.. she just said it was mine and if I really paid what she said I did.. I was also going to demand a refund after I finished killing the red light blinking; won't stay on-line piece of junk! I was trying to remember where I left the hammer.... Just about that time she starts talking to me slow and loudly as if I am a moron and I loose all control and I tell her that I plan to beat the crap out of this silver box and that she can please attach a note to my account that I will be cancelling all service with them and another thing.. I have it in writing that they promised satisfaction Guaranteed... I hardly think the first ten minutes that I had their service counts as satisfaction.. I am going to be wanting my money back not to mention that I want every minute back that I have paid for and couldn't stay on-line... I was still trying to remember where the hammer was...

Blubbering to silence I took a shuddering deep breath as she said "Hold on a minute please and stay on the line"... I was scared... was it against the law to threaten a modem?.. It would be my luck that it would be.. Not to mention I was pretty sure that she knew I am insane... At that very moment the box flashed three times and all the lights became a beautiful green...I was reaching out to choke it when the Lady came back on the line and said.. I am overnighting you a new modem.. please stay calm until it arrives... I am trying really hard to stay calm until then.. I have promised not to beat this one with a hammer since they will be wanting it back as part of the warranty.. I have only cursed it a few times today.. It allowed me to do My Entre-card drops with only five restarts.. I did glance at facebook for about five seconds once today.. I read my E-mail early but since then no luck with that.. I knew Over night wouldn't really mean I'd get it today.. I figure overnight means maybe I'll get it before the end of the week... Until then I won't be posting much.. I tricked it this time into letting me post by saving and restarting and doing a million copy and pastes... It has most likely figured out that method and won't let me sneak by with that again.. and to be honest.. I am done trying to get the best of this modem.. I will be trying to remain calm until the new one arrives... and if that doesn't help.. I'll be the woman on the evening news for killing a blinking; flashing; aggravating modem... with a hammer...

Until then enjoy my "self portrait" Haiku and leave me a comment if you understand it.. or if you don't... some Haiku take a lot of thought to understand I guess... But this one is pretty simple.. Have a nice day!
Patsy

("self portrait" haiku.. a haiku that tells something about yourself.. maybe something others can not readily see..)


Betrayed

my anger flares
black as a buzzards wing~
I put on a smile

written by: Patricia sawyer
6-25-2009