Out of Commission For Awhile
Just wanted to let my friends and family know that my computer is awaiiting *brain* surgery. Until it is performed and fully recuperated my time and ability to be online will be extremely limited. Thank You Mr. Gates for Windows Vista....... NOT! This is what we get for complaining about XP I guess. Add to this my DH's wonderful thought about upgrading my processor to 64bit that not many of my favorite programs (most importantly Palm Desktop or RoboForm) will work with. This and MS Windows Vista argued with each other so much since it's install that it finally went on no speaking terms with it. Which is where we are currently at. I can access stuff on my 'puter but my computer will not go online, it can not access the network, it can't see my DVR, nothing. WAAAAAAAH!!!
So, until then...... I wish you all well and I hope my time away is short.
P.S. I can receive email on line (thank you Google!) via DH's computer so I'm not completely out of touch, just limited.
Guess she doesn't like purple?
Or is it the alarm on it that wakes her every morning? Regardless, this is what the dog (Bella) did to my new phone recently. Yes, she is still with us. Grrrrrrrr!
She has been aggressively chewing all of a sudden and this was the worst. To top it off, she was actually sneaky about this one. This was the result after the 2nd time. Both times my phone was some place I wouldn't have expected her to get onto and neither time was she actually caught, nor did she take off with it and she did it in a matter of mere moments. It was as though I left the room, she saw her chance hopped up, chomped on it, then got away leaving the phone right where I had left it.
Tonight I came home to torn magazine (2nd time for my poor SOD), she unpacked a plastic box leaving the box where it was but the contents were all over the place and somehow she managed to remove the backing from a notepad that was tied on to the notepad. She did not harm it at all but the notepad was still on the coffee table and the backing was across the room.
I think she is trying to tell us something, but what!?!?!?!?????
High School Seniors Pick Classmate With Down Syndrome As Homecoming Queen
Never has the selection of a homecoming queen sent so many tears falling so freely.
Kristin Pass, an 18-year-old senior with Down syndrome, became Aledo High School's homecoming queen Friday to a joyous standing ovation and the flutter of a thousand tissues on a remarkable night for an amazing young woman.
Her grandfather, Dr. David Campbell of Corsicana, escorted her onto the field and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek as Kristin joined eight other young women in the Homecoming Court to await the results of the vote, cast by the 360-plus members of Aledo High's senior class.
"Oh my gosh! I was sitting in the student section and everyone stood up, crying and cheering for Kristin," said longtime friend and fellow senior Meaghan Geary, 17, who first met Kristin in the third grade. "It was great!"
Carolyn Pass stood at the edge of the football field, taking pictures of her daughter and friends' daughters in the court, when the stadium erupted.
"It's just something you can't even imagine," she said. "And afterward, everyone was just running down to her, congratulating her. And the other girls in the court, they're all just beautiful girls, inside and out."
Ms. Pass said she spoke later with a friend. "She said the only mistake anyone made was not handing out crying towels."
The vote may have been a surprise, but no one who knows Kristin doubts her popularity, her mother said.
"Kristin has a lot of friends – she likes everyone. It doesn't matter if you're tall or short, pretty, not pretty, smart, not smart – she likes everybody. She has great friends. And Aledo is a great community."
"She's just the neatest kid in the whole wide world," added her aunt, Chari Hust of Houston, "and everybody sees that."
Clay Gilmer, who works in the stadium press box, running the scoreboard and clock, said people pushed toward the windows as the young women were introduced.
"They were all pulling for Kristin," Mr. Gilmer said.
When she won, he was thrilled. "This has been such a special time, a special week for Kristin," he said. "And I was really taken by the maturity and the love shown by her friends, her peers, her classmates.
"That makes this a double blessing."
Kristin pronounced the evening "exciting" and "awesome."
She was so thrilled, her mother said, that she took her crown to bed with her.
"She's real proud of it," her friend Meaghan added.
Kristin and her family, including sister Kendall, now a freshman, moved to Aledo when Kristin was in the third grade. She was embraced by the people in town through good times and bad, including the death of her dad, J.T., two years ago.
"We've always had great experiences here," her mom said. "We've been blessed, and I think Kristin brings a lot of blessings to the people she knows."
Her selection as homecoming queen was a wonderful surprise. But Meaghan seemed to have an inkling that it could happen.
"Everyone loves Kristin," she said, "and I didn't know for sure, but in class everyone was like, 'Who are you voting for?' and everybody was like, 'Vote for Kristin, she's so good.' "
Kristin doesn't care what's on the outside, Meaghan said. She's friends with everyone, and everyone admires that.
"She's the person we all want to be," Meaghan said.
Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/101208dnmetqueen.39be68a.html
