<!--quoteo(post=320540:date=Sep 21 2008, 12&#58;47 PM:name=cruisetarp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cruisetarp &#064; Sep 21 2008, 12&#58;47 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=320540">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Andrea - now that you are back on line.....what&#39;s have you been doing with all the free time you had when you weren&#39;t on the computer?   lol     How are DH and the girls?   How are your folks doing?  Hope everyone is well and things will be running smoothly for you from now on.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />WOW&#33;  I have been away over a week...I&#39;ll give you the Readers Digest version for right now...LOL<br /><br />Lets see...Hubby is fine.  Rachael is now a year older.  We had her birthday/cookout BD party late yesterday.  Rose is fine.<br /><br />Parents...OK.  finally got there power on Tues I think, don&#39;t really remember&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <br />fought with the tree-trimmers for a bit over what their responsibility was for everything Wednesday, that was the day they finally finished.  Even ending up fighting with my sister over it because she was friends of theirs and she was the one who recommended them&#33;  I never would had dreamed what my sister tried to pull, she thought my parents should claim all their losses on THEIR homeowners&#33;  among other things...  <b>My parents homeowners.&#33;</b>  <br /><br />Thursday I had to recover from all the fighting basically&#33;  don&#39;t really remember what else...<br /><br />Friday I had to do major shopping for the weekend.<br /><br />Sat. morning hubby had to fix the power lines running to Daddy&#39;s shop that the tree-trimmers knocked down.  the power company said those were private lines, the would not redo them...so hubby had to...I do not like him working with electricity.  So guess what?  I help him.  If he grabs hold of 220V accidentally I want to be there to knock him off...I guess I am a loving idiot at least.    <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wink2:" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />   and we worked on cleaning up the rest of the mess the tree-trimmers left.<br />then late Sat. we had a cookout for Rachael&#39;s 13th birthday party.  it was very nice   <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":smile:" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> <br /><br />and the above IS the condensed version&#33;<br /><br />I need to go for a bit...be back soon.  So glad to be back.  i have really missed being here.<br />i could had really used the support earlier this week.  but it was good to know jason was working on it and I would be back soon.   <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":smile:" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> <br /><br />Thanks<br />