My birthday week

My birthday was the high light of a bad, bad week. First there were the storms from Wilma. The high winds hung around and knocked out the power. When that happened, some files got corrupted on my hard drive including windows. Soooo Cruzer had to redo windows and all my email and addresses were lost. I'm having quite the time rebuilding. He's been trying to retrieve data from the hard drive for three days and it isn't even close to being completed. And of course I had nothing backed up. Oh, I did have an adress book that was over 6 years old. It helped a tiny bit, but not with all I need. You know, losing my docs, recipes, pictures and graphics, was like losing my kids. I actually grieved. Then I had the root canal. Thank goodness for laughing gas. I actually feel asleep during the procedure. Unfortunately, I also had swelling on one side of my face and a temperature, so I'm on antibiotics. Thankfully I might take a pain killer once a day now, but that's it. Friday my writing group met. It was suppose to be a nice dinner for my birthday - not! I had to get something that could be cut into tiny pieces and not difficult to chew. *sigh* Well, I did it and had an enjoyable time.

My birthday was a beautiful day. The sun was out, there was a nice breeze and it was right around 70 degrees. Cruzer surprised me with the complete second season of the Golden Girls, a new hat - purple of course, and roses from our boys (the dogs). He also let me pick out some scrapbook supplies. Then he really surprised me with a chocolate birthday cake! I tell you, the man knows how to get straight to my heart! To top off everything, my Gators beat Georgia, so I was really riding high by the time the day ended.

So many of you sent me such wonderful greetings and well- wishes. The day is always a difficult time and my daddy died on my 30th and I greatly appreciate your words more than I can ever express.

Soooooooooo, that's my story and I'm glad it is!! ;)