Tuesday Happenings

Actually, I think that title's kind of a misnomer because not much happened here today. Cecil and Sue didn't come over this morning as they had other plans today, although Cecil did come over for a few hours this afternoon. I told her she wasn't coming to see me, she was coming to see Emmy. ;-)

Emmy and I had a pretty quiet day today. She was worn out after our day Sunday after going to church morning and night. She's not used to having her routine upset and having all that attention from her many admirers. She slept most of the day Monday and was just getting back to our usual routine today.

It rained off and on here all day Tuesday and boy, was it ever a welcome relief from the heat and the drought. It wasn't a gully washer, more a steady rain and then drizzle here and there throughout the day. It was cloudy and overcast all day and the temperature never made it above 80 degrees. For Arkansas in July that's almost unheard of, and don't think it wasn't appreciated. Thank you, Lord, for the rain! We have a good chance for more rain on Wednesday as well.

I'm remembering now why it was so hard to get much of anything done with a small baby in the house. When I said that Emmy slept most of the day I didn't necessarily mean that she slept for long periods at a time. The longest amount that she slept at a stretch was about 3 hours. The rest of the time it was in fits and starts of 15 minutes here and an hour there.

That pretty pink, blue and white baby afghan that Emmy is snuggled under is the one that Barb made for Emmy and sent me a while back. I use it every day for her, Barb. Thanks again, sweet friend. :-)

Just about the time I'd think I could get to something Emmy would start fussing and waking up. I did manage to get a load of laundry washed, dried and put away and get supper cooked this evening. To be honest, though, Jessica had already left with Emmy and Cecil had already gone home before I got around to cooking supper.

Supper on Tuesday night consisted of boxed white cheddar macaroni and cheese, Glory brand canned mixed greens and fried pork chops. I'm still not quite adjusted to having Emmy every day but it is getting better. I just didn't feel like cooking a big meal from scratch and as Sister and BooMama say, I'm just plumb knocked tonight.Some of you might remember that I've had some ISSUES, shall we say, with my new all in one printer. Well, after doing all I knew to do to the dumb thing to try to get it to print on the good glossy photo paper, I sent Lexmark an email and also went to their website and did a live chat session with one of their representatives to try to troubleshoot the problem and attempt to fix it. I spent well over an hour chatting back and forth with their dense representative, and getting kicked off their chat program about a half dozen times, by the way, only to have the representative tell me I needed to buy a new model printer. I just bought this one in February!

I am not happy at all with the quality of service I've gotten from Lexmark during my quest to get this blasted printer to print glossy photos! It will print anything on any paper except the glossy photo paper. I'm thinking I'm going to hie myself to my local Walmart(s) and buy me another 6 foot USB cord and hook up my old Hewlett Packard printer just for photos. I can get another USB cord for around $10 and that sure beats another $50 or more for another printer. I was really satisfied with another Lexmark printer that I had and thought I was making a sound financial decision when I bought this newer all in one printer, but now I don't think I'll ever buy another Lexmark product. Their poor customer service just put the cherry on top of the rotten cake.

I know you can get a lemon and bad customer service with any brand, and with any company it's strictly "buyer beware". I'd just like the product to actually do what it's advertised to do. Is that too much to ask? I've not had much opportunity to indulge my NightOwlism since I started keeping Emmy. Jessica calls me every morning when she leaves her apartment for the 5 minute drive to bring Emmy here for the day. It's usually about 6:15 am when she calls. Sometimes I get lucky and Emmy sleeps for a few more hours after Jessica drops her off so I can doze in my recliner until Emmy starts fussing. It's usually around 5:30 pm when Jessica picks Emmy up. It makes for a tiring day and I've been going to bed around 11 pm most nights. That's highly unusual for little ol' NIGHTOWL me.I've already had my shower and I'm ready to relax a bit and then it's bed for me. It's after 11 pm now.

Y'all have a wonderful Wednesday now, y'hear?