You know, I've had to spend more time this week archiving stuff off of my hard drive in order to get anything done. Yeah, I probably need more GB of memory. But I don't necessarily want to install more memory in this computer. It's two years old. It'll probably need replacing in the next year or so. So I'm staggering along with a measly 55GB hard drive on this puppy, and I've cleaned off all of the extraneous programs I possibly can (everything still on here is stuff I use regularly). I've archived any files I can. And now, yes it's been my life for the past two days, I'm archiving emails. It's a slow process because I need to keep some stuff on here for reference. I still have a lot more to do, but I've managed to free up almost 4 GB of space with all of my tweaking and archiving so far. I was getting that horrid, "Hey, you... yeah, you... the one using the mouse there... This C drive is ready to explode with the amount of stuff you have crammed on here and so um, the scratch disc is full and the computer is going to hobble along REALLLLLLLY SLOWLY until you get rid of some of the crap on here." (Ok, it was much more succinct than that, but still...)

So I've been housecleaning... electronically speaking.

And I'm trying to figure out how I can afford to have a plumber come out next week to replace some of the pipes in our finished basement near the water meter. They're seriously corroded and, well, water in the basement would suck royally. So I have to figure that puzzle out rather soon. It wouldn't be such an issue if our mortgage wasn't due right now (meaning the bank will be getting all of the money in my checking account, basically). Yeah, it's hard being an independent contractor sometimes. I never know quite when I'll have money in my account. Or not.

It's always something when you own a house, isn't it?

On a more positive note, Mike and I are going to a wedding tomorrow. Our friend Adam is getting married, and I'm so excited for him. He's a great catch (I was trying to find someone to set him up with for the longest time before he met Laurie), so I'm really thrilled he's found his soulmate. And she's awesome too, so it's definitely a great cause for much celebration.

Hope everyone had a great week. Still have Melissa G and her mom in my prayers, as well as Melinda and her son, who had to go in for an EEG yesterday. Big hugs and lots of positive thoughts all around, my friends!