Snarky - Adjective Easily irritated or annoyed Synonyms - choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, stuffy, testy, waspish Hosta "Snarky" - Difficult to grow - and wouldn't get along with the other hostas in your garden - because it wants to be planted upside down. lol This post was edited by DelawareDonna on Thu, Aug 28, 14 at 21:09

PolarPrincess - If you have a USB port, buy an external hard drive that connects to the USB port and copy ALL of your data (pictures and other personal files) to it. Then your data is safe and you can clean up the rest of the system. If not, burn them to CD for safety. THEN: 1 - Empty the Trash 2 - Search for files on the entire system, using this search pattern" *.bak (those are temporary files that can be deleted) 3 - Delete all of those files. 4 - Empty the trash again. 5 - Search for all *.tmp files and delete them 6 - Empty the trash again. 7 - Run the Windows XP "check disk" utility as described here: http://www.updatexp.com/windows-xp-chkdsk.html It may take quite a while ... 8 - Then try running the defragmentation program.

Good to see alot has made it here this week. Went shopping today and didn't get as much bought as I was hoping for. DD will do some more for me next week. I owe so much to her for always being there for me. So glad your feeling better Anj and hope you continue to improve. I bet it is hard with only one auto with your busy schedule. Can hardly wait to see your blocks. Your weather sounds alot like ours. It's been in the teens but today while in town the sun came out and it hit the 20's.Woohoo Belle, seems odd anyone could have to many totes. It is nice that all of you will spend time together. Can't imagine what you've gone through. Our roads are pretty good most days. They've started using salt and that scares me for the future of our autos. May have to trade sooner than normal. Thanks for the commnt on my Holiday posts. You should spend more time there and you will become addicted real fast.lol Luvs is such a great enabler. I no longer have room for new dishes at my home! They are a great bunch but it has taken me away from my painting. I now love doing tablescapes too. I've always loved to decorate for the Holidays but now I'm into tablescapes too.lol Luvs, great to hear you had a nice luncheon with the girls. I ran into an old co-worker today and she said she would be coming to the office so we can catch up on the lastest. I'm so glad that most of my friends come and visit me there cuz I don't have alot of time to go see them like I use to. Did you start your Christmas decorating today? You are a smart woman to shop during the week. Town was so busy and it's hard running from store to store to find what gifts one wants. I forget to check on a couple of things and had to go back only to find out they didn't have it any way! I also left my purse in the resturant! Thank goodness when I returned it was still there. That was so scary. All I could do was think of all my cash, cr crds, checkbook, smart phone and tremble...Will say my prayers again tonight for the safe recovery. We are not sure when we will be moving the office with this weather. We have alot of snow and slush most days and I have no desire to try to move in that. We had a customer in and said the farmers almanac says that we will be getting warmer weather by the 10th and winter is almost over. I sure hope he's right. I haven't read the FA for several years but they use to be pretty close at predicting the weather. So are all of you cooking Christmas dinner? I will be but we haven't discussed all the details yet. Did you know that they have a turkey fryer that you can use inside your home now? DS wanted to buy one for us but since we have the outside one we didn't get it. In time I'm sure we will tho. That would be so nice to be able to cook out in the garage during bad weather. I best go over to Holidays and see what's new before heading to bed. I'm pretty tired after shopping all day and then wrapping gifts...

It is the season and so many at work are always in some phase of a crud. A horrible cough, a woozy fever, congestion... I made up a pretty safe spray cleaner with a 1/2 cup cheap vodka, 2 cups water, some eucalyptus, tea tree, and lemon grass oil. Another similar using bleach for surfaces but not a mist spray. Many disinfectants should not be air-sprayed in mist form because of the harmful inhalants. The imagery is comical but i feel it is necessary to keep the bug from passing to others...those miserably ill have no consept of passing it on or caring...way too sick to care. Door knobs and faucet handles, toilet handles...and get those sheets clean more often that usual, : ) I add vinegar to that cycle with the sanitary mode. I've not had a flu since before 9-11. (it was memorable and horrid). DH gets something every year that involves the loss of voice. He often under dresses in the winter and catches himself chilled and susceptible. I've insisted he wear scarves and wash hands often. I've made a few big batches of barrier hand cream that we use and one is on his desk at work. I tend to want a rotation of warm liquids, lots of garlic and ginger in miso broth. Then a hearty beef stew when the fever breaks. Lots of tea with lemon and ginger... Our freezer is stocked with broths all winter. I have a duck and heavy veg and ginger, garlic, cilantro stem, on the stove now with a pot of beans cooking. I'll pack the beans in pints with a pour-over of stock for the freezer. An easy brothy quick soup if one of us gets ill. I've stocked up with MisoMaster white and red and the chick pea one they make. We never want much more than a tbsp of that in hot water when horrid. A bit of rice or bean in veg, beef, chicken broth that i have frozen after day 4-5. An easy thaw and heat. I just jumped up to check the beans and stock and started a mixed sprouted grain as well...to freeze with some stock... You have me prepared. I do hope she is feeling better and all in the home are not feeling the same...precautions of mask and gloves are not extreme....: ) It is nice that she has the comforts of home and the love that comes with care from parents. Such good care you are giving!!