High Speed At Last!

As of today, I have entered the ranks of the privileged high speed Internet users. Okay, I admit that I am about 10 years behind everyone else in Alberta, but I have to be drug, kicking and screaming into everything that remotely resembles technology! I don't live in Timbuktu, but I do live where the mountains surround my house and I can not get a signal from any high speed tower around. My liberation and access to the world wide web has come in the form of a Telus mobile Internet stick!

I can not for the life of me figure out how to access my emails - there are way too many questions that I do not have the answer to. It has taken me all night to figure out how to post photos to my blog, as I am now using a Mac instead of my PC at work. Everything is different. Named something else, put somewhere else - nothing is making sense.

I did manage to download three of my photos from Vegas - Christmas decor at the Bellagio. Talk about impressive! The white polar bear is a mama bear, made out of 30,000 white carnations. The truly impressive thing was that there was a papa bear (50,000 flowers) and a baby bear, as well. They were incredible. The retired florist in me wanted to crawl into the display and have a good look at how they were put together, but I am sure that I would have been arrested and taken to jail! While I was looking at them, all of a sudden they started to "sweat" and water was oozing out of all of the cracks between the carnations. They must have had a watering system internally installed to keep the carnations from wilting. What a beautiful display - and the smell!!! It took me right back to Christmas in my flower shop - the intoxicating aroma of Christmas greens and spicy carnations. It was breathtaking!

Next week (while Megan and Murray are suntanning in Mexico) we have to babysit Peyton. I have booked several days off of work and my plan is to start scrap booking my last three vacations. Funny, most people that I know focus on their trips when they are going scrap booking for a weekend. I have always thought that vacation albums were a popular choice because they start on a finite day and they have a finite ending. It is easy to wrap your head around. Much easier that committing to catching up on your day to day photos. That, for most people is incredibly overwhelming. Well, I am the opposite!

I always focus on the day to day and set the trip photos aside for sometime in the future, when I feel that I am caught up enough to indulge myself in scrap booking a vacation. Therefore, I have San Fransisco, Hawaii and Arizona next to scrapbook. Wish me luck - that Peyton sleeps during the day and I make some stacks of vacation photos disappear into albums. My goal is to get all three completed in the next month and a half. The countdown has started!