silence

sorry i have been gone SO long! my computer crashed sometime in january? i think?
and i've been solely internet cruising on my phone. and blogging from a phone is just plain painful. so i did it only when i felt an undeniable call to do so.
chris ordered a laptop for me before summer semester- sometime in may.
a laptop came.
it didn't work.
i spent hours on the phone with dell, working on the laptop, tweeking this, changing that. they even sent me a new hard drive and then called me the next day and coached me through the several steps of dismantling the laptop and loading the new hard drive. still, it didn't work.
summer semester is over. surprisingly, i made decent grades. the kids watched more videos than i care to admit.
and now that the summer semester is good and over, dell delivered a replacement laptop.
so now i can blog, once again.