Well, at least it will be virus free.

My laptop has had viruses before, but never this bad. We’ve used home remedies to patch it back up, but on Tuesday, it was obvious a professional had to take over.

My stomach was in knots of frustration. I couldn’t think clearly. My usual tech guy was back in Chattanooga trying to talk me through steps on the phone (love you, Damon!). And wouldn’t you know it, I was got a bit of freelance work just as the computer got ill.

Hopefully I get it back today, along with the pictures I have from our temporary relocation. And hopefully my stomach will unknot itself.

Please, just tell me it will be ok.

I accidentally skipped last week’s SPS, I had a picture, but I spaced.

I have decided to start a linky with SPS so others who want to participate can sign it and we can blog hop to see other’s self portraits. To play along, just post a self portrait on Sunday on your blog. The picture doesn’t have to be shot on Sunday (the one above was captured on Friday).

Take the code below and add it to your post. I’ll try to post this on Sunday morning, but I’ll blog hop in the afternoon, after church.

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I love how this came out.

Other Wordless Wednesday pictures can be found via the linky on MomDot!

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Getting this in under the wire (it is due by 9 p.m. Central)* Here is my submission for this week’s I ♥ Faces challenge. The theme is I ♥ Faces“We are family!” and I took this picture today at the nursing home in Auburn where we visited with my Great Aunt Margery. We were all in the dining hall where some of the residents were bowling with a plastic ball and hitting plastic pins. It was great fun to watch. Fuller loves bowling and he really wanted in on the action (despite the look on his face in this picture).

I think I have mentioned in the past how I get my photography gene from Aunt Margery. It is difficult to see her without her camera around her neck, but I know she is feisty enough to get the work done to get back behind her own camera.

Check out the other links at I ♥ Faces, there are plenty of family pictures to go around!

*Well, I haven’t changed the clock on my computer and I actually have an hour to spare. The Central time zone has really messed me up.

Health- The 2010 picture of health will be the main focus for the first quarter of this year. This is because I’m having surgery sometime this month (more on it later, and it isn’t what you might think) and I hope this surgery will help me meet some other physical health goals I have for my life.

That surgery was supposed to happen today. But about two weeks ago we received some good news in another area of our family and after taking a quick look at our immediate future*, it was obvious my surgery** would need to be postponed.

Which is how I find myself sitting lakeside of Lake Martin in Alabama. Last week the boys and I traveled here to take refuge under the roof of my in-laws while Damon remained at home to begin the final stages of renovation of our home.

But this line haunts me a little:

The 2010 picture of health will be the main focus for the first quarter of this year.

I’m trying to figure out ways to keep health (specifically weight loss and lowering my cholesterol) at a premium. I can’t work out the exact way that I want, so I ordered some Earth Shoes to help while I walk (an exercise I can actually do). When we return to Chattanooga, I hope the Wii Fit will be part of my daily routine (I refuse to buy more Wii “workout” stuff until I do Wii Fit for 30 days), so at least I make myself move more.

So 18 days in, I have changed the path, but the goal is still the same.

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*I know I’m being cryptic, but the internet doesn’t need to know everything, right? If you know us in real life, then we are fine sharing some details. The internet will find out in due time.

**Again with the vagueness. And because I’m talking weight loss, you might have an idea of what the surgery is. But I bet you are wrong. I’ll tell you right now, it isn’t gastric bypass. It isn’t lapband surgery. And no, it isn’t plastic surgery of any kind.

This week, as they get their birthday celebration going, they ask for our “Best Face Photo” taken sometime in the last month. Well, I happen to have this sweet face on my computer from last Friday:

It’s Elsie, my friend Esther’s precious living doll! She woke up from her nap and I took out my camera to get a few shots. She even smiled for me, sweet little thing.

Check out the other links at I ♥ Faces, there are plenty of best face photos to go around!

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Long day. This is me imitating Tebow. The day ended with Tebow just screaming and screaming. Sundays do that to him. Once he was in bed, he stopped screaming. I can still hear it in my head.

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During a trip to Wal-Mart, I got a phone call from Damon asking if my parents had any black spray paint in the house. Turns out they didn’t, so I was tasked with buying some. Then when I returned to the house, I was banned from a certain part of the basement for a period of time. (Actually, I was banned twice, for two separate reasons!)

On Christmas morning 2, I was handed a box from my guys and inside I found this:

When I turned it over, I saw this:

And after I obeyed the instructions I saw this:

Actually, what you see there is only half of the gift (the card reader). The other half is currently in my camera! It is an Eye-fi card and allows me to simultaneously take pictures and wirelessly upload them to my computer and Flickr!

It took me a while to get all the settings just right. In fact, I opened the gift on December 26th and just yesterday figured out the power settings I had to change on my camera. Now it is working very well and it is really cutting down on some of my work.

Damon is known for usually having one big “handmade” gift to give someone at Christmas. And he is also known as someone who will make some effort to wrap gifts creatively. I’m honored to have been one of the recipients of the creative Christmas spirit from my husband!

Don’t I look happy (and messy)?

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Instead I spent early Thursday throwing up and praying for more sleep. And all the while, the snow fell outside.

Tebow was in bed early, so I threw on some clothes, grabbed my camera and took a quick photo walk outside my house.

Snow is so rare in Chattanooga, even a stomach bug can’t keep me from capturing a few images of it.

I went to bed as soon as I came inside.

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This isn’t the best picture from our photo shoot, but it is my favorite.

For more Wordless Wednesday fun, check out the Linky on MomDot!

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