My New Blogging Corner :)

Well, friends, we are status-post hard drive crash here at our house... hence my recent disappearance.

Craig actually built our main computer several years ago and it's just getting a little old. Never fear... all our important stuff is saved on the external hard drive. But we had to wait for the new (computer) hard drive to ship and for Craig to install and rebuild a little.

On top of that, he's been working on rearranging some things and doing some shelf switch-a-roos to accommodate a little computer nook in our old bedroom (walk-in) closet.

We actually have two walk-in closets in our bedroom - the original that was way too small for both of us and the main one that Craig built where we currently house all our clothes. The original closet has just been housing luggage, rarely-worn stuff, Craig's suits, the pack 'n play and other overflow. We've moved out all of the clothes and things and left only the luggage and some tubs of linens (spare sheets, etc.) on one end. On the opposite end, Craig put in a couple, simple shelves and rewired some things up from the basement, through the attic and into this closet so that we can set up our computer here. It's not fancy, but it's sooooo much better than the dungeon basement amongst the creepy-crawlies.

So if you walk in this closet and look to the left, you see the above pictured view. If you look to the right, you see some storage shelves, tubs, and luggage. Craig removed all the white hanging racks and shelves and patched/repainted before putting in the new shelves.

Our "cozy", little house once boasted a guest bedroom and a den/office on the first floor. :) But two kids and two "bedrooms" later... we have resorted to computing in a closet. LOL Our basement is not exactly a dark and dingy cellar - but it's not formally finished (yet) and having the main computer upstairs is just so much nicer. We do have a laptop in the living room, but it's even older and really only used to check something once in awhile, i.e. fantasy football for Craig, e-mail, etc for me. All my pictures and such are saved on the external hard drive attached to the desktop computer.

I'm just grateful that my husband's a genius and can fix anything. As my dad used to say, "If he can't fix it... it ain't broke". ;) I, on the other hand, have abandoned all problem-solving skills since being married to Craig. For example, the first time he said I could get back on the computer and start working, I couldn't get the external hard drive to be recognized by the computer. It was clearly turned on but just wasn't registering. So I came downstairs to where he was just sitting down to relax and told him my problem. He said "did you try restarting? Maybe it just hasn't recognized it." So I did, and nothing. I came back down to ask what I should do next and he went up to check. And... it was unplugged. :) Craig said to me: "that's what I love about you... your problem-solving skills are uncanny". LOL Oops.

Anywho... it's actually been quite nice having multiple evenings in a row to just hang out with Craig and do nothing else. We really should "unplug" more often. We've spent a few too many nights staying up way too late and just talking. Feels like old times. Like in high school, when we used to sit on the phone for three hours at a time. Or in college, when we layed around (responsibility-free) in one of our college houses just talking. Too bad our late nights of talking now have to be followed up with a 6-7 a.m. wake time and full day of work and childcare. Hmm. I'm kind of paying the price this week. Must go to bed early tonight!

Problem is: I have a ridiculous number of posts that have been piling up in my head during this blogging dry spell and just begging to be written. Not good for the go-to-bed-early motive.

So, I'm curious...

Where do you blog?

I'm sure, for most of you, it's a laptop that comes with you wherever you feel like sitting. But where do you sit?