This has been the oddest week. I took my laptop in to the shop to be cleaned up and dusted off. This was Tuesday, and it is now Friday... no laptop still.... I hate it when people TELL you that they will have something done within a certian amount of time... but then don't fullfill their end of the bargin...

I have had my laptop for about two years and I thought it was time to get an overhaul. Not having my stuff has really sucked! It's amazing what not having my computer has done to me... I have been working off our home desktop and have not been enjoying it very much...

However, in an effort to look at this as an opportunity to get things done that I don't normally do... I am giving you my 25 things to do when you don't have a your computer...


1. Clean out my google reader (every day).
2. Organize my pictures (on the home pc) for my next print order.
3. Clean every inch of my house.
4. Organize my client files.
4. Discover iGoogle (my hubby says I have been drinking a little too much of the google cool-aid)...
5. Sort though magazines to go to the dentist office.
6. More playtime with the kids... extra trips to the park.
7. Find new color pages for the kids.
8. Follow up on inactive clients.
9. Update my Facebook activity (talk about a huge time taker... I could spend all day here...)
10. Discover a new social network... to be continued...
11. Watch a little of Keeping Up with the Kardashians (kind of like Rock of Love... it's the train wrech syndrome).
12. Start a new research project.... to be continued...
13. Find new connections on Linkedin
14. Find new connections on Plaxo (no luck yet there...)
15. Connect with a few old friends via long, long email.
16. Wrote a dozen hand written cards to some old friends (did you know that postage is going up again?)!!!
17. Cleaned out my laundry room.
18. Caught up on all the laundry (told you it would haunt me Laura).
19. Summer cloths came out of the bottom drawers and got them into rotation.
20. Finished up my newsletter.
21. Cleaned up my pantry.
22. Finished the mending (three shirts with buttons, one pair of pants and a dress hem, I hate mending!) 
23. Caught up on all my magazine reading.
24. Cleaned out my cookies.... and finally...
25. Did a blog post about all the stuff I did.

As you can see, I did quite a bit of clean up and finishing up of things that have been sitting on my task list that haven't gotten done, but are now done. Hopefully next week I will be back plugged into my little flat friend whom I like to call "Betty."

P.S. A happy, happy mothers day to all of you moms, moms to be, moms in laws and grandmoms. We have a big job and we deserve more than just one day to be relieved of duty.... have a super day!