General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse &What did I learnt today/Chat with Friends #49, 1 by Gardengirl1204

Gardengirl1204 wrote:
Hi everyone! I am back from New York! It was a quick trip but actually didn't feel rushed! We got up there close to lunch yesterday and a driver took us to the hotel where a HUGE stretch Suburban limo was waiting to take us out to the North Fork of Long Island to tour a few wineries. We visited 3 different ones and tasted some good wines. I'nm not a big wine drinker but if I do drink it, I like a sweet wine like a Reisling. Anyway, I have to tell you that I was totally surprised by Long Island and how beautiful it was as you got out on the island. There seemed to be a quaint garden center on every corner and all the houses were done in cedar shingles. And the breeze blowing off LI sound was awesome! I could live there in a heartbeat!

So I got back home around 4pm today and promptly started watering all of my plants that looked on the brink of death. We need some rain badly!

I've spent the last 2 hours working on our PC which now has some type of trojan virus and is drining us crazy! All because I downloaded a website for kids that was talked abou on the TODAY show a few weeks ago. It's called Kidzui and the concept is it's a gateway for your kids to go to thousands of "safe" sites without having a parent right over their shoulder. DS loved it but I noticed right away things started happening. I started getting these Explorer windows open up with spam; my automatic Windows updates showed disabled when it actually was enabled and everything ran like it was stuck in glue. I ran a spyware scan twice and it found tons of trojan stuff; removed it and then it would come back. So now we have to take the PC back to Circuit City and get them to clean it yet again. All of this after paying over $300 to get it cleaned and upgraded 2 mths ago PLUS another $60 for CA security suite and spyware doctor. I'd say the program we're using wasn't woprking!! Very frustrating!! Deep breath....

Now for the good news!!!

The puppies are here!!!!! It looks like they arrived on Sunday - 6 girls and 3 boys! So Murphy ahs his sister! They look like little furry potatoes! I've got to start thinking of a good name!!

So we've got some fun planned for the weekend. The Indy race come to Richmond Sat night and we will be heading over there with DH's 2 sisters and their DHs. I'm rooting for Danica to kick some butt!!! She is a spitfire!!! So I have to clean the house (YUCK!). Vaccum up all of Murphy's hair and scrub down 3 bathrooms! I HATE cleaning house!

OK, I'm off to bed now. I will check back in tomorrow