Happy Sunday, my Darlings of The Dungeon!  How be you this fine weekend?  (Yeah, I’ve been reading historicals lately; I guess the uber-proper way of speaking has rubbed off. img25 )

As you know, I believe in counting my blessings—even when things may not be going so well img36 —& like to use WIPs and Chains as a forum to share & spread positive thinking as much as I can.  So let’s get started! img19

This week, I AM HAPPY with the book I’ve been reading.  Remember when I asked you to help me choose?  Well, I went with Passions of a Wicked Earl by Lorraine Heath.  Would you believe me if I said it was a teeny-weeny bit of an accident again? img11

After all your comments & recommendations, I was leaning more toward Heather Graham’s Ghost Moon, but when I finished Nancy Warren’s Shotgun Nanny (very good, by the way—if you haven’t read it yet, I recommend it! img38 ), Moon was downstairs & I was upstairs…with Wicked Earl right there at my fingertips.  So I went with it & have not been one bit sorry.  It’s wonderful!  I highly recommend it, as well, & since it’s the first of a trilogy, I can’t wait to get my hands on the other two books. img37

I AM HAPPY with the reactions I’ve been getting from neighbors as I slowly inform them that we’re in the process of moving.  With the exception of the problem neighbors (who may or may not know; I’m sure not making a point of telling them), they have all responded with sad surprise and comments like, “Oh, no—but you’ve been such good neighbors!” & “We’ll be so sorry to see you go!”  Isn’t that sweet? img40

I told you—we really are GOOD neighbors!  We’ve always been friendly & helpful & kind & considerate.  Just because one bad apple is in the basket doesn’t mean it’s the other apples’ fault. img36

They’ve also all pretty much asked the same rhetorical question once the news has set in:  “I wonder what kind of people will move in next.  I hope they’re like you guys.”  Double  img25 .

I really am going to miss some of these folks, & being able to pick up the phone or walk over to ask a question or for a favor…& to have them be able to do the same.  But hopefully we can all stay in touch & will even run into each other once in a while when we’re out & about. img15

I AM HAPPY, too, that one of my neighbors has shown an interest in my house.  I can’t imagine that anyone would want to move just a few houses over in the same town, especially after putting so much work into their current home, but she just loves the size & layout of this house & yard.  So, hey, I’ll put her in touch with my real estate agent & see what happens.  I do know that I’d be more than happy to have her living in my old house; not just happy, but relieved.  Knowing her the way I do, I know she’d take really good care of the place & not let it go to ruin down the road. img10

What else?  Oh!  I AM HAPPY that I have finally—after a couple of years of owning the stupid thing—figured out how to print labels on my iMac.  It’s not that I didn’t know where the labels option was, but that I couldn’t figure out how to get it to show me the grid that separated the labels not the page.  Without that, I had no clue where to stick the address for printing.  But I finally fiddled around enough that I got the lines added & have managed to print perfectly lovely shipping labels—even though the grid prints each time, too. img43

This means I can finally get rid of my old PC.  I was keeping it as back-up, just in case, but in all the time that I’ve owned my iMac, the only thing I’ve ever used it for was powering up my old Word template to print out labels.  If I can do that on the iMac & everything else I’ve needed in the last long while seems to be on the iMac, then I don’t really need that old POS PC taking up space, do I? img44

I do intend to double check with my computer guru friend, just to be safe, but I have a feeling the old PC won’t be going to the new house with me, heading for the recycle center instead. img17

So what’s going on with you guys this week?  Good stuff?  Lots of happy thoughts?  Let us know so we can do a little dance img23 & sip a couple margaritas with you. img15