Got a pony

Well, actually, two of them. (And I think it's really funny, given what I mentioned I was planning to do yesterday afternoon).

I came home to find a large envelope in my mailbox. From an attorney's firm. At first I was perplexed and somewhat apprehensive - the only material an attorney ever sent me was paperwork dealing with the purchase of my house, but I know lots of other people who have gotten scary-bad (but usually not unexpected) stuff.

But then I realized (a) the package was from Philadelphia and (b) it was puffy.

It wasn't scary legal papers. It was ponies, from a faithful reader of mine.

See?



Pony tree ornaments!


Both Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie!

I hung them on the tree.





Fluttershy is about midway up the tree, very visible. Pinkie, because of her slightly more stretched-out shape, wound up going on the bottom, down near the teddy bears I have under the tree.

I really appreciated it, especially after the day I had. (And the evening wasn't so hot; apparently an antivirus update screwed my home computer up but good. I tried the "leave it on overnight" bit but at some point it shut itself down. I was able to turn it on this morning and then decided perhaps it was best to do a "normal" shutdown - I had had to do "forced" shutdowns (where I hit the button) previously. I'm hoping it will be okay, or at least okay until after the first of the year when I will probably need to get a new one. (wharrrgarrrbllll. Any suggestions as to brands? I know I want a "true" laptop and not just a pad-type, because I do a lot of typing at home and I hate the on-screen keyboards that some of the pads do. My current machine is a WinBook but I have no idea if they are even still made. I've heard good things about Toshibas....I admit though I really hate the thought of leaving XP (which works well for me) and having to do Windows 8, which even some people I know who like Windows are complaining about. Oh well.)

Depending on how things go with the computer, I may not be able to post any more photos for a while; for some reason I can't upload to flickr from my work box. Or at least I couldn't earlier, I should try, maybe New Flickr, ugly as it is, resolved that problem. (I was able to get the photos for today posted last night between failures.)


ETA: YES YES I CAN UPLOAD FROM MY WORK BOX. Hooray. So even if I'm without a functional home computer for a while, I can still do most of what I want to do from here.And to my delight, I find I have some old, pre-flickr photos still on disk here, which wound up being deleted when my old photo host closed down, so I may just add some of them back into my photo stream. This pleases me.


One piece of good news: I won't miss the luncheon after all. When I told the student I had "somewhere I had to be" at 11:30 and offered an alternate time, her work schedule somehow became more open. Hm.

Also, here's a photo of the cookie plate. I forgot to photograph it before I put the plastic wrap on it but didn't feel like taking it off.



All of the peanut butter ones were gone by midafternoon yesterday, and most of the almond bars....