YAY! COMPUTER!

So, many of you didn't know, my computer died. But, my little sister sent me a lap top she was no longer using. I am happily typing away at it. For about a month now my computer has died, then come back to life for 1 day...only to die again.
Thankfully though, this computer has worked straight for a couple of hours now. Yay!
God really provided for me with this lap top. I didn't have the money for a new computer.
The funny thing is, one of my team members wants our computer guy to fix up my dead computer for her. I'm happy to give her the old computer and let her try whatever she wishes. The thing is that our computer guy tried saving my computer about 4 or 5 times now since September so...not sure what would change that situation now!

Let's see...what has been going on for the past couple of weeks. Warm weather. It's about time. Or, not really seeing as it is February. The thing is, I'm a hot weather girl. Cold weather and I don't really get along - ever. Just not a fan of it. So having weather that means I can be outside without a coat on in FEBRUARY pretty much rocks my face off.
It's cold again though, as of tonight.
Everyone was going crazy in their gardens this week. Most Romanians have a pretty fair sized garden plot with their homes. It's what keeps them going through the winter since salaries are so low here. I think they were so excited to get a headstart on hoeing.
I kept meaning to everyday as well...I have a small little fenced in spot at the volunteer house that I call 'my garden.' Just too busy though - there's no time for any garden stuff right now.
: (

Child Protection visited my home! I should hear from Bucuresti within the next week or so on whether on not I got residency!

We have the Swedish construction people here now. They are continuing to work on our new volunteer house. They bring cooking ladies with them who cook for us and their team everyday. It makes me a *little* sad that I can't eat most of the food they make....Swedes are crazy about pork! Only 1 lunch out of the hundreds of lunches I have eaten over the years by these cooking ladies was made with Chicken. 90 percent of the time it's pork and the other 10 % is venison or moose. Which, is cool with me...they make really nice stews with it. They bring the meat frozen from Sweden. But the pork days are vegetarian days for Kels.

Let's see, let's see...2 weeks of no blogging....aaghghg, can't think right now. And, my back hurts from sitting at the computer since I really haven't had to sit in this chair at all for so long.
Need to get to bed.

Oh, speaking of bed - Caleb has a big boy bed now! Some friends donated the money and I went off to Oradea to buy the bunk bed I had seen there for such a good deal...200 RON. Only to find out they had raised the price to 500 RON. Grrrrreat. Caleb was so excited though about getting his big boy bed and saying goodbye to the crib that I couldn't tell him that we didn't have enough money for the bunkbed. So then, I saw a non-bunk bed bed for 156 Lei. That was the 20% off price because it was the floor model and it had a small mistake with the wood on the outside.
They took the bed apart and loaded it up into my car where I saw a lot more mistakes on the bed. That turned into a pretty nice sized argument between me and the furniture manager of the store. I showed her the new mistakes and asked her for a further discount. I mean, that's how it works...right? No, not in Romania apparently. She thought I was ridiculous for wanting a further discount. I told her that there were much more mistakes with the bed than the one that I was shown and from what the discount sign explained. She said "What, am I supposed to list everything wrong with the bed on that discount form?"
Ummm...yes, especially when you say that the discount was for a mistake made during transport. Which, was the one on the outside of the bed that I was shown before purchase. The further mistakes were from the guy who put the bed together for the show room model. There was no way the manager could have known about them. So, I was letting her know about them. These mistakes did not happen during transport - and the sign said the 20% discount was for mishandling during transport. Which, as I was explained to by the sales guy, was that scuffed up wood on the head board. To tell you all of her excuses of why I was wrong would take too long to type. I would say that 98% of the time the way of life and thinking here are things that I don't even notice anymore. But there's that 2% of the time where you just want to yell "AAAAGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!" It doesn't happen very often though...

What's Caleb's favorite part of the big boy bed? The 2 drawers underneath it that fit all of his books and cars inside! He's constantly opening, closing, opening, closing. Fine with me!
And, it's great because now he doesn't have to try and neatly fit his bed time books neatly on the shelf of our nightstand. He can just throw them into the drawer and shut it. Much easier, and a much happier Caleb : )

The lady that I told you about from Ciutelec...the one whose leg we prayed for. I finally saw her again yesterday. DO YOU KNOW WHAT SHE TOLD ME? THAT HER LEG WAS FEELING SO MUCH BETTER. She started crying and crying as she told me how much better her leg felt since we prayed for God to heal it.
God rocks.

Let's see....2 week update what else...
Oh yeah, back pain like crazy. Where the heck did that come from? I didn't notice any today so that was a really good sign. It was so bad - advil didn't touch it.
Well, actually there is back pain now : ) but that is because I'm hunched over answering weeks worth of e-mails.

Uhhhh, I think that's it for now.