Oopsie

Do you ever ignore that feeling you get - the one thats says 'leave it alone, don't fiddle with it, just let it be'.
I do and I did and I stuffed up my computer.  I was trying to reset my password and went through all the motions and then there was a power cut right in the middle of doing it. I lost access to my emails and explorer since my password was no longer valid. I knew I should have left it alone. I went through all the troubleshooting guides, nothing worked.  The book said if all fails, unplug everything and then reconnect - I had to crawl under the puter desk to do half of that but still nothing worked.  I resigned myself to calling the troubleshooting hotline and spending at least half and hour while they talked me through redoing everything.
Why didn't I listen to that little voice, I was so mad at myself. 
After two days without the net I worked myself up to calling the help line, I got everything prepared and I accidently unplugged the phone connection. I plugged it back in and just decided I would have one more check and voila.......everything worked.  Now I had checked that connection, I had checked the splitters and filters. The old password still works so I am leaving it as is. I am not touching anything again. I am going to listen to tht little voice.

Haven't done much stitching but knitted a piece of fabric up and then felted it, I'm going to embellish it and turn it into a coffee plunger cosy.  It was just a practise piece to see how much the piece would shrink. Practically half in length and only about an inch in width.  I used Seans Sheep (Big W). The colour ran terribly, even after a few rinses once I got the piece to how I wanted it.  But it was a varigated wool and as I was knitting it up I though it would make lovely socks, but after all that colour running I've decided against it.
Might make a pair of gloves in it though. 

I've got a couple of ideas running around my head for embroideries. One to do with my new love of Genealogy, I've managed to trace one ancestor back to 1720 and have found literally hundreds of new distant reli's.  So I want to design a family tree. Just going back to my great grandparents though - else it woul end up like the bayaux tapestry if I included them all.

On the job front, nothing much. I've applied for a Mystery Shopper position. I have to go into Centrelink tomorrow for my quarterly check. What they say and what the job network people say I have to do are two different things.  I wish they'd make their minds up as to what is expected of me.



Jan