'supporting each other through really tough times'

pah you don't live anywhere near HoneyBear do you? Post 187 on Flylady Thread. Someone has taken in a 'stray' but well fed cat and is holding on to it regardless of owners.

CRANKY40 wrote: »

To everyone who thinks their troubles are insignificant compared to other people's problems....they aren't. If it worries you it's significant.

Can I 2nd and 3rd this please? So well put.

Would also like to add that I was a lurker for ages before I became a poster. I knew a lot of names, recognised posters from other threads, and felt cosy and comforted by the familiarity. So comforted on a bad day that one morning I asked myself why I didn't post at all, just read? So I posted, and the comfort I received doubled, because then people started to regnise me so it became a 2 way street IYSWIM?

You have no idea (or perhaps you have) what a difference it made to my mostly lonely life, saying something I felt, and having it taken seriously, and realising that although you wouldn't know me if you walked past me in the street, you cared if I was sad.

I feel so sad for, yet also proud of the people on here who are suffering such misery, hardship, worry and yet still keep going, still offer help and support to others. I have just read all of yesterdays posts as I was out all day and there are so many having a hard time I wanted to weep for you. It would take me until mid next week to go back and find all the names I would like to mention, and I would be mortified If I missed anyone, so love, hope and light to all who need them.

As a side issue, it would take so long to go back and read then add to my post because I am using a touchscreen and it is driving me mad. MAD I tell you! I would love to post using my old laptop, which is slow but has a real keyboard that doesn't end up making appear 10 years old, but for so reeason I cannot log into the site on that machine. I can log in and out over and over again on this damned touch screen, but my laptop tells me it doesn't rcognise my user name and/or password. I have made sure I am logged out on the touchscreen and have cleared the cookies on the laptop. Am stuck now, any ideas?

Morning all well I got up on time for a change on my way to taking the boys to school we walk past a area of secluded green land I thought what's that smell and OMG their was a split binliner full of cannabis :eek:we have found small bags on our walk to school and have always taken them to the school office they phone police ect but this is different I quickly hurried the boys to school 2 mins away and rang the police and went to meet them to show them where it was they were like we'll done good find thankyou aparantly there had been a raid on a house nearby so someone must of got way with it. What is the world coming to needles to say we will walk a different celeb way in future I am a bit scared now.

Morning toughies
I'm starting to blur up again so will just send you all a big hug this morning and hope you all have a great day thinking of all those struggling at the moment XX

JKJ it might be worth posting on the techie board about your laptop. Lots of clever people there. Failing that, you could always back up everything to an external hard drive or CDs/ pen drive then do a reinstall of Windows. (Make sure you back up to something you can keep separate). It's not as hard as you might think (though for all I know you may well be a complete computer whizz - if so, I apologise for teaching you to suck eggs) and it fixes all sorts of glitches and speeds things up generally. Most IT people I know do it regularly as a sort of spring clean. Lots of tutorials on the web if you google reinstalling Windows.

As long as you have got the recovery discs for your laptop you should be fine although you would have to spend ages afterwards downloading all the Windows updates. I allow about half a day to reinstall all the other programs and then reload all the documents I saved on the external back up. If you haven't got any recovery discs it may be that your laptop didn't come with them but you are expected to make your own - it usually takes 2 or 3 DVDs. If you go to help and support on the Start menu it should take you to the Back up and Recovery Centre where you can make your recovery discs