Pictures....again....I think....?

Okay....wait a minute....I think this might work.....

 

("Hair bows" created by A-girl.)

 

Yup.  We have lift off! 

Pictures!!!

Alright!  It worked.  I still don't completely understand this whole thing. But, through various blogger friends, I tried multiple things to be able to use pictures in my posts again.  The one that finally worked and I am still not done with is going to picasaweb.google.com and clicking on every single, solitary picture that has magically ended up at that site and reducing the size to 800x600.  I have managed to resize about 100 pictures so far and have about 800 to go. 

I know. 

Seriously. 

How do I have that many pictures on there???

So, here is a quick glimpse into our December, so far....then I have to go give the kids their final exams before Christmas break and resize 800 pictures....oh, and wrap gifts and find a time to squeeze in a celebration for D-mans 15th birthday, and clean the house from when I was gone for a week visiting my mom, and catch up on laundry, and watch some of the 23 Christmas movies my babies recorded for me while I was gone with my mom.  You know, the usual.

L-girl got to go ice skating for the first time. 

I know.   In Georgia.  Sad, isn't it?

Pros:  It was really warm. 

Cons:  It was Georgia.  The ice rink was miniscule (like the size of my living room).  It cost $9.00.  There were a lot of unsupervised teens/preteens.  I am fairly certain I saw a 12 year old boy ask a 12 year old girl if she wanted to go smoke a joint while the ice was getting refreshed.  Where are your parents people?!?!?

Since the ice skating cost $9.00 a person.  The rest of us just watched L-girl go round and round on the living room rink.  We found ways to entertain ourselves though.  Right behind the rink is a cute little town that was having its Christmas festival or something, so we wandered the shops while L-girl and her softball team skated.  This railing is, by the way, 2 stories up over a brick pathway, and is the same railing that A-man almost tumbled over because he bet a friend that he could reach out and touch the branches.  I pulled him down by the belt loops (since the top 3/4 of his body was dangling over the railing) and he had to watch the girls skate glued to my side the rest of the night.

This is how our van gets cleaned out.  D-man got the short straw this time around.  He didn't even waste his time getting grocery bags, or even household garbage bags....he just went for the big guns and started tossing!

We had a facial fiasco, a Christmas parade, a trip to Santa and a few other things that I will share after I reduce a few more photos...and take a nap.

I Am Trying, But, I Guess....I Am Old.

Do you remember when VCRs first came out. They were so exciting and confused your parents so much?

Do you remember when renting VCRs and movies from the movie store?

It was so exciting when you finally got to buy your own VCR and leave it hooked up all the time.

But, your poor parents, they were confused.  They just handed you the movie and the remote (if you had one) and told you to get it all set up for movie night. 

They couldn't even program the little "12:00" to stop flashing.

You would roll your eyes, and in your snotty, teen way, sort of splutter out how to do it, which channel to turn the T.V. to, and then, which buttons to push on the shiny new remote?

Yeah, me too.

Well, the tables have turned and, I have officially become my parents. 

I am confused by technology.

I thought I had been doing pretty well.  Waaaaay better than Rainman.  So, even though we don't have a lot of recent technology devices around here, I still thought I was keeping up pretty well with things....or that I could dig around and figure stuff out.

I was wrong.

I don't get it.

It is my picture issue.

Remember?  I told you that miraculously thousands of bloggers had used up all their picture memory via Picasa during Thanksgiving week.  Then, I told you I had researched and found a way that I could still add photos through either Photobucket or Flickr?

So, I got up early this morning with the intent of learning both of those programs and uploading my pictures and being back to normal around here.

But, here is the problem that is stumping me.... (and, yes, I am asking for help....I will take a middle aged eye roll and snotty tone if necessary, but my psyche is sort of feeling bruised and fragile right now)....The only pictures that will show up in my Pictures file folder on my computer are the ones I uploaded from my camera, on or before 11/15/12.

I have uploaded since that date and they show up in the Windows Photo Gallery....but not in my Pictures files.  So, I can't seem to figure out how to upload them to any program.

Am I making sense?

My pictures are there on my computer....I can see them....sometimes....but, according to any program that wants me to browse and find photos to upload....nothing exists after 11/15/12.

Help me stop the flashing 12:00....please!  I am about to put a piece of electrical tape over it and call it quits! 

Still No Pictures...

Okay, I give up.  My pictures don't even show up as an option when I try to attach a picture through Blogger.  The last pictures it shows are ones that I uploaded on November 15th.  All the other pictures I have taken and uploaded show up in my Windows Photo Gallery....but, that it it.

I will have to figure out a new way to load pictures into my blog.  I guess I will have to find time in the Christmas rush to figure out how to use Flickr or Photobucket for my pictures.

Let me go teach some little minds some educational treasures and then I will be back with some pictures of those kids and our Christmas decorations....if I can figure it out.  My friend, Ellie has figured it out.  Go take a look at her cute happy orange picture.

So, hopefully I will be able to. 

Here is hoping you see me back again, soon.