Maria and I had so much fun talking to our friends at Jean’s Place, that I came sliding even farther out of my funk. I took a deep breath and decided I was going to put my creative  life back together and stop trembling and believing it was too complex and frustrating.

First, I had a blast this morning talking magic with my granddaughter, she loved the magic kit I sent her and the wizard’s hat and cape. I love this connection.

I finally found a warm winter overcoat for Georgianna at a local consignment store, Carroll’s Trading Post. Georgianna, a Mansion resident,  lost the first three coats I got for her but I worked out an arrangement with the aides to keep track of this one.

When I left, she was sitting outside the Mansion smoking a cigarette with her friend Nancy, all bundled up in her new and very warm coat. She got up and came over and kissed me and called me an angel.

I could not figure out where all the coats were going, but we did figure it out today and it won’t happen again.

Secondly, I figured out how to restore my bookmarks and short cut on my browser, a process that had frustrated me for weeks. I battled for an hour to reset my Light Room password and open the program, and another hour to figure out how to import a photo and edit it.

That is the photo you see above here.  I now have the option of applying some of the hard-learned editing techniques that I love to use on my pictures. Now I can use Apple Photos and Lightroom in tandem, all of my photos were finally and successfully migrated to a new hard drive.

I don’t alter my photos ever, I do massage them sometimes. I didn’t do much to this one.

On top of that, my new computer is working beautifully, I’ve gotten past the scores of bugs that pop up and I am beginning to trust it and gaining my confidence  back.

So it was a good day and this is the first photo I have edited on Lightroom. I’m going to turn off the computer now and go pour myself some scotch. I’m putting my disconnected life back together.