Yup, that worked.  Moods are better again.  I even forgot that I was in a bad mood earlier.  It's 2:40am and I'm exhausted but not quite enough to sleep.  I have completed my first swap...it was only by email but still I've completed it.  I've gotten 2 ratings so far (out of 5) and they've both been excellent ratings so it's made my day.  I was a little nervous about it.  For this swap we just had to send our assigned partners a link to a website (www.43things.com) and specify our actual page of goals.  Mine is http://www.43things.com/person/Ellocin if you care to check it out.  Too get an exceptional rating you need to do a little something extra....that something is up to you.  Even then it's not guaranteed you'll rate exceptionally.  A score of 5 is the usual rating if you have met all swap requirements, getting a heart along with it is exceptional.  I decided to make up signature tags (personalized images used at the end of emails) in Paint Shop Pro, an old hobby of mine so last night I downloaded a trial version of PSP, today I found a nice and free snowflake tube (special type of image used in PSP) and made up some cute little tags and personalized them for each of my partners.  I had fun even though I kept it really basic because I just plain forget how to do most of the stuff in PSP.  So far 2 of my partners have thought they were great and deserving of a heart.  I guess that's enough babbling on about that.  I'm just so happy the swap is going well so far.Mom and I did a lot of shopping.  I think I spent almost as much on myself as I did on others.  Opps.  I can't seem to help it.  Some of it was necessities though.  My goodness though, by the time we finished I could barely walk another step.  My ankles hurt but they are not swollen...felt like they were though.  My back was a bit sore too...but not from yesterday.  It gets sore from too much mall walking...I think it's whatever they use for flooring.  I found one thing that I've been having an extremely hard time finding.  Two years ago I went to Boston and at the Hard Rock Cafe they had these huge "man-sized" coffee mugs and I got one for my brother-in-law.  Well a month or so ago it broke and it was his favorite mug.  He loved the size of it.  So I went on a mission to find another "man-sized" mug for him for Christmas.  Do you know how hard it is to find those?!  I pretty much tried every store I could think of and nothing even came close until today when I went to Eddie Bower.  They had ones the right size.  Not only that, but they were on SALE!!!  WooHoo!   

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I love a great bargain..kudos on the mug! The swap sounds interesting but way above my internet ability. I am happy that I can finally type faster and with less mistakes! LOL!
Have a good rest!
Nan