I know, I haven't been around much, but I have a good excuse. My family loves watching home videos. A few years back I began the painful process of transferring them to DVD. This takes a LONG time. (Somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 hours per DVD.) I believe I've completed 6 or 7 DVDs. It isn't a simple one-step process and 1 tape doesn't translate into 1 DVD-usually 2. We have 83 videotapes. I thought I could do this over Christmas break that year. Crazy!
So where am I going with all of this? My darling husband, Michael, decided the other day that HE would take on this monstrous task as a sort of Christmas gift to the family. What a wonderful, thoughtful gift! I forgot that my computer was required to do this. While this process is running, my computer becomes unfunctional for any other purpose. Since my multi-talented, multi-tasking counterpart is still asleep, thought I'd sneak on here and let you all know where I've been. I may not be around as much as I'd like to.
Hey, maybe I will get my Christmas shopping done in a timely fashion this year. Quite possibly those Christmas cards might ship before Christmas, cookies baking in the oven filling the house with delicious scents, decorations aglow...who am I kidding? It just wouldn't feel like Christmas if I didn't run around at the last minute like a crazed woman.
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A couple of years ago I put the pictures from photo albums from our childhood onto CD-ROMS that you can also watch on your DVD player as a slide show for my brother. (I kept copies for myself.) It was a LOT of work, but so worth it!
Isn't running around like a crazy woman part of the twelve days of Christmas song? I think it is.
Isn't it funny how much other stuff we can get done when we don't have access to our computer/blogging?!
Sounds like a great household. Thanks for dropping by my site.
Continue with your Christmas blessings. Have fun. Rejoice that Jesus is born!
Shirley Buxton
www.writenow.wordpress.com
Oh my word, Joanne, that's a lot of videos to transfer. Thank goodness your husband's going to help you. I can't beging to imagine finding enough time to tackle a project like that right now.
I'm sorry it took me almost a week to get over here and thank you for visiting my blog last week. Even without attempting a project like yours, my days are just disappearing. Thank you again for visiting and leaving me a comment.
WOW THANKS for the warning I always look at our collection and think what a waste we need to do that but maybe it can wait
sorry
jeans5kids
I thought running around like a crazed woman was normal... Now I find out that it is NOT part of the Christmas tradition? *Chuckle*
Hope you are all enjoying the old family movies... Er... DVD's... *Smile*
A blessing in disguise? :-D
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