November 10, 1998 10:45 A.M.

Ok.....now.....I'm just about ready to smash this freaking computer........I just lost a whole damn page I just was writing in my journal!!!!! A freaking half hour of crap down the drain!

Damn thing just likes to piss me off, I swear!

Now to see if I can recount what the hell I said in the first place. *Grumble grumble*

Something about having wrote this in a direct proportions to indirect measures of Ecilipsic's mention of me never getting in here to write! Ok so.....I admit it.....he is right. I know I don't get in here barely enough. But ya know when the freakin computer is not too computer friendly!!!!!! I think it's days are numbered. YOU HEAR ME YOU INFERNAL COMPUTER!!!!!! I hear it.......i think it is snickering at me at this very moment.

Ok enough with that.....i'm not gonna let a frickin machine get the better o' me. YOU HEAR ME U DUMB MACHINE!

*clears her throat*

ummm as I was saying.....or rather did say and am gonna HAVE TO repeat

SCOOTERELLA LIVES!!!!! She responded to the questionnaire thingy I sent and I was ever so happy! Yes, i know, I am sad, but these little things bring me so much joy. (Thanks Ecky! he he) That's a thanks for sending it to me. I errrrr........ummmmmm......wasn't too thrilled at first to have to do it.......but then I started it and then put it into my draft folder til i had more time to finish it. Then I finally sent it out. Well, I am glad I did do it after all! It's been fun getting the responses back from the ones who started to respond to it. And it resurrected my dear lil' scootsie poopsie. THERE IS A GOD!!! *winks at ya* i knew there was.

O' course i'm not getting any house work done this way. i started out with a plan to do it ya know. next thing ya know it will be lunch and well i really want to paint today! And I am gonna have to post this......and well......then I will probably get talking to people.......hmmm... I guess if can go incognito.......he he

Oh geez i just looked at my plant.....she needs water, big time.

Now somehow......i was mentioning that yesterday i had big intentions of doing lots and didn't do anything......and i thought maybe i shoulda been born rich so that i wouldn't feel so guilty or sumpin and I would have a maid and a cook ta boot. Cause I hate doing those things. Anywho, what shut my program down that i was typing in is the fact that I was trying to paste something in here. Which I did do THIS time.

Now before you scroll down and see that I have pasted some stuff on history in here let me tell you why. I was interested in where my ancestors came from (France), and I was looking up the places, La Rochelle and Ile d' Orleans and stuff. Then I was wondering what was going on over there at the time my ancestors decided to come to Canada. (which is what i posted down there) The one ancestor was born 1610 and his wife 1631, they were married in Canada in 1654. (Ya i know do the math it was a perverted ol' man and a young lady......so what's changed in society today?) Anyway, I figured they came here between 1640-1654 and below is some of the stuff that was going on in that time.

I hope you find it interesting, cause I did. But ya know....it's only cause it's got ta do with me that i find it interesting otherwise I wouldn't have. lol

Henry was succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Louis XIII. For the first decade and a half of his reign the country drifted or slipped backward under the ineffectual direction of the queen mother, Marie de Médicis, and later under the irresolute leadership of the inexperienced young king.

Internal Developments

To break the political power of the nobility Richelieu executed several of its eminent and dangerous members and battered down castles that could be used as centers of resistance. To undermine their local authority and to ensure faithful execution of royal policies in the provinces, Richelieu divided the country into 30 new administrative districts and over each placed an intendant, a royal officer appointed from among loyal middle-class officials. The intendants gradually assumed enormous police, judicial, and financial powers in their districts. Huguenots were deprived of the privileges granted by the Edict of Nantes, but freedoms of conscience and worship were reaffirmed.

Richelieu encouraged the development of a merchant fleet, chartered foreign-trade companies, and supported colonial expansion. Systematic colonization was begun in French Canada, and the first French trading posts were established in Africa and the West Indies. For the protection of trade and colonies he founded the French navy, building a galley fleet on the Mediterranean and a fleet of 40 sailing vessels on the Atlantic.