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I think I need a new computer

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I think sometime in the new year I might be looking for a new computer. Actually, I’ll be looking for new laptop to be specific. My laptop has been acting up lately.

My laptop is getting slow and while I’m working on it I can hear (and feel!) the DVD drive working … sometimes the dvd/cd holder pops open on it’s own without me hitting any buttons at all. I’ve checked the computer many times recently for viruses or malware and I can’t find anything wrong with it. It just seems to be acting up.

It is four years old after all!

I’m going to be in the Ottawa area in the new year and while I’m there I might visit a friend in Quebec … maybe I’ll do a little ordis (computer) shopping while I’m there. LOL No matter where I am, there’s almost always some amazing sales at the beginning of the year as stores sell off their old and or excess inventory.





If Canada has an oil well blowout it’s going to be very bad

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This evening I’m taping a documentary on CBC about the Gulf Oil Spill. Apparently the documentary questions whether we here in Canada are about to have our own Offshore Accident off the coast of Newfoundland.

The Doc Zone documentary is called Blowout: Is Canada Next? and I’m sure we’re going to find it very interesting. I didn’t know this, but if there is an emergency on the Chevron (Canada’s deepest well off the coast of Newfoundland) it would take 11 days for ships to reach the spill. Now that’s scary isn’t it?

Here’s a quote from the Doc Zone page for the Blowout Documentary:

Just weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf, Chevron began drilling Canada’s deepest oil exploration well off the coast of Newfoundland. Located 430 kms from shore, the Chevron well is twice as deep as BP’s Deepwater Horizon well, six times further out to sea, and in much rougher seas. In the event of a blowout, it would take 11 days for emergency response ships to even reach the spill. An oil blowout off the coast of Newfoundland would decimate the world’s last remaining Atlantic cod fishery, along with several species of whales, seals, turtles, coral habitats and seabirds that feed in the basin. These rich and fertile seas are the backbone to Newfoundland’s tourism industry. An oil spill would create dead zones within the ocean and potentially devastate this economic mainstay that brings in over 1 billion tourist dollars annually.

The documentary is on CBC News world at 10 pm if anyone is interested in watching.

Snow – no winter can’t be coming yet

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Wow, I’m just watching the news that I taped earlier and I can’t believe it snowed last night in Barrie Ontario! I know it got quite cold here in Toronto, but to hear that it snowed in an area that’s only about two hours away … that’s not good.

Usually we don’t get snow here in Toronto until at least November and often it’s near the end of November at that. I hope that’s still going to be true this year.

I’ve already been freezing for a month. I don’t know why, but this year I’ve felt colder than I usually do at this time of year. I’ve been wearing sweaters and curling up in blankets when I’ve been in the house watching TV or working on the computer.

I’ve lost about 18 pounds in the last month and a half … maybe that’s another reason why I’m feeling so cold lately? I’m getting thinner and it’s a big change for my body to lose that much weight so fast. No I haven’t been using any thing like apidexin to lose weight. I’ve lost it because of my migraine medication and how it’s made a lot of different foods and drinks taste so different. Which of course means I’m not eating as much nor drinking pop or sweet drinks. LOL

Waiting for our dinner to be delivered

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My husband and I are treating ourselves tonight.

We’ve been on a very tight budget since we got a new car in August. Finally … things are looking a “little” better. Not great, but we have a little breathing room.

So we’re doing something we having done in months – we’re ordering food in for dinner. Swiss Chalet. Mmmmm. I can’t wait until the delivery guy gets here with our chicken dinners.

The last time we ordered in from this restaurant the guy had something that looked like a barcode scanner that he used on our debit card. It was kind of cool. We’re paying cash this time though so I probably won’t see that gadget this evening.

Do you eat out, get take out or get food delivered to your home very often? If so, how often?

Saving money on our home and car insurance

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I guess I didn’t mention it on this blog, but near the beginning of August our car just up and died! My mother in law was driving it when a plug or something fell out of the transmission and all the transmission fluids came out in one big gush.

After having the car towed to the garage and trying to have it fixed we learned that the transmission casing was pitted and that we’d need a new transmission. Since our car was 14 years old we couldn’t see putting close to $3000 into the car so … we bit the bullet and decided to buy another car.

I guess we could have leased a new car or looked around for a really good financing deal on a new car, but we decided to get a used car.

The new used car is a 2006 Pontiac Pursuit – very similar to the Pontiac G5’s.

I guess we’ve had our new vehicle for about two weeks and so far so good. We love driving it and it seems to have great gas mileage.

Oh and when we called our insurance company to get our car insurance changed from the old car to the new car our rates actually went down a little bit. Not much … but a few dollars a month. I think when our new contract starts in January it will be about $10 a month lower.

Oh and when we were talking to our insurance agent he had some ideas for lowering our home insurance costs too (we have home and car insurance with the same company because combining the two offers a further discount at some insurance companies) so now we’re paying approximately $10 less a month on our home insurance as well.

So when everything kicks in next year we’ll be saving more than $20 a month on our car and home insurance thanks to

1. getting a newer car
2. having a clean driving record
3. never having made any claims on our car or house and
4. making a couple of simple changes like upping the deductible on our home insurance from $500 to $1000

My husband and I are smokers (yes shame on us), however, we’re planning on quitting in September. We mentioned this to our insurance agent and he said to let them know when we quit as they offer a smoke free discount. We can get an additional 3% off our home insurance.

It might be worth calling your home and or car insurance company to see if they have any ideas as to how you might save a few more dollars each month on your coverage. I know we’re happy with our additional savings because our bills just went way up what with the new (used) car payments we’re going to be making each month, so any way we can save money or cut costs – all the better!

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