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Finally bought a new Laptop!

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Well, as I just said in a recent post on my other blog I finally broke down and bought a new laptop.

I really didn’t want to spend the money since we don’t have a lot of extra money, but my current laptop is getting really slow and it’s hard drive is filling up. Yes I do have an external hard drive, but I’ve moved everything I can move over to the external hard drive and I still have only 25 gb of free space … not a lot when you do a lot of graphic intensive work on your computer!

So … about two weeks ago I started seriously looking at new laptops. I started by looking online and just deciding what features I wanted. I new I wanted a laptop with a decent sized hard drive, a fast CPU, and a very good graphics card and display.

I spent a whole weekend looking at computers online and then looking in a few stores nearby just to physically see some of the models I’d been eying online. I looked at everything from HP Notebooks to compaq desktops and then I finally settled on an Asus N53JF.

The computer that I bought online finally arrived on Monday afternoon and ever since it arrived I’ve been busy trying to move files over from my old laptop to the new one. the only thing that I’m really stuck on is that I’ve been using an old outdated copy of Eudora for my email on my old laptop and I want to transfer all my email and email settings to the new computer but I’m having trouble. Any hints?

What I’ve done so far is to install Thunderbird onto the old laptop and it picked up all of the mail and mail settings from my copy of Eudora but of course there’s no export in Thunderbird … so now I’m trying to figure out how to make a new profile in Thunderbird on the new computer and then I’ll try to add the Thunderbird profile from the old computer to the new computer’s Thunderbird. Does that sounds about right to those who know what I’m talking about?





January sales driving me nuts

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I keep getting emails and flyers from local companies about huge January sales. Usually I try to ignore these kinds of things, especially since we don’t have a lot of extra money to spend on things that we don’t really need, but as you probably know, the sales at this time of year are well, spectacular, so it’s hard to ignore some of the sales that I’m seeing!

I really want a flip camcorder so I keep drifting over to websites to check out prices on the one that I want … then for some reason I look at the video games like psp and xbox kinect. I don’t know why .. I mean, I already have a wii and I don’t use it as much as I should so why am I looking at other video games? LOL

Do sales attract you? By this I mean do they make you look even if you know you probably won’t buy anything?

Ready for Christmas

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Well I think we’re all set for Christmas. We’d better be! It’s almost 8 pm on Christmas eve and the stores are closed! If I’m no ready it’s too late!

I was just talking with a friend on the phone, wishing her a merry Christmas as I won’t be seeing her over the holidays and we were talking about our plans for Christmas day and so on.

She told me about the gift she got her nieces – it’s birthstone jewelry for kids! She bought a birthstone ring for one of her nieces and a charm bracelet for the other one. I thought that was a great idea. As I said we’re ready for Christmas and we bought gifts for the kids already, but if I’d thought of something like this before getting gifts I might have bought something like this for one of my nieces myself.

So … are you ready for Christmas and everything else that goes along with the holidays? Are you cooking a big meal or traveling to someone’s house to enjoy dinner? Tell me all about it.

I think I missed out on some big sales today

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I just happened to turn on the news and they were doing a report about how it’s “Super Saturday here in Canada” or for all I know, maybe it’s super Saturday all over North America.

I guess it’s a big shopping day full of super sales. I did not know that. Now I’m upset that I decided to put off the last of my shopping until Monday! Maybe I could have got a really good deal or two if I’d gone shopping today instead.

I know that I’ve been receiving some email flyers that have some amazing deals on desktop computers and other electronics. I was seriously tempted to buy an XBox the other day when I saw one on sale. I’d use it – but probably not quite often enough to make it worth buying- especially when we really don’t have any spare money right now.

Did you go shopping today? Did you catch any good sales?

Almost ready for Christmas

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I’m almost ready for Christmas … well, if that’s ever possible to say! Honestly I still have a couple of presents to buy, and a little bit of cooking to do – but, hey, I did manage to get the Christmas cards sent out earlier today. That’s a start, especially since I don’t usually send Christmas cards at all.

I was really happy with the Christmas cards I sent out this year. They’re recycled Christmas cards and they were really pretty. I felt like I was doing my “green” part by using recycled material.

I was going to do the last of my shopping tomorrow … but my husband is just started two weeks of temporarily lay off so now I”m thinking … why go shopping on Saturday when everyone else is out and the malls are all crowded and crazy? Since my husband is off work we could go on Monday and I’m sure it will be a lot more relaxing .. a little less hustle and bustle – right? So maybe tomorrow and Sunday I’ll get whatever cooking done that I need to finish and then during the week we’ll finish our shopping. Sounds like a plan to me.

How are you doing – are you ready for Christmas?

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