Today I ordered my Mac Book Pro. I’ve been wanting one forever, but today I splurged and did it. I am tired of the PC crashing, hard drives failing. It seems no matter what happens it’s always something. This is an investment, not a purchase. Although they are costly it will help to ensure that I always have a nice reliable machine for both my digital scrapbooking and photography business. Whether I need to just get online and job search, complete the ADSR, or just check my email… I can do it all and not worry about a failing machine! I am surprised because it’s a custom build and with Dell that always took at least a MONTH, if not longer. However they are expecting this to arrive next week already. I am SO excited. Of course this means I will have to move my computer things over and I am not entirely excited about that, but I think I will manage just fine. I am SO happy to be a MAC owner!!

P.S. Mac I would do any thing to have a PINK Mac Book *wink*

The weekend is over, well in a few hours. Hubby had off the last 2 weekends and works the next 2. I hate the 2 he works but the kids and I usually find something to do. This weekend we did a few things, but it was a quite weekend. On Friday we did a bunch of miscellaneous errands.  Saturday was another story. I was going to get my nails done and a pedicure and hubby had an appointment to have MORE work done on his sleeve. However, when he got there he was made aware they were doing a sale and called me to come over and have some more work done on my tattoos. I have a couple that need to be revamped and then wanted to add one to the other hip to match the other side. So I went there and found out she would do the one on my hip and redo the ankle one for $70.00. So I did it. And off she began. I am so happy with the way BOTH of them turned out. Here’s the new one:

It’s on my left hip. The picture is crappy because I took it with my camera phone. The one on my right hip looks like this. I am happy with them. The ankle redo was amazing I think. The old one is here. And the amazing redo. I am glad to have them done. I am really happy with both of them and now all I have to do is manage through the healing process!! I hate the healing process!! It is the worst!! But I will get through it.

On Saturday night we watched Jennifer’s Body. It was quite possibly the DUMBEST movie I have seen. UGH! It was so lame I demand my hour and a half of life back! Seriously!

Today we watched 9 with the kids. That was good. They watched it again tonight. They really liked it.

I am finishing up some chores, laundry and other things before tomorrow. Also one of the things I had to do recently was put a new hard drive in my laptop. I am still downloading things and putting things back on it. Slowly but surely. Today windows vista freaked out on me because I had no antivirus software so I took care of that first. I finally loaded Photoshop back on there and now I just have a handfull of other products that I would like to get added on here.

I am so over this winter weather I should have MORE then enough time this week to do things INSIDE. It’s so cold here and not to sound down, but I am just tired of the negative temperatures and ready for the warm… so I am going to hide out inside this week. Tuesday I have to babysit and Thursday afternoon I have to be in school all day and help with a class project in my daughter’s class, but other then that I have a nice quite week, SO FAR! It always starts off that way and then gets so complicated by week end.

Oh yeah… Something I wanted to run past my bloggers and friends… I am thinking about getting extensions! The first time I will have had long hair in over 10 years!! I am not sure if I can do it and they are pretty costly to “try”. Has anyone had experience with them? Okay bloggers… have a great Monday and I will talk to you all soon!!

Who doesn’t need extra cash these days? Well recently I decided to give one of those cash for gold places a try. I was surprised! I had a few mismatched earrings and a necklace that was broke.

It broke quite a few years ago and I never got it fixed like I had planned. It was collecting dust along with the mismatched earrings in a jewelry box and I thought this was a great opportunity to make a little extra cash. I kept seeing the ads for these places, they must be good. Well must to my surprise I mailed off my things with the pre-paid label they provided, within 3 days I had an email with an offer. They offered me a little over $100. I was SHOCKED. All I needed to do was email them back and state if I wanted a check, PayPal or wire transfer and I would have the money within 24 hours. I chose PayPal and had the money within 24 hours. It was painless, easy and QUICK! They paid out far better then I had even thought it would! I would definitely do something like this again! Has anyone else ever tried it?

Before I start, let me just say… Yes, it’s that time… time for my sexy pink undie blog wear. Yes, it’s PINK for October. I am a little early this year, but hey… I am a busy lady dammit. Support Breast Cancer Awareness, feel your boobies, do your checks, ladies, this IS something we can do!

It’s been a crazy busy last week here. Aside from the usual drama of a household with 2 kids, a dog that thinks he’s a cat, a husband that is forever starting project after project and my busy ole self, it appears it was “Spring Cleaning” time here. We all decided it would be great to get rid of all the clutter that was in this house as we prepare to pack in like a herd of hibernating bears for the winter months. So we got several rubber maid containers and proceeded to pack the  dog’s delicate headless treats from the yard crap from the basement in there, and de-cluttered several cupboards of things and relocated them to the basement only to throw them out next year. We couldn’t possibly part with them this year… They need to spend their time in the basement first. The kids had to clean their rooms, they hated every minute of it while I enjoyed every minute of it. Nothing is better then the memory of my mom standing there with the garbage bag saying “I’ll do it. I’ll throw it all away.” In honor of that, I’m choosing to teach them early. It’s best to just clean it before you CAN’T see the floor. Really, it is.

Of course fall TV is back, so that pretty much sums up my night. I can’t be bothered with any of the small stuff like making supper or finishing laundry. The DVR only has so much room and really, I wouldn’t want to hear an accidental slippage from someone on Facebook or Twitter so it’s really best that I don’t DVR and just catch the episodes live. Just as a teenager with clear acne from eating pizza, I am SURE that I can not hear a slippage. Nothing is worse then hearing the thriller before you watch the episode. Nothing.

I’ve also decided that I am tired of this crappy laptop. Yes, it’s like that. The hard drive failed. Dell promptly replaced it with a new one. However, since then I can not get my Yahoo messenger to load, my DVD’s and CD’s only burn when they feel the need, and a few other things have issues too. It’s still over heating despite the new fan. I think it’s just an Inspiron thing, because honestly the last Inspiron that we had did it too. I’ve decided I hate it. It’s no longer my best friend and I am going to go ahead and launch it directly out the window. But not a moment before the new one arrives and is safely sitting on my lap. I’m going to spare this one the death the last one had. I am just going to reformat this one and allow the kids to play with it. Eventually I fear it will have the death of the last one… which bloggers if you remember was something like “NOOOOO don’t move! Crash! BANG! Shhhiiiiiitttttt! Why did you move?!!??!!!” As the LCD monitor was cracked and no longer able to be seen. So since it over heated all the time I decided to do all the things I always wanted to do to a computer that pissed me off, and I did! It felt some kind of wonderful… and then it ended, and I moved on.

Have I told you how much I HATE Amazon? Because, I do. I ordered Dooce’s book. I ordered it on September 14 folks. 14 days ago. It says it was shipped just 2 days ago! Are you freaking kidding me? It took 12 days to do what? Put it in an envelope? I am excited to get the book and read it but let me tell you, I will NEVER order ANYTHING from Amazon again. My husband ordered something from Amazon last week and it arrived yesterday. Not happy folks. NOT happy!

Shit. There goes my calendar alarm, apparently I have a date with the telephone. Conference calls. Oh how I love you.