We Wii

I've wanted a Wii for awhile and finally decided to get one. Finding one was not so easy, I couldn't believe they were still that hard get. I finally located one and begged them to hold it long enough for me to get there to get it. I knew we would enjoy it, probably love it but I had no idea how much. I didn't know what all this thing could do, I thought it was just a new way to play games. If I had known, ohhhhh. I am a gadget geek after all. I love the fact that you can download the games from the older systems and play them. It has all of the ports for the GameCube built in. It even has an Internet channel available for getting on the Internet. Now there are so many things that I want to get for it though. I'm dying to try the WiiFit and I so want a racing game that uses the wheels. Did I mention I'm a gadget geek? Cause I so am!!

New Toy Alert

Windows Live Writer rocks! I know you thought I was talking about something for the kids but Nope sorry. If you have read much of anything that I have written you probably know that I love gadgets, games and new software to try. Recently I found a new toy to play with and I am loving it. You can completely edit your blog posts with it and just hit publish. I came across it when we were going on vacation and I wasn't sure I would have any Internet service. You can write your post and then publish it when you get to a place where you have service or when you get back home. So far I haven't found anything I don't like about it but I am still learning all of the little things.  I'm just not good at storing things in my brain that I want to write and remembering them for later, I need to get them down now. I also like to write something and then think about it for awhile sometimes and it drives me crazy to have all of those drafts on my blogger list (Yes, I know no one else can see them, it just irritates me). This will be great for going on trips and that kind of stuff because I can write while we are there and just hit publish later. I am in blogging heaven and I just wanted to share it with my fellow bloggers.

I am Illiterate.....

It’s true. I am completely illiterate. More often than not when I try to figure something out, given a little time, I can master it. This HTML stuff is really kicking my butt though. I can not seem to figure out exactly how it all works. I will though, if it kills me.
On that note, I have been considering going back to school for a while and I think I finally know what I’m going to do. I’m going to set my sights on a bachelor degree for now but I definitely want the focus to be on writing and learning more about computers. I haven’t found the perfect program yet but I know things will work out in the way that they are meant to. I’m doing a lot of research on it now and looking at all of my options. I know that in order to get any kind of degree I will have to take classes other than those pertaining to writing and computers but that is okay. That is definitely where my main focus will be though. I’m not sure that I will ever want to work and hopefully I will never need to work but I do want to be prepared and to feel like I am putting some effort into this life that I’m living. I don’t want to become just an empty shell once my kids are grown and gone. I want to be a living, breathing, learning person that people actually feel is worthy of taking up the space around them.

Becoming a multi-computer family

When I was in High School computers were just starting to be used in classrooms. The internet wasn’t available yet and all we could do was the basic programming bits and pieces that they would allow and play games. I got married at 16 and we were basically broke for many years so when I did finally get a computer I had no clue what all they were capable of. Audrey was 4 when we got the first computer and for years all I did on it was e-mail and games with the kids. Slowly I started to figure out that there was a whole new world in that little box. I didn’t want to have the phone line tied up all day while the kids were in school though so it wasn’t until we got cable internet that I really got hooked. Now I use it for everything and last year when our computer went down I was lost (Read that story). So I bought myself a Mother’s Day present this year. We will soon be a multi-computer family and I can’t wait. My beautiful laptop should be here in a little over a week and I know it is going to open up even more possibilities. I got it with Adobe Photoshop loaded on it so that I have something new to learn. When the inevitable day comes and one of the computers messes up I will have something to fall back on and all of my data will be safe and sound. I just hope for the kids' sake their computer keeps running because they aren’t touching mine!

Downtime

Okay so I have been without a computer for a month. It was definitely an eye-opener. It wasn't all that bad except for the nights that I couldn't sleep (but if you know me, you know that's a lot of nights). I did some reading and a lot of writing – with an actual pencil. I hadn't done much writing for years and I had forgotten how good it feels to just write things down on paper. Above all I was reminded of what I wanted to do with my life when I actually use to think about such things. I wanted to write and I think it's time to look into some classes. For now though I can just keep boring you guys. So now on to my "downtime" for the last month, this is just a small part of what I have written in that time.
July 16th
I am realizing how spoiled I am. I miss my computer so very much. I had no idea how much I used the computer-how much we all used it. We don't sit on it for long periods of time so it never seemed like much. Music, pictures, recipes and looking up every little thing we want to know. We can't charge our Ipods and we have nothing to do with the pictures that we take. I can't make my favorite soup and I can't pay a lot of my bills that were set up electronically. Mike can't check his Raymond points daily or keep up with his 401K and the list goes on and on. We depend on it for so many things. How will we make it? Hopefully my laptop doesn't take long to get here.
July 19th
Today I had to break down and go to the Library and pay my bills. I was worried about putting any information in there but it all worked out. Most of them had all of the information saved in my profile and the ones that didn't I got numbers to call and pay them. So no bank account information had to be put in. The wait for my laptop is killing me- I shouldn't have been so picky!!
July 20th
As if not having a computer weren't enough now we are also without a phone (once again some lovely person stole the lines). So we are completely cut off from the outside world. I'm not sure how people use to live like this, with no connection to other people, it could drive you crazy.
July 23rd
Yet another concession. We had to buy a charger for our Ipods. We couldn't make it another day without them (yeah right). The gadget is cool but it's just another thing that the computer could be doing. It will be one less thing to bog the computer down when we do get it – Ipods will only need to be connected to change or add content, Hooray!! I have to find a positive somewhere so just ignore me, Please!!
July 26th
I need a computer now!! I have had one crappy day and I know I'm not going to sleep anytime soon. All I have to do is thank about my crappy day and that is not a good thing. Some things are better left unthought-of. Guess it's time to try books and video games. How long must I suffer? (Insert violin music here)

July 30th
Shipping date on laptop postponed but if I cancel and reorder it may take even longer plus I can no longer get exactly the same thing. So I wait!!! For now I'm writing, I forgot how much I liked it, and reading a little and for those late nights when I can't sleep I am wearing out the video games!!
August 3rd
I can't even check the daggone movie times. What Is my world coming to?
August 8th
It's officially ridiculous. I can't get the laptop I want right now because they are severely back ordered, so they had to cancel my order and I ordered a desktop. I have actually gotten use to not having one, not that I want to stay without one. The only time it really sucks is on my sleepless nights. I figure as long as I'm up and going by the time the kids go back to school I will be good. I'm reading even more and that's great – I need to work my brain, I'm sure.
August 10th
It should be here anytime and I'm so excited. I wish I had given up on the laptop the first time they changed the ship date. The desktop shipped the next day, again that's what I get for trying to get what I want. I did go ahead and go wireless though. I can use it for so much more than just the laptop (cable phone, Play station, Nintendo DS's) and it will be ready when I finally get the laptop. After all I have been so deprived that I have to ease the pain somehow. So Internet overload it is!!!!!
August 13th
Still didn't come today. I know they said tomorrow but I was so hoping it would be earlier. It did hit me today how much work getting everything set up and fixed is going to be. The computer, the wireless system, reading my old hard drive, getting all of the pictures, music and data onto the new one, it is going to be a long process. I'm so excited to get to do it all though, I'm such a geek I know. Reading the old hard drive with the new device I bought is really going to be cool. Technology so rocks!!!!
Well it's all here and partially set up so far. I thought I would be setting here non-stop today but I found it hard to get anything done because I had other things I wanted to do. Now it's late and I have nothing else to do so I am finally getting caught up on some things. I'm glad to have all of the information at my fingertips again.