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our first baby Benjamin James 11 lbs 7 oz Born: 12/15 |
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It's heeeerrreeeee.... :) This post coming to you live from my new MacBook Pro! It's awesome! Within 10 minutes I had downloaded over 100 photos from my camera (SUPER quick by the way), and started a slideshow for Joe. Then opened them, edited them, uploaded them to flickr (straight from iPhoto), and voila, here they are!
I still can't believe how fast everything is! I love being able to hold my computer in one hand while I walk around the living room, and now I can actually sit next to Joe on the couch and do stuff, instead of moving to the desk all the time. I'll have to test out the videos and Photoshop tomorrow night, since I have some work to get done before tomorrow... but oh yeah, this is AWESOME :) Another big thanks to my husband Joe, for letting me geek out a bit over this whole thing. Ok, maybe geek out a LOT, but hey, it's worth it! :)
I still can't believe how fast everything is! I love being able to hold my computer in one hand while I walk around the living room, and now I can actually sit next to Joe on the couch and do stuff, instead of moving to the desk all the time. I'll have to test out the videos and Photoshop tomorrow night, since I have some work to get done before tomorrow... but oh yeah, this is AWESOME :) Another big thanks to my husband Joe, for letting me geek out a bit over this whole thing. Ok, maybe geek out a LOT, but hey, it's worth it! :)
| posted at 9:56 PM ~ comments (1) |
Well, the MacBook has been delivered to Joe's office, so I have to wait until he comes home from work tonight to unleash it :)
This past weekend was hard... and not just because I'm anxious about the laptop :) Ben woke up at 11pm on Friday night screaming, and cried for 3 hours, once so hard he ended up puking all over me. Did I mention that I'd had a fever, complete with chills, headache and tiredness that evening? UGH. We both felt miserable. I had the sneaky suspicion however, that it was another ear infection for Ben. He was exhibiting the same symptoms... crying for no reason (that we could tell), especially after burping or yawning. So after we pumped him up with some tylenol to kill his pain so he would SLEEP (hey, four hours is four hours, I'll take it!)... we took him to the dr. on Saturday morning, and they confirmed the ear infection. Ugh. But, after a power nap for him on Sat and me on Sunday, now we're both back to feeling 100% :) Just in time for the holiday, thank goodness! I can't imagine the hell that would have been travelling with him in that state. And needless to say, we didn't go house hunting this weekend. So that's on pause until after the Thanksgiving break.
So we're all set for our travels, and I just ordered a carrier for my eagerly anticipated MacBook. The Waterford Design sleevecase:
Silicone Pop Culture: Waterfield Designs Sleevecase (his review was on the VAIO, but it's the same sleeve for the MBP)
Waterfield Designs
I can't wait til it gets here! In the meantime, I had ordered a neoprene case, but in my haste, wasn't paying attention, and accidentally ordered the one for the MacBook Air instead of the Pro. Oops. So I'll just return that one, and take care of it gingerly until my cool new sleeve arrives. I'm so stoked!
My first priority will be to get Win7 up and running via Bootcamp or a virtual machine, so that I can port my Photoshop license over there while I wait for the Mac version. Then I can play with photos that I take over the weekend, as well as the videos I've been meaning to download off the video camera... fun fun!
Argh... can't wait to get home! :)
This past weekend was hard... and not just because I'm anxious about the laptop :) Ben woke up at 11pm on Friday night screaming, and cried for 3 hours, once so hard he ended up puking all over me. Did I mention that I'd had a fever, complete with chills, headache and tiredness that evening? UGH. We both felt miserable. I had the sneaky suspicion however, that it was another ear infection for Ben. He was exhibiting the same symptoms... crying for no reason (that we could tell), especially after burping or yawning. So after we pumped him up with some tylenol to kill his pain so he would SLEEP (hey, four hours is four hours, I'll take it!)... we took him to the dr. on Saturday morning, and they confirmed the ear infection. Ugh. But, after a power nap for him on Sat and me on Sunday, now we're both back to feeling 100% :) Just in time for the holiday, thank goodness! I can't imagine the hell that would have been travelling with him in that state. And needless to say, we didn't go house hunting this weekend. So that's on pause until after the Thanksgiving break.
So we're all set for our travels, and I just ordered a carrier for my eagerly anticipated MacBook. The Waterford Design sleevecase:
Silicone Pop Culture: Waterfield Designs Sleevecase (his review was on the VAIO, but it's the same sleeve for the MBP)
Waterfield Designs
I can't wait til it gets here! In the meantime, I had ordered a neoprene case, but in my haste, wasn't paying attention, and accidentally ordered the one for the MacBook Air instead of the Pro. Oops. So I'll just return that one, and take care of it gingerly until my cool new sleeve arrives. I'm so stoked!
My first priority will be to get Win7 up and running via Bootcamp or a virtual machine, so that I can port my Photoshop license over there while I wait for the Mac version. Then I can play with photos that I take over the weekend, as well as the videos I've been meaning to download off the video camera... fun fun!
Argh... can't wait to get home! :)
| posted at 3:20 PM ~ comments (1) |
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Well, I can take down my referral link below... because I got a new MacBook Pro for my birthday from Joe!!! Woohoo!!! I ordered it on Monday morning, and it arrives this upcoming Monday, in time for me to take it with me over Thanksgiving break :) It's a 13" 2.26 Ghz MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM and a 250GB Hard Drive. I got the smaller one because I wanted it to be more portable, and I want to set up an external monitor at home, which is where I do most of my heavy work anyway :) I'm so excited... I can finally burn movies to send to the family, and really fly when I'm editing photos (and no longer pray that my laptop doesn't overheat and just shut off when I'm in the middle of a project).
So it's a great birthday so far... I'm 31 years old today, and couldn't be happier. We're still house hunting... nothing has screamed out as us yet. We are going out again this weekend to see a few more houses, but the inventory list is starting to get shorter, as more people wait until spring to put their houses back on the market. But the houses we have on tap for this weekend look promising! They all have basements, with a decent yard, 4 bedrooms, and in our price range... so hopefully one of them will really catch our eye!
We are off to Thanksgiving in New York next week, and Ben gets to meet his Uncle Mike for the first time! Then we have our family portrait session for Ben's 1 year birthday, and then we will be in Michigan for Christmas. My parents were not able to sell their house by the holidays, so we get to stay there one last time :) Next year, we'll probably spend the holiday in Tennessee, which should be fun!
Anyway, things are going great, I'm enjoying my birthday today, and still waiting for that perfect house to jump out at us.
In the meantime, I just have to put a shout out for the bakery that I love out in Columbia, Maryland. It's called "Touche, Touchet", and we get samples of their work every week. It's AWESOME, and they've won contests for their cakes!
I may be a little biased, but seriously, their cheesecake, brownies, parfaits, cookies, cupcakes, pies, you name it, has been fabulous :) Definitely worth checking out if you are in the DC area!! :) You can also follow them on twitter, at twitter.com/touchetouchet
Ok, that's it... I hope to post my next entry from my new MacBook!!! :) :)
So it's a great birthday so far... I'm 31 years old today, and couldn't be happier. We're still house hunting... nothing has screamed out as us yet. We are going out again this weekend to see a few more houses, but the inventory list is starting to get shorter, as more people wait until spring to put their houses back on the market. But the houses we have on tap for this weekend look promising! They all have basements, with a decent yard, 4 bedrooms, and in our price range... so hopefully one of them will really catch our eye!
We are off to Thanksgiving in New York next week, and Ben gets to meet his Uncle Mike for the first time! Then we have our family portrait session for Ben's 1 year birthday, and then we will be in Michigan for Christmas. My parents were not able to sell their house by the holidays, so we get to stay there one last time :) Next year, we'll probably spend the holiday in Tennessee, which should be fun!
Anyway, things are going great, I'm enjoying my birthday today, and still waiting for that perfect house to jump out at us.
In the meantime, I just have to put a shout out for the bakery that I love out in Columbia, Maryland. It's called "Touche, Touchet", and we get samples of their work every week. It's AWESOME, and they've won contests for their cakes!
I may be a little biased, but seriously, their cheesecake, brownies, parfaits, cookies, cupcakes, pies, you name it, has been fabulous :) Definitely worth checking out if you are in the DC area!! :) You can also follow them on twitter, at twitter.com/touchetouchet
Ok, that's it... I hope to post my next entry from my new MacBook!!! :) :)
| posted at 9:15 AM ~ comments (0) |