My husband is a "techie"

Is techie a word? And did I spell it right? Well my husband is one. He loves his gadgets. Gets it honestly--from his mom. She loves her gadgets too. I have been gradually "pressured" to become a techie too. I like the gadgets--just not the price that usually comes with them. All that to say.....

Since December 30 we have become the proud owners of 3 major new pieces of technology. And I have to say, I love all 3!

In December, we got a new computer-again! And so far this one has preformed like it is supposed to. We did have one moment when we thought something wasn't working right, but once touch from Best Buy's Geek Squad and it was magically healed. Typical. I like this one even better than our last. It is a widescreen and has a keypad on the side. I love my keypad! Minor, I know. For those of you who care, it is a HP G60-235X Notebook PC. Very nice!

Our 2nd new member, is Daddy's new iTouch. He has wanted one for some time and was actually saving to get one. But his mother surprised him and got him one. She actually stuck it in one of our pieces of luggage and we didn't find it til about 3 days after we got home. Kinda funny. Very sneaky, mother in law. I love that too. Even though it isn't mine. I had loads of fun playing with it yesterday. Now I want one.

And number 3: we finally got a Wii. Now we are definitely keeping up with technology. We have been looking for one for some time, but all the stores were always out of them every time we asked. Yesterday Daddy was at Best Buy to get a case for his iTouch and he called me to say that they had one. So we broke down and got it and when tax return money comes in we will pay it all off! C was so excited when Daddy brought it in last night! He loves to play! And he is pretty good at bowling too. So after dinner, we got it all set up and played some games. K girl is such a hoot! She can't get the coordination all down yet; but she is only 2. It will be an only Saturday thing just like PlayStation--except for next week.

Daddy has a business trip next week and I think I will need some help to keep me and the kids from not going crazy. Maybe the Wii will help. He is going to Vegas for almost 5 days. I am not looking forward to him being gone. Right now he is fighting a head cold and an ear infection which hopefully will clear up before he flies. Or that will be a painful flight.

So we are having fun exploring what all these news things can do. It is fun but can be such a time waster. Speaking of, I need to get off this computer and get some stuff done!

Praises!

Number 1: For those of you that were praying for my toe-thank you! It is so much better! It does get a little sore if I stub it or bump it or someone steps on it. But nothing like when it was still ingrown. Now it is starting to itch like crazy-I suppose that means it is getting better.

Number 2: Today was Labor Day and Daddy was home. It is always so nice to have Daddy home. I love it when he has a day off and we really don't have major plans. We did get stuff done though. We went to Wal-Mart, the kiddies played in the pool again and Daddy mowed the grass again. We grilled out brats for supper-YUM. It was a good day.

Number 3: Daddy has accepted a new position at work. He will be working for the same company but in a totally different department--marketing. He is extremely excited. This is something that he has wanted for a long time. It will be a good move for him to get out of the department that he is in but also for him to do something more along the lines of what he went to school for. He doesn't have an official start date but he knows it is coming. Congrats, Daddy!

Number 4: This one is a sad praise, I guess. We had to take our new computer back this past Friday. It started going crazy. It had a DVD/CD drive in it but wouldn't recognize anything put in the drive. It's like the computer couldn't find the drive. And there were other minor things that made me really leery of it. But the praise part is--we had 14 days through Best Buy to return it and get our money back. Friday was 14 days. Our usual bad luck would be that it would go wrong on day 15. But praise the Lord it went bad before the 14 days were up! So we took it back and just got our money back. Yes I would have liked a new computer, but with Daddy's new job--right now might not be the best time to have that bill to deal with. And I didn't want to have the possibility of having the same thing go wrong with the next one. So all this to say, I am back on my old laptop. Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.

Number 5: My best praise--college football finally started. I love this time of year! Football, pumpkins, my birthday, the coolness in the air, the leaves changing.... how much better can you get? I can't wait to see FSU play on Saturday. Go 'Noles!

New computer

Daddy's business computer is still not working. Right now it is in the "shop" to be dissected and hopefully fixed. We aren't even sure we can get everything off of it--the biggest thing is his iTunes library. Through all of this we decided that his computer will no longer be used for the Internet and he wanted to get his music off of it too. It will go back to being just a business computer (www.pictureperfectvideo.net)

So he had mentioned buying an external hard-drive for our pictures and his music. We would hook it up to our old laptop. We had talked about next tax return season buying a new laptop anyway--so we went ahead and bought a new one now. Since we got 6 months same as cash-it's like waiting til tax time, right?!?! :)

It is so nice though. It has everything on it: web cam, built in wireless modem, DVD player/burner, bigger and brighter screen, much more memory, much faster, etc. It's so pretty. I've been playing around with, trying to get used to what it has to offer. So far I really like it. The only negative is that it has Microsoft Works--I'm hoping all my documents on my old laptop will transfer to this one without turning into mumbo-jumbo.

By the way for those of you who are wondering, it is a Dell Inspiron 1525. You can check out Dell's website for its details.

On a totally side note, we went to a birthday party last week. It was Daddy's partner's littlest-she turned one. Since they go to a different church, it was nice to see everyone there that we don't see that often. All of their kids are getting big and there are some cute new ones too. And we got to see the new dog which was not so cute. Poor Bruser.