Yeah. Thanks Time Warner Cable

Second Best Present Ever.

The Wii. This one was also from Donna and Jim. After many months of searching one was finally found and Mark's 2006 Christmas present was complete.

I have been playing Mario Galaxy and Wii Fit lately. Aside from The Disney Princess Game I think WiiFit is the only other game that I have bought for myself. It was the first thing to come out on Wii that I was more excited about than Mark was.


I always feel bad about buying things. Even though I had been reading about WiiFit and counting down the days until it was released, the day it did come out I was unsure if I should really spend that much money on a game. I always do that, I feel guilty about having the privilege to be able to buy something even if it is something I have wanted and put some money away for.

In the end the thing that made me but it was my recent health kick. As of now I think it is more than just a kick and I am hoping I can turn this in to a permanent life style and part of the reason I think I have made it this far is WiiFit. Knowing it is going to hold me accountable for that second whatever totally helps. While I don't play the games as much as I did when I first got it, weighing in everyday it has made me aware of my weight and that helps a lot.

Making Nindento even better.

This is the only thing that has ever made me want a Gamecube.

If I got one I promise I will walk it and feed it everyday. EVERYDAY!!!

The sound I made the first time I saw the new Apple Air had Mark quickly turning around to make sure I hadn't spontaneously combusted.
I don't care how wrong Apple has done me these past couple weeks, that is just sexy. I had a split second of "I do have some more government loans I haven't accepted yet" and then moved on to "I bet I could get Mark to agree if I prooomised it was for us to share". And then Mark saw the look in my eye and firmly said,

"NO"

"Uh, but look at the box it comes in!"

My Fall from Grace

I had wanted Leopard before, but when I got to play around with it on my families new computer my Mac obsessive personality kicked in and I would not be satisfied until I too had Spaces on my computer.




This picture was taken pre-installation.

Pre-installation I was one of those people who swore the "it just works" tag line was God's given truth. Boy did I fall hard. The installation failed three times, the second time told me that I had to erase my previous operating system and consequently everything else on my computer. Good thing I asked for that new hard drive for Christmas (thanks Mom & Dad). I backed everything up and tried again. When it failed this time I had no operating system so I freaked out and left the room. Mark tried one more time and it decided it would allow itself to be loaded on to my last generation iMac.

As I looked around I realized that my whole iLife software was no where to be found. After a short while on the forums I was informed that the new operating systems do not have the iLife package in them. If I wanted the new iPhoto I was going to either have to buy iLife separately from the new OS X, or buy a new computer which Apple graciously installs the iLife software on. This wouldn't bug me so much if the site didn't make it look like the iLife software came with Leopard.

I fell hard and fast. All of my Apple products have "just worked" in the past and when there was a problem with my hardware the Apple people were always there to help in every way they could. It is truly heartbreaking to me to have to finally come to the conclusion that, yes I love them, but in the end Mac's are computers, and sometimes computers don't "just work". At least mine will look pretty when it is misbehaving.

Big News

Yesterday, or the day before Apple annouced that they will be releasing the ipod touch....... I have no words. Since the introduction of the iphone this is what I have been waiting for. Yes, I totally wanted an iphone, but really all I wanted it for was to be an kick ass ipod. I already have a free cute pink cell phone that gets crappy service from AT&T. I didn't need a $500 ipod phone that would get crappy service from AT&T. But I could totally use a itouch. The first ipod I bought was the third generation ipod (Sparky) back in 2003, and then last spring I bought a pink ishuffle (Coconut).

I always new that the day would come where I would be ready to buy a new ipod. The ipod video was pretty cool, but I new they could do better than that, the iphone confirmed my suspicions. Yet again Apple has created a material object that I feel I can no longer be complete with out.