first up … my laptop. last sunday night i ordered myself some new memory … and it was here by wednesday. alyssa’s dad installed it for me this afternoon. i won’t even humor you with how little memory my laptop had up until today … it was tiny. i am now sporting 2 gigabytes of memory … and am amazed at how quickly everything is moving. there’s 2 ways of looking at this. number one … i’m super excited that everything is so fast and running at top speed. but then again there is number two … kind of mad that i have spent all this time putting up with something that was sooooo slow. lol! too bad i didn’t know better … and didn’t realize sooner that the memory could be my problem. things were slow … but i just thought it was normal. and the fact that all this only cost me $42.00 total … even more amazing!

guess what has come out of this super fast computer just tonight? in only 2 hours time … i have my entire 2005 blog book ready to go. granted, i only had 7 months worth of blogging since that was my first year. but it only took me about 2 hours to upload the entries, go through them and edit the page designs, arrange the photos, and get everything alligned on the pages. all i have left is the cover … and only because i’ll have to dig out some photos for it off my external harddrive. 94 pages total … ready to go. i’m sorry … how long did the other book take me?!?! lol! i can’t wait to pull up 2006 and knock that one out too … will be nice to have all 3 books done and complete.

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then there is this little piece of heaven! i’ve always thought that it wasn’t something i needed. and now that i have it … i’m not sure how i lived without it! to be able to listen to whatever i want … in whatever order i want? and not to have to get up and switch cd’s in the cd player … or spend my time trying to figure out why the music is only coming out of one speaker … or why it doesn’t want to play that day? amazing! i’ve got a ton of my cd’s all loaded up … but i still have a bunch to go through. i think right now i have about 300 songs on there … not even a dent.

although it appears that it has been stuck on brooke white’s songs … the 3 that i downloaded off  itunes last week. "love it a battlefield", "let it be", and "every breath you take" … love her versions of them. love her voice … and love when it’s her and the piano. makes me want to get back in there and see if i can still play the piano … i like to think all my years of playing would come rushing back to me. lol! so yeah, the 3 songs have just kept playing and playing. i’m funny that way … i can listen to the same songs over and over and over. and guess what … sarah’s the same way. she’ll listen to a song about 30 times in a row … drives alyssa crazy!

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12 responses to “the wonder of technology . . .”

  1. Marilyn Cline Avatar
    Marilyn Cline

    WOO HOO – so glad you found that memory helps a BUNCH!! I am the same way on songs – I can play one song over and over for an hour – and that is all I will listen to for days at a time! Why do we do that?? I even did that back in high school, which was in the 60’s. I hope to see you blast through the rest of your blog books!

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  2. Laura T. Avatar

    Don’t you just love your iPod. Speaking of iPod’s, I almost had a heart attack last night when I thought I lost ALL my songs. I went to update the new version of iTunes and my computer crashed. When I went back in, it said I had to reinstall iTunes because it wasn’t finding anything on my PC. I needed to shutdown last night because I wanted to cry.
    I logged in this morning, and everything is there – THANK GOD. I couldn’t even imagine having to download all of those songs again.
    And congratuations on getting another book done. Proud of you!

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  3. Leslie Avatar
    Leslie

    Congrats on the another book – that is great! Between knowing what your doing now and the speedy upgrade it sounds like you are good to go – what a sense of accomplishment I’m sure!
    I’ve got to get me one of those ipods – sometimes it feels like I’m the only one not on board with it 🙂

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  4. Carla Avatar

    isn’t it amazing how a small change can do so much? That ipod is really cute, love the color. I still don’t have one.
    Brooke White fan here too…love her voice and her personality. She is an all around musician!

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  5. Heather Avatar

    Ok, you are motivating me to get my blog book done! It is time-consuming but lots of fun at the same time. When you order it, make sure to take pics so we can see!!:)

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  6. Heather Avatar

    PS…. I love Brooke White, too!

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  7. doris.sander Avatar

    modern technology? what is that? lol.
    must investigate maggie’s actions. thanks for the tip!
    love that fun pic of the girls w their lo on the back of the mm package. too funny cute. 😀

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  8. vicki Boutin Avatar

    Love your scrap space! I just bought an IPOD a month ago!! Loving it!

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  9. Deneen Avatar

    Glad you got your memory updated. Isn’t it amazing how one your computer is fast you realize how slow it was LOL. Love the ipod still in need of one of those.
    Have a great day

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  10. Rebecca Avatar
    Rebecca

    Yay, iPod! Got one last year (whined before Relay for Life that I was walking the 1-3 AM shift alone…seemed like as good of an excuse as any…LOL) and I’d have to say it totally changed my life. Not too many inventions can say that. For ONCE, I don’t have to listen to Caillou just because someone’s watching it. Instead, I get 23 minutes of covert audio bliss. I’m with ya, sister!
    Hey, you can subscribe to Lain Ehmann’s super ScrapHappy podcast (http://scraphappy.mypodcast.com/). It’s pretty darn good! Just scroll down and click “subscribe with iTunes” on the right. Fun stuff!

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  11. Rebecca Avatar
    Rebecca

    Oh, yeah, and iTunes will not replace any music you lose to computer crash. Learned that the hard way. So if you purchase Beyonce, or Girls Next Door, or Ratatouille from the iTunes store…backup, backup, backup!
    )

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  12. Nichol Avatar

    isn’t it amazing how awesome these little technological wonders are??? I LOVE mine. So happy you are enjoying yours…

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