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Free cool software from Microsoft

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The other day my husband and I were shopping at a local Best Buy store and we noticed that they had a Windows Tent outside the store.

As it turned out the Windows staff were there to promote the Windows Live software and one of the guys showed me the photo editing software which was really cool. You know, the photo editing “to the cloud” software that you see in the television commercials where you can pick out the best background or the best smile. Like I said it was really cool. I already have the software on my computer but I haven’t used it … now I think I’ll give it a try.

They also talked about how Windows gives you 25 gb of free Cloud disk space. You can use it like one of those free data backup services if you wanted to or to share data with others if you gave them permission to access files. It’s definitely worth using – I mean it’s free and it’s not like Microsoft is going to let it’s servers crash!

Almost 7 months since I quit smoking!

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Wow, it’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 7 months since my husband and I both quit smoking cigarettes! Yep, June 12th will be 7 months.

I have to admit that during that first month or two I sometimes wondered if I’d ever make it this far. It was really hard to quit because I was so addicted to smoking. It was awful. I quit by using a medication called Zyban for three weeks – it made the cigarettes that I was smoking beginning to seem like hot air, by the second week on the medication I just stopped smoking …. but some people suggested I try ecigarettes. I really wasn’t sure about trying the ecigarettes because they still had nicotine in them and it was still a product that you’re bringing to your mouth regularly … I felt it was better to totally break the habit.

Anyway .. to each his own. Smoking is a nasty habit and it’s terribly addictive. I know – I smoked for over 25 years – I guess closer to 27 years to tell the truth and it took that long to quit! So I guess however anyone can do it the more power to them.

Have you managed to quit smoking? If so – how did you do it?

My friend bought a farm

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One of these days I have to take a ride out to the country to visit my friends new farm. She moved out to the country last fall for a quieter lifestyle and so far it sounds like she’s really enjoying her new home.

She literally bought a farm. Yeah I know the term bought the farm usually means a person died, but she didn’t, she really bought a farm. You know, one with horse, cows and even a few noisy chickens running around. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s had some foxes raiding the hen house.

I want to drive up there one weekend for a visit but before I do I’d better look at some horse riding helmets as I’d love to do a little horse riding while I’m there. I haven’t ridden a horse for years, but I used to enjoy it. Of course I’d also enjoy seeing my friend and her family. She still doing some renovations on the farm so I think if we go for a visit she has plans to put us to work, so that’s another reason why I want to get some horse riding in – fair trade you know.

My cellphone company messed up and changed my number!

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Earlier today, when my husband called me from a store using our cellphone I got a big shock … instead of seeing our normal cellphone number I saw a number with my husbands name above it but the number was from Ottawa Ontario instead of Toronto.

I didn’t know what was going on .. I immediately told my husband to hang up because I thought we’d either be charged long distance or roaming charges and I also suspected that maybe our cellphone number had been changed. But how … why?

I immediately called our cellphone provider – Rogers – and asked for the department of major screw ups. Yes I said that. LOL It seems they don’t know what happened. I was asked – are you moving to Calgary and then they asked if I was moving from PEI? and I said no … I’ve lived in Toronto for 20 years … I’m not moving and I didn’t ask for my number to change, get my old cellphone number back. I was so upset- I swear I just about needed an ekg especially when she told me that there was also a $400 charge on my bill!

Lucky for me the Rogers person I was talking with was calm and helpful and after talking with her for about 30 minutes we got everything straightened out and I got my old cellphone number back. I’d had that cellphone number for about 15 years so it would have been terrible to lose it. I still don’t know how or why they gave it away and I want some explanations.

I’m seriously thinking of leaving my cellphone provider … if you have any suggestions as to who might be better in the Toronto area .. please let me know.

Getting some work done in the backyard this weekend

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This weekend we’re going to work outside in our garden to get it ready for summer. By this I mean we’re going to put together our Patio table, get out all of our solar lights and torches and other garden ornaments and put them in place.

The plants have been growing and blooming nicely. Every day something new is growing or blooming. It’s quite a nice sight to see.

This year we might do something different entertainment wise in the garden. We bought an iPod earlier this year and now I want to maybe get wireless outdoor speakers that will work with the iPod so that we can listen to our music when we’re outside working in the garden or sitting at our patio table enjoying ourselves.

Have you fixed up your backyard so that you can enjoy some summer fun in it?

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