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My laptop is acting up – Again!

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I’ve had my laptop for about a year and a half but it’s been acting up almost the whole time I’ve owned it. I don’t know what’s wrong with it. I’ve never had a computer act up as much as this laptop. I mean, I’ve build computers pretty much from scratch and haven’t had this much trouble.

I had to wipe my computer twice so far since I bought it and put all the programs back on it again. Now in the past week it started acting up again. My computer just freezes and nothing I do will turn it off except for holding the power button down until it shuts off. I hate turning it off that way. Luckily it’s not doing that all the time, but every few days it does it once or twice in a day.

I don’t know if it was a windows update that caused it to start acting that way or another program update. I certainly haven’t installed any new software. Of course, It figures that my computer starts acting up just when I started taking some college courses online. I really need my computer to be working properly. Maybe I’ll try a clean up computer program … although as I said my computer should be fairly clean since I’ve had to wipe it and reinstall twice in the last year.

Anyone else have a troublesome laptop? Mine’s an Assus.

A year of organizing

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I think this year is the year of house organization in our home. Especially when it comes to organizing the basement it seems.

The other day we had a city worker coming in to do work on our indoor water meter. It’s located in the basement. They had to put some kind of attachment on it so that they can read it digitally or via wifi as they drive by our house. No more knocking on our door to read the meter or asking us to call in the numbers on our meter. Lets just hope that this new automatic system works and they don’t get our neighbors reading as ours and vise versa .

Anyway, since we’ve been renovating again .. yes it’s continuous .. the basement has become a mess again. You see we keep storing things down there as we work elsewhere in the house. So even though I did a complete cleaning out of the basement last December, January and February … it’s a mess again! Yeah, it took almost three months for me to clean it last time and now it’s a mess again.

So .. the other day knowing we had this worker coming in I noticed that there was a sale on rack shelving at a local hardware store. We went and bought three 6 foot tall rack shelves. They are adjustable and we don’t have to build them to full height. So far we’ve put up two of them and the basement is already a lot more organized.

I finally have an area to put surplus food supplies. I never had that before. Whenever we had extra food and drink it just got piled in one area of the basement on the basement floor. Now it’s all organized on shelves! Nice. The other rack of shelves we put up replaces one of our tool areas. Chris is slowly putting all of our tools on the shelves and organizing things like the multitude of nails and screws in trays so that we can find them easily.

Eventually when the basement is really cleared out the racks will be at the very back of the basement and we’ll actually use the basement for more than storage, but if we can at least get it organized for now that would be nice.

A musical gift

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I need to buy a gift for my friends son. I’m trying to think of what to buy him. I’m not always the best with buying gifts unless I really know someone well. Are you like that or do you think you pretty much get it right every time?

I know that my friends son is very interested in music. Not just listening to music but playing it as well. He already has a guitar and even drums. I know that last year he was playing harmonica quite often so maybe I’ll check out the harmonicas guitar center and see if I can find a nice harmonica for him. I wish I knew what key his other harmonicas were in so I could get one he doesn’t have.

No rest for me

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It’s been a busy week. I started taking my online college classes earlier this week and as it turns out I seem to have to do something for class just about every day. I can’t believe how difficult it’s been trying to get back into “school” mode. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised since it’s been quite a number of years since I was last in college.

Along with doing things like getting my text books for school and figuring out how to get into study mode again I’ve also been doing plenty of other things this week. For example I’m still trying to work on most of my blogs – updating them and slowly changing the themes on theme for a more up to date look. I also did a WordPress update on all of my sites since WordPress did yet another upgrade. At least that takes a lot less time than it used to in the past when you had to do things manually.

My husband was also home for three days in the middle of the week. Very distracting as far as me getting any work done, so we worked on a bit of our home renovations. Can you tell I’m all over the place! What I really need to do is rest but that will never happen!

Tomorrow I’m supposed to go out shopping with a friend of mine. She’s expecting her first child and she wants only the best for her new baby. We’re going to a malls to look for the best bratt décor cribs. Hopefully we’ll find something at Yorkdale. It’s a big enough mall!

Perhaps after our shopping spree tomorrow I will rest. I’ve certainly been busy enough this week. I’ll deserve a rest. I know my abdomen will appreciate it. Yes the Crohn’s is acting up again too.

Started my college courses

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I went shopping yesterday but I was shopping for things that I don’t normally shop for – well things I haven’t shopped for, for a number of years anyway! You see I started taking two online college classes on Monday and once I started my nursing courses I received my list of text books that I’d need to purchase so off I went on Tuesday trying to find a place to buy my books.
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You would think that the college that I’m going to would have the text books that I needed in stock but they only had one of the three books. I ended up calling several other college and university book stores to see if they had the texts that I needed in stock and they didn’t either and I also did searches online.

I finally ended up ordering one of the books from Chapters Indigo. While I was browsing online for text books I got side tracked and ended up on a site with rfid wallets and ended browsing that for a while. I never knew how insecure the new credit cards could be!

Now .. lucky for me, a nurse from my workplace has also been taking courses and she took one of the courses I’m currently enrolled in so she was able to lend me one of the books I needed. So she’s saving me money and saved me quite a bit of time searching for a hard to find text book. I’m so lucky to have such nice friends and people in my life.

Now I just need the book I ordered yesterday to hurry up and arrive. I put a priority delivery on it which means it should arrive within two to four business days, but it hasn’t even shipped yet! I’m not confident now that it will show up by the end of the week and I’d like it by the end of the week because I think I needed for next weeks “classes”. Plus, I did pay for it to arrive fast and if it doesn’t what was the point of paying extra? It was my first time ordering online from Chapters Indigo so we’ll see how that goes.

I still can’t believe I’m back in college! At least I’m already getting student discounts again. I got a discount on the text book I bought at the college store. I’ll have to get my official student card so that if I buy tokens for the subway I can get a discount too and maybe find other discounts that I might qualify for as well.

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