Saturday we attended our nephew’s and his girlfriend’s baby shower. It’s been years since I’ve been to a shower which is a good thing because I’m not into that sort of thing. That being said, this one wasn’t bad, although I felt anxious when it reached 4:30 pm (it started at 2) and the guest of honor still hadn’t gotten to opening our gift. We needed to leave at 5 in order to get back home in time for game night which I was hosting and had planned two months ago before receiving the shower invitation. Luckily we did end up getting out of there on time and all my guests arrived late so we were home with plenty of time to spare. Oh, and I won the “Baby BINGO” we played. The prize was a box of mini diffusers in “Linen” scent which smell really nice.
Game night was a blast!!! It’s tough finding people who are truly interested in playing board games but once they were introduced to Aggravation, my friends couldn’t get enough. I don’t know why I even own so many other games when Aggravation is the bestest one ever! :) My new-found friends, which happen to be my new boss and new Director (and her boyfriend), are awesome. I feel very comfortable around them. We get along great on work and non-work levels which is such a refreshing change after all the bullshit I’ve had to deal with over the years. Joe really liked them too and I hope we all get together soon, although with the holidays coming up it might be awhile. Who knows.
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DST. Should I complain about it because everyone else is? Truth is I didn’t notice any difference in my sleep schedule. But I don’t understand everyone’s happiness about the light in the morning. I really couldn’t care less if it’s dark or light when I’m driving to work. I much prefer the sunlight once I’m off work. Also, now my commute into work involves the rising sun in my eyes and the drive home is the setting sun in my eyes. Woo hoo. Not.
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Recently they upgraded our computers at work to Windows 7. I have a laptop since I work from home once a week, so they installed Windows 7 on a new machine, a Lenovo ThinkPad. My old laptop is a Dell, which I loved, but they stopped supporting them at work, plus the Lenovo has a faster processor and twice as much memory. So while it functions better, I don’t like it because of the following reasons:
The internet cable port is on the side instead of the back.
The USB ports are on the left-hand side whereas they were on the right with my Dell.
The power code doesn’t wrap up nicely like the Dell one.
The control key is not the bottom-left key, the stupid function key is, so I’m constantly thinking I’m copying something when I’m really not. Are there no standards to keyboards?!? Pretty much every other one I’ve ever used has the control key in the bottom-left corner. WTF Lenovo? Do you think you’re special?
And most importantly, the thing is just ugly. No, FUGLY. Just look at the thing!
The 90’s called and it wants its laptop back.
I really like board games, more than card games. When I was in school and living at my parents we played board games ALL the time, my brother, cousin, her boyfriend, and I were the lamest college kids ever because we were always home playing games with my parents and neighbors on the weekend.
I like it getting light earlier in the morning, makes me feel like I’m not going to work in the middle of the night. However, I HATE it being dark when I leave work and if I could choose, I’d rather have it light and night than in the morning. Then again, if I had any say in it I’d vote for it being light practically 24/7.
hey I loved my old stink pad!
It never went wrong and survived a lot of abuse.
As for style, its timeless.. :P and my first laptop with a keyboard light. (ok the Dell goes one better with a back lit keyboard but this was about 10 years ago.
Okay, I admit it, it looked exactly the same as yours!