~New Years Eve~

Can you all believe in just a few hours it will be 2009!?



May you all have a blessed New Years Eve and all the best in the upcoming year!

Wow! So Grateful...

Ok, so in April 2006 I paid over $1,500 for my Compaq Presario laptop. Shortly after the warranty expired, just to my luck, Chayce pulled the laptop off the arm of the couch. Every since then it hasn't worked properly. It would overheat after about 45 minutes and shut off randomly, the battery wouldn't hold charge. It was quite a mess. Then on Monday morning the screen blew out on me. So I had to chalk it up as a total loss.

I called Jon, quite hysterical, about it. I mean, I have a Blackberry so I can access the internet, but things I have to do to Admin my board, I can't access (to it's full capacity) on my BB.

Jon's brother happened to call him yesterday and Jon told him about our situation. His brother says, "Well. I have a laptop that I don't use if you guys want it."It's barely a year old. A Dell Inspiron laptop. The only problem with it is that the touchpad doesn't work. Not a problem, we went out and bought a mouse for it. So last night we drove to Orlando and Daniel gave us this laptop! I have to say that this is such a blessing!

It just goes to show that sometimes when you're going through a tough time, don't let it get to you. Something can always work out for you! Had to share our little story.That said, this laptop IS NOT leaving the "office" (spare bedroom). And NO children are allowed in this room for ANY reason again. I'm not risking anything, LOL!

Without further aideu...

More Photo Sharing

I have to share some photos I snapped yesterday of Chayce, and then a few of myself and Chayce... LOVING this camera. And I think I have to admit, I'm liking my Canon better than my Nikon. *GASP!* These are SOOC [no editing has been done, aside from resizing].

Yes, I'm loving the Sepia tone on this camera. Even more than Black & White!

Settings: Vivid Color/Daylight/ISO 200 (I think?)

Should've used a slower shutter speed to blur the background a bit...

Should've used higher ISO. WAY too dark here. Taken by my Mom! :)

And my favorites...

...Wish I had got his feet!

This one's for Bianca. Thanks for suggesting the Macro setting. I obviously need to play with my aperature settings and ISO a bit more, but there was a definite depth of field change!

.*Merry Christmas*.

Wishing all of you a blessed Christmas, from my family to yours.

TODAY'S THE DAY!

TIKI IS HOME!

The wait is over. The little Taquito is at the groomer as I'm typing this. Poor little guy was TERRIFIED of the groomer! I made a crucial mistake when going to get him and forgot the pet carrier, so he rode in my lap the whole way back. I was covered in fur, so came home to change clothes after I dropped him off. The groomer was crazy busy, so he won't be done until 1pm.

Tonight in order to hide the dog from Chayce, I'm spending the evening at my parents house with Tiki. Jon and Chayce are staying together, then we'll all get together tomorrow night for gift exchange and Chayce gets his puppy then!

How could I forget? I made the Mint Chocolate Brownies last night! For the first time in a LONG time, I managed to RUIN a batch. So it took 2 tries to get them, and I still have some things to learn to fix. I'm not good at making frostings/icings, and this recipe required TWO frostings. Perhaps this is where I fold in the towel, and just add flavors to store-bought frostings? :p Anywhoo, I'll try and snap some photos of those soon.

Now for the fun part. I DID manage to upload some pictures I took with the new camera yesterday! So without further adieu...

*We were at Barnes & Noble*

My favorite! Not even been edited, just played with the camera functions. WOW!

In case you were wondering what his tonsils look like... (LOL)

His contribution to helping make brownies...

The whisk is a multifunctional tool. It works as a microphone as well.

Hamming it up one last time.

I was just so pleased with out crisp the pictures are. It's amazing. The camera has a 12x Optical Zoom lens on it. I'll try and remember to get some pictures of the brownies, and I'll get many of Tiki today!

New Camera

Seems like it's turning into a Christmas tradition. By the end of the year I'm needing/wanting a new camera. Well today Jon bought me a little something EARLY so I'll have it (and know HOW to use it) by Christmas.

The Canon sx110is!

Yes, that means TONS of photos will be coming...

Shop, Shop, SHOP.

Must break the habit, or I'm gonna get myself into trouble, LOL! But the styles out this Winter are seriously beautiful. Very classy and elegant stuff I'm finding. I NEVER shop for myself, honestly. I'm always buying for things for the house or for Chayce. Well I bought my Christmas Dress the other night. I'm simply in LOVE with it!





Today I found this sweater that I just couldn't pass up.

I really wanted it in white/cream but they only had it in an XL. So I decided to grab the purple color. I NEVER wear purple, and don't think I've ever even owned anything this shade of purple, so we'll see how it goes! I'm going to pair it with some jeans and either black or silver heels.

Chayce and I spent about 3 1/2 hours at the mall today, YIKES. But I'm VERY proud I only made it out with that 1 sweater for myself. :) With it being the weekend before Christmas, almost every store had 50% off sales. Of course the ONE item in the mall I wanted WASN'T on sale, but I still got it for under $20. So, if you're willing to fight the crowds, you can catch some GREAT deals on clothes this weekend.