Vacations

Seems like everybody is going on one...except me! We have a lady at the office that is going to Africa for about 4 or 5 weeks. Good on her, well, more like I'll get quiet at the office. But that's besides the point. Someone upstairs is taking one of those orlando vacations. Someone else is going to New Zealand. I miss my travelling days.

Oh, I think I'd be happy if I had to Greyhound it somewhere....

Work

We always plan for a certain type of work day...but holy smokes! Any of my "planned days" for the last bit have not looked remotely like it should! It's quite humourous in some ways. I figure it's easier to laugh about it or get pissed about all the things that I wish were different.

But I'm not complaining because I still really do enjoy my job. But sometimes I have to shake my head and just do all that I can possibly do in a day. The work will still there be tomorrow.

I guess I'm just tired. It's been a while since I've had a serious break from kids, errands, chores, playing chauffeur, etc. I'm not expecting to take a "real" holiday anytime soon.

But I just have to power through this. I have a date day planned with my husband soon so that should help lighten my mood a bit. Every bit of play time helps....

Informercials

I'm notorious for watching these things. It's like a car crash...no matter how bad they are, you just can't stop watching.

Anyways, I'm sure most folks have seen the walk in bath one. Lately I've been seeing it more or maybe it's just on and I'm paying more attention to it. Part of it is that I'm thinking about my parents. They aren't spring chickens and their bath tub is quite low. I'm always worried that they will slip and fall. I know my dad took a dive on the side walk not too long ago...a bathtub is way easier to slip in.

So, yes, I might have to get a brochure or something just to see how much they cost. Who knows what my parents will need as they age? I'm sure there will be many more infomercials to watch....

Computers

Oh, I just talked about things being backed up...and at work, we have a network where everything gets backed up. But OMG. When one of the hard drives at work take a dive and a person has saved their stuff there rather than the network, they're screwed.

There is nothing like an officer coming into to work trying to get their laptop to function when it goes to crap. I can not tell you in the last year how many blue screens of death I've had on my laptop at work. But knowing that I saved it on the network, doesn't bother me much.

I wonder if the techies should just remove those drives from some of the officers...maybe it'll force them to save on the network like they're supposed to.

Pictures

I love the fact that I have the option of digital cameras these days. There is a certain cool factor with old school cameras. But knowing that I can take a gazillion pictures just because I can and see them right away is really quite amazing.

However, because I'm taking THAT many pictures, it means storage is an issue. I think my pc is going to max out soon. But part of my concern is if my computer craps out. Thank goodness for the external hard drive. That baby has saved my butt once and I was grateful. Basically I back up all my pictures on this drive. If my computer goes bye bye, I still have all my pictures. Everything else is easy to replace...pictures are not.

So, if you haven't backed up lately or don't have a source to, find something like this so that you're not kicking yourself when you lose some of your most precious memories.

Movie

The family went out to a movie today. It was between Where the Wild Things Are or Astroboy. When my husband showed the girls the previews for both of the films, my one kid when watching Where the Wild Things are shouted "that's boring me!" Ok, guess the decision was made to go watch the colourful Astroboy.

I used to watch that Japanese cartoon ALL the time when growing up. Every Sunday at 4:30pm on UTv which is now City TV. It was a rocking show...red boots and all. So, I was quite stoked about watching this movie as I really did have fond memories of the cartoon.

The animation was great! And the little boy looked just as I remembered and cute as can be. I must say, I fell in love with the film. I actually cried in a number of places as the story was really well done. I totally bought into the whole story line. And the machine guns out of the butt scene never gets old.

So if you have kids that are the appropriate age, I'd take them. Great messages about finding our place in this world (small MWS reference to all those that know who this...LOL!, love, acceptance and friendship. Kudos to the film.

Ads

So, I was on Facebook the other day (suprise, suprise...but my café needs me!)...and I clicked on one of those ads on the side. I know...crazy, but I did. Sometimes they do have somewhat intriguing ads.

Anyways, there was mention of an insurance company. I can't remember what the "draw" was. But the message was something along the lines of "compare the biggest life insurance carriers for free." Then it got me thinking...how many life insurance carriers are out there? I'm with two different ones and my husband is one that is the same as one of mine. But these are pretty big companies. Are there really THAT many out there?

I'm glad I didn't know about them because it would be way too much research for me to do. And I would probably get frustrated and not buy any. But at least, I've got it and my family is protected.