I used to have a really challenging job. It was stressful and demanding, high pressure and large responsibilities. I was really good at it too. Then I became a parent. In my old job, I was really good at delegating, training, developing and managing people- and rationalizing. Oh, could I rationalize. “I may have to [...]
Well, I bit the bullet yesterday and bought a new laptop. I decided on the Lenovo ThinkPad SL400. It looks like it has pretty much everything I was looking for. It’s also the top pick at PCWorld’s Top 10 All-Purpose Laptops. My goal is to use it exclusively for my business. I’m also getting an [...]
I want to hug it. I want to give it a nice, big kiss….muah! In a previous post, I told you how I lost my hard drive. Well, long story short it is unrecoverable. All my pictures of my kids since about 2002. All my music! Oh God my music! I’ve either printed out, scrapbooked [...]
If there was one thing I hated as a kid, it was beets. I couldn’t stand the look of them. Or the taste of them… although, I’m not sure I remember ever actually eating one. I just knew I would hate them. And so, my whole life I’ve held to the belief that I hate [...]
Last month I lost my hard drive. Well, I’m still dealing with it. A friend of mine had recommended a local computer guy to try to retrieve my data from the old hard drive. The last time I talked to him, he hadn’t been able to get his data recovery program to run on my [...]
When my father passed away, his business went with him. He wasn’t the most organized person and his business records were practically non-existent. There was really no way for us to carry on the business, or even sell it. It was such a shame. He worked so hard to build up a business only to [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! if you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time you know that I live in Northern California, not Palm Springs. We’re spending the holiday at my in-laws’ this year. It’s about a 12-hour drive from our house (and luckily our oldest daughter and her boyfriend are coming with us and can [...]
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This is one of those things that you know may happen someday and you know you should be taking precautions for when it does. Like backing up your data for example. Of course it had to happen on a Monday, which is my busiest day- the day that I have a publication deadline and clients [...]
Tammy tagged me with this meme. The Rules: * Link to the person who tagged you. * Post the rules on your blog * Write six random things about yourself * Tag six people at the end of your post. * Let each person know he or she has been tagged. * Let the tagger [...]
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