Today Amelia figured out how to get her pacifier in her mouth by herself. Somehow she ended up holding it and she kept trying and trying and finally put it back in her mouth. So she decided to keep practicing. It’s so fun to see her figure it out on her own. Little moments like this are what make being a mom so great.
I’m highly pissed off right now at Target. I did my baby registry with them and have had nothing but problems. I tried to return some items, but you are only allowed to return 2 items in a year without a receipt. They keep track of this with your driver’s license. So like lots of moms, I had to return several packs of diapers because they were the wrong size or brand. Amelia can’t wear Pampers brand. Well, who the hell gives a gift receipt when giving diapers?! No one. So I could only return 2 of the 4 packs, consequently disallowing me to return anything else for the next year! How absurd is this?
So I went today to return some items that I know where showing as purchased on my registry, because as long as it shows purchased on your registry you can return it. You have to print the purchase log though. I went to do that and it turns out there is an expiration date on the darn registry. 90 days, of which I was not aware. So my registry is gone…does not exist and cannot be retreived. Target deletes it completely, like it never existed. I’m once again stuck with items I did not, nor ever will use because I don’t have a receipt (no one gets a receipt for nursing pads either).
Every time I think of this, it pissed me off even more. I will from now on, not be buying anything from Target. All baby needs will be purchased elsewhere. Fortunately there is one other store in town that carries my brand of bottles.
Lesson learned…don’t get a registry from Target, because you know that at least half of what you get won’t be marked off on the registry. Also, if you know someone that has gotten you something at Target, make sure you beg and plead for the gift or original receipt, just in case you ever need to return the item. Because even if it is purchased off the registry, with a new baby in the house, you might not get around to returning the item before the 90 days are up and then you will need that receipt since your registry will become non-existent.
Target is not this new mom’s friend anymore.
Two Names You Go By:
1. Arenys
2. Rayne
Two Parts of Your Heritage:
1. Spanish
2. Italian
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Jeans
2. Knit Cap
Two Things You Would Want in a Relationship:
1. Honesty
2. Trust
Two of Your Favorite Hobbies:
1. Digital Scrapbooking
2. Knitting
Two Things You Want Really Badly At The Moment:
1. Mac Laptop
2. to be a SAHM
Two pets you had/have:
1. Dogs
2. Fish
Two people you talked to today:
1. My husband
2. My instructor (I’m at developer training)
Two things you did last night:
1. Scrapbook
2. Spend time with Amelia
Two people that live in your house:
1. Husband
2. Daughter
Two things you ate today:
1. Toaster struddles
2. Pizza (will eat for lunch)
Two people you miss:
1. My mom (she lives in FL)
2. My daughter (she’s at daycare)
Two Things You’re doing tomorrow:
1. Training
2. Reading
Two vacations you’ve been on:
1. Sedona (honeymoon)
2. Vegas
Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Christmas
2. Thanksgiving
Two favorite Alcoholic beverages:
1. Smirnoff Black Ice
2. Beer
Two bands you have seen live:
1. Rascal Flatts
2. Keith Urban
Two things you will do after you finish this survey:
1. Pay attention to training
2. Eat lunch
What has been your biggest AHA moment while blogging or journaling? What have you learned about yourself???
Let’s see. Probably my biggest AHA moment is the whole blogging concept. Back in the day, I so wanted to jump on the bandwagon of having a website. The few I created were so cheesy and the content was lacking. I didn’t know what to put out there. Then I discovered blogging and the AHA just came out. I finally knew exactly what to do. A blog was the perfect thing.
What I’ve learned about myself. I’m silly. My life tends to be a little boring and I’m definitely no writer! LOL! I lack composition skills to the extreme, but like all the other average Janes out there, I still plug away at this “blog” just in case anyone is out there lurking and actually finds what I write even remotely interesting.
Last week I posted that I was going to upgrade the hard drive in my eMac. Here’s my process:
I purchased a Western Digital 250GB hard drive Friday at lunch. When I got home from work that night, I put it in an enclosure and attached it (via Firewire) to my computer. Using Disk Utility, I partitioned and formatted it. Then I downloaded CarbonCopyCloner and installed it. I used it to clone my internal hard drive to the new drive.
Saturday morning, I booted to the firewire drive to make sure that my clone was working. All was well. So we tackled the swap. I found a take-apart pdf manual that was very helpful. So my husband and I followed the instructions and carefully took apart the eMac. Swapped the hard drive and put it back together. Booted the machine and I was up and running.
It was the easiest thing. I was a little nervous taking the computer apart, but we made labels for all the screws as we removed them, so we’d know exactly where they went.
My computer is much faster now with the faster hard drive and more disk space. And now I can use my external storage drive for backup and I now store everything in my home directory so I know exactly where everything is. Right now I’m using Synk Backup, but still trying to figure how to use the scheduling features so that I can backup every night.
You’re packing for a weekend away from your family. You’re going to be seeing a bunch of online friends for the first time at, oh I don’t know, maybe a CHA tradeshow in California.
What do you pack? What do you wear???
Well, let’s see. Since most likely it will be a casual trip, I would definitely pack jeans and some nice t-shirts. My sneakers and my casual black slip-ons. Have to pack my makeup…have to make a good impression. I’d probably include some nice dressy pants and a blouse in case we go out to a nice dinner. But nothing too fancy. I’m a casual girl, so most of my attire is going to be casual.
