workin' for a livin'

Things lately have been borderline good and bad.  I'll only list off and talk about the good things, though. I never meant this blog to be a place where I complain about life.

1.  Well, Corey got a new car.  New to him.  It's a 2008 Mitsubishi Galant.  Certainly an upgrade from his truck.  He feels so great now having a reliable mode of transportation.  I have to say I'm jealous of the reliable transportation bit.  My car has been iffy for a long time, and I'm hoping it's my turn soon to get a new car.

2.  I upgraded to iOS 5.  It is totally awesome.  I like the new notifications.  I LOVE iCloud.  My favorite feature of iCloud is syncing my calendar.  That is such a beautiful thing.  iMessage is really fun.  Corey and I message each other across the apartment from my iPhone to his iPad.  I just love everything about it.  Now if I could only pair it with a new iPhone 4s with the awesome camera and Siri.  Wouldn't I love having a personal assistant to talk to and control my iPhone that way?  I'm way jealous of the folks getting that phone today.

3.  Work is still good and bad.  Good thing is, I'm starting to get to precept new nurses, so I make more money and have better days at work.  Love that.  Bad thing is, more nurses keep leaving, so we're more short-staffed.  That sucks majorly.  I'm scheduled to take the nurse preceptor class in January, though, so maybe I'll be assigned a regular orientee and keep that bigger hourly wage on a regular basis.  That would be fabulous.  And my clinical ladder bonus is coming up in January.  That will be a down payment on a new car for me.  I hope so, anyway.

I've had more and more days in between posting lately.  I'm not sure why (too busy?  unmotivated?  boring life?), but I am going to attempt to be more consistent.  I'll find some piece of new to discuss at least briefly.


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"some days won't end ever, some days pass on by"

golden slumbers

A very sad thing happened today.

Steve Jobs was a brilliant person who put in the work to make his dreams real.

He changed how we do everything if you think about it.

I'm proud to say my iPhone is seemingly surgically attached to my hand, and that I am typing this blog post on my MacBook Pro.

I see people everyday struggling and dying because of cancer.  It is heartbreaking every time a person does not win their battle.  This time is absolutely no different.

God bless him and his family and friends.

And long live Apple Computer.

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"sleep pretty darling do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby"

alright

Corey got his MacBook!! Yes sooner than Friday, but I guess he just couldn't go another day without it :)

I got an incoherent text message and voicemail talking about it while I was at work and found him when I got home giddy as a schoolgirl. Needless to say it's a happy day at our house :)

I mentioned in my last post that work would give me more to talk about. It did today. But I'll wait until after tomorrow's adventures to explain.

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FYI, I added pages to this blog. I have an "About" and a "Links" page. :) Corey made fun of me saying "wow, really advanced work, there..." Well, it's advanced for me.


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"it's all the same to me as long as I'm with you"

yoü and i

This Friday we will have a new addition to the family :)

Corey bought himself a MacBook! We will have it on Friday. So now out little Apple family consists of (and this will show you how much we like to collect):

Corey's list:

iPod video 5th generation black

iPhone 3G

Aiport Extreme Base Station router

MacBook 13" unibody

iPad 2 16GB white

Anna's list:

iPod 4th generation white (no video) (My 1st iPod!!)

iPod classic black

Airport Express

iPhone 4 black (very easily my most prized possession; followed closely by the next item)

MacBook Pro 15" unibody

I suspect the next big computer purchase I personally make will be an iMac.  I'd like a desktop computer and an iMac does everything with zero desk clutter.

I have this strange aspiration to collect older Macs, too. Like I'd really like to have a clamshell iBook in turquoise. And a matching original iMac in the same color. The original Macintosh would be wonderful, also. The crown jewel of my collection would be an Apple II. I would play Oregon Trail on it forever and ever.

I may or may not come up with something more interesting to say later. I have work the next 2 days, so I'm sure some story will come out of that. Or Corey will have a weird dream in the meantime or something.

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"this time I'm not leaving without you"

exo-politics

Ha! I had to get in another post today, because I found the neatest thing when I was cruising the internet for something to do today.

Did anyone ever play Oregon Trail back in the '90s? I played a lot in my 5th grade gifted and talented class. (Yeah, you can see our gifts and talents were put to good use :P) I was trying to find a computer game to play today, and I thought about trying to find some kind of free download for Oregon Trail.

Instead I found a website called Virtual Apple II. This thing is awesome! It claims to have nearly every game released for the Apple II computer available to play in your web browser! Now there is a plug in to download for some of the games, but it is just like any other plug in you would use. Like Java, Flash, or whatever. In Google Chrome browser, it's just another extension.

I played the whole game this afternoon. I even named my characters tacky names to provide some amusement on his or her tombstone if they were to die.

It was very fun, and I am looking forward to seeing what other games I can find on there to play!


"and I'll wait for the sign"