3 out of 4, so far
So trying to meet goals for the day. Three out of four isn’t bad, I think.
1. Household. I did the laundry and carried the vacuum cleaner down two flights of stairs to give the downstairs rug a good hoovering.
2. Exercise. I took Jakester over to Lafayette Square Park and walked around for half an hour. He’s totally petrified of everything, and horrible to walk with. I might make myself walk him more by focusing on the benefit for him, getting more socialized. I may take la Chelseapants next time though, she seems to walk better than the other two.
3. Social Stuffs. This one is harder for me, especially during the week. But after our walk I drove Jake over to Todd’s house, on the off chance that he’d be back from his class. He was! WIN! So I chatted with him for awhile about our respective first days of school, and updated his iTunes so that he could buy movies.
4. Creative. Hrms. Nothing so far. And now I am really only wanting to take a shower, finish the laundry and go to bed. But maybe I will think of something?
5. Spending large amounts of money. My laptop was indeed on the verge of failure. When I talked to the IT guy at work he told me that I needed to get my stuff off of it, sooner rather than later. So I bought a new laptop. Well. I ordered a new laptop, which doesn’t relieve my buyers remorse the way it would if I could have brought it home with me today. But overall it was a really good buy. It’s a Sony Vaio, and it blows my old laptop out of the water as far as RAM and HD capacity, plus it’s lighter, with a larger screen. And… it’s pink. I know! But seriously, it’s also a good laptop for my needs, in addition to being pink! I checked! It’s a model that’s on its way out for them, so it was discounted in price, then I found it at newegg $150 or so cheaper than MSRP, then I found it on Best Buy’s website $100 cheaper than THAT even! So, I practically made a profit.
My “nervous about spending money” threshold is around $200 or so, anything over that and I start to triple-guess myself. So this makes me angsty. But I am sure that will all go away once I have it. I had it shipped to work (less chance of it getting delivered to my neighbor, who I am still dodging quite well.) and I really hope it will come before the weekend. My only decision still to be made is whether I am going to wipe Vista off of it when it gets here and install XP. I feel like I would rather, since I use XP on my desktop and at work, and plus I don’t want to be the person with Vista, because I hate it without trying it like all good Intertubes dwellers should.
Anwyay, that’s my day today. Now, off to be creative…
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As for spending money - well you NEED this new laptop, so it’s more like a business expense really, plus the fact that it’s faster will definitely save you time that can be employed elsewhere, making you more productive.
As for comfort thresholds on spending money - my bank account looks like it’s taken a meteorite strike lately. I allowed myself £3000 for buying stuff for the new place…and it’s ended up closer to £5000 somehow (though I’ve convinced myself that somewhere in there is the first mortgage payment and holiday costs so I’m not looking too closely).
So right now for the first time in years my spending comfort threshold is quite low until I go back to work and can see what happens to my bank account after a few months of pay in/out.
Oh, and on the Vista/XP thing - I stuck with Vista on my new machine last year because the machine came with a backup partition for a factory-default install (yeah, I’m lazy).
So far with Vista I found if you turn off the UAC (User Account Control) and have your user account as administrator then it behaves itself reasonably well (you can also go further and make it look like Windows XP to cut down on the fancy bits).
Things that wouldn’t work for me: Photoshop Elements 3, Photoshop 6, Premiere Elements 2 and can’t think of any more. Poser, Vue etc working fine.
Yeah, your bank account takes a hit when you move, eh? There are so many big expenses that the “small” expenses seem inconsequential. “$60 for a locksmith? No big deal! I just spent $2,000 on windows!” So your sense of monetary proportion gets all skewed for awhile.