Taking a Break

Etsy has been crazy busy this past month. There was one day I sold a ton, like 35 orders, most of which were for multiple items. :)

So, I'm pretty much caught up. I'm just working on orders from the past 3 days. Not to bad at all.

In other news (ie Keagan), she has 7 teeth (4 top, 3 bottom). Her bangs are quite long, but I don't wanna cut them, and they don't seem to bother her, so we are just letting them grow. :)

She walks great, and almost runs sometimes. She has recently been doing a lot of clap-walking. She opens her arms wide, then claps, and opens and claps, over and over as she walks. Pretty cute. It's like she's saying "I'm just chill with life."

She only says "moa, moa" for more, "this", and "ba, ba, baa" for book. Some other sounds that sometimes sound and match with banana, diaper, dog, and dad. But that's basically it.

I don't have room on my computer for pictures, I need to get a hard drive. Maybe this week...

It's Metal.

Wednesday night I was playing the Sims2 and I noticed that things weren't really as should be. Instead of telling me what aspirations my sims had, there was this odd error/code looking text, so I decided I would restart the game. During this saving and reopening, I was a horrible blue screen.

My computer was dying.

Shannon stayed up till 4:30am running various diagnostics and trying to save my files while figuring out what was wrong. Turns out my hard drive is on its way out. There are two spots with problems and when my computer tries to access those spots it just stops. On every start-up it needed access, so my computer wouldn't load correctly.

We used it in safe mode for Thursday. That had everything working, just giant sized. We could not change the resolution on the screen, so I had an entire 15.4" monitor size window for chatting. This resolution also made programming for my consulting project rather hard.

Then last night, the safe mode stopped working.

So Shannon took her apart, and looked around. Then decided to reinstall Windows. Maybe that would not use the 2 bad spots and it would work okay. So we had game night, and reinstalled Windows.

Today I type on my reanimated computer. I don't know how long she'll last, with a slowly deteriorating hard drive, but if she can last me two months, until I'm done with my Masters, I'll be satisfied.

I owe a big thanks to Shannon. He spent a lot of time these past two days trying to and succeeding in fixing my computer. He's so great.