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An anniversary gift for a friend who lives across the country

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Some friends of ours are about to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary and I’m trying to figure out what kind of gift to get them.

Unfortunately they don’t live in the same city as we do. They live on the other side of the country in Vancouver! So I’m going to have to ship a gift to them. My friend is a chocoholic like myself and I have a feeling that her husband also likes chocolate so I’m thinking of maybe sending them one of these godiva chocolate gift baskets. I’m fairly sure that they’d enjoy them, although they might be mad at me for sending them all those extra calories!

What would you get as a gift for a good friend who was celebrating a 10th wedding anniversary who lived 2000 miles away?

We got an iTouch iPod

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Well I finally entered this millennium and got an iPod.

My husband and I were shopping in Best Buy last weekend and I told him that I wanted to look at the iPods, and as it happened some people from Apple were there and they had a special offer on the iPod touch.

I’ve been thinking of getting and iPod for years so it was about time I got around to getting one. I ended up buying the 32 gb iPod iTouch. It’s fantastic! We love it. I think that sometime in the near future my husband and I will be fighting over it and we’ll end up having to get another one. LOL

Each morning my husband scrolls through the Apps and downloads free Guitar and music related apps and at night I end up searching online in the Apps store for interesting Apps like restaurant finders, Facebook apps, Radio Apps and I’ve even browsed around for that app that will work with my Nike running shoes. I think the App is called the Nike + iPod App.

All in all it’s pretty cool. We’re both having fun exploring the iTouch.

Now we have to get to work and organize our music. My laptop has about 5 gig of music and the desktop which my husband uses the most (but that I used to use before we got a Laptop) has about 15 gig of music … and then there are all our CD’s that we want to burn. Hmmm … maybe we should have bought the 160 Gig Classic … but it doesn’t have all the other features – well if we decide to get a second iPod the Classic will be our second one.

So now that I’m having fun playing with my brand new iPod do you have any suggestions for me as to what accessories I might want to use with my iPod?

Oh and as for Apps … we’re totally new to Apps since we don’t have a cellphone that uses apps. What are your suggestions for Must Have Apps?

I might as well admit that the week before last we bought a Flip Camera too … so expect to see some videos soon! I’ve taken about 30 videos of my dog since we got the Flip!





I think I need a new laptop

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I’m seriously thinking about getting a new laptop computer. I really don’t want to spend the money, but my computer is running very slow and it’s hard drive is filling up. I’m working on moving some of the files off of the computer to make more room and I’m hoping it will run faster, but still … the hard drive will fill up again. If I don’t buy a new laptop now I’ll be getting one soon.

It probably doesn’t help that I have everything on my computer from all the photographs I take, to the new videos that I’m taking each day, all of our music, my ebooks and other books and tons of blogging related stuff.

So … if I were to seriously start looking at new Laptops what do you think I should be looking for? The main thing that I use my laptop for is to work on my websites and blogs. I’m on my laptop 16 to 18 hours a day – writing, writing, and editing. When I’m not writing I’m uploading photos or video and then editing them. So I need a computer that can handle graphics, and it’s picture quality must have fairly true to life color quality.

I’m still also toying with the idea of getting a Mac. I’d love a Mac but I’ve never had one or even used one. Odd since I do some much graphics work I know.

Any suggestions?

What new cellphone should I get?

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Sometime in the next month or two I think we’re going to have to get a new cellphone. Ours is about five years old and it’s just not working as well as it should any more … I mean, for example, it’s not holding it’s charge as well as it used to and that’s a pain.

I’ve always been intrigued by the iPhone, but I’m not sure I need a cellphone that does as much as the iPhone does. But then … I guess cellphones do pretty much everything these days so maybe I should get one with lots of features. What do you think of the blackberry playbook?

So … does anyone have any suggestions?

Buying a Light Therapy Unit

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Well I’m off to Costco. My doctor seems to think that my extreme tiredness and intolerance of cold is due to having Seasonal Affective Disorder – even though intolerance of cold temperatures is not part of the syndrome at all. Anyway … I’m going to Costco to pick up one of those special light therapy units.

I figure, even if I don’t have S.A.D. it will help with my strange sleep patterns – as in maybe I can use the light to reset my inner clock.

While I’m there I might take a look t a netbook. I’ve been reading netbook reviews and the last time I was at Costco I noticed that they had really good prices for their Netbooks … so I might as well take a better look and see if they have any of the brands and models that I read about and what they’re selling them for just to compare.

Now to start putting on the sweaters and my coat … it’s freezing! Is it cold in your area too?

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