128 posts tagged “from the sidekick!”

My Nook was delivered yesterday! I'm so excited about it - its
everything I was expecting and I'm excited to buy books for it. On
Tuesday night we drove to a Barnes & Nobles about thirty miles away in
order to get a cover for it (our B&N didn't have cases, just a
display) and I'm really happy with the one I choose. It was between
the brown one and a red one. The red one was nice, but I was looking
for low-key.

I was also happy to go online and see that B&N has adjusted their
eBook prices to MATCH Amazon! I bought "Her Fearful Symmetry" -
originally $26.99 in hardcover, now $7.29 in hardcover - for $5.79!
Brilliant, isn't it?! I've got so many books I want to buy - let's
just hope that I can hold back!

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Hey Terri! Look in the upper corner - it's your letter!!!

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I should has it by Thursday night!!!!

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I don't know if I've mentioned this - but the Nook is taking gadget
prone readers by storm this Christmas. The pre-orders sold out within
the first two weeks and now if you pre-order you wont get it until the
first or second week in January. I ordered mine in time, and it'll
still be shipped on Monday.

However, now the Nook is selling well on eBay. There are 10+ bids on a
single Nook causing the once reasonable price of $260 to skyrocket -
and in some cases double. So I'm now wondering if I should play the
patient one and put my Nook on eBay - and let it pay for itself and
just get it AFTER the holidays. But I don't know if I can. I've been
waiting well over a month for this thing and that's a long time for
me. The last time I waited so long it was for a doll who had to be
cast and sanded.

Paul's telling me I don't have to sell it, but I know that he thinks
we'll just make the money back and so it's foolish NOT to sell it. But
I don't know, the bubble may burst after the devices are officially
shipped and people are able to get real reviews on the thing. Then
again...I bought it blindly, didn't I?

I'd ask for everyone's opinion, but to tell the truth I don't think
anyone will be able to make this decision but me...

My hair's starting to grow back. Some may remember that awhile back I
posted about my post-pregnancy joy of loosing all the luscious hair I
developed while pregnant. Well, now its growing back and making me
look silly. I can hide the signs of the growth at my forehead hairline
with bangs, but another place that it happened was at my temples, and
I can't hide that. Oh well - looking like a mad scientist fits my
personality pretty nicely actually.

Today's my last day before my ten day vacation. I'm excited :) Trying
not to build it up though because as long as ten days sound, it will
fly by - my six weeks of maternity leave sure did - the holiday will
make sure of it. Thursday we're going to my sister's for Thanksgiving,
Friday we'll be going to the in-laws, and Saturday we'll be recouping
from the holidays :P

Found R2-D2 in Star Trek - nice Easter egg.

Been playing Dead Space with Paul, it's a good game - very scary. It
would be more scary though if the music let you know you were being
attacked from behind. Sometimes you can't tell until a random limb
appears around your head. Paul thought the game ended at Chapter Six
so imagine our surprise when we beat that boss and got another
objective. Oops, guess we shouldn't have spent all our money trying to
beat that guy.

Only two more weeks until I get my Nook. With the gift card fiasco
cleared up I'm getting more and more excited. I got a sample of Ron
Paul's book, "The Revolution", and was really inspired by the snippet
I read. I think I'm going to check that one out from the library
though because it doesn't seem like a book I'd read more than once.
Now to just find my library :)

I'm so excited! It's going to be here on the 17th - in all it's
Blu-Ray goodness :) I'm so excited!!!!

There are many fish in the sea.
I'm not one to believe in "soul mates" - meaning there is only one person in the entire world that will understand me and love me.

Life goes on.
I'm also not one to believe in tongue a sore tooth. I understand that it takes time to grieve but it shouldn't be a lifetime.

Remember your friends & family.
Your friends & family will always be there for you. ALWAYS. That's why I think it's so important to have strong friendships OUTSIDE of a relationship. There's and Angels & Airwaves song that says it best, "your best friend is not your girl friend" - or at least it shouldn't be your ONLY best friend.

Its better to face the truth, then to live in a lie.
Be glad you pulled off the band-aid and made the hard decision - even if you weren't the one to do it. If either of you were unhappy enough to want to break up then be glad you did.

Landscape -
Green View, Halla

I'm assuming that this
is any "hue" of any color - and I'd choose GREEN. I
think green looks best on me, even though most would assume blue given
my blue eyes.

I already have my dream
vanity license plate :) My car is red, and I wanted something having
to do with Spiderman and I was able to pull out enough of the vowels
and still make it legible so SCORE! Its a dull purpose plate actually,
because people who don't realize it's Spiderman assume it has
to do with the web and I'm a big techie so it all works out
:D

Some new things have come to light in regards to the Nook.

A) You can only lend a book once - IN THE LIFETIME OF THE BOOK. Not
only that, but not all books are lendable, it's up to the publisher.

B) You can't use B&N giftcards to purchase eBooks, because they have
to be associated with a credit card. That means I can't be gifted
during the holidays.

C) I already knew this, but it's coming back repeatedly to bite me in
the ass. Kindle has MUCH better prices on eBooks - period. They also
have more. I'm sure that B&N will eventually catch up, but until then
I'm screwed.

But...but... the Kindle is UGLY. Watching the videos of it doesn't
make me want to use it at all but when I watch the videos of the Nook
I do. So, do I pay more for the books now and limit myself to
selection because the device is better - and HOPE that B&N catches up
- or do I go with the Kindle and hope that the Kindle catches up in
regards to hardware?!

Oh, and I found out that the Nook is selling out like hotcakes,
they've already pushed the preorders (well, if you preorder now - mine
hasn't been pushed back) to the second week in December from the last
week in November. Maybe I can sell it via eBay and get all my money
back and then some?

Yesterday we finally made it to Disneyland! Paul & I have season passes, we
bought them in June, but we hadn't gone back since because we needed someone
to come along and help us with Evy. Paul & I decided to gift my sister early
this year for Christmas with a one day pass to Disneyland - so she could get
a season pass too. It was a lot of fun, I'm glad my sister went because she
kept reminding me not to stress out (like I always do) because we had season
passes. Our trip was filled with a lot of bumps, but just laughing through
them.

We got a late start, good traffic though. Once in Anaheim we stopped at a
Burger King for something to eat - but they wouldn't take our credit cards
so we had to go across the street to another place. We got a bit lost on the
way to the parking because Disneyland was redirecting to a different parking
structure and the signs they had were confusing. Then once we'd parked we
had to ride a bus to the park. Then we got to the park entrance and
discovered that Paul had left his wallet (and his season pass) in the car so
he had to go back. That took awhile because he had to wait for a bus, get to
the parking center, wait for another bus, and then come back. My sister & I
decided to go into the park and get her season pass, but then I discovered
I'd left HER ticket in my purse which was in the car. Luckily Paul was able
to grab it and we got into the park around noon.

We didn't ride very many rides, but we still had a really good day! Pirates
of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Haunted Mansion, Space Mountain - bit of
the Christmas parade. We ended up leaving pretty early because we just got
such a late start, but since we have season passes we'll be going back :)

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