For the past few months, Ash and I had been talking about getting an external hard drive. My laptop isn’t exactly reliable, and I’m paranoid about only having two copies of our pictures and videos of the kids. Plus, we have tons of movies and programs on our computers that we’d really like to back up too. But mostly, I’ve just been worried about our pictures and videos.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that Ash surprised me and yesterday we received from Amazon.com the Western Digital My book, Essential Edition.

It’s 750 GB, small, and 30% more energy efficient than other external hard drives. The thing is only 6 pounds and sleek, and absolutely beautiful. I nearly started crying when I opened it (yeah, I’m a very geeky girl). I have the sweetest girlfriend. Ash is currently organizing all the photos on her computer so we can put them on the hard drive and they’re already organized. She’s so smart.

In other news, keep your eyes peeled. I’m working on some free wordpress themes and they’ll be up in the near future. Got one more to make and then I’ll put them up. Soon soon!

Not much time to blog, as expected, though I have been getting a lot of knitting accomplished and I hope to finish my first knitted bag by the end of next week, at least the knitting part anyway. I’m, sadly, very slow at this. My ADD kicks in after two rows and then I have to find something else to do. I’ll try and post pictures of my progress.

At the moment, I’m at work trying to get to work on our upcoming Newsletter. I hated the last format, so I’m working on a new one. Unfortunately, every time I try to open Photoshop, everything slows down to a crawl. Let’s see what happens when I uninstall some things, shall we?

This is a boring entry, but it’s been a very hectic day. Trust me.

I just cut my finger. It’s bleeding. Lovely.

I was made to sit down and watch The Mummy tonight because it was apparently imperative to my very existence that I see it. However, about two minutes before the actual ending of the movie I realized that I have, in fact, seen the whole thing. So I guess my life wasn’t at stake to begin with.

My legs hurt and blogging will be scarce this week on account of the fact that we have a friend staying with us and crashing on our floor. Good times will be had and I’m not sure how much internet time I’ll have (but it’s well worth it, and I’m sure you understand).

I shall leave you with an interesting story about man’s best friend.

According to the Palais de Justice in Paris, a recent preliminary hearing marked the first time in France, and perhaps in the world, in which a dog had been called as a formal witness in a murder case. “Scooby Doo” was brought into the courtroom so that a judge could watch how he reacted when he approached the defendant, who was accused of killing Scooby’s master, and according to a dispatch in London’s Daily Telegraph, the dog “barked furiously,” helping convince the judge to set the case for trial. [Daily Telegraph, 9-10-08]

Dogs are amazing. Moreso than people, in many many cases. Our dog? Spoiled rotten. But we love him. Even when he is a lazy-butt (but he’s a cute lazy-butt).

Spunky says it’s time for bed. Night all.

Woke up to let the dog out. What did I see? THIS.

It’s October. I’m really not ready for this. And it’s still snowing. Mother Nature, did you really have to send the snow this early? Why?

I want to go south now.