Blogging from the Bedroom

The blog post's title sounds like a romance novel doesn't it. Though while there is a love affair in this tale, it is of the platonic kind. The kind you have for things not people.

I am talking about my new MacBook Pro (the slowly going to be paid off MacBook). Yes finally!! I have coveted this for just as long as my iMac, perhaps longer and finally bit the bullet and purchased.

It's a 13" 2.4 GHz model - check the models out here.

Yes I am in love. The keyboard is comfortable for me. I love the Macs keys. I don't have to work as hard as other computer keyboards and that includes my netbook (EeePC) which caputed on me a couple of months back.

It's the perfect size for me in screen size and is portable and flexible to use. Since I have an iMac I didn't think I needed a huge screen to carry around with me. I am still getting use to the trackpad. They have so many options of what they can do, but seriously love, love, love this.

So is it a good thing I can blog from anywhere other than at my desk, especially at 2am? Hmmm....I'm really hoping this will be used for my writing, especially with NaNoWriMo coming up. Also being a CFS sufferer, I can jot things down when I'm resting or am feeling too sore for the desk. 

Did I tell you how much I love my MacBook Pro? *wink*

~yia~

I love my Mac most days....

Well truly, I love it everyday. It has really streamlined things for me. But the only frustrating thing with Mac is incompatibility or features not being the same as on a PC.

For instance, I wanted to use the webcam to talk to some family. No feature allowed this on MSN Messenger for Mac. I found  a different version and while I can see them, I can't hear them. I also wanted to do something on Microsoft Publisher but there's no Mac version and a 'version' I did find couldn't be opened the receiver on a PC. Urgggh.... frustrating. 

I suppose because this week has been stressful in other ways and so, it was just another thing to piss me off....ummm.... annoy me.

I did overhaul the Bootcamper blog, so that was good for the soul.

And this week, I hope to be a

Listening to: The Jeff Healey Band

~Yia!

Year in Review and Forecasting

Everyone has been blogging about the achievements they achieved in 2008 and I felt tired reading all their achievements... a little bit deflated until I thought back to what I did do.

- Started my blog

- continued working on my craft with HD, still polishing but at least it's up to that stage now.

- went to the Roadshow in Adelaide

- wrote a piece about the Roadshow for Hearts Talk

- completed over 50K words for the June 50Ks In 30Days challenge on a new MS.

- participated in a Bootcamper plotting day

- started the Bootcampers blog

- became part of the Hearts Talk editing team as well as the web team

- participated in the Clayton's Conference (though not as much as I wanted to be because of flu)

- I got my Mac!!!!!!

- I launched my website

- I got the 'I LOVE your blog' award twice

- I entered 7 competitions.  2 I don't know the results yet - the others eh-eh. 

- I submitted a short story to an online magazine on the 31st December (one of my goals was to submit something!)

- read more than I had for a couple of years.

So it's not all too bad at all.

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So now to think on my targets for 2009.

 

- finish off HD polishing

- submission to agents and publishers

- read Margie Lawson tutorial notes I had obtained - basically keep developing craft

- maintain blog and website

- finish of drafts of two manuscripts - L&D, and DT. If really ambitious, polish.

- notes for BW and start first draft.

- submit short stories to relevant markets - say 4.

- enter relevant competitions - I'll decide as I go along.

- continue with Team Hearts Talk and the Web team.

AND of course, the main goal be to get a contract or two ;)

I hope your year brings you wonderful news and happiness. Good luck with writing, reading, or whatever is the positive aspiration in your life.

Yia!

All I want for Christmas...

Ok, so it is a loooong way to Christmas. Thank goodness. Just trying to get over the Easter celebrations. But the song '"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" popped into my head. Why?

Well my computer, that's why. It's been a with me for 7 years and as you know technology has come a long, long way in 7 years. I'm doing what I can with it, the most important being word processing - I can write my stories. BUT internet is slow (dialup) and the poor thing is struggling. It stops and crashes when I am on the internet for too long or try to do more than one thing at a time (yes, I'm impatient) and all my family can hear is me cussing from the study. F'en thing.

So all I want for Christmas is a new computer.... I think I'm going for a Mac this time around. But can I wait for Christmas? I'm getting more and more pissed off...huhumm...annoyed with this computer every day.

So fairy godmuse, if you're listening, can I have a brand new sparkling Mac please? Pretty please?