Days where just about everything goes right are rare, so I need to give yesterday it's props!
1) All Hail The Chief
When I saw Obama give the speech at the Democratic Convention in 2004, I thought "He should run for President. I would sooooo vote for him." Thanks for listening, Barack! I'm not going to go into a long-winded political speech, but, I think this is going to be a very good thing. It is change...and that's what you do when things are going terribly wrong. Do I expect things to be all rainbows and lollypops from now on? No. But I think things are going to happen. And I'm ready to be proud to be from the good ol' U.S. of A. again....
2) Working For A Living
Things at my Place of Employment have not been good for a long while. I haven't been happy anyway and found out a month ago that my job was being eliminated because of budget cuts. Last week I was offered another position at our agency.....a position I don't particularly want (for reasons that go on and on and on). But I am learning not to cut off my nose to spite my face as I get older and was seriously wrestling with whether to take it or not (there are a lot of little factors at play here). I thought I would have to make a decision rather quickly, but have learned that there are options, so I'm glad I have more time and that there are things that may change everything and make it better. Also, after about a week of not seeing any job postings I liked, I found two today. Sending out my resume always makes me feel like I'm trying. There may be hope.
3) Money (That's What I Want)
My parents got me a gift certificate to Amazon for my birthday so I could order an external CD burner. I ordered one at the end of September and learned a few weeks later that UPS showed they delivered it. I saw no evidence of said package. I wrote to the company I ordered it from and they simply wrote back and said "UPS showed it was delivered" I wrote to them and said "well, it ain't here" (you know....something like that) I didn't hear back. I wrote again and they said they'd check with UPS and get back to me. I didn't hear back. I went in to leave this company a negative review and saw someone else had left a comment that said Amazon's A-to-Z Guarantee got them their money back. I tried it. It worked!! Yay for the little guy!!
4) Roamin', Roamin', Roamin'
Things are going swimmingly with the Roaming Penguins! I really need to do a follow-up post with pictures and stories....people are so creative! But the best thing so far is a Yarn Penguin got to meet his Human Penguin! I sent a Marc Andre Penguin to Kaitlin and Nicole and they took him to see Marc Andre Fleury this weekend. I was beyond thrilled.....a real NHL superstar was holding this little thing I created.....just wow! And they explained the project to him, so it wasn't just "here, sign this stuffed animal" Our little roamers are making a big splash!
So, yeah, all the planets were aligned and karma smiled down on me. Doesn't happen very often, so I'll take it when I can get it!!
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I am leaving this as a comment because it wasn't something I could Tweet.
I know you are going to love your Mac. I do hope you bought the extended warranty. I have it for all of my Mac products and there is not a single product I regret buying it for. In fact, I was a week out of my original warranty for my MacBook and the same thing that happened to your old computer happened to mine. It was all covered under the extended warranty and I was able to keep my current computer and they replaced a $1500 product for free.
It will be an adjustment trying to switch from Mac to PC but soon it will come as second nature to you.
If you ever have any questions about your Mac feel free to email me.
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