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New Year Beginnings

I gave all my employee’s a day off tomorrow to sober up. I’m the only one out of the bunch that can’t drink due to medication so I thought, hey? Why don’t I take the day tomorrow and let them off the hook since they have done such a great job over the holiday break. I know, such a nice boss, you should work for me. How are your computer skillz? If they are up to par I’m interested in expanding my team. Just email me at yolospat @ gmail dot com.

Anyway, in an effort to replace what was once taken from me and sold for a vice without my permission, today was one of those days. My husband got me a new acoustic guitar.She’s a Dean and she’s HAWT!!!

My new DeanDean acoustic
Dean headPretty blue finish

Not only is she beautiful, but she sounds so much better than my old alverez. Now I need to start Guitar Lessons somewhere. I’ve always wanted to play and I’m so excited to start.

Due to my doctors appointment yesterday some things are worse. My blood is 3 times thicker as before which is causing me more pain. I’ve been put on Heparin twice a day and due to the contract I signed I have to wear a medical necklace stating anti-coagalant.

Medical NecklaceAnti-coagulants

At least it’s out of the way but I’m sure getting sick of all the pills and shots. I have so much more but I have to go to bed, because I promised my husband that I would go to bed at the same time every night and it’s already past my time. Anyway, more tomorrow.

My new (second) Kindle

The other day when I was at CVS waiting to pick up my prescriptions I was sitting in the pharmacy waiting room tucked way in the back beside the pharmacy counter, reading the Twillight series on my Kindle which goes every where with me these days. I thought I heard my name called, so I put my kindle in sleep mode, stood up, peered around the corner only to find out there was another “Jenny” they were talking to. So I sat back down and punched in the two keys that bring the kindle out of sleep mode and the screen freaks out on me. It looked like a broken LCD with thick black lines running horizontally except for 3/4’s inch on top where the screen savor was. The kindle screen isn’t an LCD screen. It’s electronic paper.

So I called the Customer Service number I got from my kindle owners manual. The phone rang about 5 times and to my surprise, a live human being (I think) answered. I told him my problem, he ran me through a few steps like holding down the reset button in the back for 10 seconds. Nothing helped, my screen was still foo-bared.

And just like that, he told me he was overnighting me a new Kindle. Wow! That’s not where the surprises ended, however. When I got home from work I eagerly tore open the amazon box waiting for me on the kitchen counter, shaking with kindle withdrawals. I got it out, plugged it in, went on the amazon site to register my new kindle which took 5 seconds, and HURRAY! It was registered. Since I’m reading the Twillight Series by Stephenie Meyer, they were the first books I downloaded from my book repository on Amazon servers.

Then panic hit. I didn’t want to go through page by page to find where I left off. If you have seen these books, you would know they are quite thick. So I opened the first book fully prepared to go page by page hundred’s of times. With my jaw on the floor, the book opened right to the page I left off. I didn’t realize that the kindle sync’d my bookmarks too! Way too cool.

I love my Kindle.