- Husband
- My Mom
- My Dad
- In-laws
- 2 Best Friends
- Music
- School
- A Job (that I LOVE)
- Sister
- Brothers- and Sisters-in-law
- The Gospel
- My Cats
- Health
- The Temple
- The Savior
- All of my music friends that help grad school be bearable
- My Teachers
- Scholarships
- Government Grants
- A nice house to live in
- Clothes on my back
- Food on my table
- Shoes on my feet
- The Bible
- The Book of Mormon
- Living Prophets today
- The gym
- Hugs
- Kisses
- Unconditional Love
- Crafts
- A creative mind
- Missed opportunities that help lead to better opportunities
- Utah's love for community theater (which has allowed me 2 operatic roles outside of school this summer)
- Opera
- The Armed Forces that keep our country safe
- Freedom
- Christmas
- Friendly neighbors (finally!)
- 2 Cars, even though Bryce and I mostly share just 1
- The Internet
- Halloween
- Setting Goals
- Making Lists
- Airplanes (even though my recent experiences with flying/purchasing tickets may have made me feel otherwise)
- 4th of July
- Decorating
- Teapots
- TV--specifically some of my favorite TV shows, including:
- Friends
- Gossip Girl
- Grey's Anatomy
- and Anything on Bravo
- Ikea (especially since we are still poor college students)
- Bubble Baths
- Massages
- Manicures/Pedicures (and a mother-in-law who loves to get them when she visits)
- Air conditioning during the hot summer months
- Snow
- That I can help others be better at something
- Blogging/Reading others' blogs
- Easter
- Chocolate
- Thanksgiving
- Movie marathons curled up on the couch
- TV season marathons with Jess
- Shopping
- Hope/Planning for the future
- Traveling
- Having to get up really early for something exciting
- Staying up way too late
- Talking on the phone to people I can't see often
- Curiosity (especially from my cats)
- Hobbies
- Reconnecting with long lost friends
- A washer and dryer in my house
- Watching sports on TV
- Going to a baseball game
- Babies (no experience with my own yet, but one day)
- Being a girl
- Lace, Ruffles, and Pearls
- Video games to keep my husband occupied when I need to get something done
- Having a really clean house (it doesn't happen often, but it feels so good when it does)
- Generosity of others
- Camping
- Finding new craft ideas online
- Playing games
- InStyle magazine that comes in the mail once a month
- The Ensign
- Real Simple magazine that also comes in the mail once a month
- The Classical Singer website and all of the useful information it contains (including auditions)
- A computer
- Houston (which Bryce and I both miss terribly, although I don't know if we'll be saying that after we go home for 2 weeks in August)
- Dreams
- Funny Stories
- Celebrity Gossip
- Dancing
- My iPod
- Sleep
Showing posts with label electronics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronics. Show all posts
6.16.2010
100
This is my 100th post!! So I would like to take the time to tell you 100 things I love/am grateful for.
7.28.2009
Grad School
So, going to grad school is turning out to be much more expensive than I expected. Although BYU has one of the cheapest grad tuition's around, the scholarship fund is waning. I thought (through the grapevine and my own assumptions) that grad students received a 3/4 tuition scholarship. Unfortunately, I was wrong (it ends up being about 1/3 tuition, plus I have voice lesson fees every semester). That wouldn't be so bad, I mean I survived on about that much scholarship as an undergrad thanks to grants, but grad students don't get grants. One thing that I am very excited about is that I get to teach. The teaching pay is very good, but we don't get a ton of hours a week, so I will be making little more than I am making at my current on-campus position. This was disappointing at first (my fault for assuming I would get paid prep time for teaching private lessons, which I don't) because Bryce and I were hoping to start putting money away to save up for when we buy a house.
Anyway, as I have started doing a little research and thinking about the classes and lessons I'm going to teach, I have come to the conclusion that Bryce and I will not be able to survive the next few years of school (and possibly more beyond that) on 1 desktop computer. I have had the wonderful blessing of being provided with a laptop with my current job. I will only retain this blessing for another month, after which I will be quitting my job in order to teach. We have a Mac at home, which is the best computer ever. It is almost 5 years old and we've never had a problem with it. We took it in about 6 months ago to have more RAM put in it and it is just as fast as a brand new computer again. But, as good as our desktop is, there's nothing like portability, especially when I'm teaching. That is why I have decided that this is the computer I need:
It is the MacBook Pro 15.4". This computer was named by Consumer Reports as their best laptop. In the magazine I recently picked up, they said, "this is this best computer we have ever tested, hands down." With this computer, I will be able to keep track of grades and assignments as well as make video recordings of my students during their lessons, so that they can see their progress. Not only that, Macs have the best programs for music, pictures, and basically everything. They also have a new set of programs that are like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, just much more user friendly. Not only that, but these programs save into .doc and .docx (and the equivalents for Excel and PowerPoint). Basically, this is the best computer for our situation, except for the price. I mean you can't get the perfect computer for free, can you? Luckily, Apple provides $150 off for students and a free iPod touch when you purchase this computer. I think I may just have to call this an "education cost" and pay for it with my student aid. Or maybe my family will be really generous with graduation gifts and I'll be able to get it with that. We'll have to wait and see. Until then, I will continue to dream...
Anyway, as I have started doing a little research and thinking about the classes and lessons I'm going to teach, I have come to the conclusion that Bryce and I will not be able to survive the next few years of school (and possibly more beyond that) on 1 desktop computer. I have had the wonderful blessing of being provided with a laptop with my current job. I will only retain this blessing for another month, after which I will be quitting my job in order to teach. We have a Mac at home, which is the best computer ever. It is almost 5 years old and we've never had a problem with it. We took it in about 6 months ago to have more RAM put in it and it is just as fast as a brand new computer again. But, as good as our desktop is, there's nothing like portability, especially when I'm teaching. That is why I have decided that this is the computer I need:
It is the MacBook Pro 15.4". This computer was named by Consumer Reports as their best laptop. In the magazine I recently picked up, they said, "this is this best computer we have ever tested, hands down." With this computer, I will be able to keep track of grades and assignments as well as make video recordings of my students during their lessons, so that they can see their progress. Not only that, Macs have the best programs for music, pictures, and basically everything. They also have a new set of programs that are like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, just much more user friendly. Not only that, but these programs save into .doc and .docx (and the equivalents for Excel and PowerPoint). Basically, this is the best computer for our situation, except for the price. I mean you can't get the perfect computer for free, can you? Luckily, Apple provides $150 off for students and a free iPod touch when you purchase this computer. I think I may just have to call this an "education cost" and pay for it with my student aid. Or maybe my family will be really generous with graduation gifts and I'll be able to get it with that. We'll have to wait and see. Until then, I will continue to dream...
7.30.2008
What a bad morning
So I was running late this morning getting ready for work (mainly because I was sore; I have started going to our clubhouse gym to run every night) when I realized I needed to grab my books and iPod so I could study for my test that's tonight. I reached into my purse to grab my iPod and it wasn't there. I remembered taking it with me to the clubhouse last night when I went to work out. Then I realized I took it out and put it in the treadmill cupholder and left it there. 
So, as you can surely guess, I hurried down to the clubhouse and went into the gym only to find NOTHING! There was a lady on the treadmill and I asked her to see if it was still in there and she said she hadn't seen it. So, I'm completely upset because not only do I need it to study the songs for my test, but I use my iPod on a daily basis. I just can't live without it. I hurried off to work and got online to our HOA website to see who I should call about it. I called one guy and he said to call this other guy, Steve. So I called Steve up and he said that he didn't see it when he took a walk through the clubhouse last night (but he wouldn't have because it has a black cover on it and the treadmill is black and it was down in the cupholder) and that there wasn't much he could do to help me. We have security cameras in the clubhouse so I asked if he could look through the footage from this morning (I left right after the clubhouse closed for the evening, so I was the last one out and the clubhouse opened at 7 this morning and I went in just before 9 so someone would have picked it up sometime in those 2 hours). He told me that he didn't think anyone on our new HOA Board (which has been in place since February or March) knew how to use it, except for maybe one guy: the one that I had called in the first place. So I call this guy back, for all intensive purposes, we'll call him Fred (basically because he was a jerk to me, so for his sake, we won't use his real name). So, I called Fred back and told him that Steve said he was the only one who knew how to access the camera system and he told me he didn't know how to use it. Then I said that it was dumb that we pay to have the clubhouse monitered when nobody knows how to run the system. He proceeded to tell me that "maybe you shouldn't have left your iPod in the gym" and that "you shouldn't take that tone with someone who is a volunteer here to serve you". I was completely offended by both of these comments because I wasn't being rude, I was just pointing out a fact (with no sort of "tone"). I then told him that I wasn't being rude and that he volunteered for this position but was not doing anything to "serve me". Then I got frusterated and told him "well, thanks for your help" (this time I did use a tone) and hung up. In the midst of the conversation, he told me that generally these types of problems should be e-mailed (which was not stated anywhere on the HOA website). The last time I tried to e-mail them with a problem, I never got a response, so I didn't think this was a good solution, but I did it anyway. I made sure that the whole board knows that he insulted me over the phone AND that I think it is dumb that nobody knows how to use the system (although I used a little bit more eloquent of words). Anyway, that is the sad story of my iPod. I hope I get it back. :(
So, as you can surely guess, I hurried down to the clubhouse and went into the gym only to find NOTHING! There was a lady on the treadmill and I asked her to see if it was still in there and she said she hadn't seen it. So, I'm completely upset because not only do I need it to study the songs for my test, but I use my iPod on a daily basis. I just can't live without it. I hurried off to work and got online to our HOA website to see who I should call about it. I called one guy and he said to call this other guy, Steve. So I called Steve up and he said that he didn't see it when he took a walk through the clubhouse last night (but he wouldn't have because it has a black cover on it and the treadmill is black and it was down in the cupholder) and that there wasn't much he could do to help me. We have security cameras in the clubhouse so I asked if he could look through the footage from this morning (I left right after the clubhouse closed for the evening, so I was the last one out and the clubhouse opened at 7 this morning and I went in just before 9 so someone would have picked it up sometime in those 2 hours). He told me that he didn't think anyone on our new HOA Board (which has been in place since February or March) knew how to use it, except for maybe one guy: the one that I had called in the first place. So I call this guy back, for all intensive purposes, we'll call him Fred (basically because he was a jerk to me, so for his sake, we won't use his real name). So, I called Fred back and told him that Steve said he was the only one who knew how to access the camera system and he told me he didn't know how to use it. Then I said that it was dumb that we pay to have the clubhouse monitered when nobody knows how to run the system. He proceeded to tell me that "maybe you shouldn't have left your iPod in the gym" and that "you shouldn't take that tone with someone who is a volunteer here to serve you". I was completely offended by both of these comments because I wasn't being rude, I was just pointing out a fact (with no sort of "tone"). I then told him that I wasn't being rude and that he volunteered for this position but was not doing anything to "serve me". Then I got frusterated and told him "well, thanks for your help" (this time I did use a tone) and hung up. In the midst of the conversation, he told me that generally these types of problems should be e-mailed (which was not stated anywhere on the HOA website). The last time I tried to e-mail them with a problem, I never got a response, so I didn't think this was a good solution, but I did it anyway. I made sure that the whole board knows that he insulted me over the phone AND that I think it is dumb that nobody knows how to use the system (although I used a little bit more eloquent of words). Anyway, that is the sad story of my iPod. I hope I get it back. :(
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