Wednesday, April 15, 2009

leave of absence

So my laptop died.  Well, my power supply died.  It sucks, because unfortunately I am pretty computer-dependant for just about everything from keeping in touch with people to balancing my checkbook.  So John, being the sweetheart he is, let me borrow one of his laptops (he has at least 3 now).  It is actually his newest one, an "Eee PC" that is the smallest laptop I have ever seen (he got it specifically for some robotics projects he wants to work on).  It is about the size of a portable dvd player if you have ever seen one of those.  It is very hard to type on such a small keyboard (especially because I do not have small hands or fingers) so I have to type really slow and I get frustrated pretty quickly.  I think I am actually getting used to it though.  I pulled out my laptop to take these comparison photos and I was thinking my laptop looks huge.

side by side

can you see the difference in keyboard size?

seriously so small, but it's kind of cute too

So hopefully the new power cord I ordered off ebay actually shows up from Hong Kong and hopefully it actually works.  In the meantime, I don't have access to any of my files, specifically photos, so blogging is not as fun.  I'm sure you all have been wondering what I have been up to ;-) 

In other news, I would like to find a new job.  So as soon as I can access my resume and such, I will officially be job searcing.  If any of my blogger friends hear of anything in the area of recreation, event planning, student services, youth programming, child care, or even office work...please let me know!  I would like it to be year-round and I want to stay in Utah, specifically the slc area, but I am open to just about anything right now.  Let's network people! 

:-)  Thanks!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Lake Powell house boat trip

Last week I was able to go to Lake Powell with some of my family to do a little house boating (earned a free trip working there last summer). The weather wasn't quite as warm as we hoped (we even had a snow storm!), but it was lots of fun and great to get away for a few days. I miss Lake Powell so much and I hope I get to go back soon! I wasn't my usual camera-happy self for some reason, but I did get a few + some from Matt and Uncle Phil, so check out the slide show for a few pics.