Journey

I saw this on Facebook this morning and thought it was a good quote for my Journey.

Backing up Files, technology and all that stuff

As I write this I have two laptops open.  I am on a mission to get all the photos and files of the old laptop and reset it  so that Phil can use it while I am away.   I’m not silly when it comes to computers but I am also not a genius and I think I know where my limitations are.   HA!  I know what I know and try to learn what I don’t know – if I understand it!  Understand me??? lol  Not sure I understand myself!

Anyway – I have previously brought 2 external back up drives.  One I backed up before we moved here (three years ago) and have lots of photos and files on it.  Stuff I couldn’t replace.  This stopped working – it was run by power and then plugged into the USB drive.  I thought I was unlucky so didn’t worry too much but felt bummed that I had photos on it.  So I got another one so that I could back up my photos and files.  This time I went for another make.  Could I be unlucky twice???  Oh yes!  I was!  I have had it sitting on the desk and working for at least a year or so.  I had to reset my computer and put all the files from there onto the external drive late October – some of the photos I hadn’t printed for my PL album but I thought nah it would be fine – I couldn’t be unlucky for a second time – could I??  Oh Yes!  I was!  I took it to Rotorua where we went for a weekend away thinking it was a bit of a break and I would be able to get some down time to fiddle with some photos and sort the ones I wanted but the time was busy and when I did get some time I feel asleep.  Ha!

So after we got home I found some me time to sort the photos but I couldn’t find the cord for the drive – did I tell you that am I useless with cords???  Oh Phil would lol.  I have so many computer cords, camera cords, printer cords, usb cords – you know all that stuff.  Well I went through them all and found what I thought was the plug.  Um no, that one wouldn’t work, neither would that one – and that one over there… nup… that one didn’t work either.   Ah – it happened again.  I couldn’t get my photos off the drive.  I decided not to stress too much and it has sat on the desk.

My BIL Gary came this weekend and I asked him to have a look.  Nah… he couldn’t get them to work either.  But he can take them and look at them and see what he could do.  Great I said – all I want in the photos and files off them, not worried if you have to break into them.

So what is the point of this post?  To tell you that I am NEVER  AGAIN going to buy an external hard drive that needs to run with a power supply.

I had a small USB powered one and gave it to Gary so that he could put the files he can get off on to that one and today I brought another one so that I can back up and reset the computer that Phil will use.

So that is why I sit here with both computers open and one copying to a USB POWERED portable drive.

Stupid technology!  Ha!

And YES you do need to back up!!!!

 

Yes…he is…

Rebecca took this photo of me and this quote I like just fitted it perfectly.  I don’t normally share my beliefs but I am sure you will still love me anyway!

Journey – 2012

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”

Journey - A process or course likened to traveling; a passage: the journey of life

Last year I decide that I would do Ali Edwards – One Little Word – my word last year was Change and I had lots of ideas and thoughts about what I would do for that word.  However my Little Word took a bit of a meaning on it’s own and I ended up with a totally different Change to the one I had intended.  But that was Ok.  I still need to do my original Change – heck that change kept growing with me as the year went on – literally – I never lost the change I wanted.  But the Change I ended up with helped me to get back some of my sparkle in other ways.

This year’s One Little Word is also a word of its own.  JOURNEY.  Yes 2012 begins a journey for me.  I’ll probably not do a album for my word – this word will just be with me as I go through the year.  I have many changes to go with my Journey – my family will be joining me on this journey and it won’t be easy on anyone – particularly the next six months.

But I am looking forward to My Journey!

 

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2012!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

 

Hope everyone has had a great Christmas.  We didn’t get up to much but did go over to the Mount on Boxing Day for a walk and a picnic.  It was a lovely day for it and so many people out and about.

I notice that I haven’t been here in sometime and I am sure that most of you have stopped reading but I don’t really have any excuses.  Lazy I guess.

I think most of you know via Facebook that I have been accepted in the Bachelor of  Nursing course in Hawkes Bay.  I applied to both HB and Rotorua and got into both so had to make the decision as to which one to go for.  We have a lot of family in HB so decided that the support and love that comes from family is something that we have been missing over the last few years that we would move back to HB.  Phil will stay here for six months to finish the contract we have here and then follow in June hopefully with another dairy farm job in HB.  I will go and stay with mum and dad along with Callum and Rebecca.  James starts at Taratahi in January so we have lots of changes ahead of us for 2012.  Bit nerve racking but we will get there!

The week that was…

so it’s been a good week.

Rebecca went to snow camp on Tuesday

Yes that’s her in the fluro green…lol…I picked the wet weather gear up for $17 and she was not so happy that it was so bright but at least we can see her in the pictures!

She had a great time and in response to a question asked by Phil’s cousin Raewyn on Facebook she said this about camp

hahaha it was so fun i had a great time and miss my family sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much i got the hang of it really fast on happy valley and the next day we went to hutt flat and i had my lesson and we skied with out poles and that was easy i finally got the hang of going down the hill parallel and turing parallel instead of in pizza i was awesome

By the look of the photos she has taken they all look like they had a great time.

We have one cow left to calve and mating starts today.

Yesterday we put on the Kamars and I was there to take pictures as well as help!

And for those that are not farmy people we put these on and when another cow rides the cow it breaks the pod inside and turns red so that we can tell if the cow is in heat and ready to be AI’d.

I got another two layouts done.

These are for Scrapook Dreams Challenge and my friend Vicki was guest designer this month.  Check out Vicki’s blog her work is amazing!

First Challenge was a sketch challenge.

and then the next challenge was something NEW

I did it about my new friends I made at Scrapbook Dreams Retreat

Callum and his mate have gone off to feed meal to the calves, Phil has gone to take James and Pania to Tauranga so I might try to get some jobs done while they are out and about.

Thanks for visiting!

Retreat Pages

While at the Retreat we did three classes with Shell.

First Class

I called this ‘It’s all Relative’

This is a picture of my two sisters Jo and Deb, Me and then my Cousin Craig who had come over from Perth for Grandmas Funeral.

Craigs mum and dad are mum and dads brother and sister – ie Mums Sister married dads brother – complicated huh!  When I was growing up I used to say that genetically I had another brother and sister – Maree and Craig – as they had the same family lines as we did.

Second Class

Graduation photos – I loved the photo of all the girls that sat together laughing – we were just missing Suzy!

Class three

I used the flip side of the paper for this one.  Its of Grandma and Grandad for their 50th wedding anniversary.

Challenge Pack Challenge

I call this my OMG…layout because one of the ladies at camp was looking around at everyone’s work and came to me and said OMG!!! then her friend came over to and said ‘I’ve come to look at the OMG! layout’

In the pack was some diamond dust which I used on the hats.  It’s a fun layout that I enjoyed doing and the hats made me do it lol.

And some other pages I did while at camp

Thanks for looking!

Challenge Me Happy Challenge

I’ve taken part in this months challenge over at Challenge Me Happy.  My scrapbooking attempts have been few and far between lately  but after the Retreat I have been feeling like scrapping.

The challenge this fortnight is a BOM challenge. BOM in the scrap world is short for “book of me”. Us scrapbookers tend to scrap about everyone and everything else BUT ourselves, so the BOM pages are a way  to leave something behind that describes US – the people behind the pages.

 

So for this challenge we want you to create something about YOU and the theme is fun/funny.

 

For example:
What is funny about you, what do you do or say that makes someone else laugh?
Tell us a story where something funny happened to you?
Maybe you have a quality that others find weird or funny, what is it?

 

So here is my take on the challenge.

Let your Inner Princess Shine.

I’ve got a hidden journalling tag too.

And the journalling reads

Funny Stuff

I sometimes snort when I laugh which makes others laugh.  Rebecca and Phil will then say ‘the piggies are coming’.

I once took a drink from my glass and someone said something funny and it all came out again all over them.

I have always laughed and giggled.  My Grandma used to find it amusing and would say ‘Laugh at this would Ya’ and she would wiggle her finger at me.

 

What makes you smile?

or in my case laugh!  

This quote sums it up

You just can’t beat being in a room full of magnificent souls, creating together and laughing and making new friends… Teesha Moore

 

This past weekend I drove the quick 3/4 hour to Rotorua to attend the Scrapbook Dreams Retreat.  I decided to go early so that I could go and see The Help which was playing at 11am.  It was the first time I had rocked up to the movies on my own!  I had read the book before and loved it… I also loved the movie… I laughed and yes sat there with a tear or two rolling down my cheeks too.

Well worth going to see.

 

The retreat started at 4pm so after a little shopping I went out to Keswick where it was being held.  I knew a couple of ladies going but they weren’t there when I arrived.  I settled my gear and then went around the tables to put out my ‘swap’.  As I got around to one lady she said to me ‘Nicki’? Yes that’s right ‘I’m Brenda – a friend said you would be here’ ‘So I sat and chatted to her for while until Jane arrived – she didn’t know that  Brenda would be there and got a great surprise.  Brenda it turned out was a surprise for a few ladies!

What a wonderful bunch of ladies.  Everyone was so friendly !

Shell you did a wonderful job of organising the retreat and taking the classes.  Thank you so much!

Jane and I shared a room.  I met Jane earlier in the year at AE as she was on the next table over from me.

Talk about laugh…Jane was such a great roomie and scrapping buddy!  Jane, Brenda and I all got on really well our little space in the hall may well  have been one of the noisiest!

It was lovely to catch up with Lainie again and meet her sister and neice.  *Waves hello to Lainie*

Saturday night we had a veil and tiara night, where I got a prize for my pink wig!

As you can see we also had a lot of fun!

Thanks girls for being so down to earth!

Wee aplogies to Jane for any noises made in the night (or during the day he he) and for the impromptu shower!