Livin high and takin it easy

I love my Mac, even if I have yet to actually get the most out of it. See, I have been a PC user ever since I can remember, which is basically back when my eldest sister Girlie got her own computer for her BS Computer Science course at the Ateneo de Naga in 1993. Uh no, she didn’t get a computer until 1996 or 1997 – and I was in high school by then.

So this is my first ever Mac and I actually thought I would never get to own one as there are so many other so much cheaper laptops out there. Since this Mac is expensive, it is but natural for me to want to take care of it in all ways imaginable, like buying a track pad protector, which I did last weekend and cost me P395 for a thing such as a small piece of transparent sticker.

I had been looking all over for a keyboard protector for the past month. I was told there is a cheap one for P50 at CDR King but I have been to all the nearest branches and I have been told it is out of stock. Resigned on acquiring a very cheap protector, I decided it was time to go to Apple stores. I went to the A Store in Eastwood Mall last weekend but I was told they are also out-of-stock.

So today, I decided it was time to go to Amazon.

I spent a considerabel amount of time looking for and comparing skins, from the most expensive and the nicest-looking like the ones on the iSkin store..

Dragon Fly ProTouch Vibes for MacBook/Air/Pro — $34.99 USD

The 8-copy boxed set of Sookie Stackhouse novels arrived today at about three in the afternoon. Boy, that was fast considering that I only made it known that I wanted it six days ago. I am quite impressed now with Amazon and UPS. Ryan was really sweet to purchase it for me, a good chunk off his Amazon GC which he got from speaking at the blog conference at Trend Micro. We had initially thought it was going to get here, since the warehouse is in Canada, early to mid-November but the shipping which I believe had cost him an additional $9.00, had been fast and efficient and he had actually given me, excitedly of course, with an update of where the package was almost everyday.

I had actually plowed through the first five novels in its pdf form in a record time of two days, an activity which gave me a bad eyesore, like my eyeballs were gonna pop out of their sockets at any minute, much to my regret. Ryan had said, “Buti nga sayo,” to which I could do nothing more but concur. Gosh, I guess I have really missed reading much.

Lia too had excitedly plowed through the package.

Mad scramble over Puglee to get to the books

She had shown her appreciation too by giving the boxed set a good lick-through.

Lick it good!

Can I have these someday?

If I knew how to use the Photoshop more than adjust curves and levels, I would have made her saliva in this photo the color of red, just to go with the theme.

True Saliva

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As a side-note, this morning we finally made it to our new pediatrician, whom I have found that I liked very much. True, she was two hours late for her clinic hours in Marikina, saying she could not get away from St. Luke’s fast enough and had made Ryan miss his lunch meeting with his German boss who is in the country (a thing I am more than sorry and embarrassed for). It is a Monday after all. We did not make it to the clinic last Saturday as Ryan had been sick the entire weekend. It had been really hard going around without a car since we have not heard from the mechanics yet, and we had to take taxis back and forth. It was really difficult to find a cab in the sweltering, relentless midday sun and I actually found myself at one point sitting in the curb, the heavy, sleeping Lia in my aching arms. (I was tempted to hold out my hands and say, “Palimos po.”) We finally got home, exhausted, only to find out that the cell phone I had in my shorts pocket had slipped off and had been, I believe, left in the backseat of the taxi. My point here I suppose is, I have lost my cell phone, the almost 500 contacts I have in my phone book and my Globe number which I have had for I-cant-remember-how-many years. Gosh, it might still even be the sim card that went with my N-Gage phone which I purchased in 2003.

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Dracu-LIA