We just switched over to the new re-designed Casa de Blundell so go check it out and let us know what you think!

As most of you know, I’m supposed to graduate in May–I will be done! well, I took an art course at Dallas County Community college this past semester to satisfy my art credit and then transferred it to Midwestern State where I will be graduating from. Before I signed up for the class I double checked to make sure it would transfer to Midwestern and count for the art credit. Well, I got one answer and they said it would not….then later in the day they sent another answer saying it would. I asked again just to make sure and they said Yes, it would count. So I enrolled and completed my art course and then transferred the credit to MSU. I got a transcript evaluation this weekend in the mail, which they do whenever you transfer in credit hours, and it said “not accepted” by my art course! Well, the spring semester already started and I can’t enroll in another course….so basically I wouldn’t be able to graduate in May!!! Boy was I mad. I did find an online art appreciation course, which I know will transfer to MSU, at dallas county comm college and it starts in February–a short semester class. So I start that in February and it will transfer and I should still be able to graduate in May. DCCCD saving the day once again! Thank you DCCCD for your open enrollment courses–I love you!

If you know me at all, you know how much I absolutely love my apple laptop–my mac! It died! Let me begin by saying that I have converted back to PC from Mac as I type this on my new Dell laptop. I still love my mac and love the ease of using a mac vs. a PC, I’m an idiot when it comes to using a PC. This is how it all began ~ Thursday night I was on my ibook (mac laptop) and it froze, which is unusual–it’s not a PC so it never freezes. Anyway, I turned it off and then attempted to turn it back on, only it didn’t turn on–the computer tried to start because I could hear it but the screen was just black. I’ve had this happen to me twice before and each time it was because the logic board (motherboard for those PC users out there) had gone out. I’ve replaced 2 logic boards in this computer so I know what happens when it goes out. I knew the drill so I waited about 30 minutes and then turned it back on…it finally came on but there were funny little lines on the screen and then it froze again. I knew it was the logic board this time because that’s what happens. Well, I made an appointment with the “genius bar” at the mac store to have them look at it and basically tell me it would be $300 + to fix my 6 year old apple laptop. I didn’t mention earlier that the two previous replacements were free of charge to me because my computer was under warranty…the warranty was up now so I had to pay 🙁 . Well, my apt came up and I tookmy computer in to the doctor at the mac store and the guy there attempted to tell me my logic board was fine and it was the memory stick that I had put in 4 years ago. I just looked at him and laughed…I seriously laughed in his face. He told me to use the computer without the extra memory stick and it should be fine and if it gives me anymore problems to bring it back and they will replace the logic board…but he didn’t just say it–he said it with an attitude of I know what I’m talking about and you don’t because he works at the mac store! I said, well I’ll see you shortly then and walked out of the store with my broken computer. Needless to say an hour later I turned on my computer and the screen went haywire…there were all kinds of colored lines and squiggly things on the screen and I knew it was gone from that point on–the logic board was destroyed. Since that point I haven’t been able to turn on my computer at all and my beloved mac computer is gone!
This is where the expensive weekend started. School started yesterday and I have three classes (pretty time consuming classes I might add too) that are online so I kind of need my computer. Yes, Jonathan has his computer, but we all know how much he loves it and uses it so I couldn’t possibly ask him to give that up for an entire semester. So Friday night we went out and found me a nice computer. This is where the realization and morphing back to a PC user began. While I was sitting in the mac store waiting for the macidiot, sorry, mac “genius” to work on my computer I overheard a girl say she’s had 4 hard drives in her mac laptop in the last year and someone else who has had like 3 different things replaced in like 3 years…and then don’t even get me started on how many people where there with their ipods and iphones getting replacements because the broke. All that to say that while I may love my mac computer and the ease of using their software…their hardware STINKS…it breaks constantly and it’s extremely expensive to fix. Then I started looking at PC laptops and you get soo much more for your money with a PC. For example~my ibook was around $1100 (6 years ago but still that price) has 1GB memory and an 80GB hard drive. While the Dell laptop that I got has 2GB memory and 250GB hard drive and for under $750. And my ibook had a 12 inch screen and my new one is a nice 15.4 inch screen–so big in comparrisson. All this to say I got a new Dell laptop that I absolutely love and my mac days are over!