Beautiful weather and my crappy laptop!

Yesterday was a beautiful day here in upstate NY. 70 degrees, sun was shining. Beautiful!! We had the kids outside most of the afternoon and evening, until we went to the store. We went to to Tops and did REALLY well on sales.

Today is supposed to be just as nice. Dh will be gone for a while - he's at the mall taking the defensive driving course. This will save us some money on insurance. When he gets home we will be walking to Family Dollar to look at cell phone chargers for the car. They have LG ones that I think will fit our Net10 phones for $6. They come with 3 different tips so we will only have to buy one if it works with both phones.

Speaking of spending more money..... grrrrrr... I ordered a new keyboard for my laptop yesterday. My keyboard is just beyond repair. My pgDn button doesn't sit there right. Those little white pieces that go under the buttons are just a big pain in the butt. I'm missing one for down key and the one for my space bar broke. I found a new keyboard on Ebay for around $18 including tax (some other places wanted close to $30) and now I just have to wait to get it. Then the fun part will be trying to put it in, but at least I have a manual for that so I should be able to do it.

I've had this laptop a little over a year and it's a piece of crap. My husband bought a refurbished Gateway and it's awesome (it's what I am using right now because of my keyboard). Maybe it's because of all the stuff I added to mine. I don't know. I've tried to restore it several times and it never works. So, this summer, after my classes are done, my big project will be to get all the pictures on CD and copy everything. Then I will be restoring it back to factory standards. Putting it all back in will be a chore also. Then, hopefully, the laptop will work and run better (the thing is just so slow right now). Maybe then I will be able to put off getting a new laptop for several years!