Mar 07
Everyone,
Several times a week, my friend Lolli comes over to my house and we dance our hearts out with Just Dance 2 on the Wii. Seriously, a more fun game I have not played since Rock Band. Plus! It gets us up and moving and sweating. Makes us feel like we are exercising or something.
She came over this afternoon and we didn’t start dancing till almost 45 minutes later. Why so long you ask? We were talking about apps! She got an Iphone and has been showing me so many cool apps that I just have to try! What are my favorite? Here’s a list.
Pocket Frogs: They are cute. They come in loads of different colors and patterns. You can hop them around and eat flies and such. Best of all? They never die or have consiquences for being unhappy.
Instagram: Lolli showed this to me at the church pot luck last night and I’ve been playing with it ever since. It’s pictures taken from your iphone (or ipod touch) and sent to flickr, facebook, twitter, etc. Now I have an excuse to take even more pictures!
Grocery iQ: I like this because it allows me to actually have a running list from the 7 or so stores I shop at. Plus, it calculates my totals. Oh, and if I used coupons, it would track those too!
WeReward: Who doesn’t like earning a few dollars on the side? This one is great, and I’ve already earned a little over a dollar in 2 days.
CheckPoints: This is also a great way to earn a few bucks on the side. Although, I find it slow and kind of hard when I don’t have the actual iphone and it’s data plan. Still, I can earn a few bucks and have! And if you sign up with bonus code: Safirecat you get $1. Not a whole lot, but every little bit helps, right?!
What are your favorite apps?
Safire
Safirecomputers apps
Nov 22
Everyone,
Today I had plans to share with you a picture off of my camera for Sunday Pictures. I got out my camera, started to download the pictures and then started to tear my hair out. My computer crashed AGAIN. Seriously, I have crashed this mac twice in 3 ro 4 months. NOT COOL.
So, no pictures for you today. Sorry!
All evening I spent trying to empty my trash, throw away all my downloaded stuff, and get the computer actually doing anything. After taking 3 hours to get that done, I got the back up disk to start running. So it’s currently backing up over 1 million things on my computer. That’s right…my computer is full. I now have the lovely task of deleting all my duplicate pictures (yes, still doing that!) and organizing them into months/years and putting them on my external hard drive. If I have any room left after the over 1 million things. Once I get them on that hard drive, I’m erasing them from my computer all together. This makes me nervous because I don’t want to loose them but I have to have the computer running! (Currently I’m using Juice’s computer to type this. I am delaying some online game play with his family BUT he is doing the dishes so I call it a win/win situation. 
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So instead of pictures, I give you a question and answer:
The Multiples and More blog asks a question of the week and I thought I’d answer it this week. The question is:
What do you do with your Thanksgiving leftovers?
It was an easy answer for me: make turkey puffs! Now what are Turkey Puffs you ask? They are Juice’s favorite dinner. This is the one we only have this time of year and he looks forward to it starting right after my birthday in September. Want the recipe? Okay!
Turkey Puffs
2 cups cooked and cut up turkey
1 block cream cheese
1/4 tsp pepper
2-3 green onions, chopped
2-3 packages of frozen cresent rolls
milk
dry stuffing
Prehead oven to 350 degrees. Mix together the cream cheese, the turkey, peper, and green onions. (We leave the green onions out for a few for Butterfly.) Open the cresent rolls and put a small spoonful on the roll. Seal it up so it looks like a pillow. Roll in milk then roll it in the stuffing. (Again, we leave that part our for Butterfly). Place on cookie sheet and cook for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with leftover turkey gravy or cranberry sauce. We prefer the cranberry sauce.
Last year I also made soup out of the turkey carcass in my crock pot. It didn’t turn out as well as I hoped it would. I found it was bitter. I may use the first part of the recipe here to make broth and then just use it in place of chicken broth in my regular cooking.
Otherwise the plan is for some turkey sandwiches and mini turkey dinners for Juice’s lunch.
This year, I got smart(er) and I am not making a big turkey for the 5 of us on Thanksgiving. Juice leaves the Monday after Thanksgiving for a week and I’m always left with a huge pile of leftover food that I just won’t eat throughout the week. So we are saving our big turkey for sometime near Christmas and just making a turkey breast this year. Besides, then I can make the Turkey Puffs for Juice!
Safire
Safirecomputers, cooking, Thanksgiving 2009
Aug 30
Everyone,
So I think I am finally back and running with my lapple. Of course, it took almost 5 hours at the apple store to get it fixed. Wanna know the problem? My hard drive was so full it didn’t have enough memory to boot. Wow. I learned a lot about my apple at the store with Genius Mike (whom I spent his entire shift with). Did you know that apples make copies of files when you move them in case they get corrupted with the move? I didn’t. Which proved to be my downfall.
I have over 7,000 pictures on my computer. That’s not counting the home movies I’ve taken of the kids too. I took these pictures from the time I got my camera (Christmas 2007) till now. Last week when my lapple died, it crashed because of something iphoto did. And then when I opened iphoto again, my pictures were gone. I was on the phone with my mom at the time and she can tell you I freaked out just a little bit. That’s a lot of history to be completely gone! Good thing my dad was able to talk me back from the ledge and helped me find all my pictures. Good, good.
I then tried to put my pictures back in iphoto. It crashed again. Again, no pictures were there. Again, I tried to put them in there, and another crash. This time it crashed hard and I couldn’t get it to start. Genius Mike ended up starting it from his portable hard drive and we found out there was no space on my hard drive. I had to buy another portable hard drive and back up my music and erase it. I erased all of my movies (that I own in hard copy). I erased all of my downloaded stuff (not sad about that one, really.) and there still wasn’t enough space to reinstall my operating system. We tried to back up my pictures to erase those but it would have taken 4 hours to do. Ouch.
We finally were able to get it going, and he warned me it would be very slow until I moved some stuff off of my hard drive. Once I got it up and running (about 5 times the normal speed) I decided to start with my pictures and get them backed up as soon as possible.
Did you know that apple saves things as you move them around? I just said that right? Well, I had no less than 9 copies of EACH PICTURE. Meaning I had around 63,000 pictures on my hard drive. Now I wonder where all my space went!
Juice and I have been taking turns going through each picture one by one and deleting all the copies. If there’s an easier way, please let me know! We are only up to picture 105. Most pictures had 14-18 copies. Once I got through about 75 pictures had had over 3,000 files deleted, suddenly my lapple starts running the way it should.
I’m going to try and be better about writing since I seem to be out of the habit but if you don’t hear from me, I’m buried under all my thousands and thousands of pictures. At least this way they are getting super organized. Just in time for me to get going on scrap booking again! (Lolli, you up for at least getting what you’ve got done?!) These poor boys don’t have baby books yet and I want to get those started and the first year done at least.
Picture 106, me looking very pregnant and sick but showing off my belly and trying to be happy. March of 2008, because that’s what the calendar behind me says. So I was about a month away from delivery. I was going to put the picture up for you guys to see but I really really don’t want to. See here for a picture near that time.
Juice just calculated out how long this should take me to delete all the duplicates. Plus or minus 60 hours. Or 60 days if I do it for an hour a day. 2 months! Yay! So I should have it done by Halloween at least. Lucky me.
Safire
Safirecomputers, lapple
Aug 26
Everyone,
I had big plans for this week. I basically had nothing going on during the day (except for Monday, another post another time) and I thought I would get caught up on my pictures, blog, laundry, everything. I figured I could do what I could while the kids were happy and work hard while they napped. (Boys are back on 2 naps a day…yay and boo at the same time.)
Last week my photo application on my lapple crashed and so I was trying to find all my pictures on my hard drive and redo my iphoto. Well, on Monday I was in the middle of that and it crashed again. But this time EVERYTHING crashed. It’s hard to crash a Mac and I think I did it. Once I got it to turn back on, all it showed up with was a no symbol. You know, the kind of thing they put over Ps so you won’t park there. Or over pictures of cigarettes so you won’t smoke there. It was like my lapple was telling me to just not go there and let it die.
One tiny problem. Those pictures I was trying to find? All on this lapple. I was planning on asking for an external hard drive for Christmas so I could back things up. I think this crash is 4 months too early. I have nothing backed up.
I spent the morning afternoon all day with my dad on the phone trying to get it to work. Any kind of work. I went ahead and bought an external hard drive so we could maybe boot my computer from that to get my information off before we wiped it. No such luck. The hard drive wouldn’t even format so back it goes to the store.
I now have an appointment with the geniuses at Apple on Saturday to try and get this thing worked out. I’d be crushed if my computer has died beyond resussitation but I’ll be a howling ball of tears if I loose all those pictures.
I may not be on the computer much in the next few days. I’m using Juice’s computer right now and it’s giving me fits too. I’m mad at technology.
Safire
Safirecomputers, lapple
