So, if you
follow me on twitter, you all know that I did get the new laptop I
mentioned last week. It took some finagling with my finances and borrowing money from my dad (twice!), but I was able to purchase my
Macbook Pro
on Friday. Its a good thing too, because they're closed on weekend and only open until 4:30 on weekdays, so with student teaching, it'd make it hard to find the time to get to the computer store on campus to buy it. I was so thrilled that they even had it in stock! When I bought my first MacBook back in '06, and when Dad bought his, we had to order them, wait a few days, and then pick them up at a warehouse across campus. I had my laptop within 5 minutes of walking into the store and was home and turning it on within 10.
Its AMAZING. I love it. Its everything Ive ever wanted in a laptop. The graphics are AMAZING. Just looking at my desktop background blows me away. LED man, I'm telling you, its great. It also has a NVIDIA graphics card, which doesnt mean a whole lot to me, because I know very little about technology, but it definitely makes everything look pretty! Especially
Sims 3
. I can play Sims 3 on it!!! And it runs SO well. No lags, no skipping, no pixelated looking images. AND I can hear everything on it. My Macbook had such terrible sound. I took an online class and had to listen to the videos with headphones in because the sound was so quiet and muffled. With this, I can play music on it and hear it clearly from the bathroom. (TMI? Haha)
Best part... Danny bought me
Sims 3 World Adventures
Friday night. Yay!!! I've been playing SO much. Im addicted. Again. Its probably the best expansion they've ever come out with. I read somewhere that it was more like a sequel than an expansion, and this is true. Its like a game within a game. After I got it,
Heather decided that she needed it as well, so in true Ashes and Heather style, we've been BBMing our Sim adventures back and forth.
I've found it most interesting to play with one character. So I created Hannah Meyers and made her travel all over the "world", completing adventures and such. Then I decided to stir things up a bit. Oh Hannah Meyers, such a home wrecker. I had her start a thing with Serge Ruelle, in France. He had a girlfriend and 3 children with her. And now he's married to Hannah. Whoops. So, where I left off, he moved to "America" (? What else am I going to call it?) to live with Hannah, and they're expecting a baby. Im hoping I can get Hannah back to Egypt before her bump shows so she can complete an adventure for her French visa. As soon as she gets all 3 levels, Im going to buy them a house in France so they can be around Serge's three kids. (Wow, am I into this or what?? Haha)
ANYWAYS, I want to introduce all of you to a new blogger!! His name is Jared and we've been online friends FOREVER. Since I was 15 or 16 I think. He just started a new blog called
JPark Avenue. (We did LiveJournal and made our own websites way been when.) Go give him so blog love!