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I think I need a new printer

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I tried to use my printer the other day and I think there’s something wrong with it. It seems like the alignment is all off and naturally it’s running out of ink!

I tried running the alignment feature but it didn’t help so now I’m trying to decide if I should spend money on ink for a machine that might not work properly or if perhaps once it has fresh ink if it will suddenly start working properly again. What do you think?

In the meantime I’ve been looking around online for a printer with features that I like. Our current one is a scanner, copier, fax machine and printer. I’d love to get another one that has all of those features. I don’t fax often, but I’m sure if I got a printer without a fax I’d suddenly need to fax out a signed contract or something.

One printer that caught my eye was the tm-t88iv It’s a thermal printer so it’s way more than I need for my home office, but it sure looks nice. I think I’ll be sticking to traditional models for now.

Any printer suggestions or any idea as to how to solve my printers alignment problem? It’s an HP BTW if that’s important.

Time to start planning for a vacation

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Winter, blah! I think it’s time to start planning a vacation.

My husband and I haven’t been on a real vacation in ages. We always had an excuse for not taking a vacation – we were both working shift work and our schedules didn’t correspond for even a weekend get away, we didn’t have the money for a holiday or who will take care of our pets?

Enough excuses! I need holiday! Even if it’s only a few days away from home.

We live in Toronto so it’s easy enough to go just about anywhere we want. I’d been thinking of taking up one of those hotel deals in Niagara Falls for a weekend. Some of the hotels there are pet friendly so we could even bring our dog! Or maybe look into booking a new york cheap hotel for a weekend, well, if we could get a cheap flight to New York I mean.

I’d love to go away to the Caribbean or Mexico for a week or two, but I don’t think we can swing that right now … so maybe one or two short trips away will have to do. I’m sure it will help!

Do you go on holiday during the winter or in early spring? Doesn’t it help break up those winter blahs?

Following people with similar interests on Twitter

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Do you use Twitter? If you do, did you make a short bio for your account?

I made a bio and in it I list that I’m an ER nurse. I didn’t get too many followers at first via listing that fact, as more people decided to follow me because I’d listed gardening and photography and dog owner in my bio as well.

Lately though I’m getting a lot of friend requests form RN organizations, fellow nurse and even some medical travel types of businesses.

I don’t talk about being a nurse on my blogs or on my Twitter account very often – mainly because I’ve been on medical leave from my work for about five years now due to Crohn’s disease. I’m sure I’d talk more about it if I were back to working regular shifts.

I do like connecting with fell ow nurses on Twitter as I can keep up on some things that are going on in the field. Even though most of my Twitter nurse friends are in the US and I’m in Canada there are a lot of similarities in our practices.

Do you connect with people in your profession or via things you’ve listed in your bio on Twitter?

I can’t get over this head cold

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I’m so ready for this head cold I have to be over!

I don’t think anyone likes having a cold, but I haven’t had one for about fifteen years and I guess the fact that I haven’t had to go through this at least once a year has made it even harder to bear now that I do have a head cold. LOL

I blame my brother! He was here just after Christmas and he was supposed to be over his cold, but it came back just as he arrived and about two weeks after he left to go back home both my husband and I started getting the sniffles.

So I guess I’ve had the sniffles for two weeks, but my cold started to really get bad not this past Monday but the Monday before that. I spent all of last week in misery. My cold was so bad! My nose wouldn’t stop running. I think I used about three boxes of tissues last week – enough to cover all the tile in my kitchen I think! Yeah – gross.

Now this week my symptoms are better than there were last week, but I’ve got a cough and I’m starting to have bad fevers so I’m wondering if my cold is going to turn into bronchitis or pneumonia. God I hope not!

I always get really sick for about a month when I get a cold. Like I said, my husband had the sniffles too and then his cold symptoms got worse for about two days and then he was pretty much over it except for some minor sniffles.

I’ve been taking decongestants and even tried using a nasal spray last week (the nasal spray didn’t help so I’m not using it now). The medicines didn’t help much at all.

How do you handle a cold when you get one? Do you take medications and then feel a lot better after a day or so, or area you like me and stay sick for weeks?

We should have our new Plasma TV on Saturday!

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I’m so excited! We just got word that the new TV that we bought about three weeks ago will be in the store on Friday! Yeah! We can finally pick it up!

I can’t wait!

Our Samsung DLP is dying. I guess I’m lucky that I have a husband that believes me when I tell him something isn’t working or is acting funny … why? Well our TV started acting up about a month ago. Of course the picture only froze and went to black and white pixilation after midnight when my husband was already asleep in bed.

I look up the problem on the internet and discovered that it’s probably the DMD board that’s causing the trouble. Unfortunately that will cost us about a thousand dollars to fix and we’ve already put more than enough money into this TV in the six years that we’ve owned it. So at my word that our TV is dying my husband and I went out and bought a new Plasma TV.

However, if my husband wasn’t sure about the problem our DLP has, he’s sure of it now. At about 7:30 this evening the TV screen froze and my husband finally got to see the problem himself.

Anyway … we hope to pick up our TV on Friday evening – or Saturday morning. It all depends on our friend with a truck.

Once we get the new TV I’m going to have fun playing with it. It’s a very thin Plasma (a Samsung 8 series) and it comes with all the bells and whistles. I believe it even has built in wifi. If it does great, because we have a network set up with our Linksys router. Who knows, maybe next week I’ll be typing out these posts using my new TV as a monitor? LOL

Do you have a Plasma? We thought about getting an LCD but we really liked the picture quality of the Plasma and they apparently last as long as LCD’s so as far as I can tell it comes down to a matter of preference and of course how bright the room that you’ll be putting the TV in is. Our living room is on the north side of the house and it’s never very bright so we think the plasma will be fine.

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