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Public restrooms – can’t stand them!

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We are the proud new owners of an HDTV. Our first Plasma! We got it on Saturday after a three week wait for the back ordered TV and we’ve been watching just about everything we can ever since!

Any other Plasma owners out there? A few people tried to discourage us from getting a plasma because they tend to work best in dark rooms, but the one we got (a Samsung PN50B850) has quite a bright picture and the room we put it in, our living room, is on the North side of the house so it’s never very bright.

We love it so far.

What I didn’t love was the wait at the store when we went to pick up the new TV. My husbands cousin kindly met us at the store with his SUV so he could help us get our new TV home and once we got in the store we had to wait for the salesman that we’d been dealing with for about an hour. Sure, I could have been served by someone else, but he’d redone our bill so our warranty would start on the day we picked up the TV rather than when we’d paid for it three weeks before and there was a mistake on the bill so I had to talk to him.

While we were waiting I had to use the washroom at the store. That’s one thing I dislike doing … using public washrooms. I don’t know why … well … ok, the fact that most of them are dirty and smelly is probably the main reason. Oh and I hate using the type of hand dryers where you have to push the button to start it. I’d rather use the ones that just start automatically. With the push button ones I kind of feel like i have to wash my hands again or use Purell to clean them.

Hey I’m a nurse and I know how many germs are out there sitting on things!

So – do you cringe when you have to use a public washroom too or am I just a little too much of a germaphobe?

Nokia has a free maps application for their cell phones

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I was reading a fellow bloggers blog yesterday and I learned that Nokia has come out with a new free map service for their cell phones isn’t that great?

It’s called Ovi and as far as I can tell it’s a simple application download. It’s a navigation map application so you can get easy driving or walking instructions.

I checked it out yesterday at maps.nokia.com and it works for most of their cell phones, but naturally, it doesn’t seem to work on my older 2007 Nokia smart phone.

My phone still works great and I got it for free in a marketing promotion … but lately I have been thinking of getting a newer phone so I can take advantage of some of the cool applications like this one.

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?

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