photo credit: Guillermo Esteves

About two weeks ago I bought a new memory card for my camera. I hadn’t opened the package or attempted to use it until today when I filled up my other memory card. So I open it and stuck it in my camera. I go to format it and it gives me a bunch of errors. WTF!!!

How the heck can a new card be so messed up?? I tried formatting over and over again, and still nothing. It just keeps giving me “CARD ERROR” … “CARD ERROR” … “CARD ERROR“. Talk about being annoying!! So I now have to go and print out my invoice since I bought it online at FutureShop and return the damn thing. Seriously…I hate when shit like this happens. What a pain in the ass!!

Maybe I’m doing something incorrectly?? I don’t know…I haven’t gotten a new card since I got my camera a few years ago. Aren’t you just suppose to put the card in and then format it?? Isn’t that what you’re suppose to do?? Please correct me if I’m wrong because I’m ticked that it won’t work and it’s a 2GB card. *sigh* … now I have to hang tight with my 1GB for the time being which gets full way too fast!!

photo credit: SqueakyMarmot

Somebody, please help me out. I am spending way too much money and I just can’t seem to get a grip. I know one of my resolutions was to try to cut my spending both online and off, but I just haven’t managed that yet.

I just paid a $500 credit card bill today. Then I come home after of course going shopping and spending $200 at the mall…I go online and check my credit card balance prior to the $200.

Guess what…it is over $500 ALREADY!!! That’s not including the $200 I just spent, or some other things I put on the card that haven’t shown up yet. Seriously…what do you guys/gals do to control your spending?? Mine is outrageous!!! … and no… I don’t want to cut it up or get rid of it.

Once again, I’ve been thinking about the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year. I haven’t accomplished or even started one of the most important ones which was start to live a healthy and active lifestyle.

I don’t know why I haven’t got on the move on with this…really I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I have a job now that requires so many hours and there’s not enough time in a day to do everything. Maybe…or just that it has become one of the least of my worries.

Hopefully I can change this soon enough. I’m thinking about getting more exercise equipment at home to add with the gazelle I have. I want a elliptical or some sort of exercise bike that I can use for a good solid hour everyday. I even saw this cool thing called an ab roller at Wal-Mart for about $100 that seems worthwhile.

I’ll probably by some more equipment soon enough. Hum….tomorrow?? Maybe. LOL!

I’m not sure how many other fellow Canadians have airmiles, but I do. I absolutely love earning points and then being able to spend it on something worthwhile.

The one thing I would love to see added to the rewards are home theater popcorn machines. NOW that would be super cool!!!

I know you can easily buy them online or in the store, but getting them for FREE is much better LOL!! Oh well, for now I’ll just have to waste my airmile rewards on other things.

It’s almost February already. Can you believe it? Pretty soon we’ll slide past spring and into the warm air of summer.

Of course that’s when your gardening gloves come on and you start working around the clock to beautify your garden or backyard. Well, it’s that way at my else anyways.

My mother loves decorating our backyard with flowers, vegetables, fruit trees, and of course other lawn decorations. The one thing I noticed that we don’t have is a birdbath fountain.

I saw some awesome ones which you can read more about. I especially like this one in the picture off to the side. It would really go with the rest of the decorations we have. Plus, my neighbour has a bird house on his fence, and we always have bird around. Then they can come and bath in the birdbath whenever they want.

Hum…what’s the next occasion for my mom. Mother’s Day. Maybe I’ll get that for her as a gift then. Heehee…I KNOW she’ll love it!!

As most of you know, I enjoy reading quite a bit. I even have a website dedicated to book reviews and upcoming books I want to read. You can find it in my links in the sidebar.

Where do I buy most of my books? Online of course! It’s so simple to search whatever book you want and find it easily. I usually use Amazon so it’s always nice when there are Amazon coupons I can use. It makes shopping for books even more fun!! LOL!

I am currently reading a few different books and have many more in a line up to read next. I guess I better read a few chapters and hurry the heck up on this book I’ve been reading here and there for the past month. Yeah…I know…it should only take two weeks max to read a book but I’ve been busy with work.

Oh well…time to catch up before February hits. I have a whole list of other books I need to buy.

One store I love shopping at in my city is Canadian Tire. They have the coolest auto accessories ever!!

Once I purchase my own car, I’m totally going to pimp it out with a Hello Kitty steering wheel and maybe even pink interior.

I can just see it now. LOL! … yes I love Hello Kitty enough that I’d even put it in my car. Come on, I’ve seen other people put Taz or smiley faces everyone, so why not Hello Kitty too. Hahaha…that would be fun!