Happy Media Things

This weekend was good in many ways, (such as stake conference-games with friends-Jeremy was home ways) but it was a really good weekend for me media-wise. Anyone that knows me very well knows I'm happiest when I'm video editing, scrapbooking, journaling, anything like that. So it was an unhappy thing last week when my computer died. It had been dying slowly for months (ie "Your hard drive is failing. Back-up may be possible. Please back up immediately.") Yes, this dire warning has been showing up daily for about 9 months now. Not a happy thing, but I was getting a little bored waiting for it to actually happen (everything of importance was immediately saved to a 500 GB external drive during these last 8 months)... It was getting more and more difficult, and developing new problems every week, it seemed. So we finally tried to replace the hard drive, and failed. Well, the hard drive seemed to be working, but we couldn't get the computer to recognize any kind of Windows-installation disc. And our very-computer-literate friend failed too. And our old hard drive would not even think about running when we put it back in. My computer WAS nearly 4 years old, and I guess I just ran it into the ground. Sigh.

Happy, though: I had my eye on a very cost-effective replacement (a pre-built HP Pavilion - a6500f) and we found it at Office Max for $100 off the online HP Labor Day sale. So we decided to get it. Long story a little shorter: the computer is great. But my old Adobe Premiere 6.5 (my essential video-editing software) refused to run on my new 64-bit system. Panic, terror, depression. Buy very expensive (but it was time for it, I guess) upgrade: happiness! Confusion (trying to figure out a very new interface), but happiness. It came through Fed-Ex Friday. And Saturday I got my digital scrapbook prints that I've been waiting for for over 2 weeks.

Sorry. Are all my posts this dis-jointed? So digital scrapbooking is my new love. It is so much less frustrating than traditional scrapbooking,and I can actually get it DONE, because I don't have to set up a big table or floor full of stuff for Jaina and Reilly to just destroy. I get all my materials online as freebies (or tweak them to make my own stuff), and just use my digital prints however I want. I love the creative freedom it provides compared to traditional scrapping. So finding a place to print them is hard. However, artscow.com (yes, based in Hong Kong, slightly strange, and I don't know how long they'll be around) gives you bunches of free prints just for joining, so with (albeit expensive) shipping, I got my first 20 pages printed for around $1 per page. Amazing! And the prints finally arrived, and they looked fantastic! I was so excited. So yeah, that's all. Happy media stuff. That's the end of my weird little post. I want to do some scrapbooking while the kids are BOTH asleep... :)

One (yes, old - my scrapbooking is way behind, but I've done 5 months worth in the last few weeks now!) page I printed: