15" MacBook Pro

Well it has been almost about 2 months since I bought my 15" MacBook Pro and I have to say that though it's been a process to try learn how things work differently on it than on my Dell PC I'm having such a great time playing on it. I have actually stopped using my PC for now because it has come up with a problem with the Internet Explorer and I just don't have the time to waste to fix it. So now I'm using my MacBook Pro full-time and I'm happy since I have some really nice games which I downloaded thru the Mac store. I can basically do most of the things that I was doing on my PC and there has only been a few things that I had to get use to which is the key board and how to use some of the buttons that aren't on my PC.

It's a very slick 15" MacBook Pro though if I were to get it in a different color than the sliver color it might make it look interesting with that Apple logo that lights up whenever I have my MacBook on. I haven't actually taken my MacBook out with me because I don't have a cover or sleeve or case for it yet and even if I do get one for it I'm not sure I want to take it anywhere with me since it is a really expensive. I'm actually getting us to using Safari since I was able to download my Yahoo! Bookmarks and exported it to Safari with a few problems that I eventually fixed. Now I have everything that I need on my MacBook so I don't even really miss anything on my PC except maybe my Microsoft programs but that I could work around. I'm not going to buy the Microsoft Office for Mac since I've heard such negative reviews along with those positive reviews. Besides that if I really need to use Microsoft Office I can always do what I've been told might work out for me which is using Parallel or Boot Camp to use Windows on my MacBook.

Since buying my MacBook I've been really thinking about getting back to my writing and I have heard from a lot of writers about his Mac app called Scrivener which helps you get your manuscript organized. I also helps you to make your manuscript ready to be sent to a publisher or to just make it in to an ePub that you could download to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or whatever other eBook retailer you may desire. I'm using the free trial that is offered on their website to get familiar with the program before I give in and buy the $45 app from the Mac Store. I actually got a $100 gift card from Apple when I bought this MacBook which was great because those game apps I bought from the Mac Store as well as some of the music albums I used my gift card to pay for them. I still have some money left on it and I'm thinking if I should use it to buy Scrivener but I have to be really sure that I will be able to use it properly.

So it's been several months since I have written on the blog even though I promised the last time that I would really try to get back to writing up reviews again. It's just been a very hectic time with the Sandy Storm just messing up have the city which included my office building down on the South Street Seaport. I have never stopped reading so I have a lot of books that I could post reviews for but taking the time to writing the reviews and posting them here on the blog is something that I don't seem to have to mental energy to do. I hope that with some time inspiration to write a review will hit me and then maybe I will get back to doing my live podcasts with all of the new authors that I have recently been discovering at least new authors to me as well as new authors to the writing industry.

Well it's time for me to get back to procrastinating with other things while I think about writing my romance novels or book reviews.

It's been a year since I officially posted a blog here. I got a full-time job in an office last April 2011 and it really took all my attention to get the rhythm of doing my job on a daily bases. I am still reading my romance novels as much as ever but I haven't been reviewing them as I use to. I also haven't been taking any review requests from authors, though there weren't that many interested in the first place. I've been thinking about blogging again since I bought a new laptop recently that has been a real joy to use since it's more high-tech then my previous laptops. I bought an expensive 15" XPS Dell laptop with an Intel Core i7 CPU, 8GB Memory with a 1TB Hard Drive that came with Windows Office 2010 Home and Student but also with Adobe Acrobat Standard X.

40" Class (40.0" Diag.) LCD 630 Series TV

I've watched Netflix on my new laptop and it's almost like watching the movies and tv shows on my 40" LCD flat screen Samsung tv which I also got recently before I got the laptop. I bought the flat screen tv to replace my old 27" tv that I bought with my uncle at a BJ's several years ago and that was taking too much space but also the sound wasn't all that great compared to my new flat screen tv. Since I've been reading print books as well as eBooks on my Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch I have a lot of books I could post reviews for on my blog Talk About My Favorite Authors. I just have been too lazy to get on my old and slow laptop to write my book reviews on my blog so that others could read them. But like I said since I've gotten my new expensive laptop I've been thinking about getting back to blogging and reviewing because I've been thinking of going to the BEA conference.

I'm going to try to post some reviews for the books that I've recently read but I can't make a promise of it since like I said I've been pretty lazy since I started my full-time job as a file clerk at NYCHSRO/MedReview in the Retro Review department.

So can you believe it I'm blogging again in the space of 2 days. Well I just needed to rant my frustation out to someone today about why I am seriously thinking of never ordering online from Barnes and Noble since they are now using this delivery service called Argix Direct which uses the USPS to deliver the packages. The USPS lately has been very bad in deliverying my packages from both Barnes and Noble as well as from other people which is not good at all. I use to get all of my packages delivered on time when it was scheduled to be delivered when they use to use UPS all the time to get their packages to their customers. Don't get me wrong I love Barnes and Noble but they are really getting horrible in their customer service since the Nook came out. I will be going to the post office and complaining about not getting my package when they say it was delivered with a notice left to pick it up. I never got a notice about picking it up and the time they said they delivered it my mom was at home and nobody rang the doorbell to deliver the package.

Well wish me luck about getting my books back from the post office because otherwise I will be asking for a full damn refund from Barnes and Noble who have already charged me for it.

So I know that I have been a very bad girl and haven't been a good blogger or book reviewer since I haven't posted anything since October of 2010 and it's now almost February 2011. Ever since I got my first job at Modell's Sporting Goods store I have been very lazy about posting my reviews of the books I've read when I use to post them all the time previously. Also for the new year I dyed my hair a light blond color that most people say looks better on me than my natural dark brown hair did because this color makes me look like less pale so that it gives me a tanned look.

Now it's 2011 and I want to get back to being the book blogger and reviewer that I use to be so though it going to take some time I will be posting my book reviews on all the books I've been recently reading. I recently got a NOOKcolor for myself as a Christmas present so I've been reading a lot of eBooks as well as the print books that I can't help but still buy to read. I've also taken the 2011 Book Challenge that is going on Goodreads and I have set myself up to read a goal of 600 books this year.

I've recently found a lot of good authors that I've decided to add to my wishlist on my NOOKcolor for when I have enough extra cash to buy them. I hope to one day get all the books on my NOOKcolor wishlist but it going to take time since I'm paid minimum wage at my job and the hours they give me as a part-timer isn't all that great with all the taxes taken out. I hope when I finally do my first taxes this year that I will be getting at least 10% of my gross pay which was about $4,000 though my mom tells me I'm only dreaming.

Okay so I'm rambling on and on about nothing really but it's been a while since I've blogged and I'm trying to get the hang of things again. I recently read Teresa Medeiros newest release Goonight Tweetheart and loved it so much that it finally got me completely into Twitter and TweetDeck which even though I have a Twitter account I never really used it like others do. Now I have TweetDeck downloaded on my PC and the app for my iPhone 4 so I have an organized view of all the tweets I want to know about. I also now know a bit about how most of the authors I follow on twitter mange to keep everything organized with their Twitter accounts and such.

All right now another thing that I want to get back to doing is hosting my live podcast show where I interview romance and young adult authors. Though that might be a bit complicated to do since Blog Talk Radio on February 1, 2011 will be making all free hosts limited to one, 30-minute show per day during non-primetime hours. That totally sucks big time and the only way to fix that is to upgrade to a paid plan which is so damn expensive that I just want to delete my account immediately but I don't since it's still a pretty good set up.