Wow - technology has not been my friend lately. Blogger had this new enticing ability to add a slideshow to your blog...I thought that would be easier than using Webshots as I had been doing to import pictures. I was wrong!
We recently won a laptop off eBay. We may have saved $100 off the retail price by doing so, but it still remains to be seen whether it was a good deal for us. We think the laptop was formerly a store model. Everything seems to be good except the period key sticks. The original retail price was $869 and we ended up paying about $475 with a three-year warranty included. But...technology has not been my friend. The laptop is another preparation for China, but we thought we'd go ahead and get it now so that we could both use a computer at the same time, especially for lesson planning for our ESL classes. I was hastily preparing a lesson plan prior to Monday night's class only to find that it is extremely difficult to transfer files from my unregistered trial version of Word to our desktop.
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Audriana had her first shots last Thursday (Feb. 8th), and she handled it like a pro. She wimpered only a little, which was much better than how her mother felt! Vikki has been very careful and studious in researching shots and the potential harmful effects of immunizations. While it seems that the medical community has made advances with avoiding harmful side-effects, it was still nerve-wracking for Vikki to go through with it. The reality is that we fear diseases in China more than we do the side-effects of the immunizations. She had a combinations shot of dTap, polio, and Hep B - which we didn't know they did that prior to going in. The nurse at the Health Dept. was a little concerned about our aversion to immunizations, but after she realized that we had researched our position and that we were relatively firm, was pleasant enough. We are still delaying some shots that she was eligible for on the 8th. She'll go back at 12 and a half months (April 3rd) to get her next round.
