30th - one day off from being a witch (that's what I always used to tell people, though I don't think being born on Halloween does actually make you a witch, so not sure where that came from!).
I watch other mums at the places I go chatting to each other and organising play dates and I can't understand how they do it. I can do the chatting, more or less, but saying 'Hey, why don't you and your kid come round to play some time?' - just can't do it. But I've always found it difficult making new friends, so I don't really know why I thought it would suddenly change when I became a mum! I suppose there is a constant ready-made topic of conversation, at least.
What are you getting for the surfing/novelling box? Everyone who meets my new little pc eee falls in love with it, and I'm hoping to have improved my typing speed on it by november so that I can NaNoWriMo wherever I go.
I was thinking probably an ASUS Eee, though I'm more inclined toward an XP one than a Linux one. Which one have you got? Do you carry it around with you and use it random cafes and things? I have images of me sitting in the park while Rosemary goes 'Up the ladder and down the slide' a gazillion times and tapping away. And just being able to get it out easily downstairs to check email/Facebook/blogs/etc. while Rosemary plays, would be great.
Anyway, would be very interested to hear which one you have and how you find it!
Mine's the original 701 with the smaller screen and only 4gb of onboard flash (I liked the cheapness of it). It runs by default on Linux, but it would run XP if I wanted it to. I'm quite happy without Windows at the moment - OpenOffice does everything that Office can do, and I have a Windows emulator (WINE) which can handle .exe programmes when necessary
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Sounds fantastic. I definitely want one, just need to decide on the XP/Linux issue. The price is certainly tempting and I don't think I'd use it for much other than writing and surfing. I use Firefox as my web browser, anyway, and I wouldn't want to shell out money for Office on a machine like that. Hmm. Think I'll find out a bit more about OpenOffice.
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I watch other mums at the places I go chatting to each other and organising play dates and I can't understand how they do it. I can do the chatting, more or less, but saying 'Hey, why don't you and your kid come round to play some time?' - just can't do it. But I've always found it difficult making new friends, so I don't really know why I thought it would suddenly change when I became a mum! I suppose there is a constant ready-made topic of conversation, at least.
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Anyway, would be very interested to hear which one you have and how you find it!
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