Well, I just wanted to share some of this pictures of my neighborhood with all of you. Thought it would be fun if you could see kind of where I live. I just find my neighborhood very entertaining at times. (You'll know why when you see some of the pictures!)  Maybe that's bad?  Maybe that means I really don't have a life?  Or maybe that just means I'm very observant and easily amused.  I hope you find my neighborhood as entertaining as I do!

I think the title of this blog best describes my present mood as I once again log onto my blog to see it empty.  It's so much more than just empty though.  If you all could only see the hours I put into trying to make blogging with my mac easier...then you would understand why Sigh is the title.  More than a month ago, almost two now, I decided to try to get my blog back up and running.  The article below is what I intended on having up on my blog months ago.   Now my energy is drained and all I can do is copy and paste what I intended to post earlier.  I hope you laugh and enjoy my "Macbook Saga".  I still love my computer, it's just hard sometimes to belong to the minority mac group! :)  If this works there will be more posts to come. :)  Just so you know this article below was only meant to be a "test blog" but I had so much fun writing it that when it didn't work I thought I would post it anyway for fun!

Chronicles of Blogging on a Mac

You know that phase... "you can't live with them and you can't live without them."?  This is the phrase that best describes my relationship with my Macbook (who has been named by my roommate, Amy and my friend Kara....His name is Jack...that's right Jack the Mac)

Oh, how Jack and I's relationship ebbs and flows.  Sometimes I'm soooo glad that I have Jack (my mac) and sometimes I wish I would have never left the world of PCs.  But it's done.  And there is really nothing that I can do about it now. I'm committed to this relationship, it was an expensive one!  Let me just give you a taste of the recent "struggles we've been having in our relationship"...  Blogging on a Mac

Well, it all started one horribly depressing day when all of us living here found out that many of our trusted blogs had been blocked by "those we do not speak of" (quote from the movie, The Village) Up till the day that "those we do not speak of" blocked me from using my blog I was thoroughly enjoying my xanga site with very minor if any complications.  It was a match made in heaven really. Ok...back to the story...the bad day of all days... I wasn't able to access xanga anymore so I was forced to find a new way to blog.  The problem was I really didn't want to pay for a blogging site because you just never know when "those we do not speak of" will block our access. (And I didn't want to find myself in this situation again but worse being blocked and still having to pay for a blog I couldn't use.)  Anyway...  as soon as all of us here found out that we weren't going to be able to use xanga anymore (after an appropriate time of mourning and going through the different stages of grief...we really loved xanga) we decided to search the web for another blog site that wouldn't easily be ripped away from us and that would be as good as xanga.  Well, we never found one as good but we did find one that was free and had what we felt we needed to share with all of you, on the other side of the world, our lives here.  What you need to know is the "we" I keep referring to are my friends here at the language school, also xanga users.  The problem is I'm the only mac user in the "we" group and therefore have run into some problems with this whole blogging saga.

So here I am blogging to you on my new Windows Live Spaces blog.  As I started to use this blog I ran into many problems that I never ran into on xanga.  Most of them are quite possibly because I am a Mac user, I really have yet to find another explanation.  After getting really really frustrated with uploading pictures and trying to get my blog to look the way I wanted without having much success I asked one of my friends (PC user, big mistake, got my hopes up on this one!) if they could tell me about the program they had just downloaded that they said made posting a blog less 麻烦 （ma fan = troublesome).  So, being a great friend, she helped me find what it is she was using on the internet so when I got home I could try to download it for myself and give it a try.  Well, I just tried about an hour ago to download it and because I have a Mac it won't work.  It's a PC only thing.  GRRRR!!!!  (Reminds me of the advertisements that were up during the women's world cup matches that said "Say no to racism".  I guess I feel like owning a Mac puts me in a minority and I wish I could get some support, at least a sign that reads "Say no to bullying Mac users" or something.  I don't know just blabbing now. I feel like I'm in a "mixed relationship" or something.  All those years of using PC's and now using a Mac, Jack.

All that to say.... I'm trying this new "blogwriter-thingy" out. It's called "Ecto".  I'm not even sure what it is exactly or how it works. Anyway this is kinda a test run to see if it actually posts what I want it to post. 

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