Skype

Have I mentioned I LOVE technology??  

My latest favorite thing is Skype.  Friends told me about it ages ago, and I was slow to jump on the bandwagon, but now that I have it, I am totally IN!

My mom lives in New Zealand, and she recently bought a new Apple MacBook (LOVE IT!) I set her up with a Skype account before it left for NZ and so she and I have been Skyping over the past couple of months.  While I don't mind talking on the phone, being able to see her while we talk is 100 times better.  Recently, I have been helping her with questions she has about how to use her new and very sexy (yes, sexy!) laptop.  She can minimize me on the screen and still hear my voice as I talk her through how to set up her email system, address book etc.  And I can walk around our house with my laptop in hand and show her new pieces of furniture, our fruit trees that I pruned myself, etc.  It feels like we are more in each others lives, just by being able to see each other every week or so.

Thank goodness for clever people who invent technology that really does make our lives so much better.  You people are the BEST!  I am forever grateful! Thanks!

Apple

I am a HUGE Mac fan!  I have been, since I was a teenager.  (So much so, my husband recently bought me this t-shirt!) Of course, I have had a few jobs along the way that have seen me working on a PC, but at my core, I have always been loyal to Apple.

Luckily for me, when I met my husband, he worked at Apple HQ in Cupertino!  So we had lots of Apple products around - iPods, iBooks, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iPhones and more.  It was like Apple HEAVEN!

Did I mention that I am such a loyal fan that now all my immediate family members have at least one Apple product?

While we were in New York in June this year, we went to the 5th Avenue Apple Store at about 1am.  It was like going to our own personal version of mecca.  Ahhhh....the beauty that IS Apple was represented in even the structure itself.

And few companies package their items as beautifully as Apple - even down to the last details in the box.

If you haven't bought an Apple product ever, or recently, treat yourself, the experience is like no other.

Long live Apple, it's products, it's high standards and mostly, it's beauty!

PS - Did I mention the Mac TV ads rock?!!!!