Tysha's Journal

So with all the stuff going on over at LiveJournal, I figured now was as good a time as any to back up my journal here. I've got entries going back to 2002 which I'd rather not lose, so the importer currently has them queued to move over here.

I might try to start keeping a regular journal again, but lets face it, I've tried that so many times and always lost interest in the past!

My trio of oversized Pop! Vinyl dragons ^_^ Gold Smaug is still on back order.

Lego Smaug is so awesome :)

Holy monkeys, it's a Tysha on LiveJournal.

Well, it's been over a year since I last posted here. Shame on me!

Very quick sum up: was still working in the Asda pharmacy, then became very ill, got diagnosed with crohn's disease, ended up in hospital, had surgery, getting better, going back to work tomorrow! Other than that, same old, same old really.

Being stuck in hospital made me realise how I've become really out of touch with the community. I ended up being really active on Facebook while in there because it was the easiest way of staying in touch with work colleagues, but since getting out of hospital I've been back on G+, deviantART (not actually doing any art though...), draconity.org and now I'm back here too. I would be on tumblr as well, but we're a few episodes behind with Agents of SHIELD in the UK and I'm avoiding spoilers!

Of course, now I'm being more social online, my laptop has decided to die. So I rely on my desktop during the day while Anthony is at work, and my tablet in the evening while I'm watching tv with him. I'm going to see how the LJ app compares to using the web browser on my Note, it says it was designed for phones so I might be better off just using Chrome. (Oh, that's not a good start. It just crashed opening a post... looks like I will be using Chrome after all.)

Happy Birthday flamingwars & zyleeth, *hugs* to you both :)

Postcards were mailed out yesterday :) Everyone who replied to my previous LJ post can expect to find one showing up (hopefully) soon. The card staying in the UK has already been received which is a good sign.

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Going to try posting an entry from my phone. I've gotten quite quick at typing on this tiny keyboard now although my .'S sometimes come out as m's because - forget to hit the alt key. I can normally spot it in time to fix though.

Although I normally have access to LJ via Anthony's iPad when we're on holiday it can be a nightmare getting it off him sometimes. Knowing I can use my phone too is good.

Right, let's see if this posts this time ...

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Well I've had my new, new laptop for nearly a week now and I've had no problems so far *touch wood*. It's great having a lappy that doesn't take 5 minutes to start up and shut down (ok slight exaggeration but it felt like it took long) and Windows 7 is so much better than Vista, it's happy to talk to my XP machine.

The only downsides are that there is no SD card reader, but I'll just go and buy a USB one, and my scanner won't work with it, but I think that's a compatibility issue with the scanner and Windows 7. It IS a rather old scanner.

Very busy at work at the moment, I'm in for a seven-day stretch before my birthday break and with Deb and Claire both off at the moment I'm the only one on the health & beauty department. On the upside our sales score doesn't seem to be suffering at all, we're still beating our oscar target (I won't try explaining that here, but it is a Good Thing).

New laptop is back with PC World, they want their technician to take a look at it before making a decision. The guy who served me thought it might be a software issue which apparently isn't covered by their refund policy. If it is the software it must be Windows because it's been giving me problems since I first turned it on. If they try to give it back to me without doing anything I'll bite them, well demand refund, there is no way I'm going to take it back in it's current state.

So I'm back on old, slow lappy for now. Thankfully it's struggling on.