Happy Saint Patty's Day

 I made Beef Wellington last night with a side of herb and butter rice. It came out pretty good.  I didn't use the cut of meat you were supposed to, but really it's all about the pastry anyway. I was tasty and Eric and I loved it. I packed a to go box for him so he can have it tonight again for dinner.  Then I realized I don't have anything to eat for dinner tonight. PB & J it is while Eric has left over Beef Wellington.


I got the horrible news that my laptop has been delayed until 3/29/11.  Seriously?!? It's already been over a month Dell! Ugh. I kinda want to cancel the order, but hell if I buy a new laptop who knows how long i'll have to wait for it.

 Today is St. Patty's day. I am Italian and probably part Irish, but I am Italian at heart. I am however dating a McCoy which in the future will be my last name. I decided being a future McCoy means I should get all dolled up. I did my hair curly and even wore green eye shadow. I wish you could see it better in the pictures.

I sent my McCoy an IM this morning and of course he isn't wearing green. I'm obviously better at being Irish than he is.

Yay....I just made plans to go to the hockey game with some of the HR chics from work. I'm excited. I never get to hang out with girls.

Hmmmm...Yesterday I bought a bunch of cute eye shadows from Coastal Scents.

Mirage Palette

Warm Palette

It was like $50 for 176 eye shadows! They are about a dime size which is plenty to play with and lots of variety.

Then I went a bit crazy at E.L.F. $40 at E.L.F is A LOT! Everything is like $1-$3. Today I have to try and resist buying a bunch of crap from Folica.

Long weekend

Eric and I took off Thursday and Friday for the Rift Head Start. Yes, we are geeks, but it's also nice to have a long weekend together. 1 hour and 15 minutes until we can play!!!

I got my Motorola Atrix on Monday. I love it! It's a really awesome phone. You can do so much with it. By Tuesday am Joey dropped it in his coffee and broke it. Luckily we went to AT&T and they replaced it for me. These are the times when I love AT&T. In all honesty I haven't really had many issues with them. Anyway, I got my new new Atrix on Tuesday and have been playing with ever since. It's all setup, customized, and backed up now. Yay for backups! Don't want to have to do that again.

Oh yea...I bought a new laptop. I didn't get the Alienware, cause well, it was just way too expensive. I bought one of the new Dell XPS laptops with the new i7 processors. It's hot, cheaper, and has a better screen. The video card is not at fast, but it will play the games I need it to play. I didn't have to sacrifice CPU speed, RAM, or disk space to get a laptop I could afford like I had to with the Alienware. It also has a pretty skin.

new laptop...or not

I really really wanted to get a new laptop. Why? Because I'm spoiled and I like new stuff, or because i'm a gamer and to keep up with games you need a new PC about every 2 years or so. Since I have a Dell Account and they are offering no interest for 12 months I was looking into Alienware laptops.  I love my PC which is a an Alienware, so why not have a laptop too.  I also found out that my company gets a discount with Dell.

I called and specced out:

Alienware M15x, Lunar Shadow
Intel® Core™ i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache
6GB Memory (1x 2GB, 1x 4GB DDR3)
15.6-inch WideFHD 1920x1080 (1080p) WLED
1.5GB GDDR5 65W NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M
250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio
Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card
Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate

Total w/ tax and dell epp discount - $1,745.93

Really not to shabby if you ask me, but I still can't bring myself to buy it. I am just going to stick it out w/ my pink XPS until Dell starts building laptops w/ the 2nd gen i7 processors.  Then that baby should run me like $1,300 and it will be mine.  Until then I will be checking the Dell Outlet store just in case there a "Scratch and Dent" special.