Advice Day

I am looking for some suggestions/advice and who better to turn to then you guys :-) I realized that I have a couple of books that I could read sitting next to my bed but they must be sitting there because they have not grabbed my attention enough for me to actually read them. So, what books are you reading or have you read lately that you really liked (besides baby books :-)). I like a lot of different types of things....chick lit (think about Devil Wears Prada, Confessions of a Shopoholic, books where I learn something (think the following Fast Food Nation, Intuitive Eating, A Million Little Pieces), or some biographies/autobiographies (haven't read many of these though). Not much for the really sad sappy stories or the trashy romance novels. I like to read about real people with real struggles in life. I also think that I might pick up that cupcake book that Carrie talked about..it looks cute and I have clients who will be turning one this year so it would be fun to make them little cupcakes :-)

So in exchange for these suggestions and advice from you, I thought that I would tell you about something that I love. The other night that Sex and the City episode was on where Carrie loses all her information on her computer (sort of made me wonder how she had the book later but maybe she used the paper copies of her column). A while back I was super paranoid that I would lose a client's pictures either before I edited them or before I ordered them so I would back them all up. I put them on my computer but then wouldn't delete them off of the SD card until I had backed them up to a CD, then as I got more clients it became a DVD and then I started to have so many sessions in a weekend that I needed all the SD cards to be ready for use and needed to clean them every week. As you can imagine, this got to be a lot of DVDs and I have a really small place so I needed another option. I had heard about external hard drives but being so technically challenged as I am, I wasn't sure which one to get. What do I do? Send Craig to research for me...you know how boys love their toys! 15 mins later he had three options for me and off to Best Buy we went. One of the choices was the one I have linked to here and since it was on sale it was the one that I got. I absolutely LOVE it!! It holds 320GB (though they come in other sizes) and my computer is only 100GB to give you an idea. You don't need a power supply, you just plug it into your USB port. Once you plug it in it will show up as another drive that you can copy and paste items to. It is literally that simple! It also comes with a little case to keep it safe. I thought that some of you might be able to use such a device (with all the baby pictures or work that you have on your computers) so I thought I would share. I can't remember how much I paid for mine but I know they go on sale quite a bit. There are also other brands that I am sure are just as good but I don't have those so I can't vouch for them.