Death of a Printer

Our printer finally decided it has had enough!

From save-the-dates to invitations and scanning pictures and now ceremony programs our printer has done it all! That was until I decided to try out the placecards. We've pretty much done the print-your-own for everything, so why do anything else for the placecards? Well, our printer had other ideas.

Earlier in the day I printed the test page for the placecards and it came out okay. Then I put the placecard paper in and the printer did not like that. So I gave up and went back to the programs.

Around 9:30 this evening, with the Bears game on in the background, I thought I'd try the placecards again. Well, that was when the printer said F-You!! The paper jammed and the printer shut off completely. I tried turning it back on....no go. I unplugged it and replugged it back in....no go. I unplugged it and let it sit for several minutes, then tried again....no go. Dan fiddled with the wires....nothing....

HP F4140, pronounced dead at 9:50pm. We were served well for over a year.

(To add insult to injury, I just replaced the black & color ink cartridges earlier this evening!)

Wonderful Weekend!

I couldn't have asked for a nicer weekend. Saturday was such a beautiful day to attend a bridal shower....my bridal shower :)

My Uncle Ken & Aunt Sue kindly opened their home & back yard for our shower this passed weekend and we had a wonderful time!

The best part....my mom was there!! HUGE SURPRISE!! Apparenlty a lot of people are good at keeping secrets. It was so great having my mom be a part of the shower. I was secretly hoping that she'd be there, but never really thought she would. Thanks to Monica (who I owe big time!), she made my wish come true :)

Dan & I had a great time visiting with everyone and we got a lot of great stuff for our new life together. We haven't the slightest idea where to put everything....but that's my mission this week, to find places for everything! Hopefully in the process I'll find old stuff of ours to get rid of, thus making more space for all the new goodies.

Unfortunately, the memory card for our camera decided to die, so I don't have any pictures from the shower. So I'll have to depend on others who took pictures (please send copies :)

Well, as usual I'm posting from work, so I'd better get back to pretending to be busy!!

Hopefully my next post will include pictures!