You never know what you had until...

..your trusty Macbook pro decides not to work for you.

Yep it pretty much wouldn't open anything faster than a snail's pace uphill in the wintertime this week - except Photoshop.  I know, right - the ONE program that we KNOW is a resource hog was booting up just fine and everything else wasn't.  I loaded Tech Tools Deluxe (came with my Apple Care plan), scanned, had it repair some inconsistencies in my volume structure and still nothing.  So I figured that I'd start uninstalling the programs that I suspected were the culprits.  First was Microsoft Office.  I know...a MS product on my Mac lol but I swear it worked fine until this week.  Specifically, Outlook functioned fine until this week.  In any case I uninstalled all of my office products, and then MacKeeper Pro because that was the most recent addition to my applications.

Whaddaya know...it fixed it like nobodies business!  I was doing a little victory dance that probably rivaled Elaine's "dancing" in Seinfeld, but what the heck, I figured it out all by myself :P  The end result is, I had to go back to using Apple Mail - not my favorite mail app, but it works and I can get it to do what I need it to. and my computer has never worked more efficiently.  Unbelievable, considering I've had this Macbook since February 2009.

 

In any case I wanted to share something really exciting with you!  I was spotlighted at Plain Digital Wrapper this week :)  My kit, "It's Your Birthday" has some neat goodies created by our talented Creative Team for you!  There will be three free downloads available - one on our PDW newsletter (sign up HERE to receive it), our blog, and on our Facebook page.

Here are some of the amazing layouts and projects created using the kit:

 

 

I have a coupon for you to score 40% off of the "It's Your Birthday" page kit good through September 31st, 2011 - just use the code iluvcake to receive your discount!