1. Take BF out for lunch to thank him for helping me with the French tax forms

It’s the least I can do.

He saved me about $2000 from having to pay an accountant just to fill out these French-only tax forms.

Such an awesome BF. So lucky. SO LUCKY.

2. Do a Grocery List for Vegetarian Meals

I want to start trying to incorporate more vegetarian meals into my eating habits.

I’d like to see if I can do it, and to be frank, the quality and selection of meat is really disappointing around here.

Thanks to Diana twittering under @thechiclife for the great falafel and hummus idea.

Yummy, right?

3. Pick up a pair of Birkenstocks

Saw a friend wearing them the other day. She L-O-V-E-S them because they are freaking awesome.

BF is not convinced I can walk for hours in SANDALS. I am going to prove him wrong.

4. Pick up adapters for Asia

I need adapters for Mimi (my Netbook).

5. Plan the tour of Asia

Yeahh.. Gotta get on that.

We’ve decided to stick to the following cities:

• Hong Kong
• Beijing
• Shanghai
• Macau
• Singapore

Note: We cut the trip short for the other cities, because we’re working on a limited budget and we wanted to spend at LEAST 3-4 days in each city, not one or two.

We will probably do another Tour of Asia later on, but these are the cities we really wanted to check out.

I am apparently only on the hook for planning for Singapore, but if you can offer other things to do and see in any of the following cities, please do!

Any suggestions for things to do/visit in Singapore?

6. Watch my spending

I also have to watch my shopping. Just bought these 2 necklaces.

I know.. bad FB.

What about you? Any To Dos for this week?

People sometimes asked me how I type so fast (about 80 – 125 words per minute or wpm), depending on how fast my brain is thinking and how fast the words are flowing.

On a blog, I just type whole sentences because it’s as if I’m speaking. But when I do an essay or a paper, I type much slower because I need to think.

But in college, to go even quicker than my normal typing, instead of recording the professor like some of my other nerdier friends did, I still managed to get every single word of what a professor was saying (or at least, the relevant bits), by making Microsoft Word recognize my shorthand.

For example:

• b/ = between
• irl = in real life
• e(x) = expect
• e(x)g = expecting

… and so on. This shorthand made sense to only me, and I’d even write in it sometimes, and have friends who tried to borrow my notes say: “WTF is this code you’re writing in?!”

*shrug*

Anyway, any time I typed in “b/” for example, instead of keeping it as “b/”, Microsoft word recognized it as “between” and immediately substituted the full word in without my having to type it all out, or do a Find and Replace.

What you have to do, is creatively use Microsoft’s Autocorrect Options.

In Windows 2007:

RANT:

By the way, I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE Microsoft Office 2007.

Stick with MS Office 2003 if you can. It’s SO irritating to re-learn a new, sexified layout that these Microsoft idiots think is what PC users want after years of having a plain, simple, ugly layout that made sense to us.

Now I have to hunt for the damn Options button because they got RID of the menu bar to make it look cleaner at the top instead of keeping my beloved: File | Edit | View | Options | Etc…

No, dumbasses, we want functionality and for things NOT to change just because you want to go all Apple on us. If we want a Macbook, we’ll buy one.

END RANT

How to get to AUTOCORRECT in Windows Options in MS Word 2007

Right-click on one of the tabs at the top like “Review”
Select: Customize Quick Access Toolbar
Click on: Proofing
Click on the button: Autocorrect Options

As you can see in this example below, I put “b/” to always autocorrect as “between”

You can add in your entire library of shorthand now, and when you type b/, it will always autocorrect to between.

Once, I was typing all in shorthand, and my friend sitting behind me was gawking at my screen because I’d be typing in a 3 letter word and it would immediately turn into a 9 or 10 letter word almost like magic.

He thought I was like some sort of crazy whiz on a keyboard, he had never seen anyone type so fast.. LOL!!!! I didn’t have the heart to tell him I was using Autocorrect and spoil the illusion