A New Arrival

Jeff's work gave all the employees a bonus in honor of its 25 year anniversary. We have been wanting a printer for a while, so although most of it went into savings, we used part of the bonus to buy ourselves a printer! Here it is, in all its newly installed glory:


It's one of those multipurpose printer/copier/scanner things. Technically, it's a photo printer, but it also does regular stuff like documents, and it was one of the most inexpensive printers at Wal-Mart, so we went with it.

The packaging included a little paper that talked about this great website done by Canon, called Creative Park, where you can print out all sorts of free neat stuff - gift cards, paper crafts, calendars, scrapbook stuff, etc. Most of the stuff uses a ton of ink (gosh, it's like they want you to have to go out and buy more or something...) but there's some fun stuff! So far I've resisted the temptation to print lots of stuff, choosing only to print a small origami box. You know, just to make sure the printer works okay and stuff. ;-)

Anyway, that's the exciting news of the day. We haven't had a printer the whole time we've had a computer (well, except one my dad gave us, but it never ended up working), so we're excited to finally have one. I'll probably mostly use it for printing recipes from the internet, up to now I've just been jotting them down on whatever scrap paper I can find, but this will be so much easier.