Scrap Happy Blog hop: Buy some happiness #New52

I've been loving reading Stephanie's blog about the Scrap Happy project over at Scrapworthy lives, so I was thrilled when I found out she's got a blog hop going. You have probably found me from Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking.

This month the theme is:

Buying some happiness.

I have to say this is a hard one for me, as we are on a budget right now, but recently we invested some money in upgrading our computer, so it wouldn't constantly crash when I was scrapbooking (I'm a digiscrapper and a power user!). My husband encouraged me to just buy a new hard disk rather than go through the hassle and stress of trying to back everything up and reinstalling everything.

Of course I did have a few glitches (turning off my DVD drive in the bios and wondering why I couldn't install Windows, and having issues getting Windows 7 to activate) it was the best investment we could have made. My PC is running like a dream and I can just get things done!


I've also made this post my New 52 for the week - yes it's been a while since I posted one of them!

Now we are past half way in the year I’m still going strong with the New 52 challenge, thanks for running it Peppermint & Christine! I’m finding that looking out for new experiences is helping me appreciate that my life even more. I have to say I have many more draft posts, just waiting for me to finish them! Read more New 52 posts:

• Crafting out and about
• Bye-bye Oven
• Souvenirs
• Bible 90 Days Complete
• Watching Playschool
• Not such a good new thing
• Battle of the Facial Cleansers
• Housesitting Edition
• Week 3
• Change is good

Want more of the Scrap Happy project?
Here’s the other blogs in the hop!

• Scrapworthy Lives
• Scrapping Mojo
• Pie for Breakfast
• Scraps & Sass
• 1200 Some Miles
• Slice of Life
• Our Life with Spiky Potatoes
• Abstracts Mixed with Extracts
• Your Memory Connection
• Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking
• Melissa's Blog

Have you bought some happiness lately? Let me know about it in the comments below.

Melissa

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I've heard some good stories about Mozy improving their services lately and my friend Steph has many a story about how Mozy saved her from losing data. She's even had them send external hard drives over to her. Which, though it costs extra, was a convenient way to get data back when it is multiple gigabytes.
Over the years I've used floppy disks, CD's, DVDs, USB sticks and external hard discs to back up my files. I do still use an external HDD, but with so much data (and the fact that I don't like to use the system backup on my computer, so I do my backups manually), Mozy seemed like a simple thing to add to my backup regime.

I have set it up so that Mozy throttles the bandwidth during peak times and unthrottle it during our off-peak times (2am-8am), to ensure we don't go over our monthly limit. It seems to be working well with 23.1Gb uploaded as I write this.

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How do you tackle backing up? Any tips you want to share?
Melissa