Completely Techy...

and not at all what I usually write about, however... I am compelled by necessity!!!!!


Recently I bought a 1TB hard drive from Best Buy, what I didn't notice was that it was for Windows systems.
(This being something I should of realized before I tore open the packaging and could not return it). I am a Mac person. Mac everything in my house. After cursing myself for quite awhile, I listened to a voice of sanity. My roommate gave me the bright idea to just call the company who made it and see if they could help me.

So I did.
And they did!

Never did I imagine they would, but I was pleasantly surprised! With that i give you the directions to reformat a Windows hard drive for use with a Mac.

With the Hard Drive plugged into your computer (via Firewire or USB whichever you have) proceed:
1. Go to you Applications - then Utilities - then Disk Utility.
2. Click Volume Scheme 1 Partition
3. Under Volume Click Rename - Format Mac OS Extended Journaled
4. Apple Partition Map - Click OK
5. Then Apply.

I write this blog, because I WAS desperate to know how to do this. I scoured the internet and could not find it. So maybe, if you searched Google and needed this, maybe you found it.

I sure wish I had found it!!!

Survivor

Today, while talking about the story of how I was conceived and born, to a friend of mine. She stopped and gave me this stare.
"that explains it" she said.
"Explains what?"
"Explains everything about you" she kept looking at me as if she knew a secret "it explains why you thrive. You have this thing Michelle, that no matter what you do its as if you will not give up, you thrive, and rise to meet challenges. And now I totally understand why"

Insert me with perplexed look.

"Because you are survivor, before you were even born you had to fight for the right to do that, so of course it courses threw your veins and in your being. You were meant to thrive and to LIVE."

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I had never had anyone put my life into context like that, and hearing her say this made it real. She had an answer to my disposition, but I began to realize the gift my mother had truly given me.

Thanks Kris.