Halloween and Motherboards

Not much has changed since my last post... Sadly I don't have pictures to add with my post today, but I wish I did. First, the day before Halloween we had a family dinner at my sister's house that was pumpkin-themed. I wanted to make something different for it and that is what I did. I found this recipe for "pumpkin truffles" and I knew right away that is what I was going to make. The recipe says that it makes about 24 "truffles" and I thought that it wouldn't be enough because we were taking them to a family dinner. I then decided to double the recipe... BIG MISTAKE! It made roughly 100 balls! Yikes! We let them sit in the freezer over night and the next day I went to work on dipping them and I (not so quickly) went through 3 bags of white chocolate chips and only got 2/3 of the pumpkin balls dipped. I made an executive decision to dip the rest in semi-sweet chocolate and it used about a bag and a half of chocolate chips to finish them. Needless to say I was VERY happy when I was finally done. Haha. They turned out really good and we are still enjoying them to this day. =)
On Halloween Jacob didn't have to work so we stayed in our apartment and watched Ghost Hunters. I think I have fallen in love with that show. Haha. We ended up getting 2 trick-or-treaters, but sadly we didn't have any candy to pass out... Jacob felt really bad about that... And that was basically the extent of what we did on Halloween.
The week was looking good until Wednesday came around and my computer started turning off randomly. Jacob was kind enough to take it into the Help desk (while I took a test) to fix it. They ended up saying that my motherboard was going out... Not what poor college students want to hear. We then went home and found out that my warranty had recently expired for my computer and we would have to pay everything out of pocket. Thursday my brother-in-law was kind enough to look at my computer for me and we found out that it was just my fan and that it wasn't turning on. He then took it with him to work over the weekend so we could find out what kind of fan we need to order to fix it.

Are you ready for the silver lining?

We found out today that my fan isn't broken! It just had something stuck in it! I am so incredibly happy to be getting my computer back--I have really missed it. =)
That's pretty much the extent of our lives as of lately. The next exciting thing to come is birthdays! Tomorrow Jacob turns 23! And Monday I turn 20! Birthdays are so much fun. =)

Loves!