I wish the world had a pause button.

I was quite proud of myself this week. I managed to remember how to log on to my internet banking (no mean feat in itself, or am I the only one that struggles with pins followed by a selection from a set of memorable information that is anything but?), and cancelled several direct debits for magazines that I’d got on cheap introductory offers. One of them was even before the introductory offer ran out. Sigh. Come on, tell me you’ve never done that. In fact, I’m sure that I even talked on twitter this week with someone, was it you Liz? who’d remembered to cancel her free credit score set up before she got charged by the simple expedient of setting a calendar reminder a year ago to remind her to do it. Now that’s what you call thrifty, and as I’ve now got a smartphone that can do that sort of thing I’ve got no excuse.

Which has instantly reminded me that I haven’t put the new appts for Big’s orthodontist into the calendar. And that I can’t remember where the bit of paper with them written on is. I don’t know what is going on with me atm. I’d love to be organised, but I think I’d need to put the world on hold for a week to be able to catch up with myself, let alone get ahead of the game. I’ve remembered that I haven’t put the extended warranty form in for this lovely new netbook, and I need to I think, because it keeps flashing a black line across the screen. Please, not another netbook with a screen issue, not after the whole saga of the NC10. There’s how not to achieve customer service. Release a netbook with a manufacturing fault and then only fix the ones within warranty, not the ones a month outside it. Which is why when I went searching for a netbook to replace the previous one, Samsung were totally off my buying list. And this despite me emailing them, blogging about it and tweeting at them and about it repeatedly. I guess some companies really aren’t interested in reputation.

I’m quite happy with the netbook replacement. I went HP – our experience with HP has been good for desktops and printers, so it didn’t feel like that much of a risk. I will obviously complain loudly everywhere if I’ve made a bad choice 😉 but so far it seems pretty much perfect, as it fits in my Cybher bag as if the two were made for each other. Can I take that as a good sign? Please?