Last Christmas, I made everyone handmade gifts. Never again! Well, at least to my in-laws. The gifts just were not appreciated! At the very least, they could have lied to me and told me what wonderful gifts they were and thanked me for the time that went into them!! I really envy families that do a handmade Christmas exchange!!!

Oakley, Of course! I get a special thrill at this time of year because every store sells cheap, cheap, cheap spiral notebooks for back to school. All in glorious colors and rarely cost more than 25-35 cents each! None too fat that I get bored with them before filling them. I buy stacks of them. Nothing makes me feel that I can handle the days ahead like a brand new notebook that sort of creaks the first time you open it. No hint of the oppression of too many uncompleted projects, too little time or money or energy or indecision about where to start. The starting point is obviously on the first page! I never toss a significant list in the notebooks (toss only little ones like a few things needed from the grocery store type lists -those are invariably scribbled on empty envelopes and then recycled). I think my lists in the spiral books are sort like daytimers for the past (stuff crossed off and dated) or the future, to do items. I write my excuses for not doing things in too, sometimes, i.e. Hurricane Irene blew in or had to go ER because cat bit me, etc., so they sort of function as a diary, too. I used the same notebooks for taking notes (and writing lists of intended questions beforehand) when I went with my DH to his zillions of medical appointments. Now that he is better, the books will revert to being more about my own goals and ideas. L.

Holly-Kay - I'm so glad you mentioned the learning curve with your Mac. I've only ever used a PC and I now have a new Macbook Pro. There are times I want to scream at my kids "It isn't as intuitive as everyone claims!!!!!" The only reason I have this is because my Droid smart phone was 5 years old and I wanted a new phone with better photo capabilities. All of my friends have iPhones, iPads, and various iApple computers. My kids (who use PC's by the way) insisted that I'd love an iPhone so that's what I got. I do like the phone. DD's laptop crashed and I gave her my Dell which put me back in the market for a new laptop. Those same kids all said I should get a Mac since it would sync with my phone and all of my photos would be on both. Oh yes. How true but also how annoying. If I delete a photo on my phone I still have to delete it on my Mac. Then I discovered that Apple second guesses you and even after deleting the photo on my Mac it's still there in two other locations. A month after getting the Mac I won an iPad Air. It's a handy little device but I actually like my Kindle Fire better. Now I have photos coming out of my ears. Then DH bought me an iWatch for Mother's day. I returned it the day after. The best part of having the Mac though is that I bought the Apple 1 to 1 and now when I go to the store for a training session I lug my iPhone, iPad and Mac and ask a zillion questions. That is worth dealing with the learning curve. Oh....back to your original question. I've always used a mouse on my PC's but I didn't buy a mouse with the Mac because I was annoyed at how overpriced Apple products are and as a result I've gotten quite adept with the mousepad. My Macbook Pro is about 6 months old and I only have to lightly touch the pad. I'll probably never buy a mouse.

If Updating or Replacing the Mouse Drivers doesn't work, I had a similar problem while using Microsoft Edge. Here is a link to what fixed mind: Scrolling Sluggishness Not sure if it will work for Chrome or Not? I never tried to see if the my problem was persisting in another Browser like IE or Chrome. Their suggestion did take care of my problem.