Saying things that need to be said

1. I am still lamenting over the unfixability of my treasured laptop.


2. Today I bought a new one.

3. It is not a Mac, but alas another PC. A Dell to be specific. Rey won out, I suppose it has to happen sometimes. I get a little teary each time I hear strangers in Publix mention "iChat" or "iVideo" or something fab that starts with "i". *I* think Steve Jobs is a friggin' genius for starting everything with "i". So cute and tiny and lower cased.

4. The Dell sits, unopened, in my garage. Since about 10:30 this morning. I started thinking that there was a time, not too long ago, that I would bring a tasty little item like that home and rip right into the package. Admittedly, one small reason it sits is I feel like attaching myself to it will be betraying my old, faithful, Lady Laptop. (Although really, is she all that faithful? She did let her screen die, the lazy bitch that she is.)


5. Additional reasons I haven't ripped into it (in no particular order): vacuuming, lunch prep for L.G. (a.k.a. She Who Has a Hollow Leg in Which She Stores Food), showering, preschool pickup, and struggling to recover the data from Lady Laptop (hereinafter referred to as L.L.).


6. Other things delaying ripping into it: the continuous and ongoing struggle to remove data from L.L., the continuous and ongoing struggle to get my children to take a proper nap, the composition of this very blog post, and the fact that I am on Target's web site coveting this:


THIS my friends is a Crock-Pot buffet server. It holds 3-2.5 quart crock pots for your cooking pleasure, and I.must.have.it. After all, I Crockpot nearly as much as I microwave. And if I were to microwave less and Crockpot more, perhaps I wouldn't live in fear that my children will start glowing one day from consuming so much radiated food.

(My birthday is next week, in case you were wondering. Thursday to be exact.)

7. Lastly, I have been sewing so much that if I was wearing a big ugly dress with a powdered wig I'd be convinced I was Betsy Ross. Oh, and she didn't have new fangled things like sewing machines, so perhaps I'd need a thimble too. Amber and I have handcrafted outfits for each day at Disney, trying to keep adult male embarrassment to a minimum and child cuteness to a max. We have drafted some people into our sweatshops, but by and large for two gals who could barely thread the machine not too long ago, we are kicking-A and taking names. Don't worry about missing out. There will be pictures. Lots of them.

My Laptop, My Left Hand Lady*

*I am a leftie, so "My Right Hand Lady" just wasn't suitable. Plus, where's the alliteration in that??

About a decade ago, the screen on my laptop died. (Alright, you got me--it was only last Thursday that the screen died. But is SURE does feel like 96% of my life.)

I have come to realize that not only am I dependent on technology, I am very, very dependent on that laptop.

We also own an old and turtle-speed desktop computer which has allowed me email and internet access without have to squint at my iPhone all the time. (And I should take this opportunity to once again give thanks and praise for my iPhone, without which my laptop-less life would surely be more lamentable.) Alas, this desktop is lacking in oh so many ways.

#1 - It does not have the RAM or the hard drive space to upload photos from my DSLR. Even if it did the program isn't loaded and I am (probably) too lazy to load it.

#2 - It does not have my iTunes loaded. Not such a crisis because my iPhone and iPod are loaded with music, but I am really itching to download some new tunes. No doubt this itch comes cause I can't. And you always want what you can't have.

#3 - Probably the most detrimental lack is the absence of Outlook. I can use web mail, that's all fine and dandy, but we are talking CONTACTS and CALENDER here people! I have no calendar which is really awful cause these days it's amazing if I can remember to show up places when I DO write them down. And as for the contacts, I'll refer back the use of the trusty iPhone, but right now I'm living in fear that something happens to my iPhone cause of a) my insane dependence and b) it hasn't been synced in over a week! Gasp!

I take solace in the fact that my laptop's brain, a.k.a the hard drive seems fine. It just looks like I need a new video card which is attainable easily enough.

Back in my working days I was in IT--people actually paid me to help with computer problems if you can believe it. As such it's an embarrassment to admit that I'm not too stellar at backing up my files. I am like a doctor who smokes... A priest who swears... A model who eats...

Could you imagine the coronary I'd have if the hard drive crashed? Flashbacks to the Sex & the City episode where Carrie "Sad Mac'd." Golly I miss that show...