All Things Sad Become Untrue

Garh!!  I decided to splurge a little and purchased a Sherlock Holmes game that was a download from Amazon.  Everything went fine until I went to play. When I click on New Game, it freezes!  My whole computer freezes, and I have to bring up the task manager to close it out. What the heck?  My computer has more then enough power and oomph to play this.  Anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong?  I think I'm cursed when it comes to games, because every time I try, something like this happens. Sigh.  

Didn't get any of my phone messages last night, so missed my future sis-in-law's birthday party.  Garrrhh!  So frustrating!  I checked my phone right after work, no message.  Checked it when I got home, no message.  Checked it again before I went to bed, no message.  Woke up this morning, two texts and two voice messages, all asking me to go out to dinner and then over to Mom's for cake and ice cream.  Am I pissed?  Hell yes!  

Happy Mother's Day to all the mommy's on my list.  I hope your day is filled with sunshine, love, and all the happiness you could ever want.

My sister came down on Friday to surprise my mom, and everyone else, lol, and it was a wonderful weekend.  We celebrated Mother's Day yesterday, as she has to go back to Seattle today, and I have to work.  Boo!  But we had fun.

My brother and his fiance cooked steak and crab legs, and we had backed potatoes and salads.  My poor sister recently found out she is allergic to milk, so we were all frantically checking labels to make sure she could eat stuff.  She had to leave off the ice cream cake, but brother found some non-dairy ice cream and apple strudels for her, and she was happy.

Also, the sis and I went vintage close shopping yesterday.  She's a stick with legs, and so was able to fit into the most beautiful gowns from the 1930s, 40s and 50s.  I was soooooo jealous!!!!!!!  Honestly, ever dress I liked I couldn't even imagine fitting into.  The owner of the shop was like, "I never have anyone small enough to fit into these dresses, so it's nice to see how they look on people and not a manquein."  We were both extremely jealous, lol.  

My sister took it all gracefully and bought a very pretty summer dress from the late 30s that was in remarkably great condition.  All she has to do is add a few snaps and she's set. 

Once more, SO JEALOUS!

After that shopping excursion we just kind of lazed about and then watched The Blind Side.  It was excellent! 

All in all, it was a lovely day, and I think my mom was happy with it.  She's the kind of person you have to tie down if you want her to relax, so we considered it a win that the only thing she did was clean the kitchen after dinner, and we all chipped in to help.  

Hopefully today will be a slow day at work, with no upsetting customers.  I've been feeling on the brink of crappy again, but not enough to stop me from doing things, so I'm counting myself lucky and taking today slow.  Money has been rather tight lately, what with all the bills suddenly coming due and not enough money to pay them, but I'm not going to stress myself out about it.  Things will be taken care of, I'll just be tight for a while.  Sigh.  Which means it will be a bit longer before my computer is fixed.  It's still giving me trouble, though thankfully it has stopped turning itself off.  I'm afraid to save anything to it, and am backing even the littlest thing up.  I'm hoping in the next month or so I can take it in and have it thoroughly examined and cleansed, and then hopefully it will work correctly again.  Until then, please forgive me if I'm absent.  I'm able to sneak on at work, but I don't want to press my luck too much with that.  And it's terribly frustrating to try and post anything at home.

Sorry this was so long.  Hope you all have a beautiful Sunday, wherever you are!

So the tech Gods are still angry, apparently.  My computer completely died last night.  When I started it up I kept getting a message that my operating system was not a genuine copy.  Ummm, hello?  What the hell, computer? 

I honestly don't know what to do with it anymore.  I can't afford a new one, but I'm very doubtful taking it to get diagnosed and tweaked will fix it.  I ended up reinstalling the op system this morning.  Ugh.  

I have a headache, my stomach hurts, and I don't want to go to work.  I called in an hour late to see if I can fix at least the headache.  Don't really want to go in at all today but really can't afford a sick day.  Sigh.  This sucks.  

What the hell am I supposed to sacrifice to get the little gremlins on my side so they stop messing with my computer?  Grrr! 

So... Computer died.  And I brought it back to life thanks to my brother.  Still lost the Help_Haiti story, which means I just have to start over.  This one will be better.  *Emphatic nods* 

I had to redo the hard drive as the computer had completely lost the operating system.  No idea what happened.  

I had to leave work early yesterday, which means another point.  I hope that when I get the FMLA they will take that off, but if they don't.  Well...  I think I still qualify for unemployment if it comes to that.  I hope to hell it doesn't, because the thought of starting over, of spending weeks looking for work, just makes me want to be sick.  But the reality is I'm sick, they don't know with what or why yet, and they're pretty sure this isn't going away soon.  So... Have to plan for the worst and hope for the best.  

Anyway, I called in two hours late today, since I was trying to literally crawling this morning trying to get out of bed and figured it was better to just let me sleep a bit longer than try to drive in that condition.  I feel better now, and hope I can make it the rest of the week.  I only have three days to go, including today.  I can do this.  

I hope everyone is doing all right.  

Hello, everyone! I'm back, and oh, how I missed you all! I got a new hard drive for Christmas and my brother installed it today. I've spent the better part of several hours trying to put everything back on it and get it set up properly again. Still working on it, but I'm just so thankful.

Sooooooo.... In celebration, I present a little hobbit snippet that I wrote a while ago and found while I was reloading. Enjoy!!

                                                                                                     

( Hobbits )

Just a quick test - does my icon show me?   Or does it say Come to the Darkside with a black background?  How do I fix it?  Help me Obi-Wan!

Is it just me, or has LJ done something to the opening page again? It's all...weird. Am I just deficient today, or are they screwing around? *Sigh*

Oh my Gods I hate Vista!  I got my student loan in on Monday and went and got a new computer.  However, it has Vista on it, and I really, really hate it!  Seriously, I hate it so much I'm almost ready to take it back and get a computer that doesn't have the damn thing on it.  I'm having so much trouble with it that I am having problems doing homework, and seeing as that's the main reason I got the new thing to begin with, I'm really starting to get pissed.  Does anyone else have this problem?  Does anyone hate Vista as much as me, or am I being a technophobe?  Seriously, any help would be welcomed, because this thing cost me almost 700 and it is driving me insane!

My computer is trying to eat itself. Again. I am really getting sick of it. Now I have to beg and plead and bribe my brother into helping me fix it. Sigh.