The furniture's arriving tomorrow morning! I'm giddy. I can't wait. Once we get the furniture in the living room, then we can pick out a rug, and work on changing the window treatments, and it'll start coming together into our own sea captain's parlor.
Unfortunately, I don't know when I'll get to post pictures of it, because I killed my computer this week. The hard drive is dead, dead, dead. Fortunately, it gave me some warning, and I was able to get - I think - everything important off the computer onto an external we have. And also fortunately, it's brain still works, it's just the hard drive. So I am planning to get a new hard drive ($80 for a 250GB from Toshiba, I can live with that - bigger than it had before), and hopefully resurrect the thing soon.
I'm borrowing the Dread Reverend's computer for online stuff, but he doesn't have my photo editing software that I use to make the pictures blog-friendly (i.e., under 50MB).
It was a mildly difficult decision to get a new hard drive rather than using it as an excuse to splurge on a new computer. I'm obsessed with netbooks, and want one in a bad way. Only because I've been obsessed for some time with the smallest possible working computer I can get. Unlike many people who want the laptop but the big ass screen, my main goal is just to have a computer that's small enough to carry around in my purse. When I got my current laptop, I got the smallest one I could afford. The Sony Vaio was a tiny bit smaller, but almost $1,000 more, and I said, umm, no. My Toshiba Satellite is the next tiniest one I could find, and is pretty petite - and plenty powerful - but not quite small enough to tote around with me.
A netbook would probably fit the bill for uber-tiny, and they're not that expensive ... but they just can't do everything yet. For example, it wouldn't be able to run my photo editing software, or my music editing software. So it will be the ultimate splurge, because what'll end up happening is, I'll make sure I have a computer that will run that stuff, then I'll indulge in a netbook just for online stuff and text stuff (which I do a lot of).
But it is a splurge, so ... it'll have to wait, and I did the fiscally responsible thing of opting to fix the 'old' computer first.
But hey - new furniture tomorrow! Woo-hoo!! (Rhys - before you ask - no, I didn't get the Scotchguard. So be warned).
Lest I get kicked off my fiber-arts related web rings (if I haven't already), I want you to know that I did at least eye the knitting tonight a bit. I seriously considered getting out the sweater, trying to figure out where I am on it, and getting busy on it again. I'm actually afraid. I don't know if I can remember what the heck I was doing, I don't know if there will be a big sloppy bunch of rows across the middle of the back from picking it up again after so long, and my knitting not being 'on par' with the rest of what I've already done. It's just frustrating.
Probably to ease myself back into it, I should start with a pair of socks. That's probably a grand idea. And I already have sock yarn. And always need good socks. Hmmm. That might just entice me.
I'm also dying to work on some garb, after the coronation last week. But it's hard to get too psyched about garb because I'm really afraid I won't be able to go to any events this year. I don't know who I'm going to get to watch Tyler. I refuse to just board him, and with his eyesight and hearing going, it's not that easy to just take him somewhere. I don't want to traumatize him too much by not only leaving him for 9 days, but also leaving him in an unfamiliar house where he doesn't know his way around. When he was younger, he was more adaptable and might find such things an adventure. But now, I think he'd just find it traumatic, and I won't do that to him.
So I'm checking into finding someone who can come to my house and watch him. And of course I have to be careful who I give the run of my house to for a week. I haven't found anyone yet, but there's time.
So I suppose I could justify making garb on the grounds that if I do find someone, I'll need the stuff. Hmmm. Something to think about.
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