Ooops, I did it again!

Ok, not really!

Back in October, my sons cute little behind fell on my laptop, cracking the screen and causing it to ooze a cloud of black stuff that ended up looking like one of those cards a therapist would ask you to tell them what you see, "Is it a duck?" Nope, wrong! Being the ever prepared Mommy that I try to be, when I bought the laptop a year ago, I also bought the service plan (thank you Best Buy), which thankfully for me covers accidental damage, in this case falling behinds. Last month I finally broke down and took it in to have the butt damage repaired.

It was two of the longest weeks of my life!

After I FINALLY got my laptop back (insert happy dance here), I gleefully opened it to see the beauty of my clear, clean flat screen restored! Yea, no more feeling like I am being psycho analyzed by my laptop, woo hoo, this calls for another happy dance! Upon further use of said beautiful laptop, I realized that there was something WRONG! Are you kidding me? I just got it back after two of the longest weeks of my life and now there is another problem?!?!?

Basically, not everything was put back together correctly. I can see it now, the happy Geek Squad Geeks will get my lovely laptop back and slap themselves on the forehead and say "OOH, THAT'S where the extra screws went!!" Nice, very nice....
One would think that it would only take one trip to the service group to fix whatever issues may arise, but no, after only having my laptop back for a few short weeks, I now have to take it BACK to the Geeks! Arugh!!

Here's what I want to know: when did I, and this world in general, come to rely so much on technology? I mean seriously! I have yet to take my laptop back to the Geeks simply because I don't want to be without my beautiful laptop, AND ITS NOT EVEN RUNNING, the battery is totally dead! It doesn't even have to do with having to go out of my way to find a Best Buy, I pass 3 just on my way to work. No, I just don't want to loose access to Facebook and Blogger and the outside world at large. And again I say, ITS NOT EVEN RUNNING! But maybe, just maybe, if I tilt it this way just right I can get the little pluggy thingy to slide this way and I can plug it in!

Nah, who am I kidding, I need to just take it in and deal with the fact that I am about to enter the SECOND LONGEST two weeks of my life in the hopes that my baby will come back to me in one piece, in all of its glory, from the Geeks. And until then I will have to just suck it up and get on the net when I'm able to. How sad is that?

Surviving

 

Are you a survivor? No, I dont mean survivor as in that reality TV, stab your friends in the back, forget your morals to win a million bucks survivor; Im talkin, life throws you a curve ball and you hit a homerun, survivor.

See, life is all about the journey, right? Well, what do you do when you hit a speedbump? What about a dead end? Do you just sit on the side of the road and cry? Or do you decide that where you are just isnt good enough, figure out how you got there and learn to never do that again? Granted, it may take a few tries, but eventually you get there.

I have to remind myself of this every day. I think thats what makes me a survivor, I make the effort. I may wallow for a bit, but in the end I keep plugging along to get to where I want to be.

So dont give up, keep plugging along and you'll get to the finish line and hopefully learn some things along the way!