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Timing & Vista & Stuff

Every once in a while life gets overwhelming. Sometimes I have several weekends in a row when I don't get to truly relax. I get frustrated and mentally exhausted. When my 'to do' list piles up with things I haven't found time for, it drives me crazy. I become grateful when I get an extra couple days to 'catch up'. That was the case this weekend. The circumstances are not the best - hubby having his seizures. However, it gave me some time to start reading the new Harry Potter book and catch up on other stuff. It's stressful in other ways, but all in all, it gave me the break I needed.

I am now using Vista on my laptop. I spent a good portion of yesterday customizing lappy. In some ways, I like it a lot. In some ways, it's irritating (the Mac vs. PC commercial where the PC keeps saying "continue" sums it up perfectly).

I had to completely rebuild my Firefox (kinda sucked). Restoring a profile from XP to XP is no biggie, but Vista puts it in different places (yea, places). I had gotten it to work kinda half-assed, but at that point, I decided I'd just rebuild it cuz I had bunches of add-ons I didn't need anyway... so kinda like spring cleaning.

Not Fair.

The highly anticipated final book in the Harry Potter series comes out tonight at midnight. Yeah, technically, I could go brave the crowd at Meijer (or whereever) and be one of the first ones to get ahold of it. As exciting as that sounds, it would just be taunting myself. I would absolutely love to stay up all night and read it. But, that would make for a tough day tomorrow. I have to go to an all day birthday party for hubby's grandpa who is turning 80. Gawd, I wish it was one of the 'regular' events with the people we see all the time so I could just not go. Not just for the sake of the silly book, but because I could really use a day completely to myself. Between birthday parties, weddings, baby showers, family vacations, and whatever else, I'm just so drained. It always leads me to feeling sorry for myself. I love the inlaws. But, that's what they are is inlaws. I get depressed that I don't have my own family. And I am 28 years old and don't have kids and I have to wait until I'm 29 before I can even start trying again. I can't seem to get ahold of my half-sister. I talk to my aunt about twice a year. Those are two 'families' that I'm 'related' to. But let's face it, I'm not exactly a golden branch on anybody's family tree. If I were them, I probably wouldn't make any extra effort to talk to me either.

Sorry to the readers who say I only complain and bitch in my blog. Yeah, that's what I'm doing today. At least I didn't crosspost this one to Myspace.

Simpsonize Me

Hey look, I'm a Simpson... (Simpsonize yourself at http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html).

The Family Computer

I was at a family event yesterday and was told that bro-in-law's computer is effed up (again). These things don't surprise me. I'm not sure when I'll have time to get over there and get it running again, however. They've been in their new house for nearly a year. They own two additional computers, which aren't hooked up yet (older, but usable). The idea when they got this newer one (which I built), was for it to be the 'adult's' computer. Um. Yeah.

Now, don't get me wrong here. I love kids. I especially love their kids. But ya think for a second that when I have kids they are going to touch "my" computer? Dun think so.

Kids + internet = coughing, gagging, spyware & adware laden needstobeblownouttwiceayear computer. Again, don't get me wrong. I think kids should be able to surf, experiment, and ultimately learn. Just for goodness sake, not on the 'adult's' computer (yeah, some adult's aren't much better).

If you don't have the option of a second computer, then here's some advice. Not that it will completely prevent the needstobeblownouttwiceayear syndrome. Do this anyway. Do it on ALL of your computers. Do it.

1. Get a decent virus scanner (I currently recommend avast free version).


2. Download, UPDATE, Immunize, & run Spybot Search & Destroy once a week.