my laptop

is my friend! I love my laptop! I have it on all day long. I upload pictures to it. My fingers feel comfortable at the keys. I know the quirks it has and I don't mind them at all. Today I opened up my laptop to see if anything exciting had happened over night. It was 8:25am. The kids were playing instead of getting ready for school. I grumbled - closed the laptop and placed it - firmly - on the coffee table. The characters in this house knew that I meant business and they quickly commenced to getting dressed and moving about their morning chores.

After we got the kids off to school - I plopped down on the couch - picked up my friend and clicked on my e-mail (you know - someone might have sent me a note in the 15 minutes that I was gone!). I waited patiently as yahoo opened my account. It kept loading, and loading, and loading.... I tried to close the page and start over but the computer didn't respond. So I tried the old "ctrl - alt - delete" method and NOTHING! I turned my computer off. I booted it up and it came to the screen that says "has been improperly shut down - restarting in safe mode" - I clicked the OK and waited. Waited some more. Kept waiting. UGH - NOTHING - just a silly black screen. Now I'm irritated.

I try rebooting AGAIN - NOTHING.

Tim looked at it - NOTHING.

So here I sit - on the desktop that the kids use - starring at my connection to the world and feeling lost! I am ready to have a pity party. Wanna join in?