Too busy…

August 31, 2007 by annadulcekelly.

I’m so tired. I have been busy rearranging my craft room and I’ve decided to go with uniform transparent (needless to say, stackable) cases which I’m going to label later on when I’m done putting stuff in more suitable containers. I’m also deciding on which things can go on eBay, mainly to get them out of the way but also to get just a little something back. My craftroom (at least after I’m done putting things away) will have a lot more floor space for working on, but a lot less wall space for displaying. I guess it’s always going to be a compromise. If I didn’t have that stupid popcorn ceiling, I would use that surface for displaying things.

I’m about to say goodbye to this laptop. I’ve sold it for some extra cash. I will surely miss having a computer on the bed, LOL…spoiled, I know. But I don’t bring it anywhere, and with my wonderful desktop, I don’t really feel like I need a laptop. But speaking of that wonderful desktop…it wasn’t too wonderful a few days ago. Monday it decided to act up. First, left-clicking was getting me right-click functions. So I thought I’d restart my computer and that will fix it. Well, so Windows loaded, and I was supposed to put my password in, and the damn cursor won’t change from the pointing finger one. So I can’t click on the textbox for the password. I restarted, nothing’s changed. By this time, I was getting really flustered. Here I am, giving up my laptop to depend solely on the desktop and that one is acting up. I’ve never before tried to install Windows XP or use the CD to repair the installed Windows XP. I’ve done it before with Win95 and Win98, but then again those OS’s are much simpler to deal with than XP. So I pop in the CD…first I opt to repair Windows…and it loops endlessly, as if it has repaired it and Windows just needs to restart to complete the operation. But then it started over again, and that happened quite a few times. So I thought, heck, I’ll reinstall Windows and see if that works. First I opted NOT to format the drive, because I knew there had to be some things I didn’t want to lose, not a lot, but some. Well, that looped endlessly as well. So after much thought, I finally went and reformatted…then Windows started to install and yet again, loop like before. I was getting a migraine. I went to bed.

I went back to it the next afternoon. The installation seemed to have gone through. On the screen it said Windows was now going to automatically configure my monitor’s resolution. There was an OK button to click, but my mouse for some reason wasn’t working. So…I thought…I’ve been through so much, what’s another restart? I didn’t expect it to work. But the restart worked, the resolution was off but that was easily remedied. I had to install some more drivers, especially the one that allowed me to have 2 monitors with different pictures. I am not done reinstalling all the stuff I had installed before. I know there are a few things I have lost for s ure. I’m just glad that a lot of my stuff are on external drives. I think I will keep on saving and backing up on external drives.

Right now though I have to start moving files from the laptop to other drives. Then I need to erase stuff from here…DoD level deletion. By the middle of next week, the laptop will be no more.

And it’s that time of month. My back is aching, I’m not in the best of moods and there’s just so much stuff to do. Right now I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed. So I’ll just relax for a while.

Well, until I feel better…or have fewer things to do…

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