CRASH!

A few months ago I mentioned to Steve how devestated I would be if anything ever happened to my laptop, and today it happened. The Big Crash. Maybe it was a premonition, maybe it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, but today I was just happily writing my daily post and got that nasty, churning rainbow wheel (you know Apple only made it look all sunshine & rainbows to buffer that it is the most annoying thing ever). When it kept on going for a few minutes and I couldn't get my computer to do anything, I force quit and restarted. After it just gave me a blank screen for awhile I got a flashing folder with a question mark that looked an awful lot like a "Sad Mac," so I did a little research and read some horror stories of hard drives being wiped out. So I called Mac. Long story short (I am typing this on my iPhone) their very nice tech guy could do nothing for me, so I have an appointment at the Mac store for a live person to acess the problem (and luckily I still have 51 days left on my apple protection plan). I'll keep you posted, and speaking of posting, I won't be doing much (and it won't be as pretty) until I get my computer up and running. I feel like I've lost a limb, but at least I have my iPhone, which feels a bit like methadone to a major junkie like me, but it should get me through the rough patches.
But it isn't all bad, and here's some major benefits that have come from this minor tragedy:

• I learned how to post on Blogger from my iPhone.
• I have no choice but to get better at typing on this tiny keyboard.
• I might actually interact with my kids again.
• I have learned, and hopefully not the hard way, that I need to back up my family photos (fingers crossed that my hard drive isn't completely fried).

See, there's always a silver lining.