We Amuse Myself

So I'm looking into buying a new laptop. I had one basically designed but my dad's doing wh-knows-what and keeps not buying it. I could buy it myself, but he did say he'd get me one and unlike my parents who have jobs, I'm not made of gold. I realize they're not made of gold either, but they have more cash to throw around than I. If I had a picture, I'd post my sister's $300 dollar prom dress that my mom bought her (I think I told you guys that story... If not, my mom bought my sister a $300 prom dress, which she then had to hem and stuff). In comparisson, my dress, shoes and accotrement were only $25. Because I'm awesome.

Yesterday I was doing something on my computer (nothing creepy, I just can't remember what it was-probably something dorky like gaming). Didn't add anything to it, didn't delete anything. Then this morning I turned it on to the Blue Screen of Death. I restarted it in Safe Mode (it told me to) and the same thing happened. CRAP-SICLE.

Now, I wouldn't be THAT unhappy, since my undergrad career is over and I can go ahead and purge my computer of most of its data now anyway. And I wouldn't even be terribly bent out of shape to loose my music, since it is on my iPod and I can use that to put them back on my new computer. But there is, on my computer, a certain folder, which holds certain documents that I VERY MUCH DO NOT WANT TO LOOSE. They're part of an EXTENSIVE on-going project that I have been working on for OVER FOUR YEARS. I got two freakin' degrees out of four years of work, and so help me I will live and these files will live to see their fruitation as well!

But they are not yet to fruitation, so I won't say  what they are. Is your interest peeked? Too bad, still not telling. 

For several days now, I've been thinking about how I need to put them on my flash drive. I have earlier copies of them on it, but I've changed them a lot so they're pretty outdated now. Once I realized that my laptop was dying I was subtly asking my parents if they could get data off the hard drive (and by subtly, I mean directly). Long story short, after much strife, my computer engineer pappy was finally able to hook my hard drive up to his laptop and pull the folder off. YAY!

And it is now safe and secure on an external hard drive. I  can breath a sigh of relief. 

But I can't help but notice the quicidence of my laptop dying right after I spent several hours researching and designing it's replacement. I've got my eye on you, Lappy. Literally, because I'm typing this blog entry on you.

Without further ado, I present the most likely cover of my new laptop. It's for the birds! (Hahaha, I crack myself up):