WHY!?!

My hard drive crashed - it sucks so hard I can't even tell you. Last night, it started acting slow and freezing. It got progressively worse until Nicholas decided to reinstall my operating system. Then, I called the Apple Helpline and they told me to do all this stuff that made it worse. THEN, I went to the Apple Store and the so-called "geniuses" did all this stuff that made it worse. Finally, they decided to send it off for a new hard drive and it should be back in 3-10 days.

In all honesty, it could be so much worse. We just backed up all my stuff to an external drive. Actually, it's kind of funny because we bought the external drive because my music was taking up so much room. Well, it turns out I didn't really need it because I just accidently been uploading music files in this really large format. So, I converted them back and deleted the big files and I was fine. Luckily, we decided to keep the drive and back up all my documents or else this crash would have been disasterous.

However, it still really sucks because its going to be a couple days without a computer and a couple of hours getting it back to where it used to be once I get one. I guess I'm just paying back bad kharma for bragging about how great Macs are to all my PC using friends. I mean I watch My Name is Earl so you'd think I'd know better. But I'm sure I'll get mine when I have to go beg to all them for last week's class notes.

A New Year

Maggie's New Haircut
Originally uploaded by The Smooze.

A new year comes with the requisite resolutions which include but are not limited to posting more on the blog. And I was doing so well last year till December of course when finals happened! Lots has happened since then which I will list because I am a lazy lazy girl.

1. I took two exams and turned in my paper of the semester (bringing the grand total of pages written to 110).
2. I went home to Paducah WAY too early and was bored out of my stinkin' skull.
3. Nicholas had a little accident in which he sprained his hand and seriously messed up his face.
4. I failed my freaking comment which composed over half of the previously mentioned 110 pages. I have a chance to resubmit and am guarenteed I will pass as long as I put in a "good faith" effort. I just hope my definition of good faith is the same as theirs'.
5. Christmas came and went far too quickly. Santa brought me lots of goodies including a new digitial camera, beautiful gold earrings from the hubby, and a bunch of other lovely things. And the Skidmore family created a new pajama party tradition that is here to stay. (See Flickr for pictures)
6. Nicholas and I spent a lovely New Year's evening at home. He made a romantic dinner and we watched the ball drop with Carson Daly (b/c Dick Clark was just too depressing--sorry!).
7. I discovered Sudoku thanks to a well-intentioned stocking stuffer from my mother. I now have significantly less free time.
8. I saw The Chornicles of Narnia (that lion was freaking amazing), The Family Stone (aka tear-jerker masquerading as a comedy), King Kong (poor thing! he just likes the blonde), Rumor Has It (more Shirley McLain!), and after waiting FOREVER the gay cow...I mean Brokeback Mountain which was by far the best movie I've seen in a season full of good movies. Give Heath Ledger his Oscar.
9. Watched approximately 14 of the 16 hours of the Oprah DVD collection while wishing a million times over that I was Gayle King and realizing I don't remember a time in my life when I was NOT watching Oprah.
10. Oh, and Maggie got a haircut (see above).