A Labor Day Miracle

September 14th, 2009

Last Christmas morning Matthew surprised me with a new laptop.

(pardon the dark purple nail polish. I have no idea what that’s about)

It really was a huge surprise. I even whined that my present was too “heavy” and I didn’t want anything heavy before I opened it. Seriously! Welcome to life with me.

It then spent 3 months in the box because I was traveling and too busy to move everything over. Once I booted this bad boy up I could not believe I had waited so long. It’s about 7 billion times better and faster and prettier than my old laptop. I lurve it.

Sunday night I was reaching for the baby monitor and I knocked an entire glass of seltzer into my laptop keyboard. My virtually 6 month old computer.

The one with 1,174 pictures taken since July 22, 2009

OF MY BRAND NEW BABY

We quickly shut it down and removed the hard drive and battery. Then Matthew put it in a box layered with paper towels and lots and lots of rice.

He took the box, taped it up and put it in the kitchen to dry for 3 entire days.

Meanwhile my brain went through plans A-D

a) buy a new computer and transfer the drive (sounds expensive)

b) buy a bigger hard drive for my old computer and transfer the drive (cheaper)

c) buy Matthew a new computer, buy a new drive for his old computer and transfer the drive (more expensive but inevitable)

d) WE HAVE NO MONEY FOR ANY OF THESE THINGS, YOU ARE SCREWED YOU CLUMSY MORON (truth!)

We opened the box Wednesday night and started it up

AAAANNNNND it works. So far. Enough that I backed up all my pictures. It seems totally fine. So far. Shocked that the keyboard works but it does (so far)

UM…

Let’s keep our fingers crossed huh. Let’s also keep our photos backed up.

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