My laptop has been restored to me at last!  Well, mostly restored.  While I’m enjoying my former semi-full-sized keyboard once again, everything and I mean EVERYTHING has to be reinstalled.  The new hard drive arrived yesterday and Kile promptly installed Windows and a few other basic applications but I spent most of last night getting things I want on it and moving some files over from the busted hard drive.  The good news: I was able to get all our old digital pictures off, most of my client files and stock imagery and a lot of other handy files that I would have been put out to lose.  I imagine there’s a long way yet to go until I feel completely at home again with my laptop.  But in the meantime, it’s working and that’s the most important thing.  I missed it so.  I HATE my husband’s laptop.  And when he wasn’t poaching it from me, I found it nearly impossible to use without wanting to throw it at the wall.  It made me love and appreciate my laptop all the more.

In other news, I’m still feeling mildly funky.  For some odd reason I have a quasi-cold now.  Because I wasn’t satisfied with all the other sick I’ve had, I had to add this to the mix too.  (whimper)  On the bright side, this has to be good for my figure as I’ve been eating WAY less than usual.  Judging from the loose jeans, I must have lost some more weight somewhere along the way but I’m far too lazy to move the ginormous pile of reading material that’s currently perched on our bathroom scale to find out (thank you for THAT, Kile).  Lost weight aside, if I don’t stop producing mucous someone’s gonna hear about it.  I’m so ready to be healthy again, it’s not even funny.  I feel like I’ve been sick for most of the month.

I went to my last MOPS meeting today.  I decided that it was time.  This was my fifth year (I think) going to MOPS.  It’s time for me to move on to the next phase of my life.  There was a time that MOPS was my lifeline.  I was very alone and lonely and isolated raising Harry at home all alone.  The chance to get out and be around other moms was invaluable.   MOPS was a lifeline to me during a very difficult time in my life.  I don’t know what I would have done without it and the moms I met there.  But, plainly put, I don’t really need it any longer.  I have some friends now that I can hang out with and get out of the house with.  It’s been getting harder to get out of the house and get all the way down to the meetings.  And there always was the distinct impression that I was paying for my friends there.  I know that wasn’t it, but still.  It did cost me money to go to MOPS though.  And that’s money that can probably be used elsewhere now.  Will I want to go back someday?  Perhaps.  I won’t shut the door entirely.  But I feel it’s time to move on.  Onward and upward, right?

Anyhow.  The important thing is I have my laptop back.