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samsom ([personal profile] samsom) wrote2007-05-22 05:28 pm

say hello to my little friend

It's got a 15.4" screen.

It's got a webcam, 1.3mp something something.

It has Windows Vista (what-tfe-that means).

It is shiny, beetle black and it has *gobs* of space.

It's -

*peers down*

an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC and it's all mine.

*hugs it, kisses it*

*does baddirtywrong things to it*

Ahem.

We tried to save my first laptop. My brother fought valiantly, but when he began to reformat the hard drive, it started making gurgling noises. He called it on 5/17/07, at 11 p.m., Pacific Time. It was a good laptop and it gave me much joyjoy, and damn, I am going to be crying for a long time over the bits of this and that I collected over the years, not to mention the fic, icons and vids. But. I have a shiny new toy, and an untried, unbroken-in keyboard. And a Word doc. Life is good. :D

Meanwhile, in my world today -


Today I came home for lunch to the phone ringing. It was my daughter's daycare, telling me that she had fell on the playground and hit her forehead on the gravel. (Okay. This? My first phone call involving blood.) The woman on the other end is downplaying it, just letting me know for prosterity's sake. Blah, blah, blah.

I tell her I'll be right there.

'Manth is sitting in the office, looking very tiny in a large, black office chair. There's blood on her shirt and blood on her shorts, a scrape next to her nose and banged up knees. Christ on a cracker. The piece da resistance, though, is the soaked-through bandaid on her forehead.

Underneath is a ragged hole in the shape of a rock.

Down goes my stomach, up comes my gorde.

I mean, it had depth and breadth and everything.

I took her to the ped's office, who graciously took us in on incredibly short notice after listening to my breathless explanation involving the words gash, blood, and head.

I may have overdramatized a bit. But. The point is, we got in.

She didn't need stitches, thank God, because someone would have had to scrape me off the floor in that case. I do not handle anything piercing flesh very well. Pregnancy, in that regard, was a tenth-month nightmare of needles. The C-section was like having the Texas Chainsaw Massacre going on inches below the sheet held up to protect my eyes. ::shudders:: Anyhoo, 'Manth was calmer than I was, and held herself still like a champ while the doctor cleaned her head up, put superglue on her wound and bandaged it the heck up. I can't wash her hair for about three days, which is gonna be hard because the girl's got thick porn-star hair going down her back, but all in all, we came through this first time experience relatively unscathed.

In other news, I will slowly catch up to all the emails and posts and owed beta-ing. I've already noticed that LJ has been busy while I was (mostly) offline. Whoo-eee. It's good to be back. Again.

*skips*

[identity profile] littleheaven70.livejournal.com 2007-05-23 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I don't know the implications of all that, but I'm damned excited for him.:D

*g* It pretty much means you could launch the Space Shuttle with it. It'll run absolutely anything. *dribble*

I can't wait until Griffin is talking. He's been grizzling all day and I just wish he could tell me what the problem is!

The exploding butt-boil was as a result of a pilonidal sinus - an ingrowing hair that got infected. His butt exploded one morning and we had to go to the emergency room to have it washed out, packed and dressed. Then he had an operation a few months later to remove the sinus itself. Guess who had to keep the area clear of hair for 6 months? I went places no woman should ever have to go with a safety razor...

[identity profile] littleheaven70.livejournal.com 2007-05-24 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
That's exactly what I said at the time! To my eternal credit I then married him. Exploding butt and everything.

[identity profile] samsom.livejournal.com 2007-05-24 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
lol.

And here I was feeling so virtuous because I rub lotion into my husband's feet a few times a week. (He's got incredibly dried and cracked skin on the bottoms of his feet).

[identity profile] littleheaven70.livejournal.com 2007-05-24 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Nope, come back and see me when you've shaved a butt crack. Then we'll talk ;o)

[identity profile] samsom.livejournal.com 2007-05-24 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Um. No. You win.

God, do you win.

*hands you the crown*

[identity profile] littleheaven70.livejournal.com 2007-05-24 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
*blushes*

Thank you! *dons sparkly tiara and waves to crowd*