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My Life Thus Far
2009-02-03 08:45:23 (UTC)

An Eternity Plus Infinity

It feels like it's been forever since I wrote last, but in
reality it's only been a few days. They've been a busy few
days. That's why it seems longer. I've got a good reason
for not writing. My computer decided to have a nervous
breakdown :)

Friday, after running around (doing errands, shopping,
compiling Snookums' second care package) the last thing I
wanted to do was go out. But Rebecca (one of my managers)
texted me that a group of the girls were meeting up at
Horse and Cow (a bar) to celebrate another one of our co-
workers year of major life events. Lacey got engaged, got
married, had a baby and turned 21 all in the last 10
months. I figured I should make an appearance. Amy wasn't
busy, so she came over to stay with the kids for a few
hours. I didn't drink anything while I was there. Just
Diet Pepsi. I would have rather stayed home, but I went
for Lacey.

When I got home and Amy left I sat down at the computer to
write and I knew pretty much instantaneously that
something was wrong. My wallpaper was gone. In fact, the
whole desktop was changed. Half of my programs were gone,
there were half a dozen new ones, my email wouldn't open
and I had no Internet connection. My computer is almost 4
years old, so I'm expecting it to completely crash any
time now and I couldn't figure out if this was that time
or if it was something minor. Since it was 1am, I wasn't
really sure what to do. So, I called HP technical support
to see if they could help. After about an hour of trying
to understand the Indian guy my technical needs had been
outsourced to I pretty much gave up and accepted that it
wasn't getting fixed that night.

First thing Saturday, I called Geek Squad and they had me
drop it off with them. The Geek on duty told me that it
looked like a hardware glitch had reset the computer back
to like-new condition. That would have been fine if it
hadn't wiped out all of my programs, my email address book
and all of the websites in my favorites. I'm just thankful
all of my pictures survived. I've been meaning to get an
external hard drive, but one big enough for all my
pictures is expensive and there's always something else I
need or want to spend the money on. Now more than ever I
need to get one.

Saturday night, T'onna (a myspace friend and fellow Navy
wife) invited me out to dinner and dancing. We went to Red
Lobster (because that's her favorite) and a new club in
Port Orchard called Slip 45. It really isn't new. It's a
slightly remodelled version of Mako's. The place I used to
go all the time back in 2007. It was slightly nostalgic in
a bad way and I kept running into people I knew during my
clubbing days. One of them even asked me if I was still
with "him" (not Snookums). By midnight all I wanted to do
was go home. I don't want to be reminded about that time.
My club days are definitely over.

Sunday I did laundry and got the house straightened up
(since I had no computer to waste my time on).
Surprisingly I wasn't going crazy without my computer. I
did want to write in my diary, but myspace and all the
other sites I frequent weren't really that hard to live
without. I've never had a particularly addictive
personality, but if I don't have to live without something
I enjoy I'd rather not. I got an automated call from Geek
Squad around 7pm saying my computer was ready for pick-up.
So, that's what I did this morning. I went and retrieved
my friend.

Other than having to set up my wireless Internet
connection and my email, upload all the necessary programs
(Norton's Anti-virus, Adobe Flash Player, etc.) it was as
good as new. I kind of hate that it's totally wiped clean
(the sites I usually go to don't remember me) and it's all
updated, new-looking and stuff. I guess I'm just grateful
it works and I didn't have to replace it just yet.

The rest of the day was as usual. Dealing with Annie's
homework while doing laundry, taking care of the little
ones and then running out to get Annie to Girl Scouts,
rushing to get the grocery shopping done in the 90 minutes
she's there (minus 30 minutes of travel time through
downtown Bremerton during rush hour). Then coming home and
getting dinner ready, the groceries put away, the baby
fed, the girls to bed and Keenan down in an hour.
Sometimes I wonder how I do it.

I WANT MY HUSBAND. It's been 8 days since I've gotten an
email or a phone call from him, but it might as well be an
eternity plus infinity. I always miss him, but I'm missing
him even more now that I have no contact with him
whatsoever. There's so much I want to tell him. So many
things I want to update him on! Like how Keenan's two
mandibular central incisors are coming in (his bottom
front teeth) and how my weekend went. How I'm feeling.
Just stuff. Nothing ground-breaking, but I know he'd care.
I just want my husband...

This entry is kind of all over the place, but then again
so is my mind. I'm going to bed now... Ciao.




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