mailed off for surgery...

my poor baby is really sick...no, not ethan, he's fine (despite the way it looks in that last video!)... my laptop is slowly fading into a comotose state. lately, everything has been running extremely slow, which i thought was due to the 15,000+ pictures and a ton of music on my meager 60GB hard drive. i'm sure all that stuff on there is not helping, but brian ran some geek tests and found a "fatal error" on my hard drive. no other details, really, except that the hard drive is bad. my baby's going brain dead. so... (insert superhero-type sound effect) we called apple care, which i paid almost $300 for almost 3 years ago, and it has been completely worth it! my apple care protection plan ends in april, so if bessie's gonna go, it's a good thing she's going now rather than in may! (aunt pam, i just realized that i've gone 3 years without naming my laptop! oh the tragedy... give me some good suggestions for a name....) apple is sending us a box that we'll use to mail the computer to them...brian has spent the last 2 days backing up everything that is of any importance to me. we've run into some glitches along the way, but we thankfully were able to eventually grab my pictures, documents, and movies. yes, i did say a prayer about it, something to the effect of "ok, Lord. in the grand scheme of things, this stuff really doesn't matter....but it'd be really nice if we could salvage my pictures." :) isn't it a blessing to know that the same God who sent manna to the israelites in the wilderness is God over megabytes and gigabytes?!? so, now we're just waiting for the box from apple to get here. then off she goes... i am really realizing how often i use my laptop... to look up a phone number, an address, a recipe, a strange rash on ethan... what did our mothers DO in the 80's?? :) brian and i will be sharing his computer for the next week or so...hopefully i won't clog up his computer with pictures. anybody have any suggestions for a really big external hard drive?

and by the way, just in case you mac-haters are tempted to blame my laptop's problems on the fact that it's a mac... stop right there. my mac is wonderful. it has done its job...it is a most superior machine. it can't help it that it has fallen off the edge of the couch at least 5 times in the last 3 years...

(yes, i watch my son more closely than i watch my laptop!!)