The computer drama

What a week last week was! Finally getting all the housework done on the new laptop. Here’s what happened:

Last week, I took the old laptop to Laptop Exchange to get the fans cleaned out. It would heat up so fast, shut off all the time, especially while I edited photos, and I had enough of that. Came back home, but then there was an issue of the computer shutting completely off before any heating happened. (Which didn’t, the fan cleaning really helped.) I heard a little jangling sound inside, like a little piece floating around. Packed up the boys the next day, and headed back to the store. Was informed that because of the little part inside moving around, it shorted out the motherboard, making it a goner. I could have died right in the store when he told me that. All I could think about was our finances, and there was no way we could afford a new laptop, but how greatly we needed one to hopefully bring me some wedding business. I just wanted to cry. I had no idea a stupid little part would come undone, and wreck everything. Well, thankfully, the hard drive was ok, so that was good.  After continuous bathroom visits to Café Rio next door, we headed home.

Saturday, we made sure General Conference was DVRd, packed up boys and snacks, and headed out to do homework. Went to the Mac store. Very nice laptops. Much better quality than anything I’ve ever seen. Why can’t all laptops have vents on the top?? Genius! Totally out of our price range.

Went to Frys. Getting better at lower prices. Went to Best Buy. Hit gold. Found a good HP laptop that we could somehow afford, on sale, scraping my photo account and taking bill money together. Next paycheck will be fun. Yet, we don’t have another monthly bill, and that is wonderful. Whew, computers. Ugh

From what I could hear of Conference (hardly anything with young kids up and running) it sounded wonderful. I heard small snippets here and there. I love that the podcasts were available the next day! So, we listen later, and watch the recordings. If you’d like to see the talks, go HERE:)

One talk I have watched early in the morning is Lynn G. Robbins, on Sunday afternoon. He talked about Christ like attributes, and gave wonderful advice to parents. I loved every word of that talk. We’ve had some great days, and some awfully challenging days with Ethan, and it’s easy to feel that you are completely no good at this mothering/discipling/ teaching your kid to just be a good kid stuff! Gratefully, it has brought me to my knees in prayer, pleading for paitence and guidance in this chapter of my life. Trying very hard to not give Satan an inch over my thoughts. Prayer kicks him out really fast!

So, that’s our story. I’ll probably have to redo the blog, because it stopped showing the full blog page, and doesn’t show any your blogs on the side. Only to me. You guys can see everything normal, but I sure can’t. Another mystery. It’s ok. Hope everyone is doing well.