my prrreciousss :D

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Finally. I have both the time AND the means to post something in here... lol. For the past week or so, this has not been the case.:D

First and foremost, my new PC is here. It's an HP Omni 200 all-in-one with a wireless keyboard and mouse... and it is a thing of beauty, let me tell you. When I first took it out of the box, I just kinda stared at it for a few minutes, before I even attempted to find the power cord etc. Because, you know, it's BIG. 21.5" across. Now, you have to understand I've spent the past 8 years glued to a laptop screen which was no more than half the size - and our monitors at work were only recently changed from old-style, square ones to more modern, rectangular ones. Which at first seemed overwhelmingly huge... but now, my computer screen at home is actually BIGGER than the one I have at work. O_O It's absolutely MASSIVE. It looks like a small plasma TV. Which was exactly what I wanted. The movie geek in me is positively ecstatic at the moment.:) I've already tested the PC's movie-watching prowess by popping in my latest Netflix acquisition, which happened to be The Brothers Grimm. OH. MY. GOD. The film was gorgeous, visually stunning, delightfully quirky and fun, and it looked SO AMAZING on the big screen... It floored me. I have to watch it again. I was squeeing like a happy child, I tell you. Plus, it possibly aggravated my budding crush on Heath Ledger... but I digress.;) I haven't done much else on the new PC so far, other than change the desktop background to a gorgeous waterfall, increase the text size a bit (staring at tiny print on a HUGE screen was a bit unnerving...) and download iTunes. Recreating my playlists will take a while, since I saved most of my fave mp3 files on CD's, and now iTunes doesn't recognize the songs - naming them only as Track 01, Track 02 etc. So I will have to somehow figure out which track is which and input all that info manually - unless I want to pay for downloading everything all over again (and I don't). But anyway - everything works perfectly, as far as I can tell. I am still getting used to Windows 7, which I've never had before, and I'm blissfully clueless about half the stuff this computer can do - but all in due time, as they say. For now, I'm esctatically happy to have current antivirus and a working internet connection... lol.

Btw, there were some connection issues in my area over the past few days, and I hear LJ was down, too - not that I had much opportunity to notice, since my old laptop did a number on me last weekend and lost "display functionality" again. This time permanently, it seems. It might amuse some of you to know what caused this final crash. Namely, I was trying to watch the online trailer for A Dangerous Method. Yes, surreysmum - if you are reading this, know that it was all your fault.;P You posted that link to an article about Viggo's latest movie projects... and I went, OMG there's a trailer!!!, and clicked on it, even though I knew my old laptop couldn't really handle streaming video anymore. So of course it crashed, and even after several reboots the screen resolution remained ridiculously low. It took forever to load any webpage, even as simple as a plain text email - forget LJ or other fancy html stuff. Of course, it didn't really faze me much, since I knew the new computer was already on its way here via FedEx, and I can check private email at work. But still - I could have waited a few days to see that damned trailer, couldn't I?... *headshake*

Anyway... the old laptop had a severe case of death by Viggo, apparently.:P Or, you know... by Keira Knightley, if you prefer.:D It never fully recovered. So after I had set the new one up, I shut down the poor old thing, packed it up in its black laptop bag and tucked it away in a closet. Which seemed, strangely, like a funeral. Yes, I was emotionally attached to that ancient piece of junk - why do you ask? Do you know anyone else who uses the same computer for eight years?... But I am already deeply in love with the new one, so I think I'll be fine.:D (Yes, I have issues, no need to tell me as much, kthxbai.)

In other news... what other news? If there was any, I forgot. I am behind on emails, comments and such - but I will get there eventually. I'm not ignoring anyone on purpose.;) Just feeling a little preoccupied with my new toy.:P Btw, I just downloaded a few new icons, some of which were made specifically for me by roxicons. I love the one I'm using now - so calming and hopeful, isn't it?... Most of the stuff roxicons makes on request is shareable, so snag away if you like it.:)

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sure there are plenty of people that would just love to go that way

Yes, and I am one of them.:D