saying "Sooo Long" to an "Old Friend" ...

well this has been a very Long - very Exhausting Christmas season. Devan says it's been "Our Un-Orthodox Christmas" , lol.
I'll try to keep this somewhat short ...
on the 23rd they put Mom in the hospitol (we didn't know where-dad didn't call & let us know where). She was in ICU till this past Monday (29th) . Yesterday (Wednesday 31) they let her come home. This morning she fell & hit her head, they called the ambulance & took her back to a hospitol & I am now waiting for an update. I'm trying to keep a hold on things from here, I can't be anywhere near them anymore without male escort/body gaurd- SHE attacked me Monday evening both physically & verbally in the ICU waiting room. The people in the waiting room & my parents don't need that so I came home. Apparently covering her butt meant more to her than mom's recovery cause she made up some kind of crap & told her. :o( There was NO need to do that, I wasn't telling anything because I didn't want to upset them & set her back.
Anyway, we came home last Saturday so I could shower, do laundry, & get a good nights sleep before heading back out @ 4 am to pick my brother Harold up & take him to the hospitol. That's when I discovered ...



that my beloved lap/pillowtop had officially bit the dust! :o(
As you can see from the pic above is was kind of ... ghetto, as the kids would say.
The hinges broke about 2 years ago (that's when it became a pillow-top, you had to prop it open with a pillow,lol).
Then about a year ago the fan went out, it would work sometimes but then it would quit, the laptop would over heat & shutdown. It had gotten to the point that you would have to "jiggle the cord" to get it to power up. Saturday that wasn't helping so I tried unplugging it & that's when I discovered ...
that the cord had Melted inside the computer! Truth was that was dissapointing but I didn't really have time to worry about/or fool with it with mom in the hospitol.
Since I was no longer able to be with her & had to come home & we got word yesterday that she was on her way home we decided to head over to Jackson to investigate the laptop market & this is what I decided to "Treat" myself to ...



She is Mighty Pretty! She's a Gateway with a 15.4" monitor & built in webcam ;) . Of course I'm not excited that I have to deal with Vista, ugh, but I'm pretty excited about my new toy! Right now I'm calling her Esmeralda, lol.