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November 08, 2005

here it comes, a better version of me

So things started to slow down on my pc last week and I thought "uh oh." Which apparently was the right thing to think because my computer had caught a virus called Klez, which over the course of a few days effectively destroyed everything on my C: drive and a goodly portion of my D: drive as well. I spent from Friday night to Sunday night deleting, defragging, despairing ... oh, it was so sad. The Husband rode in on his white keyboard and helped me out, but we still couldn't save anything on C: and last night when I downloaded transactions in Quicken, it downloaded everything from the past year and showed me twenty-one thousand dollars in the red. So I guess Quicken is hosed, too.

On the bright side, I have this big ol' painful swollen gland in my neck, an earache, and every time I stand upright my ears plug up.

"Can I call The Other One and say thank you for burning the cd for me?" says Herself to me this afternoon, her words coming like darts out of nowhere and catching me below the ribs and just above my pubic bone. I thought her father burned the cd for her; that's what he told me. She watches me, waiting to see what I'll do. "No," I say, "why don't you wait until you can say thank you in person." She has the phone number on a piece of paper; she didn't need to ask me if she could call. And the number's in our phone's contact list--not that she'd be able to find it, since it's filed under c.s.--she just wanted to see what would happen when she said it. Like an experiment: let's see how Mommy takes ... this.

She'll be spending Friday night with them; I need to start girding my loins now for when she comes home on Saturday. There's nothing that beats hearing how great the other woman is for a fingernails-on-blackboard experience.

To compensate for marching right downstairs after this conversation, calling The Husband and behaving like an ass to him, I go to the gym and have a really good workout and then take Herself and Moo to McDonald's, where we all get food that is really bad for us. It's delicious.

Posted by JudyLa at 11:30 PM | Comments (0)