On September 3, 2009, we regret to inform you that our Dell passed away peacefully in the night, surrounded by its friends, the TV, phone, and Wii. It is debatably survived by the now zombie virus-filled Toshiba, and will be missed by all those who loved it.
Seriously, though, our Dell TOTALLY died! It's battery reached the end of its life, so it couldn't charge anymore. This caused the power supply to become overworked and short out. So now, the computer has the limited functionality of lying on the floor as a flat surface to put drinks on. This would have been fine, since we have another laptop, except for the fact that my laptop has been used irresponsibly by yours truly. Now my laptop is your average zombie, attempting to eat the brains of other computers whenever it is allowed to access the internet. The virus it has also likes downloading its other virus friends, making the computer become less and less useful.
We talked it over, and since Daniel ABSOLUTELY needs his own laptop for school, decided to get a new laptop. So we looked up prices of laptops, and decided it would be worth it to just get a new one from the BYU bookstore. Daniel had wanted to get a cheaper PC, and I wanted a Mac. Realizing he is the one in school, and needing a computer more than me, I made my opinion known, but also tried to emphasize that the computer is mostly for him until I go back to school. Ultimately, we decided on the cheaper PC.
We went up to campus today before Daniel had to go to class to pick up the computer. When we got there, the guy working there told us they were completely SOLD OUT! I thought we would just go home and order one online at that point, but to my HUGE surprise, Daniel looked at me and said, "Want to look at the Mac?" What?? My penny-pinching, money-hoarding tightwad husband (Love you, honey!) ACTUALLY suggessted we look at an expensive Mac? Granted, we did get a nice grant for this semester, so we could technically afford a nice computer, BUT STILL! So we looked at the Mac, but Daniel needed to go to class, so we decided to decide on it after class.
Here I'm going to go off on a tangent for a second, since it's kind of funny and eventually ties back in. I'd opted to stay on campus and hang out while he was in class, so after he left, I went to the food court and got myself some tater tots. I sat down by myself, and as I contemplated the meaning of fry sauce and people with blond hair, I see this guy in a green shirt. I'll look like a terrible wife for saying this, but my first thought was "That guy looks good in green." Then I realized it was Daniel! To which I thought "MY guy looks good in green!" Followed by a brief moment of confusion. Didn't he just go to class? It turned out, he thought his class started an hour earlier than it really did, so we got to hang out for an extra hour.
He sat down next to me, and we shared my tots. As we ate, we talked about the computer situation, and we got into a loud, chair-throwing argument about it! Just kidding. I felt quite grown up since we both talked about the pros and cons of getting the mac, and finally, Daniel brought up the point that when I go back to school, it will be for design, so the Mac would probably be a better computer in the long run. I couldn't argue that, and since we had agreed we could afford it, we headed back to the bookstore to get the Mac. The floor worker told us the deals with getting the Mac: a free iPod and printer. I'm horribly vain, so I perked up at the words "free" and "ipod." Since we're both clumsy, we dropped the printer we have, and so Daniel perked up at "Free", "working," and "printer." At that point we were hooked! SO hooked, that when we found out the one we had agreed on was sold out, we agreed on getting a more expensive one! At that point, I was about to say no, but like I said, we were hooked. Anyway, as we're about to sell our firstborn child as payment for the computer, one of the managers came up to us, and told us he'd give us the computer on display, since it was the last one of the model we had wanted. With the idea of keeping our firstborn child as well as some cash, we jumped on that idea. So after they re-imaged it to be a new computer again, we suddenly had a MacBook, a new printer, and an iPod!
Okay, so now I'm waiting for Daniel to get home from work, and have started to wonder if this all really happened, or if I recently had a massive nervous breakdown and am now living in some kind of catatonic fantasy world. Really, that's what I wanted to get to. I think my sanity has been compromised. If I really did have a nervous breakdown, could someone tell my catatonic real self they love me? If not, Sweet! Free iPod!
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