Look on the bright side of life...

i've been waiting for this day for so long now. on saturday we bought a brand spanking new imac from the applestore and today we got to bring it home. because i didn't want to mess around with the set up - i let them sell me the "apple procare" for $99 for the first year. buying this, they do a custom set up of your new imac. at least that's what is supposed to happen. i am really pissed with the tech people at apple right now. very pissed. basically what they did is dump everything from the old imac onto the new one. os 9 and all. even the contents of the trash. i had set up a folder on my desktop as instructed with "transfer to new imac" with all the files i wanted transfered and they just dumped everything over. i cannot believe it. my iphoto won't work. my itunes won't recognize my purchased music and let me authorize it for playing on the new imac. my .mac account isn't set up on the new computer. i am really going to bitch at them tomorrow.

my schedule is so booked right now, i don't know when i'll be able to take the imac back in... tomorrow i have my rubberstamping class in madison. the next day is a doctor appointment. i had said i was going to be optimistic about my outlook on life and then stuff like this happens. on saturday when we went into the apple store to buy the imac, it took 3 hours in the store - two hours of which it took for them to run the transaction. then, while we were waiting for the transaction to be run up, the ceiling started leaking onto my head! unbelievable. these things only happen to me - i swear. i am not making this up. the only thing that kept us from telling them to shove it was the fact that the guy helping us, william, was trying really hard and trying to make the best of a situation going terribly wrong. all of these things were out of his control also.

my imac is awesome - and would be even more awesome if i could use it fully. i guess, to be optimistic - i CAN blog on it! Hey, something positive... lets see, what else - i was able to recieve my earthlink e-mails and with quite a bit of messing around i was able to send an e-mail. good grief.

the weather is so cold today. i am so ready for winter to be over. i'm looking forward to going to florida in less than two weeks, just for a little warmth. it is supposed to be colder tomorrow. i'm not looking forward to that. of course, i'll have to fill up the gas tank tomorrow too - in the cold. yuck.

I haven't spent much time this week in my studio. i've just got to make the time. i did do some stamping the other afternoon. i need to take the time to finish up some cards i'm working on, valentines and the like. jac got his tdi renewal paperwork, so we can start going on hospice visits again. it's too cold right now, but life goes on and we really should get out there regardless of the weather. the patients need us and time is short for them. i do feel really good about our visits. good karma. i need all the good karma i can get. especially now.

i've got to finish cleaning up the office this weekend. we cleaned around where the desk and printers are set up. rearranged it a bit. now the rest needs scouring. purging. feng shui and all of that. i've been reading about how the desk should be arranged too. i need to heed that for my office at work. my desk at work is a terrible mess. right now, i am writing this blog and having a cup of tea (its become my nightly ritual) and trying to relax. i was so wound up from these imac problems. life is too short to get that upset. it will work out. it has too. things will be better in the morning.

i cannot believe how fast time goes for me now. when they say "time flys" i know exactly what they mean. (that's what i need, rubberstamps depicting flying clocks or flying watches). when i was much younger, oh my gosh! time just dragged by. the seconds went "tick, tick, tick" in my ear. now it's like, "is it ___ time already!" even at work. i would wait for it to be 5 p.m. now i'm at work until 7 pm. just trying to catch up on all i do. sure, i make more money now, but more worries come with that. many more. the more creature comforts you can afford, the more worries come with them. i'll have to dream i'm back in walt disney world tonight with my sweetie. m is such a sweetie too. i wish i could spend more time with him. i can hear him snoring in the bedroom next door to the office where i am now. at least i know he's sleeping. sometimes he has trouble sleeping if i'm not in bed next to him. i have the same problem, like when i will travel to florida soon. sometimes i can't sleep at all on the road without him. well, sleep is starting to call me to bed now. the morning comes early, so i'd better get there and catch some z's while i can.