Journey through Faerieland

Today went pretty well, but I got anxious later on because our bathtub and bathroom sink aren't draining properly and I worry how much a plumber will cost and what it will cost to fix. The house is quite old and something is always going wrong with it:(

Today I had a facial and it went quite well. The aesthetician didn't try to make me talk too much. She looked at my skin under really bright lights and said my skin glowed and looked like porcelain. That surprised me because I usually think my skin is bad. She also said it was obvious I wasn't a "sun worshipper." I have another gift certificate I can use for another facial or maybe I can buy some of their expensive skin products they used on me today. The facial was anti-aging because it would help the flakiness around my nose. Then she applied a hydrating mask and various other things. I'm going to try and make sure I drink more water to keep my skin hydrated and hopefully flake less. All the flakiness is gone at the moment due to the facial.

Tonight Michael checked my mother's porch for my Princess Diaries dvd and my computer was there, too! They made my mother sign for an empty box to send the laptop in, but didn't make anyone sign for the computer? That seems kind of weird... My cords are all detangled and are in better shape, too! I'm glad to have my computer back and tomorrow I will write up a couple poems I wrote.

I also can finish my painting now that I have the deer reference pictures I had on here.

I took a Klonopin because I was feeling stressed out earlier, and it helped. Amber emailed me back and wants to talk over the internet through a chat program! She used to use a webcam with me and I have a webcam on my laptop so maybe we could do that too. I don't know if I have a microphone on my computer or if I need to buy one... When I try to search for a microphone on my computer I can't find one, but I found a way to record sounds and it worked when I talked to my computer, it's just my voice was very faint... Does that mean there is a microphone since there was sound and something just needs to be adjusted? Thinking about all this is part of what made me anxious, even though I do desperately want to talk to Amber.

I've also been thinking of Iowa lately (where I went to college). I'd really like to go back and look around Cedar Rapids and Iowa City and maybe stop back at the college itself and eat at the snack bar. Maybe April would want to come with;-) Maybe even Phil, too. We could stay overnight at a hotel... My mother used to take me to a hotel every block break when she would visit me there. I miss the cornfields (though we have them in Illinois south of where I live). I miss the harvest moon I saw one time on a trip back to campus. I miss the little shops. I'd also like to return to Salem, Massachusetts and Washington DC, but those would be more expensive trips. I wish my aunt hadn't moved from Bethesda to an isolated part of Florida:( Michael wants to go to New Mexico and I want to go to Arizona. There are so many places I would like to go, in and out of the U.S.!

I think I'm getting constipated again and needed Ibuprofen for the abdominal pain. I won't use more laxatives until I see my doctor on Monday and find out what she says about all my sickness. Maybe this problem will be resolved by then, anyway. My more flu-like symptoms have been better today, though I had bad stomachaches all night (again, could be related to IBS and not this flu-like thing I've had). But I am feeling better in a lot of ways! I hope I sleep better tonight. I finally finished reading a library book Michael has to take home with him on Sunday and hopefully tomorrow I will get started on writing penpal letters (actually, I may start one right now as Michael mows the lawn).

My computer is fixed! It took less than an hour, though it still was longer than I expected. I think the port is what was fixed. Though he was opening up my computer and I was getting nervous:P He first got lost on the way to my house, which was very bad because I have no sense of directions and don't know any streets. But I was able to tell him the major street my street is off of and he managed to find it. I think the problem that there are 3 streets with my street name...

I brought over all my old Beanie Babies from home, but I have no idea where to put them all... I don't know where to put the additions to my unicorn collection, either! I will have to figure that out.

This morning Sony called me saying they would send someone out to fix my laptop! Therefore no worries about mailing! I don't know which day they will come, but I said no to Friday because that's when I have my surgery and the only person who will be around is my brother. I hope the problem is easily fixed (people I've talked to about it seem to think it will be easy to fix, as it seems the AC Adapter just fits into the port too loosely. Unfortunately because I have to wait for Sony, I don't know if I can see April this week:-( I'm hoping they come tomorrow so I can see her later. Seeing April cheers up my mood. I'm going to read for a little, write a poem, and return to painting. I was feeling a bit obsessive again this morning, but I'm better after taking my medication.

Computer problems AGAIN. I just got this computer in January. Something is wrong with either the AC adaptor or its port. It's too lose and keeps switching from charging/plugged in to listing it as running on battery. I'm going to have to send my computer in to be fixed. I really hope they pay for shipping, because that could be expensive. And I don't want to be without the internet so Michael will have to bring back my old laptop and connect it to the internet. This is just so frustrating

Apparently modems are very expensive, so I just bought a wireless router and planned on continuing to use my Comcast rented modem. However, my mother pays the same amount each month for her modem and it's set up for wireless. SO tomorrow my mother will talk to Comcast and hopefully exchange my modem for one with wireless capabilities (same price as my current modem) and then we'll just keep renting the modem/router for $5/month for now. I will probably return my router. That would be good for my bank account. Though this is all very draining and frustrating. I hope Michael can set up the new router/modem without difficulty.

My computer comes with a wireless card, but I need to buy a gateway/router/modem off ebay. Someone my family knows got his for $5. Then we can return the borrowed modem to Comcast. I will be happy when I can use wireless internet because I have to type on the floor right now. I am a bit overwhelmed by the computer stuff. I think I will try to read for awhile. So far I really do like my computer, though.

I think I want this laptop: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666075665

Hopefully it will be available by the time I can afford it. And hopefully it will last longer than my past computers, but I really want to return to a laptop so I can write my stories while sitting on the futon.

The person I sent my hard drives to copy said my hard drives are blank:-( I lost all my poems July onward. I just have the ones in my notebooks and copied to LiveJournal. I will work on the project of copying them when I get back home (I just got to Michael's house). In a way I'm relieved. There's a lot that period of time those hard drives are from that I want to forget. I want to start over clean. I've written a lot of bad poetry just to get my feelings out, but I rather like some of my poems. I'm going to work hard on my poetry to make up for what was potentially lost.

I have a problem. I have three hard drives but they are disconnected. I need to connect them with a sata controller. I have an abit av8 motherboard. I will probably need to take the computer into a computer shop to have the sata controller installed. But does anyone have any idea what kind of sata controller I need?