Updates

So this is whats going on. I called and pushed my start date back to the 16th. This way my car will get there right when I get there and my stuff will get there a few days later, and I'll still have a few days to unpack and settle before starting. Otherwise I would have had to cut my impending Orlando trip short to come home and meet the movers OR take a day off my first day of work to meet the movers on the other end. This will be better. And I am now calmer.

And I got my graduation present from my parents: a new laptop. It is a HP Pavillion and its really pretty. The screen is awesome and its got a well-reviewed AMD dual core processor and alot of ram and a big hard drive and it was on sale. And it doesn't get hot and scorch my lap like my old one. I'm typing on it right now. Also... built in webcam so if you miss me I can now chat in person. Its cool, I used it this afternoon. And I will be offering virtual tours of my apartment as soon as I get moved in. But now I'm faced with the daunting task of actually setting up this computer. Re-storing all my passwords, transferring my pics and music, and reinstalling all my programs. Priority one was firefox and aim, so thats done but my firefox settings are all wonky. Anyways I'm heading up to Orlando and then I will hopefully have some time to do everything there.

Also, now I'm stuck with Vista because it costs $300 to buy the XP operating system and they were gonna charge $160 to install it. I didn't want to try installing an operating system by myself but $460 seems a little ridiculous for a soon to be unsupported OS just because I'm too lazy and stubborn to learn Vista. So... yucky though it is, I have it. Luckily I still have my old Office disk from my last computer so I don't need to upgrade to 07. New Excel and I will never get along and they will have to forcibly refuse to run 03 on my computer before I give it up. The others are fairly standard but not Excel. Sucks!

And finally, the best news. I'm coming up to Orlando which is exciting but also sad because it'll be my last time there until Homecoming and it'll never be the same again. Its weird having to go to Orlando and not stay in my own bed... I'm crashing with people and plenty have offered to put me up but Orlando really used to feel like home. Especially just this last year, with my job keeping me from coming back to my parents' house so much, and all my coworkers and my friends and my boyfriend all feeling like family. I really felt at home in Orlando. And then I left and now I'm just a visitor. But its good. I'm glad to get to visit. And I hope by the time I spend 4 years in Houston it'll start to feel like home too.