Poetry & Prozac

So I'm setting up Nix-the-sexiest-laptop-ever and I can't for the life of me remember everything I need to do. And by do, I mean download.

So, dear flist, what do I need to put on my stupidly large harddrive to make my life run extra smoothly? Do you have a favorite media player? Favorite free antivirus/adware/spyware preventors? What Firefox add-ons am I bereft without (SO excited to have TwitterFox back, omg)? Anyone have a favorite converter? Reminders like "Hey, loser, don't forget WinRar and last.fm, you will totally miss them when you remember them. Oh! And go put delicious in your Firefox!"?

Talk to me! Help Nix be the very best he can be.

(Oh, god, I'm so retardedly over invested in that machine.)

I feel like so far I've mostly spent this week watching the clock. Metaphorically. In actuality I've been refreshing my flist compulsively looking for a certain update and stalking the tracking information on a certain shipment from a Dell Inc.

I am pretty sure my soon-to-be laptop is already named, but I will have to look at it in person before I decide for sure. (Some of you will judge me, that's cool, my desktop's name is BROCCOLI.)

Besides that rivetingness, I have mostly spent my time lately watching tv on the internet. And by tv, I basically mean vehicles for Band of Brothers actors. By which I mean Ron Livingston and Damian Lewis (who I keep calling Damien Winters because I do not understand this acting concept). Watched all two seasons of Life which I'd only seen random eps of and which was awesome. Dick Winters makes the funny! And angsts and eats a lot of fruit. Watched Defying Gravity (or, as I like to call it Ron Livingston: Space Slut) which is entertainingly terrible. In which they try to get me to ship Daisy Adair/the-alien-queen-from-The-Faculty with Captain Lewis Nixon and it is maybe slowly starting to work. I am excited for my imaginary guest-starring spots for Damian LEWIS (whatever, his fiancee was randomly on his last show, nepotism or friendism or people-you're-screwingism is rad) and Michael Cudlitz (who has guested/been a regular on both of RLiv and DLew's previous shows. Playing terrifying people and not playing Bull Randleman. ...I really don't understand acting.)

I also went shopping on Saturday and spent SO MUCH money-I-only-kind-of-have. But I only bought a couple of totally frivolous things and a few things I don't actually need RIGHT NOW, mostly they were all totally worthwhile.

...I am boring. Talk to me!

ETA: MY LAPTOP IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have named him Nix. Because he dresses sharp and knows stuff. Shut up.

My Band of Brothers dvds came today. (In my defense, they're under $40 new on Amazon. That's a good deal, okay?!) citibyrd and I have watched 2 1/2 episodes so far.

And then there was a new chapter of easy_academy posted for me to glee about. Made of win.

Also today a new computer got ordered for me. 4 GB memory, 500 GB hard drive. My current computer? 256 MB memory, 80 GB hard drive. Yeah. So, I'm pretty excited about that too. But, um, any suggestions on how to transfer stuff from old computer to new one cheaply?

Aaaand tomorrow after I get off work at 1, citibyrd and I are going drive down to Laguna Beach for candy (there's this awesome store I keep meaning to go to but haven't actually gone to in years) and sightseeing and then probably Newport Beach for swimming since I don't like Main Beach in Laguna for that. It feels strangely exposed there. Or possibly we'll go to Huntington for swimming 'cause of the three it really is the best swimming beach but there's nothing around and Newport has the pier and restaurants and stuff. Hopefully it won't be a late night, but twitter/text if you need me.

...I was supposed to go to bed 2 hours ago, damn you, Easy!

* I feel like I've been away forever, my computer's been acting up and so I haven't read my flist since Tuesdayish, I think. Maybe Monday.

* Anyway, I've read a few BBBs and now I'm trying to decide whether to gorge myself on the rest or savor them over a long while, as I am always whining about not having new stuff to read.

* Not much is new with me, I'm involved in kind of a cool project at work that I'm alternately super stoked about and kind of exhausted by. Today I got a freezer! And a cupboard! Earlier this week I (mostly) got $900 worth of supplies! But, also exhausted.

* Baaack to point number one. I need some computer help. I have a 2005 desktop e-machine PC. It's using about 43% of it's hardrive, not sure about RAM, and was running super slow/freezing this week.

I have an anti-virus thing (Avast, but if there's something free and better, I'm totally open to it), ran Anti-Malware (which came up empty), Spybot (which showed one problem), and Adaware (which found 24 non-critical problems). Fixed everything and it seemed to maybe, possibly help. I also moved a bunch of stuff from my desktop into my documents and started a new Firefox session (I had probably 40 tabs open) and now things seem to be working pretty darn well.

The question is: What was the problem? And how did I fix it? (Aaaand, do I need to start thinking about how to afford a new computer?)

* Hi, new friends! Hi! Hi! To know factual things about me, my me and vanity tags are fairly useful. There is also an FAQ thing I did like a year and a half ago. It hasn't been updated since I changed my user name (I used to be bluestargirl6), but anyone who is interested is welcome to ask me questions random or otherwise. Also here is a post about my fannish history, should that be interesting.

* Kay, let's talk about t.v. now. And how Fringe makes me wave my hands and go "Paaaaaaaaaaaaaacey!" (or, occasionally "Chaaaaaaaaaaaarlie!"). Or how www.surfthechannel.com has s3e1 of Dexter up. Or how I have STILL not managed to see the new 90210 or last night's Gossip Girl. I will though! I'm working halfheartedly on catching up on Psych, mostly because it is light and I do not have to pay very much attention. Oh! I tried to watch True Blood last night and, ehh. Does it get better after the first half-hour-ish? Should I give it a better try? I WANT to like it.

* Is mediafire sucking for anyone else lately? I can DOWNLOAD fine, but it won't let me upload. I owe citibyrd some stuff, and I wanted to upload you all a mini-mix last night. But nooo. So, site recs? I don't LIKE megaupload or sendspace. Maybe I'll try box.net?

* It's 9:40 and I haven't even STARTED reading my flist. *headdesk*

I miss you guys!

I'm at home and my parents (shitty) computer hate hate HATES the livejournal update page. I don't know why, it doesn't have a problem posting comments or anything else. It only took me two tries to get to the update page without Firefox shutting down this time, that might be a record. Also the computer keeps getting tired or bored or whatever and loading my friend's page gray with light blue text. Not so fun to read, let me tell you. Thursday night it took me 45 minutes to get online, and THAT problem ended up being solved by me turning off their DSL modem for 10 seconds. *sigh* I really wish they'd get a computer that was made in this century. They're still running Windows Millenium Edition for god's sake!

So, anyway, I am around, just, not so much posting and sometimes struggling to read my flist. Here's what I've been doing all weekend:

* Came home Thursday night, went to dinner with girthygrizelda and got birthday presents from her mom. Then we went shopping where I got candy, a present for my dad's birthday/Father's Day, new summer-jeans (yaaaaaaaaay!), and a tank top.

* Friday I... cleaned a little, so there will be places to PUT my stuff when I move back in, read a bunch of fic, and then my parents took me to Sayaka for Japanese (yay!).

* Today I mailed some stuff and we went to Laymon's for fancy chocolates for our Mother's Day picnic with girthygrizelda and her mom. Then we picniked and were classy ladies who lunch (erm, sorta) for a few hours, came home and kind of crashed. I worked a little on my AU, not that, you know, the ship has LEFT the dock yet and I still have 5 pages to type out, but, whatever, progress!

Don't really know what my plans for the rest of the day are, but comments and ficlets are always welcome!

Let's talk computers, guys.

I'm thinking about giving mine to my parents and getting something new for myself. It's kind of, I bought the cheapest computer ever and it would be fine for them but with all the music and stuff I have on it the lack of RAM is ridiculous. But what should I replace it with?

Does anyone have Vista yet? Thoughts?

What about Macs? Love? Hate? Stay far far away from?

Any particular PC brands I should definitely definitely look into or avoid?

Investing in a computer probably won't happen for at least a few months, but I'm open to any and all bits of wisdom you have to offer!

* Grumble about roommate. Grumble grumble I really fucking dislike her sometimes. Grumble.

* Just got back from a walk. Sometimes I really love my walks and have awesome ones and great thinking time or whatever. Today's was mostly painful, every step was *excercise* and *effort* and my brain was being lame. So, disappointed and kind of in a crappy mood.

* Oh, update on lunch with my dad yesterday! By lunch I mean I hung out in Union Station by myself for like an hour. Which was actually fine because the station is gorgeous and people watching is fun. I think I witnessed an internet meet up. Anyway, eventually my dad got there, we went to Phillipe's, he bought me food and I listened to him talk, we went back to the station and sat in the courtyard for a bit and then grabbed a train back. It was... fine. Nice to get out of the apartment anyway.

* I downloaded the new version of AIM and now it's not working, so, e-mail's probably your best bet for now.

* You can still ask me stuff and read my answers which have been added to today.

* I would really like new good fic to read. I'm not even picky about fandom at the moment as long as it's something I read. Bonus points if it's bandslash I haven't read.

...I'm going to grab something to eat and work on being less grouchy. Is bad when you piss yourself off.

* Okay, so I totally cannot decide if I want to post publically and just chatter about life or post to my locked filter and squee. Obviously I'm going with the first option, but if people wanted to e-mail me and squee, that wouldn't suck.

* New Update Journal page. I kinda like it. The different fonts are weird though.

* I am working at the preschool tomorrow and dread, dread, dreading it. It's been like a year since I've been there and I'm not doing my-my job (which, basically was running around doing whatever anyone told me, so, sort of, but no) AND most of the people I knew there (kids AND staff) have left. So I'm freaking out. A lot. Over *maybe* 5 hours of work. For which I'm getting paid but I'm not sure what since technically I don't work there anymore. Anyway, I am having angst for no good reason. Knowing that does not seem to be stopping the angst though.

* Weird thing, last night I get a text at like 12.45 which sucked because A) I was sleeping because B) I had a migraine. But anyway, I get up to check my phone since I figure that's where the beeping is coming from. And I have a text from an unknown number. Which, weird. Strangers don't usually text me, but, okay. And it's this long message about touching and 'you have to because you've touched my bellybutton' and man oh man I'd wished I'd saved the text. But I got the vibe it was some drunk guy texting a girl who was not supposed to be me. I was kind of tempted to text back "I don't know who you are but you've got the wrong person", I didn't though because it was the middle of the night and I was sleeping and in pain.

* Also last night was our tamale making party which was pretty fun except for how now we have a lot of tamales. But girthygrizelda made the most orgasmic brownies ever. They're ooey gooey brownies with peppermint stuff and they're REALLY minty but in a not-spicy just good way. It's like eating warm solid mint 'n chip ice cream only BETTER. She left us like, eight or nine last night and I think there are three left. Oh my God, SO GOOD. *SO GOOD*. If I didn't love Sal hard already, these things would make me marry her and have her babies. Oh my GOD.

* My parent's computer sucks SO MUCH ass. Man, makes Broccoli look speedy and well behaved. Firefox has quit on me half a dozen times today and the operating system is so old I can't upgrade to the version that saves your session. *sigh*.

* Somewhat related to the above and also the end of my post: I have been watching a lot of youtube today and it has come to my attention that Brendon reminds me a lot of Adam Brody but I'm not entirely sure why. Discuss.

* I really need to stop reading the Rent threads on the BWW message board because they inevitably turn into Caplan bashing, and, I'm sorry, I *heart* him. It's irrational and borderline pathetic, but my love for him is pure and true and blind.

* My back and legs and ankles still really hurt, but sitting and stuff today wasn't as horrible as I feared. However now my back is starting to itch.

* Apparently my housemate's friend "do you mind if my friends spend the night? Will you be comfortable with that?" is like living here now. I don't know, except it's been five nights now and her stuff is all over the living room. This annoys me DEEPLY.

* I am nearly uncontrolably reading Harry Potter fic, specifically of the Remus/Sirius variety. Last night I dreamed I was at Hogwarts and today I accidentally started to spell "serious" s-i-r...

* Frustrated with LiveJournal, but I'm pretty sure that's my fault, so, whatever. I'm tired of analyzing my motivations and how to get people to like me and so, just, whatever.

* Oh, does anyone know, I've been meaning to ask for weeks now: My computer is running waaaaaaaaay slow of late. It's not a spyware/adware thing and I keep getting warnings that my virtual memory is too low. Anyone have any clue what the problem might be and how to fix it?

Today I bought: a dress-up t-shirt, pair of gray pin-stripe slacks, a gray sweater, a cranberry colored cashmere sweater ($7!!!) and an awesome tooled leather purse all for under fifty bucks.

I so adore the thrift-stores in Ventura.

Also my mother took me to lunch at a South American resturant where she flirted with our waiter who looked surprisingly like Brandon Flowers of The Killers only with less eye-liner.

Good day. So far.

Quick question iPod users: I fucked up my iPod (again). It was on hold when I attached it to my computer and now iTunes won't recognize it. I tried downloading a new version of iTunes. Nada. I tried reinstalling everything (goodbye playlists :(). Nada. iTunes still won't recognize my iPod but my computer recognizes it as an iPod and not just as a portable harddrive. I've tried all the Apple suggestions from the website, but so far nothing. Anyone have a clue? Otherwise I'll give in and actually call the Apple Store for help tomorrow.