Christmas
hristmas is over for another year, and I have to say that, while I had a great Christmas, man, am I glad it’s over. Now, lunacy levels can begin to subside to something a little more normal. People were apeshit crazy this year. I have to get out of customer service — you people are ruining the holidays for me.
Meanwhile, my computer had a small meltdown and had to be rebuilt. We thought the hard drive was taking a crap on us, but it turned out to be the graphics card slot on the motherboard. When Art went to put in the shiny new hard drive, he jiggled the motherboard just enough to completely kill the graphics card slot, which, in essence, turned my motherboard into a frisbee. Yay. So, I ended up with a (pretty much) new computer for Christmas. Art tells me that my computer is now a “juggernaut”. I assume this is a good thing, and that it won’t mean that I have to listen to my computer snarling, “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!” every time it boots up. (Although, in retrospect, it would be pretty freakin’ cool if it did that.)
So, I spent Christmas morning reinstalling all my various programs and tweaks, which is a lengthy and occasionally glitchy process. For example, I generally use Mozilla’s Sage for reading my RSS feeds, but for some reason, installing that bitch-slapped the bookmarks folder in FireFox, which screwed up my bookmarks and Sage. I have no idea why, or how to fix it. I even tried reinstalling FireFox, but FireFox remembered that it was fucked up. That probably means I should fiddle in the registry somewhere, but I’m not woman enough to go delving into the registry, so I just chucked Sage to the side, and will have to find some other method of keeping up with my reading list. Bah.
Other than that, the reinstall went well, and I’m pretty much sorted out. I have to reinstall Photoshop, yet, and some other thing I can’t remember at the moment, as well as sort out my various shortcuts and whatnot, but I’m all set to go again.
In other news, Christmas was great. Art got me new furniture, which is the highlight of the year for me. We had some really nice furniture, but the cats destroyed it. Art replaced it with a wood-framed futon and a wood-framed chair. The cats could still destroy the cushions for both of those, I suppose, but the cushions are easily repaired/replaced, whereas the old furniture was not. The new stuff is smaller, too, so it fits better in the room. It looks really nice in there. I got Art a hanging pot rack and some new jammies. He’s been wanting a pot rack for a few years, so he was pretty pleased with that.
*ahem* Not that kind of pot, people. Pots and pans. Thank-you.
We went up to my folks’ house for Christmas, and had a great time. Dinner was fantastic, and I got a new recipe for a kind of southwest tortilla roll, which is made of yummy. The highlight of the day was the “new pet” my Mom got for Art. The new pet is named “Humphrey the Humping Dog”.
Yes. You, in fact, attach the little motorized dog to someone’s leg by way of a strap, push the button in its ear, and it does, in fact, go to town on your leg, complete with absolutely hilarious barking, yipping and growling. I know, I know, we’re easily amused at my house. It was a freaking riot, though, because my mom made Art close his eyes, and then strapped the dog to his leg and triggered it. Ladies and gentlemen, we were in tears over this thing. I think I may have hurt myself, I was laughing so hard. The look on Art’s face was priceless.
I should have got video, dammit. I’m never prepared for these things.
On that note, I have yet more tweaking and fiddling to do with my happy new computer, so I’m out of here. Happy holidays, folks. Hope yours was as good as mine!
(Photo credit: Amazon.com.)
