I was greeted with a blue screen when i powered my laptop yesterday morning. Needless to say it stayed non responsive to the repeated attempts to repair and i knew i had to make other plans to survive the day.
If you dont know me enough i spend most of my waking hours with my laptop, NO i don't work in the IT sector...wrong guess! Ever since i got the laptop in 2004 most days the damned thing stays always ON so imagine my plight when it died on me yesterday!! I knew i 'stress tested' it all this while and it was bound to give up any day but it sucked to feel cut off from the virtual world and i hated it.
Anyways in no time i realized there wasn't much i could do about it [I'm technically challenged, u see.. ] The next best thing [read as 'the only' thing] left to do was tell Iyaps to look into it. He was glad that he got another chance to talk me into getting an iMac for us [I'm a windows gal, not Mac] but he was kind enough to dedicate all the spare time he had to fix the issue and thanks to him, my laptop is back in action within a day!
Although i missed not having access to my laptop it turned out to be quite a blessing in disguise. Instead of staring at the 15.5 wide screen all day i got a chance to actually look around my house and complete some of the long pending chores.
* For the first time i realized 'holidays' were actually over and the decorations had started looking quite out-of-place. I removed all the decor and put them in storage.
* Next in the list was long pending loads of laundry which i finally got a chance to do. I know...not that i'm proud of it but did i tell you 'procrastination' is my middle name? ;)
* Watered the plants, pruned the roses, planted two rose plants and a hibiscus in my patio garden.
* Dedicated sometime to review Bar exam study materials i picked up from the library, worked on the assignments from study group.
*Took pics with some photo props to post on my photoblog.
* Cleaned the kitchen and hung a new frame on the wall, i gotta make sure i don't trun that space into a living room.
* Marked all the family & friends birthday on the Malayala Manorama calender i purchased from Kerala Store.
* Cooked a new dish with cauliflower,pepper,and Maggie curry cubes in coconut milk. Recipe coming soon.
* By 5pm it started getting foggy outside and it was wonderful to view the park opposite to our home listening to IR's 80's tamil songs playing in the BG.
* Explored some of the Balance/Strength Training games on Wii Fit Plus, that was quite fun.
By evening although i was dead tired, i got more things done than on any average day. Also i realized how much time i unnecessarily spend on the laptop and the need to prioritize things.
Thanks to my non responsive laptop i have a clean house, fresh clothes in the closet, hot food on table and the satisfaction of dedicating time to study.The pleasure of finding warm crsip towels in the shower and to end the day by sinking into fragrant linens in bed is simply...priceless!
Whoever said "A clean house is the sign of a broken computer", has quite a point!! :))
over & out
rosh
