a series of unfortunate events

my birthday was last tuesday. i'm one of those people who loves birthdays. i think they should be done right. i love celebrating everyones birthday. except my own. my birthdays usually seem disappointing. i have such great expectations for the par at which birthdays should be held, yet mine always seem to slip slightly below the par of excellence into the realm around.. sucky. case in point? last year i got mono on my birthday. how's that for luck?

this year was going to be great. and before i go any further, i would like to say i was mildly surprised in that it was quite great. i got to see my boyfriend for the first time in a month. my friends came over. my cousins were in town. we ate shish-kabobs (is that how you spell that?) and drank margaritas. ate beautiful petit fours. i mean, what more could a girl ask for? nothing. it was bliss.

yet one slight little thing did happen that i have to admit, almost pushed me to the verge of crying... on my birthday! okay, okay, maybe a tear or two or three were shed. but not lightly. what happened was tragic. inconceivable. i take that back...i kind of suspected this was going to happen the moment i hit play to listen to the messages on our home phone.

let me back up. about a week and a half ago i dropped my macbook pro. it was a life or death situation. perhaps not that dramatic. but lets just say it was my integrity in a sundress against the wind. my integrity won out, prompting me to throw up my laptop only to have it crash on the hard asphalt of the parking lot at work. one can only imagine what a toll this takes on a poor little laptop only protected by a centimeter of thin nylon. lets just say it did not bode well.

getting back to the story, it was on my birthday that i got the fateful call from the apple care support team informing me that fixing my computer would run a cool $970, that which i don't have. so as i write from my sister's compaq presario (i can't believe i am related to to her, either), i ask you to hold a moment of silence for my poor like macpro that won't be fixed. and instead shipped off to wherever they ship computers that their owners give up on.

i hate to say it. but not only am i giving up on my poor little long lost notebook, i am sort of cheating on him as well. i mean i don't know what else to call my decision not fix him, but instead to buy a newer, sleeker version... with leopard! (with the money that i don't have to fix him....)no, he probably won't be replaced with another pro, probably just a macbook. which is how i justify it... for only a few hundred dollars more i can have a brand new computer. thankfully my parents are gonna loan me some money because frankly, this girl can't get along without out her computer. i mean, i need it for school!

needless to say, he will always hold a special place in my heart as my very first, very own computer. we had a good two years run, and now i think its time to have a go at it again. with a fresh, clean slate, i will start the second half of my college run. and hopefully, cross-my-fingers, this run will last a little longer, eh? (and yes, now i know that next time i should just forget about my integrity and hold on tight to the $2000 piece of hardware in my arms, or maybe better yet.. buy a better case??)

so i guess, now that i think about it, maybe that is a nice little birthday present unto itself. i had a good birthday all in all...

(oh, except for the sunburt back i received at my party this saturday...like i don't know if God is punishing me or what but seriously just my back sunburt? and no color on the other side of my body? i'm walking around look like i fell asleep on my stomach at the beach... and i can assure you, i didn't! i was in a perfectly upright position all day long!)