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Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
Well, unfortunately my dad's laptop was possessed by demons (or about a million viruses) and was found to be for the most part inoperable. I was trying to download something and was trying to figure out why it was taking so long (other than me still having dial-up, but that will change soon) and saw that I had sent about 30 times more info than I'd received... so yeah, it definitely had a virus. It was rather old anyway...
You see where this is going, don't you?

Yeah, I bought a laptop.

Dad would have been proud of me though... it's very nice and I got a great deal. DVD recording drive, nice big display, a decent pointing device for a laptop (although I'm still going to get a mouse) wireless internet, XP, Office 2003, the whole 9. Saw the same one at Office Depot for $200 more. Go me.

So what's going on with me....... hmm.

I've had some trouble with the estate. Mainly getting down to the cleaning parts. I've done all of the money things, consolidated all of the CDs and whatnot that were scattered throughout the world (okay, so more like 2 blocks in Denton), opened an estate account to pay the bills... paid for the funeral and have started all of those processes. I'm just having trouble with the house. I know that I need to get on the ball with it... Heather was a huge help to me, she came with me the last time I went down and she singlehandedly cleaned out an entire room. Part of the problem is all of the mold in the house... I feel like I'm going to die when I walk in there. The next time I go back, I'm bringing one of those masks like surgeons and people in Tokyo wear. So I'm thinking that I'll at least take out the offending ceiling tiles and that will help somewhat. I need to find out how to rent one of those big trash containers, because that's where 90% of it is going. Okay, maybe 70%... but a large portion nonetheless. People keep telling me that I can donate stuff to Goodwill or wherever and get a tax write-off. Those are people who've never seen the house. Cataloging all of that stuff is going to be a nightmare. And I need to get it clean enough for an appraiser to come in and look at everything. It's just a wreck.

I do have at least some of the car stuff straightened out... I had the 2001 MR2 spyder towed to Neviaser toyota in Easton and they helped me out in a big way... they made me two keys and reprogrammed the computer to take them. So now I have Roxie and the MR2. There are still two other MR2's that I need to have a locksmith come out and handle, but I found a spare for the Integra. I also cleaned the Integra the last time I was there... It smelled kind of like Dad's house.

As far as me... I guess that I'm doing as well as you can expect. From time to time I start crying for apparently no reason. But of course there's a reason. On the way home from class tonight I was driving the MR2 and I just started bawling. I think that's good though... sometimes I feel like I can't cry at all.. it's like I'm emotionless and I'm just going through the motions of life.

I ended up dropping my sociology class... I had to cut something out somewhere, and I couldn't cut out work, the estate or Brian. Or the little bit of time that I have with my friends. I would lose the bit of sanity that I have left. I'm still taking a developmental psych class, but I'm having trouble getting my reading done and actually processing the information. We had our first test tonight and I'll be ecstatic if I get a B. I'm expecting a C. That might not seem like a big deal to some people, but to me it really is. I told my professor that I wasn't too sure how I was going to do on the test and she told me that I should have called her and she will work with me. If I don't do well I'm sure that she'll work with me anyway... she'll probably be pretty lax grading my essays. Definitely made the right decision by taking another one of her classes!!

Anyway, I'm going to post this now before it gets too late because I still have some other online crap to do.