I’ve Lost My Mind And Alan Rickman.
Chris is very good about computer maintenance. In fact, he’s so good, that after several days of trying to restore a problem that proved impossible, he wiped the entire hard drive. Now, he did save the documents and music and photos before he wiped, so I can’t be too upset. However, he also wiped all of my Pampered Chef stuff (took hours to re-input), destroyed my internet favorites list (If I’m not visiting your site any longer, it’s because I CAN’T FIND YOU), Made Word Perfect dissapear (Oh! The Typos! You’ll All Be Blinded!) and, on top of that, lost my wall paper. I now have a stupid rolling hill with an annoyingly blue sky behind. I know you’re think, jeez, Lou, it’s just wallpaper, move on and move up and all that. . .but people- this wasn’t ordinary wallpaper! This was wallpaper from the movie Sense & Sensibility, wallpaper that featured Alan Rickman as Col. Brandon, beautifully combining my literary crush with a VERY ATTRACTIVE MAN who I just happen to really enjoy looking at about six hundred times a day when I pass my computer. It was a nice light green, and Kate Winselt was on it too ( never looked at her much, cute as she is), and I really miss it, so if someone out there in internet land could locate that for me, I’d be so grateful! I’ve searched and searched to no avail.
I did find this, which was quite funny.
I must also say a big thank you to day to a dear reader who sent me a pacakge in the mail, just because she’s sweet! In it were three books, including one I’ve been dying to read: Stiff- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. I never thought I’d be so excited about dead bodies, but look! I am! Go figure. Anyway, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!
(Yes, I know I’ve used more exclamation points in this post than I’ve used in my entire blog. I don’t know what’s come over me. And also, before you send me hate mail about the fact that I’m a married woman and shouldn’t be looking at other men, let me just mention Chris’ undying love of Keira Knightly- we’re even, and we’re both happy, and in the event that either of these people fall madly in love with either of us. . .well, now, that’s so unlikley we haven’t even bothered with a contigency plan.)
*Edited to add- Chris reinstalled wordperfect, so I can type now! He also, bless his heart, saved Alan! So I have a hot desktop once more 
Isn’t Chris great?
Im glad it was fixed with MINIMAL losses! LOL
Comment by Adrienne — March 17, 2006 @ 10:35 pm
Anything on these two sites to tickle your fancy? We can’t have you Alanless!
Comment by Sarah — March 17, 2006 @ 11:24 pm
I LOVE Alan Rickman. Oooh, that VOICE!!
Comment by mom on a wire — March 18, 2006 @ 6:01 pm
Hey, if Alan saw you he’d be twitterpated, you know it
My dh has been threatening to do the same thing to our hard drive.
Comment by Lawanda — March 18, 2006 @ 6:03 pm
Okay. Dan just wiped and replaced my hard-drive too and it was amazing how many things I didn’t think I needed backed up but then missed once they were gone. That site is so funny. I recently found something similar but was afraid to post about it, in case the person decided to stalk me instead….in a bad way.
Oh, and thanks for the PC stuff. It arrived safely and I’m so excited.
Comment by kathryn, dym — March 19, 2006 @ 7:07 am
Hey! I read that book (stiff)- fascinating stuff. I am NEVER going to die…
Reminds me: your package is ready, but your address is dead on our old harddrive…
Comment by scott — March 19, 2006 @ 5:59 pm
Husbands should not be allowed to tamper with their wives’ pcs. It always causes headaches. Sorry you lost your favorites and wallpaper and PC stuff hunny.
Comment by DenimRose — March 20, 2006 @ 6:01 pm
I’ll have you all know (Lou’s husband here) that I did back up all pictures, including that one. Wordperfect is on a CD ready to be installed. Anything else not backed up (like her favorites) were because I asked,”This is what I have backed up. Do you need anything else backed up?” She said,”No, that is all I really care about.” So it is not my fault.
Comment by Chris — March 20, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
We are limping from big time computer troubles on this end. Today is the first day back since early Thursday AM.
Comment by Kim — March 20, 2006 @ 10:02 pm
I can really relate about the loss of comp information. But I have to say the men in my life have always saved the day. Can’t complain there if it wasn’t for these guys and they were depending on my comp skill we’d be in a really bad way. It just goes to show we have all become too dependant on our comp. I can’t even spell anymore, I am spell check dependant. It made me smile to read Chris defend himself.
Comment by Soli — March 21, 2006 @ 1:06 am
Glad there weren’t TOO many losses!!! I hate the teletubbies hill, but I like ALan!!!
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Comment by Adrienne — March 21, 2006 @ 9:07 pm
Funny how much disappears in one swipe. My DH is getting good at rebraining our computer with minimal losses. I am illiterate comp wise.
Comment by Jen — March 22, 2006 @ 9:23 pm
Nice blogg. Good Job!
Comment by liliann — October 31, 2007 @ 4:12 am