My computer crashed not too long ago. My first thought was shear panic because how could I live without my computer. It’s my life line to everything that I ever wanted to know and then some. I paced back and forth as my husband gave me the news that we would have to strip it clean and start over from scratch. My computer was so infected with viruses that there was no saving it. I kept thinking how am I ever going to survive this tragedy. I kept asking “there’s got to be something we can do” but the answer was always “no, this was the only way”. My heart sank because how could I survive without my computer for any length of time.
I sat patiently watching as one thing after another was removed from my computer. With each step of the process I became more and more anxious, how was I going to ever recover from this. I kept wondering what I was missing on facebook, who had emailed me, and most importantly what new recipes were there on food network. Soon there was nothing on my computer, I just stared at it with disbelief, how could I survive this tragedy. After updating the antivirus software my husband began the process of reinstalling everything, or at least as much as he could. I kept thinking with today’s technology why was taking so long didn’t he understand that my facebook friends were waiting? Finally the moment that I was waiting for, enough had been reinstalled that I could get back on the internet. I was so giddy with excitement that I couldn’t contain myself.
I slowly logged on. I then quickly discovered that all my favorites had been removed, once again panic set in. I took a deep breath and thought “I’m a pretty smart person I can figure this out”. I typed in the site for facebook and within seconds up popped the sign in page, oh the excitement. I put in my user id and password, I was in. All I kept thinking was “I’m back”. I played games and read posts for hours and hours. I then thought I need to check out the food network as I was positive that there were recipes yet to be discovered. Once again I typed in the web site and there it was right in front of me. I scoured the sight as woman on a mission. I found many recipes and came up with ideas for parties yet planned. I kept thinking saying to myself “I’m back”. I still haven’t checked email so I guess I really can live without email at home. I will get around to it or maybe not. I figure that my friends can find me on facebook.
Through all this the one thing that I did discover is that yes I can live without a computer at home. I actually was able to finish reading a book that had been meaning to read. I also discovered that I had a lot of crap on my computer that I really didn’t need. I still haven’t finished putting everything back. Each time I think “I should reinstall my IPod” I come up with something else to do. I will eventually get everything reinstalled but until then I’m enjoying reading books and yes it is a real live paper back book.
