It Seems Like Years Since It's Been Clear

WHY HAVE I NO ANGRY ICONS. I NEED AN ANGRY ICON. THIS ONE WILL HAVE TO DO.

ANYWAY I AM RAGING LOOK AT THIS

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/15/baskin.robbins.retires.flavors/index.html?section=cnn_latest

LOOK AT THIS NONSENSE DO YOU SEE IT. THEY ARE RETIRING 5 FLAVORS

FRENCH VANILLA IS ONE

VANILLA IS MY FAVORITEST BESIDES COOKIE DOUGH

WHY THEY DO THIS. WHY. FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE. I AM IVYSMASHING RTFN.

MY CAPSLOCK DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO SHOW YOU MY RAGE. RAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

-12:01 PM

Siiiiiiiiiiigh. This computer needs to stop doing this.

It takes forever to start up. Everything lags. The graphics cards keep wigging out. I forgot to mention here, though I ranted mightily on twitter, that the graphics card acted up in such a strange way I feared for my computer. Again. But I was NOT HAVING THAT. See, my mother was sick, and when my mother is sick she doesn't cook or go out and buy food, so I was starving. When I'm hungry you do not want to cross me. And then the graphics card causes strange problems like glitching out sims and then making me have to manually shut it off, and when it comes back there are LINES ON THE SCREEN (hmm, this sounds familiar) and I can only run it in safe mode, otherwise it's an endless loop of starting, getting to a certain point, and then restarting.

Knowing that it seemed to wig out while I was playing my game, I figured it must be the graphics card again.

So I flipped over the tower, opened it up, and flailed wildly for a bit. How do you get a graphics card out? I couldn't remember. There are thingies you push! But without the internet for guidance I couldn't look up which thingies. WHICH THINGIES DO YOU PUUUUUUUSH. Eventually my Hulk powers kicked in- I was HUNGRY, and this is MY BELOVED COMPUTER, and YOU DO NOT MESS WITH MY COMPUTER. YOU DO NOT. Especially not when I'm hungry. So I pushed some levers, wiggled some things, and BAM. I yanked that damn thing out like nobody's business without even breaking it or the computer, pretty much on sheer willpower alone at that point.

I hooked it back up and everything was fine. While on the integrated card I ran sims again to see if it was possibly the game causing trouble, but nope. So I put in the card my boyfriend gave me last time it went crazy and everything looks beautiful, no trouble at all.

Why do graphics cards hate me?

I didn't even bother with tech support this time. If all they're going to do is make me (or more accurately, my mother) spend hours on the phone with people who can't speak English and then send me barely functioning morons to put graphics cards that could potentially hurt my computer in, then forget it. I give up.

Well, anyway. Besides all that my beloved computer is very slow. I have tried everything I can think of. I do not have viruses. I do not have multiple programs running that shouldn't be. I only have I think 3 that run at startup, one of which is our virus/malware scanner. I've tried cleaning registry errors. It regularly scans itself for viruses/blahblah and does a weekly maintenence including defragmenting and deleting unnecessary files. I've moved a large number of files off of the harddrive completely. We got her in February 2007, but later in 2007 or maybe 2008 I think...? we had to get a new harddrive because of... well, I never really did figure out what went wrong, just that we needed a new harddrive. So this computer is a few years old but not so terribly old it should be like this. All of my programs are up to date. I let Windows update when it feels like. I don't have the money for a new computer right now and I really don't want to have to reinstall windows (which is the last solution most people mention).

I'd just like it to get its act together. My boyfriend's similar computer is about the same age and is full to bursting with giant files and programs and it runs like a dream. I don't get it. I think I might buy more memory for it, if I get any more aggravated.

First person who says anything at all about having a Mac, buying one, I should get one, blah blah gets scalped and fed said scalp. JS.

-9:57 AM

I need a slushie.


Also, glasses are broken. Need new frames (most likely). Going to Wal*Mart today to see what they can do; if they don't have THESE frames, I'll probably die, because I'm so picky. Can you blame me? These things are pasted to my face, like, 19 of the 24 hours in a day. They HAVE to not be ugly.

Of course, they'll have to take them away from me, which means I'll either be wearing my very old old glasses that are bent and silver and not pretty sleek black, but they're wire frames like these and have the half-frame thing going on around the lens so the only adjustment will be my blindness. It's either that or be blind as a bat for a week or more, depending. Wal*Mart actually has great eye care, believe it or not. The doctor I saw last time was a total sweetheart and super professional, and the other people (what do you call them? technicians?) are always super helpful when I break or bend or whatever them, and it's almost always no charge to have them adjusted, except when you need new nosepads, those are $2.01. Why the penny tho?

Sooooo I'll be blind for awhile. It's not like I have many places to go, anyway.


Maybe I'll get a slushie for my troubles. (They're currently held together with tape. TAPE. because BOTH arms are broken ARE YOU KIDDING ME. I DESERVE A SLUSHIE FOR MY SHAME.)

-ivybslushflower (ivybglassflower?) @ 10:49 AM

They traded Akinori Iwamura. They traded my Aki to the Pirates (THE PIRATES.)

I'm in tears as I type this. WTF. I hate baseball.

-6:28 PM

PEOPLE. KEEP AHOLD OF YOUR DOGS. IT IS NOT THAT HARD AND IF IT IS YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS OWNING DOGS.
Two little white guys, not the same breed but looking sort of related, maybe mutts, idk, were just wandering around in my backyard, sniffing at the screen room. Considering the fact that the sky looks like death and there's a severe thunderstorm warning out, I was worried. I gathered up my courage (I'm terrified of dogs, like whoa) and went outside, but they were gone. I think I saw one barking at someone a few houses away, so I think the dogs managed to get home okay, but still. The weather is too bad in the summer (either scorchingly hot or dangerously rainy/lightning-y) for dogs to be outside. COLLARLESS DOGS, no less. Jesus. I hope they both got home okay.
Seriously, folks. I am too sick to be worrying about your dogs. Now my head is aching and for some reason my neck hurts. I should be in bed, not chasing your animals. *angryface*

OKAY WHO IS TALKING WHY DO I HEAR A DOG BARKING/MAN'S VOICE, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING. wtf is going on.

More as this story ~develops

-3:19 PM