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I have almost everything ready for gifts tomorrow -- I'm missing one order, and that package is out for delivery, so it should arrive in time. I'm even wrapping things. I usually hate wrapping and I'm a big fan of brown paper bags, but I decided to use up the last of the paper so I don't have to store it anymore.
E and I went downtown to the toy store today and got the last gifts we needed for littles -- his god-children and my twin cousins. I don't usually get cousins anything, but they're five and they'll be joining us for Christmas dinner. (I thought they'd be at my grandparents, which is why I didn't have anything yet).
The sun is shining, my living room is clean, and I have a functioning computer again. Yay!
Even better? Lyns took my hard drives home yesterday and fired 'em up. She says it looks like only the boot sector is bad, and she should be able to save all the data. There may be some missing audio files as well, but I'm not too worried -- the ones that are AWOL are all ripped from CDs I own. Replacing them will be tedious (they were part of my exhaustive tagging project), but doable.
It's a holiday mackerel!
I don't have drives-and-data back yet, but the weight's off my mind. Now, to put on music and finish wrapping things, and call E's mum (which I've never done before, funnily). Then it'll either be art or video games until we head to my folks' house for dinner.
We'll be back over at my parents' for packages and stockings Christmas morning. It should be extra fun this year, because my friend Kiyoko is joining us. I don't remember if I've mentioned her much here -- Kiyo and I were room-mates for about five months in college, and met my family then. She came back to visit a handful of times, and I've been to Japan and visited her once. She finally worked out a way to do more English study this year, and she's been in the states since April. She lived with my parents up until september, when she moved to auburn to go to community college there, and she's back for the holidays! :)
I would have happily had her live with me -- she was a wonderful room-mate -- but I have to charge rent on my extra rooms to make my mortgage payment, and my parents just offered her the chance to be an extra kid. :)
E and I went downtown to the toy store today and got the last gifts we needed for littles -- his god-children and my twin cousins. I don't usually get cousins anything, but they're five and they'll be joining us for Christmas dinner. (I thought they'd be at my grandparents, which is why I didn't have anything yet).
The sun is shining, my living room is clean, and I have a functioning computer again. Yay!
Even better? Lyns took my hard drives home yesterday and fired 'em up. She says it looks like only the boot sector is bad, and she should be able to save all the data. There may be some missing audio files as well, but I'm not too worried -- the ones that are AWOL are all ripped from CDs I own. Replacing them will be tedious (they were part of my exhaustive tagging project), but doable.
It's a holiday mackerel!
I don't have drives-and-data back yet, but the weight's off my mind. Now, to put on music and finish wrapping things, and call E's mum (which I've never done before, funnily). Then it'll either be art or video games until we head to my folks' house for dinner.
We'll be back over at my parents' for packages and stockings Christmas morning. It should be extra fun this year, because my friend Kiyoko is joining us. I don't remember if I've mentioned her much here -- Kiyo and I were room-mates for about five months in college, and met my family then. She came back to visit a handful of times, and I've been to Japan and visited her once. She finally worked out a way to do more English study this year, and she's been in the states since April. She lived with my parents up until september, when she moved to auburn to go to community college there, and she's back for the holidays! :)
I would have happily had her live with me -- she was a wonderful room-mate -- but I have to charge rent on my extra rooms to make my mortgage payment, and my parents just offered her the chance to be an extra kid. :)
