Today, I discovered MyLifeIsAverage.com. It's a spinoff of FML, and stinking hilarious. I thought I would share some of my favorites with you.
1. Today, I found out my blood type is B. My parents are type A and O. It's not genetically possible to be blood type B if your parents are A and O. But it was ok since I knew I'm adopted. MLIA
2. Today my wife of 10 years left me. She came back after grocery shopping. She also got gas. MLIA
3. Today, I asked a pregnant-looking woman if she was pregnant. She was. MLIA.
4. Today, I had to choose between a strawberry flavored Dum Dum and a mystery flavored Dum Dum. I decided to be adventurous and choose the mystery flavor; it was strawberry flavored. MLIA
5. Today, I decided to tan on the balcony. I took my top off and my neighbor came out and saw me. He's a guy. So am I. We greeted each other. MLIA.
6. Today, no one wished me a happy birthday. I wasn't suprised, today isn't my birthday. MLIA.
7. Today, I was texting my friend. I accidentally sent it to the wrong person. It was not a revealing or embarrassing message. Everything is all right. MLIA
8. Today, I wore Axe body spray. I wasn't tackled by any women. MLIA.
9. Today, I accidentally knocked over a bottle of water near my computer. It was okay though. The cap was on. MLIA.
10. Today I got my hair cut at Great Clips and when they called out the name "Ryan" I saw that Ryan was deep in conversation so I pretended to be him. MLIA.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Oh, Trixie
Bear with me: this does have a point other than telling you about Trixie’s issues.
For those of you who don’t know, Trixie is my laptop. A few weeks ago, I went to put her to bed for the night, and noticed she had some updates she wanted to install, so I shut her down and let her install them. When I woke up the next morning (at 4:45) to register for classes, she refused to let me connect to the internet. No matter how hard I tried, she wouldn’t let me on. She told me I was connected, but wouldn’t let me browse anything.
So, I went for two weeks without the internet, waiting for my cousin Thatch to look at her. He spent a day trying to figure out what was wrong, pinging different things and running IP Configs all over the place (whatever all that means), and he still couldn’t diagnose her. So, being the curious girl that I am, I wondered what would happen if I restored her to her factory settings. In preparation for running a total restore, I spent a good hour backing up all of my files to my external hard drive, and began exploring my options. I soon discovered that I could restore to a certain point, and one of the points listed was the night before she installed her wacked out updates. So, crossing my fingers, I restored her to how she was that night. When she came back on, her internet worked!
So, I promptly got on Facebook and announced my success to the world! Trixie was cured, and at my hands! I didn’t have to take her to IT or call Dell; I fixed her! When I went to put her to sleep again for the night, I saw the little icon that means she wants to install updates, but I didn’t shut her down this time. I was not going to let her re-install the updates that made her sick. I woke up the next morning, got on the internet, still elated that I no longer had to walk to MMTH to get on Facebook. I went through my day telling everyone my good news- that Trixie was finally cured! That night, the update icon was still there, and I did the same thing- refused to shut her down. I was sure I had figured out how to keep her healthy: don’t let her install the updates. I just had to never shut her down. Simple, right?
I thought so- until I woke up the next morning. I went to get on the internet and check my e-mail before class, and what do I see when I open Internet Explorer? The 6 words that I currently hate the most…
“Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage.”
No. Please no. Not again.
So I minimized the browser, and looked at my internet connection. As my eyes got to the bottom of the screen, a tiny little bubble popped up and said, “Your computer has been restarted and updates have been installed. Click here to view which updates were installed.”
I flipped out. I was so mad! I did not tell her to shut down! I thought I specifically told her not to! Needless to say, I’m very upset with Trixie right now, and I’m in MMTH typing this, because Mack took her home to call Dell. According to them, it’s a software issue, and she has to be totally restored.
And here comes the point of this blog- I promised there was one. I started thinking about how Trixie made herself sick, and how I restored her and told her not to shut down again, because that’s what messed her up in the first place, and then she went and did it anyway. Then I realized that as humans, we act like this on a daily basis. We screw up our lives, the Lord restores us, reveals to us what the problem was, and yet we go and do the same thing again and again and again- knowing we’re going to receive the same consequences. I’m just glad the Lord doesn’t treat us like I treated Trixie- I gave up on her and shipped her off with Mack, refusing to restore her every two days. Think about what would happen if God refused to fix us every time we messed up- we would be in an extremely sad situation. We would be living lives empty of hope and purpose.
Praise Jesus that He loves us enough to consistently fix our mistakes and clean up after us! I’m so thankful for that!
For those of you who don’t know, Trixie is my laptop. A few weeks ago, I went to put her to bed for the night, and noticed she had some updates she wanted to install, so I shut her down and let her install them. When I woke up the next morning (at 4:45) to register for classes, she refused to let me connect to the internet. No matter how hard I tried, she wouldn’t let me on. She told me I was connected, but wouldn’t let me browse anything.
So, I went for two weeks without the internet, waiting for my cousin Thatch to look at her. He spent a day trying to figure out what was wrong, pinging different things and running IP Configs all over the place (whatever all that means), and he still couldn’t diagnose her. So, being the curious girl that I am, I wondered what would happen if I restored her to her factory settings. In preparation for running a total restore, I spent a good hour backing up all of my files to my external hard drive, and began exploring my options. I soon discovered that I could restore to a certain point, and one of the points listed was the night before she installed her wacked out updates. So, crossing my fingers, I restored her to how she was that night. When she came back on, her internet worked!
So, I promptly got on Facebook and announced my success to the world! Trixie was cured, and at my hands! I didn’t have to take her to IT or call Dell; I fixed her! When I went to put her to sleep again for the night, I saw the little icon that means she wants to install updates, but I didn’t shut her down this time. I was not going to let her re-install the updates that made her sick. I woke up the next morning, got on the internet, still elated that I no longer had to walk to MMTH to get on Facebook. I went through my day telling everyone my good news- that Trixie was finally cured! That night, the update icon was still there, and I did the same thing- refused to shut her down. I was sure I had figured out how to keep her healthy: don’t let her install the updates. I just had to never shut her down. Simple, right?
I thought so- until I woke up the next morning. I went to get on the internet and check my e-mail before class, and what do I see when I open Internet Explorer? The 6 words that I currently hate the most…
“Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage.”
No. Please no. Not again.
So I minimized the browser, and looked at my internet connection. As my eyes got to the bottom of the screen, a tiny little bubble popped up and said, “Your computer has been restarted and updates have been installed. Click here to view which updates were installed.”
I flipped out. I was so mad! I did not tell her to shut down! I thought I specifically told her not to! Needless to say, I’m very upset with Trixie right now, and I’m in MMTH typing this, because Mack took her home to call Dell. According to them, it’s a software issue, and she has to be totally restored.
And here comes the point of this blog- I promised there was one. I started thinking about how Trixie made herself sick, and how I restored her and told her not to shut down again, because that’s what messed her up in the first place, and then she went and did it anyway. Then I realized that as humans, we act like this on a daily basis. We screw up our lives, the Lord restores us, reveals to us what the problem was, and yet we go and do the same thing again and again and again- knowing we’re going to receive the same consequences. I’m just glad the Lord doesn’t treat us like I treated Trixie- I gave up on her and shipped her off with Mack, refusing to restore her every two days. Think about what would happen if God refused to fix us every time we messed up- we would be in an extremely sad situation. We would be living lives empty of hope and purpose.
Praise Jesus that He loves us enough to consistently fix our mistakes and clean up after us! I’m so thankful for that!
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