chilling out mac and relaxing all cool

There has been serious Apple injection in my life as of late. I suppose it's best to go in chronological order.

My birthday this year fell within two weeks of the renewal date of my phone plan. So as a part of my birthday present (a large part), Matt vowed to find an iPhone for me. After many calls, trips to various AT&T stores in the Rochester area, Matt tracked down a pair at the Apple store. So a few weeks after the glorious day of my birth, I had an iPhone in hand thanks to my awesome husband. It is so much fun to have. I can fit all of my music on it with room to spare, make my own custom ringtones, surf all of the internets, check my email.. all through the same device. This is also the first Apple device I've owned that can play video. I still haven't gotten over how neat that is. Among other things, Anna brought me back a card from ComicCon for a free episode of Dexter and I watched it on my phone during my lunchbreak -- so incredibly cool.

Then, while waiting for an iPod, my computer began it's drawn-out, dramatic death. If my office was a stage, the frankenstein desktop I've been using for the past few years would have been chewing the scenery with the way it went out. First, it stopped booting up in anything other than safe mode. Then it stopped recognizing my mouse and keyboard, so I had to switch them over to USB ports. Then those started being an on and off type of thing. Then the motherboard just... fried. That was it. I was planning on upgrading in the next few months and this forced my hand.

I type this blog entry now from the comfort of my living room, on my shiny, new Macbook Pro. This is amazing. There are no wonky fans screeching when I turn it on, no leaving the room for a drink, snack or visit to the local library when I need to use an Adobe program. I haven't had a new computer since I graduated high school. So going on 9 years. I made it through most of college with the HP desktop I bought with my card money. After that, I bought some parts to reanimate an old computer of Bill's and that got me through our years at Oxford University and up until the present (some ungodly number of power supplies and motherboards later). 

It's weird to have something that works after 'making do' for so long.