Time for a real entry

I’m having a baby shower! Please visit:

http://www.webbabyshower.com/mullen/

Okay, lol… I realize I "talk" too much.  Though, REALLY, I would write this much even without an audience.  NOT that I’ve HAD much of an audience lately anyway.  But that’s okay, because I do write for myself, always have, always will.  If I didn’t have THIS diary to vent to, I’d vent somewhere else.  I’ve written on and off since I was 10.   More OFF than on then, but still…
Anyway, my last entry was really short for me.  So I figured I’d write another.  It’s going as slow as molasses in springtime though.  Close some tabs… nope, still slow.  Hm, what is UP with this computer all of a sudden?   May be time to restart it.  Nothing like a restart to clear the problems.   I had a pop up… Firefox isn’t supposed to allow them.  Blasted ad-ware anyway.  Like I NEED stores or anyone else for that matter tracking me.  I’m becoming so freaking paranoid about this stuff.  I really need to get a good virus checker, though TYPICALLY on a mac, they were not needed… macs have a low history of viruses.  However, with the Unix core now, it would be easier to write viruses for them, because it’s not so difficult to cross-platform the darn things anymore.  So you write a virus for ONE Unix platform, tweak it a little for the mac platform, and voila!  You’ve got a virus.  I shouldn’t be so danged lazy with this machine.  I don’t keep anything life changing on it, and I back up my precious pictures pretty often-though I’m due for a back up, haven’t made one since, what, Jan?  Wow… time flies.  It probably feels like less time, because then I backed up ALL the pictures I’d ever taken to DVD, and it was quite an undertaking, when you consider my DVD-R is like a 1 speed, and it takes a good HOUR to back anything up to it.  This computer overall is OLD, but I got the DVD-R cheap as a result.  Less than 50 bucks.  When I first bought the computer, it was like 600 or something to put in a DVD-R, and I simply didn’t have the money…even working for Apple and getting a discount on the machine.   I really wish when I DID have money, that I’d bought a new computer, but back then, this one wasn’t that old.  Now… after almost 7 years, it’s feeling pretty darned old.  Though I always have to ask myself… does it REALLY matter?  What am I doing with it other than surfing the web, printing pictures and text, reading the occasional PDF file, listening to iTunes here and there, and MAYBE playing with Photoshop?  Which runs incredibly slow on this computer, but even my copy of PS7 is old.  By about 3 generations…  anyway, I’m ready for a new computer, for sure.  My "ideal" computer would set me back 4 grand, plus another 1000 for Photoshop (and MAYBE Illustrator, to make using the wishblade easier.  Though I only "need" CS2, not CS3)

Okay, so I saw the doctor again today, and when I got there, they all wanted to know what I was doing there so soon?  Yea… me too.  The doctor asked me if I’d had my sonogram… no, because I wasn’t told to get one.  So he had the office staff give me a card to call and get an appointment for the sonogram, that’s next Monday, right before my NEXT doctor’s appt.  They REALLY have their heads up their you-know-whats, because when I told the gal at the desk the doctor said to make the appt for next Monday, she asks "Are you sure?  That’s less than a week away."  I told her she could ask him if she wanted… so she got on the phone, the doctor came and went, and after she got off the phone she says "Did you ask him?"  "No, because I thought you wanted to ask him.  I know he said Monday."  So she caught him in the hallway, and sure enough… Monday.  Christ.
What else?  There was the part where he told me (even though the preemptive eligibility gives me a MONTH) that after another week or two, if I didn’t have insurance, their office wouldn’t see me. 
Thanks a LOT.

Okay, this entry was written last night.  I’m going to post it now.  I got interrupted by a phone call, so if it seems to end abruptly, my apologies.