I think I'm in love...

[katiefoolery]

I think I'm in love with my computer. Is that wrong? I mean, sure, I've been quite fond of computers in the past, despite their tendency to be incredibly irritating and/or stop working entirely. And I do like my netbook quite a lot, mostly due to its smallness, cuteness and general state of shininess.

But I think I've fallen in love with my notebook.

Maybe it's because I've always had a desktop computer as my main machine. It's rather difficult to fall in love with one of those: they're giant, they get in the way and they're damned noisy. Whereas, there's my HP, with its pretteh swirly cover, its shiny screen, its generously-sized keyboard and its relative lack of noise. Not to mention its remote control. I won't go in to how excited I was to discover the remote lets me control whatever music programme I happen to be using at the time, not just Windows Media Centre.

And I subsequently won't go in to the fact that I was excited about this despite being fully aware of the fact that I usually won't need to use said remote, because I'll be sitting right in front of my computer while I'm playing music on it.

But you never know. Maybe, one day, I'll need to use that remote and it will be so convenient when that day arrives. Provided I've remembered to keep the remote with me, rather than leaving it slotted in its housing in the computer.

EVEN SO.

I'm not alone in this laptop-love, though, am I? There must be other people out there who adore their computers and fret about them if they ever have to be sent away. Yes? Yes? Tell me yes.


P.S. I wrote more words! And I have many more stuck in my head which shall be extracted tonight, assuming I don't get distracted by the shininess that is my computer. :D

Comments

[theemdash]

I AM ALSO IN LOVE WITH MY LAPTOP.

It's okay. It's okay to love.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm not alone!

It's so shiny and beautiful - it's impossible not to love it. :D

[joyinthedance.livejournal.com]

The first time I got a laptop was went I went to university, and I fell in love with it too! I thought it was the cutest thing ever. I totally hear you on this one. :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I've had others - this is the... fourth, I think. But I didn't use the others on a regular basis, so the love was very distant. It's so good to know there are others feeling the love for inanimate objects. :D

[seagull-fred.livejournal.com]

I totally understand your laptop love. I left mine in England, with Ian's parents, because we decided just to bring Ian's across.

*small voice* But his laptop is a boy laptop. All square and hard edges and souped-up hardware. Mine was a lovely Acer laptop with inbuilt wireless. I can't wait to go back and visit it again... :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh, I couldn't abandon it like that! That's just painful. And I definitely couldn't share a laptop - it's much too personal a thing.

Are you sending your laptop postcards while you're away from it? :D

[frohike.livejournal.com]

How is GYWO working out for you?
Personally I'm still grossly behind. And hampered by last months grossly behindedness. I think my grand total stands at something akin to 5,000ish. When at the end of the month I should be at 30,000+. 25,000 words in ten days? Unlikely.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I am failing in epic fashion! Have you seen the January stats post (http://community.livejournal.com/getyourwordsout/37233.html)? HEAPS of people are behind their quota, never fear. Five thousand words is pretty good, I think. It's more than I have. :D

[frohike.livejournal.com]

Yeah I saw the stats, I felt better til I realised some people had exceeded their goal by more than 10,000 words. I mean, do those people no have jobs? They must have butlers to cook and clean for them, otherwise where the hell else do they find the time?
And I think failing together is acceptable. As I recall you went for the minimum, same as me. Thusly, I take it upon myself to encourage you and other such things. Therefore:
Get a wriggle on! If you do not immediately drop what you are doing and write a minimum of 150 words (standalone piece or otherwise) when you read this post. You will be officially .... um, ooh I will officially berate you in your own journal! So there!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I cannot work out where people fit in the time to write! It's my first year back working full time, added to which are my beta-ing and vlogging commitments... and I swear I barely have time to sleep.

And now, I shall respond to your challenge right here...

It was cold and she couldn't work out why. Cold eating into her skin. Cold flowing through her veins. Cold freezing her thoughts, her movements, her existence.

It was dark, too, although it was an uninvited darkness. Like a night that had decided not to end and had forbidden the sun to rise in the morning. Unnatural and unassailable.

And really damned annoying.

The coldness was starting to fall on her skin – gentle flakes of ice that dusted her bare arms and melted into fleeting liquid. Was this the rain her grandparents had spoken of? The water that fell from the sky and was greedily drunk by the earth?

At some point, she realised she could make the darkness go away. It was simple: all she had to do was open her eyes.

All.

It turned out to be the greatest effort she had ever made in her life. Whole days seemed to pass before light greeted her sight. So bright. Too bright.

She was lying in a field of cold and powdery white... and she had no idea how she’d gotten there.

That's 183 words! Yay! I am encouraged and I have avoided an official berating in my own journal. :D

[frohike.livejournal.com]

Excellent work! And nice little ficlet btw. Keep it up. I'm off to stare at a blank page write something, damnit.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thanks for inspiring me! I hope your own writing's going well tonight.

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

I LOVE MY LAPTOP

(Sadly it is dying).

Msn tonight?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yay!

For the love, that is. Bah for the dyingness. Aren't you planning on getting yourself a pretteh new pink one soon?

And yes! I'll be on later, definitely. :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Or I might fail entirely, due to my video taking a million years to edit. Seriously. It's only three and a half minutes of footage but it takes hours to put it together.

Tomorrow night! Or, uh, tonight, since it's now too late to be awake or coherent or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually there was a big electrical storm here last night so I turned my puter off anyways.

I will be on tonight barring the apocalypse.

-Turks

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm feeling so generous I think I'll be on even if there is an apocalypse. :D

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

You better...*threatening eyebrows*

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm in love with my laptop. His name is Bernard and he is awesome!

(Crazed lunatic who names her appliances? Who, me?)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for laptop-love! And is that Bernard as in Black Books Bernard? Or something else entirely?

Actually, a lot of the time I think I'm weird because I don't name my appliances and device. It feels like almost everybody else does.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

No, he's Bernard after Bernard Blancus (Bernard the White) in Pagan's Vows. He's a white iBook, of course. Bernard Blancus is a 'fat monk who's always blocking the doorways' when you're in a hurry, but my Bernard is not annoying like that at all.

I've also had laptops called Segundo ('the Second') and Loki (as in the Troublemaker), but they weren't Macs, of course. :P

[http://users.livejournal.com/traycer_/]

I'm not alone in this laptop-love, though, am I?

Oh, heck no!! I LOVE my laptop to pieces!! And am a wreck when it gets sick. :) You are definitely not alone!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of love for laptops out there! It's good to know. :D

[gwencameron.livejournal.com]

You are ... DEFINITELY ... not alone in this thing called Laptop-Love.

And you are in good company, too, with the way-low word count,. (Or is it me that's in good company?) Haha - whatever!

Keep going; I want to see more little ficlets.

:D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I'm in good company twice over, in that case. Although, if people keep up with this encouragement business, I may be headed for higher word count company any day soon. :)

[elfie-chan.livejournal.com]

I, too, love my little netbook. It needs recharging, though.

Yaaay for words! ^_^

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It is a pretteh little netbook, I must admit! It's very understandable love.

Yay for words indeed! How's your own writing goal coming along? Should I be getting out my sharp stick and prodding you with it?

[elfie-chan.livejournal.com]

The sharp stick may yet become necessary. However, I am headed to Mexico this week, and, as the area I am visiting is mainly beach and I am not the basking type, I plan to get some writing done.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh wow - away on another trip? I'm so jealous of all of your travelling. :D While you're in Mexico, I shall start sharpening up a stick... just in case.

[elfie-chan.livejournal.com]

Hee! Trips are fun, up to a point. This will be a family vacation--we'll see how it goes. I'm bringing lots of projects, just in case.