THIS ROCKS!!!

This post is coming to you courtesy of my hobby room in the top of the house...on MY OWN COMPUTER!!! YAY!!!! I gave the challenge to my hubby about two weeks ago to build me my own PC with the spare parts, mice and keyboards that are strewn around the house. This is the chain of events that occurred:

- mother board that has been sitting on a shelf waiting for a CPU for about a year got a new kick-butt CPU
- that combo ended up in Athens (All computers in our house are named after major European cities to help with the network.)
- Athens Mother board and CPU went into Berlin.
- Berlin's Motherboard and CPU went into my new/old baby, re-christened, Dublin.

This is when things started getting a little crazy.

- The power supply that we though was good, wasn't.
- New power supply bought.
- The video card was a dud.
- Cue digging another video card out of the pile.
- Mommy decides that she hates the behemoth monitor that would have gone into her cute little pink hobby room so talks Daddy into letting her get from Costco this morning a brand new "17 Acer monitor for $179! YAY WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! (I LOVE IT!)
- Computer is now formated, booted with Windows XP, and is getting all the programs I want on it.
- Cue Daddy having to buy a wireless network booster so that I can watch my Torrented TV upstairs.
- Cue Daddy adding to the order a set of speakers and sub woofer so that I can hear said TV.

This "free" computer is ending up costing us a bit of a chunk! :(

Oh well, I'm VERY VERY VERY happy being able to have my own little PC. It is at the point in our family that J would be on one with The Boy on the other in the office. We now officially have one PC per person living in our house. We are geeks.

My vacation is going great! I slept in to 8am, Mom and Dad are up for the weekend so we all got up and got moving. Mom and I went to Costco first thing because we needed TP and a few other essentials, (This is the part where I called J on the cell and talked him into the monitor. Did I mention that this is also going to be my birthday present so if I whine about not getting anything in July slap me.), Mom was AWESOME and bought J and I a present! She bought us a Costco Memebership!!!! YAY!!!!! Out to Carleton Place for the dealz at Price Chopper, then back home to eat some lunch. This afternoon I took advantage of Mom and Dad being here and had a nap for an hour and a half. I have been so worn out lately. I could go to bed now and be happy!

Anyway, I'm going to go see if I can get a game of Sequence going with the folk. Tomorrow they head for home and I have a Movie night booked with KCh.

Blog ya later!