Current Mood: 
Alarmed
Mondays have always been one of the days of the week that I’ve actually looked forward to for a while now. When I was working, it always seemed like I managed to get Mondays off, and for school I’ve made sure not to schedule any of my classes on Mondays either. So once the hubby leaves for work and the kids are off to school Monday has kind of turned into my day for me. Some days I spend it doing things around the house, some days I spend it doing homework and some days I actually spend it doing as much nothing as I can!
Today is my son’s 15th birthday, so my first goal today was to have a decent morning so that his birthday wouldn’t start out on a bad note. It was “bad enough” that for the first time in a few years, the kid actually had school today. All was going well until it was time for me to head out the door to take my daughter to school. My son said something about having his keys which made my daughter realize that she didn’t have hers. Now, normally that’s not that big of a deal, but since last week, her key ring also includes the key to her gym locker, which she shares with two other girls. So not having the key meant that they wouldn’t be able to get into the locker and get their gym clothes which meant points off for gym. We looked for nearly 20 minutes for those keys until I finally told her that I we HAD to go or she would miss the bus. Wouldn’t you know it, since I was getting a later than normal start to her bus stop, I got behind another school bus that had to make several stops on a very narrow road. This meant that it was not possible for me to pass the bus, which ended in her missing the bus.
Now, normally this wouldn’t have been a bad thing except for the fact that my husband left me his truck, which was SUPER low on gas. There was no way there would be enough gas in the truck to make it all the way out to her school, and he had what cash we had, so I couldn’t go and put gas in it. So, I ended up with a brat child home with me today.
The rest of the day wasn’t going that bad until I went to put in the DVD for my one online class into my computer so that I could watch the assignment for this weeks assignment. For some reason the DVD wouldn’t auto play, so I went in to try and manually start it and discovered that somehow I had lost all the drivers for it. So I went to Gateways website and downloaded the drivers, installed them, restarted the computer, and NOTHING. The DVD drive still wasn’t recognized! I then talked to my best friend who is one heck of a computer guru and she suggested that I may have possibly lost my software to actually play the DVD’s. So I downloaded a trial version of a program to play DVD’s, installed it, restarted the computer, and NOTHING! I went directly into the DVD program and tried to add what I needed to play and got an error message saying I needed a DVD player installed on my computer.
I’ve known for a while now that I either needed to reformat this computer or replace it! Only 3 of the 8 USB ports are working, my card reader for the card from my camera keeps needing to be reformat every time I’ve taken it out of the card reader and it’s simply totally bogged down considering the size of the hard drive, the amount of memory and the processor I have on it, all of which are VERY good and not low. But the fact of the matter is, it’s a Gateway computer and it’s a HUGE P.O.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, I ended up watching my DVD on the portable DVD player at my desk and taking notes so that I would be able to answer the questions that I needed to. But it was just a HUGE amount of stress that I really didn’t need right now! I’ve had a couple of very crappy nights sleep along with a HUGE amount of stress from a situation that happened with my daughter over the weekend and all I wanted today was a quiet day so that I could get my homework done!
