Yes, I'm still alive.

I just didn't have a computer for a week. Dad's doing a massive upgrade on the family computers. Since I'm getting all the best stuff and he's using all of my old components to upgrade my mom's and my sister's I got to go first. But the procedure which should've taken a day ended up taking a week. First he had trouble porting the data from the old hard drive into the new one (more on that later) then when he finally got it to my house it crashed. He took it back to his place, spent another day working on it, and brought it back again. Couldn't get it on the network. Finally realized this computer doesn't like my network card as much as the old one did. So, network card replaced. It also didn't like my soundcard. Unfortunately he didn't have any lying around so that's in the mail and I'm musicless. Which brings me back to the hard drive difficulties. I have a partitioned drive and the D drive is where I keep my hundreds of MP3's. The D drive didn't port over and was in fact, considered lost for most of yesterday. I was grief stricken and a little overwhealmed. All my beautiful music. My rare *NSYNC tracks. Kasey Chambers singing Not Pretty Enough which I've been playing nonstop. Lance screaming "Somebody's touching my butt!" All gone. But Dad is wonderful. He spent 12 hours restoring my D drive and I have it all back. He put it on CD's for me. 12 CD's. He's bringing them to work today. And when I get my sound card I can listen to them. And I will be happy.

I'm feeling bad because somehow I was never informed of an evite I received to Ker's baby shower and it's tomorrow. In Virginia. And that's really not enough time to make the neccessary arrangements unless I skipped work today.

My car is working again. We took it to the Toyota dealership. Well, actually we were in the process of taking it to the Toyota dealership when it died in the middle of Phillipsburg and it had to be towed to the Toyota dealership. Apparently the problem was the ignition coil. So I have my car back and my wallet is $575.00 lighter. At least it will be when mom asks for her money back(I don't generally keep that kind of money in checking, so dad wrote a check for me).

Must get the house prepared for the puppy party next weekend. Looking forward to this is the only thing keeping me sane.

I haven't checked my Yahoo! mail yet. I'm dreading the size of my in-box.

I've been eating bad things this week. Must try to be good over the weekend.

My leg has been bothering me all week. It's weird. Sometimes it hurts around my knee. But not my knee really, behind my knee and up the back of my thigh. Sometimes it's my calf which throbs and hurts like hell. The other night it was my foot getting all swollen and throbbing to point where I thought I might have a blood clot except I had no other symptoms. And yesterday it was shooting pain up my hip. I've been exercising regularly all week and planned to do it today, but I'm wondering is maybe I should just rest my leg. But then the act of exercising doesn't hurt my leg, and it doesn't hurt any more or less after exercising than before. So I'm thinking maybe I'm just using this as an excuse to be lazy. I don't know. I guess I'll do it today and skip Saturday. I never do it on Sunday. So two straight days of rest, and I hope it will feel better.

Yesterday I was told we're expecting five admissions today. I'm not looking forward to work today.