NWR - I have a new computer!

hellosweetie1015

So... on March 16th, I moved back in with my parents - got a job in my hometown, had a lease in the city where I'd been living, couldn't afford two rents, yada yada. On March 26th, my parents' house burned. My computer - which I had taken to work with me for the first whole week, but didn't ever use so I quit doing that - was pretty much right by the origin. Roasted, quite literally.

Since then, I've been using my cell phone (which is cracked and useless), my work computer (which is on my desk at work, since it's a DESKtop), or my dad's computer (which usually gets me the demon-eyes and bitched at). Contents insurance money is slowly trickling in, but since my computer was definitely a back-burner deal, I hadn't said anything about it. Especially since I'd really like a mattress that has something more substantial than air in it, and certainly since most of my stuff was still safe in my old apartment while my mom's mom's jewelry and her dad's mandolin and all this sentimental, irreplaceable stuff was being mourned.

So today we were going to look at mattresses. I was very excited. Until I found out that NO plans had changed and we were going to get my computer. I had a Macbook. Replacing it cost more than TWO mattress sets.

I cried until I got it out of the box and I haven't put it down since.

I am very excited, but also feeling very selfish to be this excited when we still don't have couches or mattresses or anything.

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CMGragain

My son set his house on fire.  He was messing with wood shellac (alcohol based) and managed to make a fireball.  At 3:00AM he was standing outside of his house wearing nothing but a scorched pair of jeans.  There was $90,000 damage, and he lost everything in his bedroom, as well as most of his furniture.
After they released him from the Johns Hopkins burn unit with his hands bandaged like The Mummy, He showed up on his sister's doorstep, and slept 12 hours on the couch.
He went shopping two days later.  Did he buy clothes?  No. He went to Best Buy to a new phone and computer!  I was 2000 miles away, and freaking out!  Two days later, a girl friend dragged him to Kohl's to buy underwear, shoes, t-shirts and jeans without burn holes.  Total geek nerd boy!
Two years later, his hands have healed, his house is rebuilt, and he still doesn't care about his clothes!  When he showed up for Mom's funeral in Iowa, I took him shopping immediately.  To my credit, he likes the clothes, and he said a few ladies have complimented him when he wears them.\
My DH just bought a new computer.  We are knee deep in newspapers and old mail because he hasn't done anything around the house since it arrived, and he won't let me throw it out until he's read it.  Ugh!
Sorry you had to go through that.  Have fun learning Windows 8?

hellosweetie1015

Glad your son wasn't hurt! That kind of sounds like my dad - A) that is DEFINITELY something I can see him doing, and the first things he grabbed were his laptop and some of his rented Computer Science textbooks. And then he grabbed his guitar. And then the bird's cage. So I doubt your son will ever get better about the clothes, haha. Sorry... you're probably stuck with a total geek nerd boy...

Also - that sucks. Is it a computer you can hide easily? Or could you maybe take the monitor/mouse/other necessity until he read it? Or maybe bribe him! Anyway, the newspapers I'd chunk anyway if they were more than a few days old (and teach him how to read an online version! I bet he would actually really like that!).

OH no, haha. I worked in an office supply store when Windows 8 came out - there's NO WAY I'm using that crap. It SUCKED. For real it was the worst ever. I mean, I'm not one of those Windows H8r people, I have no real issues with it as a general rule, but I will.not.ever. use Windows 8. Unless you already have it, please please stay away from it. If you can, wait until the next version comes out, or try to find a Windows 7. 8 is just a headache waiting to happen. I actually had a Macbook that I'd purchased in January 2011 so I had a reliable machine for grad school. I replaced with a comparable Macbook. It's not the same obviously, and I lost probably 4-5 GB of music and probably another 10 GB of pictures, but I didn't lose any documents, and my computer wasn't the only place most of the pictures were stored. Facebook had some, and my dad's laptop has some that hadn't been put on Facebook yet. I actually had some pictures of us when we were younger in my car as well, which saved them. 

mrsmorales2be

That's terrible!  But....still....even with all of that, yay for a new computer!   FI and I have decided that when it's time to upgrade ours we're going Apple