I woke up this morning, wrapped in my comfy sheets, and remembered my gratitude journal. My mind started racing with the possibilities of the day; what wonderful things would come my way? What would I write about?I sat down on my couch and opened my laptop in anticipation of the day. Gray screen. Okay. I shut it down. Waited. Turned it back on. Gray screen... this time accompanied by a bewildered, furiously blinking question mark, as if to ask, "Hey (blink) Moron (blink) Where's (blink) Your (blink) Stuff? (blink)"
Gratitude was not the first thought in my mind.
I begrudgingly began to transfer hard-fought money from savings into checking as I looked on the Apple website. I muttered and moaned about my misfortune. If oooonnnly I had backed up my files on a regular basis. I couldn't even remember the last time I had dusted off the ol' hard drive.
I spent the afternoon in the Apple store, and over 1k later, I sighed as I slipped my new computer from the package. Bittersweet. I plugged in the dusty hard drive in anticipation of vast nothingness only to find... all of my files. In fact, sometime in the past three months, I had even organized the files into actual logical categories (I must have been in a coma while doing this because not only do I not remember this at all, it's also unfortunately very out of character). Music, movies, eBooks, Photoshop and web designs... all there.
I'm not afraid to say that I pumped my fist in the air approximately three times and then hugged myself with glee. I actually did one of those things on the Epic To-Do List of All Eternity... those things that should get done sometime, but maybe tomorrow... yeah... that's a good idea. I finished one of those things! And my buying-a-new-computer experience got a whole lot more fun. I am extremely grateful!
Honorable Mention:
- Explaining this story to my best friend while genuinely feeling as though I'm a genius.
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