Yes, it's true; painfully, frustratingly true. Approximately five days ago, my brand new (come on, it was only six months old!) computer decided it was going to do the unthinkable. As I came home from school, shrugging off my backpack into the floor, couch...wherever, and slumped in my swiveling computer chair, I realized that my system wasn't on.

This has happened before, be it due to power surges, automatic-restarts, or whatnot, but this time was different, as I soon found out. As I punched the power button and left to get a drink while the good ole' computer booted up, I could almost FEEL it (well, maybe not). Anyways, the moment I typed in my password to Windows and it started to load up my well-loved programs, the screen flickered, and then the entire thing shut off a quickly as it had started up.

Baffled and moderately annoyed, I went through the booting-process again, this time watching quietly as I sipped on my school-bought Dr.Pepper (yum~). Surely enough, the problem occurred once more the second Windows started to load. VERY much out of countenance, I began to sulk - after all, the computer is a large portion of my life. Forums that I write on daily and my diligent work on Photoshop 7.0 is what keeps me going.

Eventually (the next day, actually) my mother lugged my ill-fated machine to the nearest reputable electronic-repairs store, who bestowed upon us a nasty bit of information.

My six-month-old computer's fan had given out, losing two of the unreplacable screws that held it in, and my computer's motherboard had melted.

Great...

Here I am now, a new computer, no way to install my scanner-printer without the long-lost installation disk, and a harrying journey ahead of me before I'm reunited with Photoshop. My computer's files and programs are unable to be retrieved, according to computer-store officials, so all I have is what I've got here and on Photobucket.

I need a hug - hugs, anyone??