Hello, Everyone! (Friday Five Edition)

I have been sporadic with my posting lately.  This mostly has been due to the fact my anxiety levels are through the roof.  I haven't had this much anxiety since I was in college.  My job is very interactive so I'm having a hard time just getting through the day at work and am so exhausted when I get home that I don't want to interact with anyone.  I've been dealing with several panic attacks a week.  I know this will pass, because it usually does, and if it doesn't soon, I'll be going to the doctors.  But for more fun stuff.

I did go see Avengers' End Game.  All I have to say is that it's the best Marvel movie out to date.  Even if you just kinda like the Marvel movies, you need to go see it.  But if you are a Marvel fan, this is a must see.

In my kitchen, I have a wall between two windows that has always been left blank.  I've seen other houses in my neighborhood that have the same floor plan as me, and one had this huge clock there that really fit that space.  For years, I have always looked for just the right piece.  Well I found it.

The medal flower is something that I bought and then I added the butterflies.  The butterflies are attached to bendable medal that I attached to the flowers.  The ones away from the flowers, I removed the medal rod and taped them to the wall.  

And I did get my wonderful computer back and it has a such a beautiful new screen.  I asked why there was no charge and he said that this computer had had display issues before.  After he said that, I did recall my friend saying he had to get it replaced once before he gave it to me.  I tell you, that is great service from Apple.  Almost anywhere else, they would charge no matter what since it was out of warranty.

And that pollen has been so harsh here in the past few weeks.  I long for rain to clear it out.  But the weather has been so nice that I still cannot help but open up the windows.  

I'm linking up with Fridays with Fairytales and Fitness and other healthy lifestyle bloggers.

My Computer Problem (Friday Five Edition)

I had a few days off last week and was going to write out the few posts that have been going around in my head, but then I had computer issues.

I had started writing a post last week and all the sudden the screen on my laptop started to flicker and I couldn't type or move my mouse.  The flickering lasted about 30 seconds and then I saw all of my typing and noticed that the mouse had moved.  That was weird.  Soon after it happened again, doing the same thing.  It was happening so often that I just had to turn it off.

Not the best picture, but you can see the lines at the top of the screen

Later I came back to it to try to do some troubleshooting.  No matter what I tried it just seemed to get worse.  I had the flickering on the screen while it was booting.

It even got so bad that almost the whole screen turned grey.

On Monday I took it to Apple's Genius Bar and they kept it to run some diagnostics.  They thought it might be the video card and because it was way out of warranty, I would have to pay to get that replaced.  Knowing the price of new MacBook Pros, paying to replace a video card is a lot cheaper.  When I got home, I realized that while I had done my taxes, I had not filed them and I had less than a week to do that.

On Tuesday they left a message to say that they had found the issue and I needed to call them back.  I planned on seeing if I could get my laptop back from them before they sent it out for service.  I called several times that evening and after being routed through the automated system it just rang and rang till I got a busy signal.  I just assumed that it was super busy at the store and they couldn't answer the phone.  But I was getting anxious as I needed my laptop back.

I finally got a hold of them on Wednesday.  They said it wasn't the video card, but the display itself.  They had ordered a new one and the repair would happen at the store.  They also said that there would not be any charge - Woot!  I didn't ask, but I assume that there might have been some sort of recall on it and that's why there was no charge.

I explained my predicament to him and he said that they had unplugged the display but they were unable to plug it back in.  I could come pick it up as long as I had an external monitor or HDMI cord and TV to hook it to.  I have a second monitor set up in my office, so that was no problem for me.  I stopped by the store after work and picked it up.

Yesterday I had my mom come over to look over my taxes.  She teaches taxes at a university here and I always have her double check mine, especially with big changes this year.  She said everything looked great and I was able to file them last night.

I will drop the laptop back off at the store today and hopefully the display will arrive soon.  Then I can sit down and type out the posts that I have in my head.  Thankfully I had a little time today to quickly type this up at work today.

I'm linking up with Fridays with Fairytales and Fitness and other healthy lifestyle bloggers.