No, I Didn't Die...
...the computer did. Ok, half did. Well, actually a "little bit" did. It was crazy! lol Ok, now that I'm finally here, and now that I'm about to leave, and had a bad day. ANYHOW, to start at the beginning, blast throught the present and then describe the future.
A few days ago, our computer got hijacked. Not the little man on another computer type but actually this search engine/spy-ware cookie planted inself into the very guts of our computer. Every time we opened a new internet window it would send off hundreds of little messages to it's "parent" and spyware to all our friends computers. On top of that it brought up a search bar on the bottom of our screen. Nasty, nasty little thing. Drove us nuts and in the process was costing us heaps of money becaue we were the ones paying for it to send out all those little messages. *mutters unintelligent threats at spy-ware companies*
After a long haul Mum was finally able to find help on the net that walked us through the very dangerous process of worming our way into the very heart of our computer to delete this little hijacker. Mum got paranoid, however, and then went through all our internet options turning every nob to "high" security. What she didn't realise was that this prevented us from signing into anything on the net (e.g. hotmail, yahoo, blogger, and even some search sites). We were all about to die. :S I have never been banned from the computer like some kids get, but two days was enough to make me realise it must be the absolute pits.
After alot of banging our heads on the keyboard and sending out pleading e-mails to our internet provider, Sonlight forums, hotmail and everyone else, Mum finally had this great recollection of changing all our internet options in her panic. And now here we are. lol Often we wonder if these kind of things only happen to our family...
In the other news: I'M LEAVING FOR SYDNEY TOMORROW! Yay! I would have warned you guys about this days ago, but as the above explanation explains...
My darlin' sis, Tach, and her hubby make their sweet home in Sydney. Josh and Hannah (11 yrs) have never been down to visit her in the big smoke since she got married last year, and now that they're "big" they're all set to make their debut trip without Mum and Dad. Of course, however, they need their widely-experienced jet-setting sister to chaperone them. And of course, I didn't complain about any excuse to pop down to Sydney to visit Tach and go shopping *grins wildly at the possibility of spending more money*. Espeically since after a close examination of my bank account in January told me I coudln't possibly think of making another trip down until at least July.
I'm still broke (whilst Han and Josh are Mr & Mrs Rich-O), but somehow I managed to scrounge up enough work hours to be able to afford it. Even if I hadn't I think Han and Josh would have seriously thought of paying my way for me. They're so keen to travel *alone*. lol They're so cute.
We're going for a week. Leave tomorrow morning at 6:00am *groans* and get into Sydney tomorrow night at about 9:00pm. It's a full 15 hours; a long day, but at least we get all our travel over in one day. I think the worse is when you have to sleep over at some point. Can't stand that.
....this is seriously turning into an unintelligible rambling. Ah, well. I'm exhausted. I felt sick to my stomach today. :S And considering all of my sleeping hours happen between 3:00am and noon, I have no idea how I'm going to survive tomorrow. I'm taking a pillow...
The whole week should be interesting, with me falling to sleep here there and everywhere. he..he..but it'll still be great fun. I haven't seen Tach since Christmas, plus it's going to be great showing Han and Josh all the sites. We're even going to walk across the bridge (that's Sydney Harbour Bridge) and pay $6 bucks to climb up one of the pineslines (sp?)!
I'm not sure when I'll be able to post any updates. It mightn't happen until we've been home a couple of days and I've been able to sleep 36 hours straight. No matter how it happens, I hope y'a'll have an awesome week like I know us three will. And I promise to show you heaps of photos when we get back ;)
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