Confession

After reading Maggi's WIP Confessional,
I thought I'd better come clean as well.

I have absolutely NO Problem walking past the expensive shoes,
the designer handbags, the trendy stores in the MALL,
I can even, on occasion, leave the bookstore
without buying anything.
I'm currently only knitting from my stash,
trying to be a good February Finisher.

The APPLE store?

Forgive me friends, for I have sinned.
AGAIN.
On Friday (I ate fish to atone for this and said a BUNCH
of Hail Marys.....sigh.)
I went to get an operating system update....
Which I NEEDED (uh-hunh, like I need more addi turbos)
to play with the object of my desire (the computer equivalent of CASHMERE).
It needs more MEMORY
than I possess.

Ponder with me, briefly, the
metaphor, here.

Okay.

So I spent most of Friday night, attempting to install the OSX
update. Not enough space.
Arrrrrrrrrrgh.
I emptied my trash,
cleaned up my desktop,
rebooted.

Nope, still not happening.

The new toy is still in the cellophane wrapper
and I'm feeling stoooopid.
I hate it when things won't WORK
the way I want them to
and I can't FIX them.

Grump, grump, grump...all weekend.

I shut off the computer and finished The Time Traveller's Wife.
Amazing. Now I know what all the hoopla was about.
Run, don't walk to your local library....
(a small muffled voice from the Apple bag began whining
*aren't you going to PLAAAAY with me?*)

I watched the second disk of Roswell, season one,
and turned the volume up.

I knit some more on the Red Sock, turned the heel in fact.

I used exactly the same needles, the same pattern, as I did for the
Kodachrome socks, but this one looks awfully...
HOLEY.

All RIGHT. I give up.

I'm going to ask for HELP.

I went back to the APPLE store Monday and instead of the young hiphop
salesman who assured me it would be No Problem to install my purchases,
I waited for David, my personal Adorable Apple Dude.
He looked up my file and grinned.
"You just need to bring your cute little imac in here
tomorrow and while you spend 30 minutes playing with the new Mini,
we'll install more memory and everything will be fine."

I ALMOST asked if I could have my OWN Memory upgraded
somehow...

you know those dudes at APPLE are workin on that
in their spare time...

sigh.

So today I HAVE to go to the APPLE store again.

Really.

Teehee.

Please forgive me....I'll be totally hooked on the Mini in like,
what, 15 minutes?

I'm SUCH a Geek.

Comments

[sUsAn]

I *love love loved* The Time Traveler's Wife!!!! Hope your imac feels all happy with the new memory and attention. ;) Now you've got me thinking about red socks (I have some red Silja waiting). Dare I have three pairs of socks on the needles?! I think so!

[claudia]

If you totally hook yourself on the mini, that just means you have exemplary taste and discernment.

[Melissa]

Apple store trip! Mini Mini Mini! Its too cute. Have a great time!

[Nathania]

You *have* to go to the Apple Store? I *have* to stay out of there. It's like crack for the Mac addict. Lusting after that Mini. And an iPod. And an iSight. And... And... And...

[mia]

Greta, at least you can walk out of the bookstore without buying anything. I am a book slut. I always walk out with something. But I am going to have to try the Apple store now. I was debating about buying my iPod from Best Buy rather than drive down to the Apple store. But now I have to go and check out the new crack store - the Apple Store. Of course that means a trip through Nordstrom's, um? Can I resist more makeup? Just go for it!

[Sharon]

Time Travellers Wife AND the Apple Store? Perhaps we were separated at birth?