Greeting Disappointment

Intuition tells me that occasionally there are days when it is best to do nothing at all. These are the days that busy little bees pay for their hard work with a whole cadre of problems. Yesterday was one of these.

I’m not feeling well, so everything is twice as hard and nothing is as clear as it should be. That in itself is reason enough not to do anything, but there were things I wanted to do. I wanted to work on my writing, which required the computer and the computer has been acting up a little. Unfortunately I can ignore some things way too easily and a few computer glitches is one of them. Last night the whole thing crashed. I couldn’t even tell if My Thots went out.

So there I was, achy, nauseous and crabby, with no computer. Truly either an optimist, or maybe a fool, I thought I’d give the computer a little time to redeem itself and try again later. In the meantime I went to work on a card I was making and carefully destroyed the entire thing by cutting too soon after gluing and ruining the edges. A weeks worth of work down the drain.

Now I was achy, nauseous, crabby and sad and I still had no computer and my card, which I had hoped to mail tomorrow, was ruined.. I decided not to let it get me down. I simply began rebuilding my computer only to discover I had not backed up most of my work. (The book is okay, though.)

Just add mad to the above list and you have a pretty good picture of where I was.

Late this afternoon I finally had the computer up and running without my favorite photo editing program, which is evidently gone forever, and without most of this year’s pictures, as well as some videos.

The bright side is that while trying to fill in all the waiting time that comes with rebooting a whole computer, I came up with a new idea for a card that is much better than the old one! It will still take time and it won’t be mailed tomorrow, but it will probably be out by Friday.

Amazing how the way twists and turns… Greeting disappointment with joy is not quite as simple as it sounds, but I am happy about the card.