All my technologies are failing me and I'm on quarantine. Send help!!!

To start out, here is my apology for missing my regular posting day by a good bit. Alas, my 11-year-old laptop has officially lived its last day😭😭 I've been in denial since Monday, when it first stopped showing signs of life and wouldn't turn on no matter what I did. I left it plugged into the charger, certain that it just needed some time off and then it would come back to me, as has happened on other occasions during the past few months. Not this time though. It's time to call it and resign myself to replacing my birthday list with a "plz contribute to my new laptop fund" cry of desperation. As a tribute to my laptop, I'd like to reflect on its full life:

Dear 2009 MacBook Pro, you saw me through some crazy times. I paid for you in full with my first few months of wages from my online editing job in Grenada, so that I could use you to continue to do my editing job (rather than borrowing Jared's study computer when he wasn't using it) to pay for our exensive and very necessary island AC. I scoured the internet and bought you refurbished, already 5 cute years old. This saved me money and allowed me to get you in a 17" screen size that was no longer available, ideal for my new photo-editing hobby. I smuggled you into our Caribbean island home by hiding you in the bottom of a crammed duffle bag so I wouldn't have to pay hundreds of dollars in taxes at customs and immigration. You handled the humidity and power conversions very well, and you even survived being dropped on our tile floor multiple times, though you did acquire a crack that spanned the entire length of your screen. No biggie though! You would continue to run well for another 6 years. On you i learned to edit photos and videos. I tried to start multiple businesses--none of which stuck, but all of which taught me amazing new skills! We had a lot of fun together, ol' laptop. I wrote years and years of blog posts on you. You didn't get a lot of use while I lived in Georgia, because when I was pregnant with bb Jack I couldn't look at any sort of screen without barfing for some reason. That was nice. Anyway, you will be dearly missed. Mostly because your old OS allowed me to run a downloaded version of Lightroom from the good old days, and now when I get a new computer I'll have to purchase a monthly subscription if i want to keep editing photos, which I do. Booooo.

Anyway, that's what's been going on over here. Oh, and I signed up for a 6-week online interior design course through Casper College. My first lecture is tonight. I guess I'll have to borrow Jared's laptop to watch it. Also my phone is on the fritz now too. If it dies, so help me, I'm switching back to a flip phone. I'm being serious. I've been on a social media break for a few months now so I'm pretty sure it'll be fine. I will not be buying any more replacement smartphones during residency!!!!

Ok that's all. Here is a selfie from my phone. I have a memory card full of lovely DSLR photos from our time in Utah last week. I also have lots of updates about Jared's job interviews and our plans for the future, but I'm going to leave you hanging since my thumbs are burning from typing so much on my little phone screen. I'll hit you with those updates next week! Catch u on the flippity flop!