And this is how the cooki... Laptop Crumbles...

What a day, what a day!

My day started off as any other Wednesday... I Woke up, drank some coffee with Peppermint Mocha creamer {{YUM!!}} and waited for my Popp Children to arrive. After kissing Kelz on the cheek and smacking her butt as she left for the office I settled into my cream colored leather couch and began my normal Internet routine... check Gmail.com, check HawaiiMilitaryWives.com/board, check Myspace, etc. etc.

Main Objectives for the Day:

1. Review Black Friday Ads and compile list of WANTS.
2. Decide whether or not I "need" a new Lappy. (ALERT: HP SUCKS. END PSA.)
3. Review List of Wants...
4. Review BF Ads again, List again, Ads again...

Everything was normal until Kelz came home with the bacon and I forced her to accompany me to Mc Doodles for an impulse "lunch" while the older children's went to Speech. Once at the Promised Land, I ordered, what else, but the norm! (Even Gogo could order this on her own!!)

'Number 10, Coke, and Sweet 'N Sour Sauce'... {{PAUSE}} 'add a Hot Fudge Sundae, extra Hot Fudge please'

Maybe that's what sent things spiraling...but I had to spring for the ice cream goodness, it was my fault Kelz was in the Sacred Place to begin with!

I get my order, (Read in the voice of that Lord of the Rings-creepy-guy)

'Fries...My Precious'

WAIT! There's NO extra Hot Fudge in my sister wife's Hot Fudge Sundae... I quickly scan my receipt, no charge for it... I throw a really dirty look at the much too old lady working the counter. (Who lets their 80 year old grammah work at Macadonaldz nEways!?) ::ROLLEYES::

This is where it gets really bad... The clock strikes 12:58pm and we make our way out to the car... As I start to back out a flat bed tow truck surprisingly comes into my field of vision backing up with little or NO consideration for anything or anyone in its way. I quickly stop my reverse and thank God for sparing my bumper. I recover, and start to back out again... then quickly slam on the brakes... There's an old women right behind me and she came out of NO WHERE!! She must be friends with the Mean Hot Fudge lady... I Begin to reverse for the THIRD time and GOOD LORD there's NO room to back out!! Three point turn, and I'm starting to think I need to get home quickly and STAY home.

1:05pm... Back at the Elementary School; I pull into an empty "Reserved" Parking stall, buckled up Jordie, got in the driver seat, looked in my rear view mirror only to find... Another mother has blocked me in... No problem, she's here to pick up her kidlet too. I sit and wait... I wait and watch as she has a conversation with her son ... presumably about his Turkey artwork. Now I'm getting irritated, besides...Jordan's rendition is sooo much better. Another minute passes by... Seriously? Do you not see me? Do you not care that you're double parked, taking your sweet time... Sure, I'm parked in a reserved spot...but that's not the point. After what seems like 23 minutes she finally finishes buckling in her kid and drives off... I'm more annoyed that she never even had the decency to look my way, I had a really good dirty look for her!! I don't like to waste those!

Ok, so back home... I think things are back to normal... Henry barks for no reason, normal. The house has mysteriously turned into a pigsty, normal. Kids wont nap, normal. I'm strangely calm in the chaos that is my life. . . Until. . .

Dusty comes home...and he's got a silly smirk on his face... Oh no, here it comes...

BaCkTrAcK tO mOnDaY: Dusty informs me he thinks he's lost his BRAND new Black Berry... I'm furious and nauseous all at once. He insisted on purchasing a $85 8GB to compliment this MP3 Player, Organizer, Camera, Movie Playing, disgustingly expensive phone... He goes back to the scene of the crime and confirms the worst when he finds his cracked clear case. If you're wondering, yes He got lots of dirty looks...LOTS.

BaCk To ThE fUtUrE: He walks in and says "So guess what I found on my rack today?"

Yupp, someone had found his Blackberry, ripped off the case with all the intentions of stealing it... Then this someone nicely returned it to his tin-can-Glorified-Cot.
Confuzled, but mostly relieved I ask him if the memory card is still there. It is! It is!!

But wait! UPS just delivered the replacement... what now!? The $50 deductible is non-refundable... Dare I say it? Does Lea get a new fantabulous phone!? What a day it would be!! Dusty calls the Sprint people, and yes... we get to keep it!! A $300+ phone for $50!!

The Birds are chirping, the sun is shining, somewhere in the world SOMEone is getting their extra Hot Fudge... All is perfect in the world... but NOT Lea's world...

Jordie, my recently clumsy daughter...trips on my Hp Laptop Power Adapter cord and pulls my laptop crashing to the floor. The birds stop chirping, the Mean Hot Fudge lady cackles in my ear... and my Hp Laptop now closely resembles a stain glass window ... broken in lots and lots of teeny pieces.

How ironic, just two days before the biggest shopping day of the Year! WAIT, that means my Warranty isn't expired! I bought that piece of crap on Black Friday LAST year!! I quickly sign onto HP ONLINE Cust. Service, using last-last years Crap HP Lappy and start a convo with Jahkmed (The "J" is silent).

Here's a snippet of our conversation...

Lea Garner : Hi Jahkmed, my Lappy fell and the LCD is broke yo'. So how's your mom, its been about a month since we last talked.

Jahkmed : That must have been very inconvenient. Thats very unfortunate to have this issue.

Jahkmed : Let me help you in this.

Lea Garner : ok

Jahkmed: Lea, does the sreen cracked and need to replce complete LCD screen to fix the issue?

Lea Garner : I think so but I'm not really sure what you just typed so...

Jahkmed : Because there is no be Troubleshoot or setting to fix the LCD screen insteak replacing complete screen.

Lea Garner : Yea, sorry Jahk still don't understand you.

Jahkmed : Thats clears that it need to replace complete LCD Screen. Let me check what best can do to fix or the best option to fix the issue.

Yea so... my warranty expired last month and Jahkmed tells me "The service charge for the Notebook is high in this regard, I suggest you to purchase completely key board and it will cost you less than the service done to the Notebook."

What a day... I'm refused extra hot fudge, I'm nearly obilerated by a tow truck, trapped by a craized mom, score a cool phone, get a GREAT excuse to buy a new laptop...and this is all in one day!!

Whats more? I wish I could tell you this a pretty extrodinary day for me... comparitively speaking it was pretty low key!