Na Na Hey Hey - Goodbye

“There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall, and the bells in the steeple too, and up in the nursery an absurd little bird is popping out to say cuckoo - cuckoo, regretfully it tells us, but firmly it compels us to say goodbye to you...”

These words are ringing in my ears. They greet me when I wake up. They fly in at random times - even during pit stops. They are playing in the background of my mind right now as I type. They remind me of my mother. The Sound of Music was our favorite movie. We saw it five times which might not sound like much, but we didn’t have VCRs or DVDs back then. We saw all 2 hours and 54 minutes of it five 5 times in the theater.

I might wonder if I am “cuckoo - cuckoo”, but I know better. Of course I've always been cuckoo (and not even for coco puffs.) But thankfully I am not insane (anymore.) The cuckoo ringing in my ears isn’t even my mother haunting me. It’s the sound of me saying “so long - farewell”.

Mr. Einstein would be proud of me. It took me a while, but I finally gave up my insanity. I’ve officially stopped doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. (For the history on my mental illness you can read my blogs on May 27 and April 27 .)

On Saturday I turned over a much anticipated - too long in the making - new leaf. The official announcement follows...

Announcing the Newest Member of Our Family

He was brought into our world on...
06/07/2008 at 2:30pm
Weight 5.0 lbs
Measurements 2.78 x 8.92 x 1.08 inches

His given name was MacBook, but In honor of the "mid-husband"
who helped bring him into this world he has been renamed:

"Johnny Apple Zeed" (nicknamed Jaz)

He has two proud Godmothers who also assisted in the birthing process.
We are still learning how to parent him. But he isn’t a bit colicky. There are no crashes, no blue screens, no reboots, no locked keyboards. He is compatible with the other devices in our household and basically he is joy to be around
(obviously he takes after his new mom!)

So “so long farewell, na na hey hey goodbye” to my friends at Dell and Microsoft in Austin, Canada, India, and Jamaica. I’m walking out of the gates of hell (or as I’ve come to know it - Gates’ hell) and into the garden of eden where the Apple trees are in full bloom.

My Hell Smell Del Dell

I was reading the weekly pondering on the website of a a psychotherapist friend of mine. Considering I put the "psycho" in therapy, I was glad to see that I was using her suggestions without realizing it. She was writing about making connections with people to be more a part of life. As you know, from an earlier post of mine I made lots of friends in India thanks to Microsoft Vista. Now I'm getting to make even more friends in India and some in Canada thanks to my hell Dell computer and it's all Elliot's fault!

We decided to get connected to "Skype" so we could be interviewed by this darling little 8 year old boy named Elliot. He lives in the UK and has his own podcast. In my humble opinion he's a phenom. I'm hoping to ride his cute little coat tail to fame and fortune. Anyway, we needed to install a headset and microphone on our laptops to make the interview happen. The installation went fine on Earnest's HP computer, but it crashed my sound card. Now my computer is totally mute (something around here needs to be quiet.).We both have Vista operating systems so it was time to call smell Dell technical support. After several hours they decided I needed a new mother board. Maybe they read my Mutha's Day post and felt sorry for me (can you tell I'm getting really good at links?!) So my new mutha is supposed to be her way (what do you wear to meet your new mutha - comments anyone?)

I think the best part of the story (except for Elliot - he is the real deal, please check out his stuff.) is what happened next. I decided to contact a couple of "woo woo" type people I know who are into energy healing stuff. I was hoping they could send out some good vibes to change my computer mojo (I'm missing Elliot badly!) One of them said he would see what he could do but also told me to get a MAC (no not with cheese). But since I'm taking this making new friends thing so seriously, I'm sticking with the del Dell and Vista. I think owning a MAC would be like being the Maytag repairman - a lonely solitary existence doomed to a life of a fully functional machine. Where's the fun in that?