I am awesome.

How awesome?

This awesome:     >>>  TONS <<<

It goes a little something like this.

Dear laptop:

When I knock you over, you break.  This makes us both unhappy. Thank god you still worked or that hammer I was using to pry up baseboard before painting would have been used on you. We would have both cried electronic tears.  I know, I know, I should have looked before I stood up. But your profile is so slim, I didn’t pay enough attention.  I can’t close your lid and now you’re like a glorified, movable PC. But only in my house.  I bought a new cover for you. I hope I don’t break you more while I fix you. Because then my tears would be of the I’m-cut-off-from-the-interwebz-variety. And then I’d know the world was ending.

Love,

Me.

So, of course, surgery ensued.  I’m naturally mechanically inclined, so it was no big deal. Well, it was. Because my Pink Flamingo is now a Black Flamingo. Which I’m pretty sure doesn’t even exist.

First I open up Miss Pink Flamingo’s innards.  Yes. She’s dirty. Not in that way. Freak. How dirty would your laptop get if you couldn’t close it. Like ever?

Right.

Next, I get that thing I’m looking at now out of the top cover… oh, that’s right. The monitor. This is awesome.  How things work is rad, even if I don’t understand what those thingies do, seeing the thingies rocks.

Then I poke around a bit looking for a way to get said cover OFF. Separate, damn you, separate.

There we go. Wow, that was easy. No need for the swears. This time.

Side note: Dontcha love the background? That’s my bed sheet. On my couch. Because I had fleas. The sheet made me feel less all flea-like when sitting down. What? Neurotic? No. Not me. Go away.

After I got the Pink lid off. On went the Black one. If any of y’all know my daughter, you know she has a favorite color. And it’s not pink. Well, depends on the day. But I let her pick the color. And on that day, her reigning favorite was black.

RIP Pink Flamingo.  May you and your broken hinge rest forevermore in the great heavenly mist of destroyed computer components.

What the hell do I call my new one now?

Told you.  I’m awesome.