Mama has been very close to getting a new baby– but no cigar! As you might remember, my current laptop is just about shot. It has multi-colored vertical lines running down the screen and it shuts off when it feels the urge which could be anytime. I had given it some thought and had pretty much decided to get a desktop. I got a quote and was about to lay out the big bucks until the Caprice died and I had to buy a new car. Everything was put on hold. Recently I realized that I just plain need a new laptop. One I can rely on. One I can use to track my finances (which I have kinda stopped doing). For Christmas, Lisa got a new computer. A little laptop. She sits in front of the fireplace and surfs the ‘net. She’ll sit it on the kitchen table and play music as she prepares a meal. Suddenly the desktop that I was looking at seemed terribly immobile. I decided that I want a little laptop too! I found a cute little one at Circuit City on Sunday. I told the clerk to ring it up and he said, “Sorry, we don’t have it in stock.” I went home empty-handed. This evening I noticed there is a Circuit City in NJ that isn’t too far from me and so I ordered it online and said I would pick it up at the store. Lisa and I drove all the way to Lawrenceville, NJ to collect the little laptop. The clerk at this store refused to let me buy it because I didn’t have adequate identification. I left empty-handed. Maybe I am not meant to have this laptop? Maybe I should just get it shipped to me and be done with it? I don’t know. All I know is I want to get back into tracking my finances and updating this blog more regularly and I just simply can’t do it with this piece of garbage I have sitting on my desk. I don’t know! I DON’T KNOW!

Here’s the baby I want:

HP Pavilion 14.1″ Widescreen Notebook PC (DV2214US)
• AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
• 120GB hard drive
• Built-in 802.11g wireless
• 1GB of DDR2 memory
• Burns DVDs and CDs
• Windows Vista Home Premium

It has a built in webcam, awesome speakers and LightScribe laser technology which allows you to etch a design on the label side of the CD/DVD.

Grrrrrrrr, I want her.