you are everything

Hey gang...

Much much thanks to everyone who left such kind, supportive notes on my last post. I wish I could respond to all of them individually... I wanted to respond to all of them individually, but I seem to have other things on my mind at the moment. Go figure. But you have no idea how much I appreciate all of the posts.

I need to get my hair cut either today or tomorrow. It's down to my waist again. I haven't had it cut since... well since this time ===> !! Hopefully I can get my butt out of the house and do it (rather than doing it myself like last time).

So... remember this iPod thing? It took them awhile, but they actually did come through! Not with what they originally promised, but this proud owner of a brand new, free, black 2gig iPod nano isn't going to complain. I've actually had it for two or three weeks now... something like that. It's all filled up with pretty music, lovely pictures, and fanfic. Yep, fanfic on an iPod nano. Kewl, huh? You can put text files of 4kb each - as many as you have room for - on any of the latest iPods with displays (see here), but what kind of fanfic is only 4kb? Well, I found this nifty program that takes any size text file and breaks it up into neat little 4kb files complete with an index, just for this very purpose (well, not necessarily fanfic, but making larger text files fit on iPods). It's called the iPod Ebook creator, and you can get it free here. Granted, the 1.5" screen on a nano is kinda small to be reading fanfic on, but I don't have a PDA or a laptop and I hate printing fanfic, so this is the first time I've ever been able to read fanfic in bed. All that, and I can play Solitaire on it too!

So thank you to everyone who helped me get my wonderful little toy. I you!! I've got pics of my nieces and nephews on it, as well as pics of Gale, Ewan, Hayden, Orlando, Heath & Jake, and Steve (Sandvoss). I'm taking it to the hospital with me - the parents will protect it while I'm having metal things stuffed inside me - and then I'll have all these wonnerful things right there with me.

Speaking of the stuffing in of metal things, my dear darling Elaine will post a note here on my LJ Thursday night to let you know if they cut my carotid artery accidentally or electrocuted me when they turned the unit on to test it or... you know... if everything went exactly as planned and I'm just fine blah blah blah. (I'm allowed to joke - this thing is only... ::looks at clock:: about 51 hours away.)

Anyhow... um... Happy Valentine's Day!!



ETA: Icon sized! Free to anyone who sees it (the big one too, for that matter).

P.S. - XOXOXOXOXO to qafhappy for the lovely LJ gift of virtual chocolates here and to qafaddiction for the so-sweet Valentine icon. ::hugs her two qaf-gals::