Computer Trouble......

Well to start our new year off, my computer just quit on me.... See one thing you all don't know about me is that I'm a gamer.... My husband is a huge gamer and we now play World of Warcraft together for fun.... No we are not freaks... My daughter does get fed :) Well sometimes !!!! Just kidding.

So at the beginning of the new year the video card in my laptop went up!!!! so I needed a new computer.. No biggie right? WRONG!!!!! Just when my new dell desktop arrived and got set up. I started moving over files from the old laptop and thats when it all happened ..... It was late and I was in the middle of moving our family photos when I decided to call it a night... The next day I couldn't turn the laptop back on.... It went to a black screen (bad news)!!! I totally freaked and my husband took a long time checking it out and he said we needed to take it in to get looked at..... So off to Geeksquad..... It turns out that the hard drive went up! I LOST EVERYTHING!!!! all my documents, contacts, calendar, music, EVERYTHING... but the worst of all is the photos of our family from this past year! My only saving grace is that I also saved some photos on my mothers laptop and this blog with my daughter's photos...... So needless to say I learned a huge lesson in backing up files..... I had to replace the hard drive (we decided to give the laptop to my daughter) and that is where another frustration came in.... I started off like this......



but when I tried to set up the laptop to be child friendly it became so hard to figure out how to get her to be able to surf the net safely.... I downloaded Kidzui which didn't allow her to get on to Webkinz or her email (the two things she uses the most) and their search and layout is not what was ideal. So then I turned to Buddy Browser...that would also not allow her to sign on to webkins but she could get her email, however the parental controls were almost nonexistent ....... so then I felt like this.......



I have spent so many hours and days trying to figure this out and I ended up with downloading Firefox with the add-ons that would help her... I changed the google search to yahooligans... and I created another blog to be her homepage.... that way I can add new things that I want her to check out right on her homepage....... I can add links to Educational Videos on topics we are studying using Cosmeo. I hope and pray that this will be able to work.... so far so good!!!!
So right now I am feeling like this.....



However that can change at any moment!!!!