Well That Was Unfortunate

I had every intention of blogging a lot this summer. I was going to tell you all about my adventures, make some craft tutorials (I mean I'm making this stuff anyway, might as well document the process, right?), and maybe even get a little philosophical.

[OBVIOUSLY I'm doing really great at that....not]

I've been home three weeks and have not written a THING. But, it's not entirely my fault! The reason for the "silence" as it were, has to do with a little incident that happened several months ago.  

You see, a couple months ago I was traveling with the choir on our annual tour. Most nights on this 5 day trip we stayed with host families which was actually quiet lovely. They were all delightfully charming people. The night this story occurred started out like all our other home stay experiences that trip. After our performance, our hostess picked us up at the church and we all piled into her new SUV and drove off. 

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***Side note***

The day before we left my econ teacher assigned some homework that was due before we got back. "Oh, just email it to me," she said. It was supposed to typed up anyway. So, like the good student that I am, I toted my computer onto the bus, did my work and emailed it. Simple.

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When we arrived at the house we all got out and prepared to unload all our stuff from the back of the car.  This shouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that is was one of those fancy self-opening doors, which I can see as being useful, but this one was SO SLOW. As I watched the hatch rise at this excruciatingly slow pace I saw into the future. I saw my backpack containing my computer sliding through the gradually widening crack and crashing to ground.

And, wouldn't you know it, that's exactly what happened. 

Granted, the damage could have been FAR worse and I was lucky. It still worked, but the corner was a little crunched: purely cosmetic, but super annoying.

I could have had it fixed back then, but I didn't want to be at school without a computer for the 3 weeks it would take to get it fixed. Instead, my friend Mark bent the corner back down with a pen and brute force so that it mostly closed.

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***Side Note***

It was terrifying: as I sat there listening to these awful cracking noises I just knew the whole thing was going to fall apart. It didn't. 

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That's all to say for the past few weeks I have been without a computer as I finally sent it off to be fixed. But hey it's back now and consequently so are the posts.