Ha ha!
Since my monitor has slowly been making its way towards its final death, my mom bought me a new one today! woooooooo It is so nice and bright and beautiful! However, I now see how OFF my colors were (wow) so I had to tweak my LJ colors--it hurt my eyes to read with them, lol--and now my computer is all nice. It is a hypochondriac computer, though, and every time I fix something or get something working, something ELSE goes wrong, so we'll see what happens next...