June 28, 2009
Thanks to everyone for all of the kind and thoughtful birthday wishes. I feel humbled and very loved today. My husband will bake me an angel food cake, which is the traditional cake I'm given every year and has been since I was a child. Even after my spending spree yesterday, he gave me a cute little kitty card and a gift bag with one of my favourite books of all time, "The Alchemist", and the new Pet Shop Boys release that includes the added commentary disc inside. LOVE! Books and music...both of my very favourite things!
I had quite a panic last night when IE decided it wanted to fuck with me, though. On my facebook status I said it crashed, but that isn't exactly true. I crashed. Somehow, and I have no clue why, after I emptied out my temporary internet files, the security settings got ALL FUCKED UP. I can't stay logged-in on LiveJournal OR Facebook and/or use the 'remember me' feature on those sites. In fact, I get a security warning about phishing and the pages won't even pull up unless I click a link on that warning page that takes me directly to the site and THEN I can temporarily login. Even so, I sometimes have to enter my username and password a few times before I can surf around.
This does NOT make me happy. What's worse is that I get so mad at myself for being so fucking stupid because I just don't get this shiz and I freak out. This has been happening for YEARS. Friends have tried to convince me to change to a different browser such as Firefox or Safari since about 2002. Obviously, I do not listen well. I panic instead and go with the what I'm used to and take the piss.
And, I'm still taking it and giving myself fits. My husband said he'd fix it for me later, so I'm going to trust that he isn't lying and the magic of all this techno crap I don't understand will appear again and allow me to navigate wherever the fuck I want to go.
Poor vthokie96! I was chatting with him on AIM last night during my breakdown and he tried SO HARD to calm me down and walk me through steps--a LOT of steps to solve the problems. It didn't work, so I gave up and went to bed furious.
Good thing I have so much balance in my life, right?
I had quite a panic last night when IE decided it wanted to fuck with me, though. On my facebook status I said it crashed, but that isn't exactly true. I crashed. Somehow, and I have no clue why, after I emptied out my temporary internet files, the security settings got ALL FUCKED UP. I can't stay logged-in on LiveJournal OR Facebook and/or use the 'remember me' feature on those sites. In fact, I get a security warning about phishing and the pages won't even pull up unless I click a link on that warning page that takes me directly to the site and THEN I can temporarily login. Even so, I sometimes have to enter my username and password a few times before I can surf around.
This does NOT make me happy. What's worse is that I get so mad at myself for being so fucking stupid because I just don't get this shiz and I freak out. This has been happening for YEARS. Friends have tried to convince me to change to a different browser such as Firefox or Safari since about 2002. Obviously, I do not listen well. I panic instead and go with the what I'm used to and take the piss.
And, I'm still taking it and giving myself fits. My husband said he'd fix it for me later, so I'm going to trust that he isn't lying and the magic of all this techno crap I don't understand will appear again and allow me to navigate wherever the fuck I want to go.
Poor vthokie96! I was chatting with him on AIM last night during my breakdown and he tried SO HARD to calm me down and walk me through steps--a LOT of steps to solve the problems. It didn't work, so I gave up and went to bed furious.
Good thing I have so much balance in my life, right?