Author Archives: Echo

Old Desk – New Desk – Old Desk

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Let’s start off by stipulating that I’m not a hoarder. The professional organizers who came to help me after my bad fall in 2010 agreed on that. I’m closer to being one of those perfectionists who gives up when something can’t be done perfectly. The organizers also said I actually have a talent for organizing. What I don’t have at all is a talent for putting things away.

Some of my friends would say I have a talent for not cleaning. One of my friends finally refused to help me declutter any more, because it never lasted. I can’t blame her, either. Continue reading →

Oh my GOD, Windows 7 – Are You Crazy? (Or: I Am Now an Administrator)

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I recently purchased a new computer that came with Windows 7 and started installing my software. All of a sudden from one of those programs I got the message that I had to have administrator rights to run it. Say what?

I went into the Control Panel and attempted to change my User Account to Administrator. Nothing. Every time I went back in it said Standard again. So how the hell was I supposed to make myself an Administrator when I wasn’t an Administrator to start with? (Not to mention, why wasn’t the first user account I created the Administrator in the first place?)

I began searching. There must have been dozens of forums where people had asked the same question – how do I make myself an Administrator in Windows 7? Continue reading →

Coming halfway back to life

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I have been really, really sick.

At the end of April my voice became entirely bizarre. I sounded like Mickey Mouse – a high, hooting tone. I didn’t have a chance to do anything about it, though.

The next day I was hit with ischemic colitis. That’s like having a stroke in your large intestine. For most of five days I was flat on my back in the hospital getting IV antibiotics, slugs of morphine on a regular basis, and being fed a liquid diet. When I got out, I was exhausted and had almost no strength.

They told me 6-10 weeks is the general recovery time. Others have since told me different. My joints hurt a lot – this has turned out to be bursitis brought on, apparently, by being given too much fluid via IV. (I came home weighing 12 pounds more than when I went in, and peed it all away in three days.) Continue reading →