ahh monday..

I have noticed that Mondays always kinda stink...Not only do they put you in sort of bad mood at 8 o' clock that morning when you're up starting your day, but they kind of loom over you on Sunday night too, just constantly reminding you that your late night t.v chill session is about to come to a screeching halt about 2 hours earlier than you would want it to because you have to get up early tomorrow, the dreaded Monday morning. And what's worse, you have way more than 2 hours of your favorite t.v shows on the TiVo to catch up on.

My weekend went somewhat like that...I drove up to Boone on Friday afternoon with Maggie and our friend Giuliana. We were planning to stay with Patrick, Maggie's brother, for the weekend at his apartment. The weekend was so much fun! We ate at Canyons and overlooked a gorgeous horizon, hung out with old friends, met new ones, had awesome custard and witnessed a few funny things along the way. Even though it rained for most of the weekend, it was totally worth being up there just to be able to spend time in Boone and have the chance to hang out with some of my favorite people!

Like all weekends though, this one started to come to a bitter end on Sunday night, and turned into even more of a monday-morning reality when I woke up 1 hour before I was supposed to even think about getting up. Since I for some reason could not go back to sleep, I went ahead and got up for my morning run and figured that I would at least have some extra time to chill this morning and watch Live with Regis and Kelly and the TODAY show, which I love doing every morning. But, of course, Monday morning would have none of that. I started up my computer to put in a workout DVD and discovered the ENTIRE THING had been wiped. Now, I hate these school-supported computers with a passion and knew it was probably capable of something like this, but I just did not expect it to happen now. Nothing was backed up-not music, pictures,  documents or anything. The only thing I really cared about were the irreplaceable pictures from anywhere between high school graduation, my europe trip, freshman year, all the way through this summer along with my school paper photos I had taken, my portfolio and my first photo story. I immediately panicked. I tried every option except for throwing my computer out of the window and giving up completely. Finally, I opened Picassa 3, a Google program for pictures and videos that I had just recently installed on my computer. Immediately, every single picture, including what I had backed up LAST time my computer crashed, was saved!! I guess it has something to do with the program being through the internet or something. Thank goodness for this crazy technology we have today!! The awesome, interesting stuff that is invented every day actually comes in handy!! I watched as every single picture transferred back into Picassa on my desktop. When it was finally done, I backed the whole program and all the pictures up on my exterior hard drive. Oh my gosh, I could NOT believe it--everything was saved! Since pictures are my life, this was pretty much the best.thing.ever.

I guess this Monday sort of had a different message than most. Though it loomed over me on Sunday, woke me up far too early on its morning, and scared me half to death when all I was trying to do was work out, it pulled through and performed a little miracle. Now, I still most DEFINITELY hate Mondays, but at least this one turned out not to suck as much as the others :)