morningsting

Okay, so I promise that this will the the last time that I complain about this, ahahaa xD. So yesterday I pretty much tried everything to make Sims 2 work on my computer. I downloaded & installed DirectX. I ran the game in XP instead of Vista. Yeah, none of that worked! The game still froze >.<. It's just incredibly frustrating because I really want to play it & I can't because Windows Vista is LAME. It really makes me wish that I had gotten a computer with XP on it instead of Vista. But unfortunately I couldn't find a good Dell that had XP on it - the laptops I saw were all really crappy & way too big for me (I love small laptops). I really want to email EA Games & totally complain to them about how angry I am that it doesn't work with Vista. I went to the Sims 2 website just to double check & make darn sure that I had the right requirements to make the game work, & I do. I have everything on my computer that I need to make sure that the game runs smoothly & doesn't freeze. So, from all of my research & reading, I have come to the conclusion that this is a Windows Vista problem. I do blame EA Games though. They just need to come out & say "Okay yeah we lied - it doesn't work with Vista, sorry". Then I would be happier instead of them just saying that it works when it really doesn't. & I'm not the only one with this problem. I've read tons of stories on forums & such about how it just doesn't work with Vista at all. Some people have been saying that it isn't made to be played on a laptop, but to me, that's a bunch of bull, because more people in this world have laptops than desktops. EA Games has to know this, & I'm sure that they've made the game so that people with laptops can play it. Sims 3 is definitely supposed to work on Vista though, so I preordered a copy off Amazon.com a few days ago. It comes out in less than a month, so I'm really excited about that. I'm getting kind of tired of playing Zoo Tycoon 2 tbh. It's fun for awhile, but then I just get bored with it, lulz.

I was hoping that I would be able to shoot my new set this weekend, but I don't think that will happen. My SLR has about 250 pictures on it, & I need to go & get them developed before I can shoot my set because there isn't enough room on the memory card for about 60-100 more pictures. *sigh* Hopefully I can get to WalMart or something tomorrow & get those pictures developed. I also need to buy some more photo albums because my daughter has ruined a bunch of them >.<. That really made me angry, because I spent A LOT of time organizing them & writing dates in & writing in where I took the picture.

Today I'm actually going out to eat! Lulz, I don't get to do that very often . I think we're going to Ruby Tuesday's - one of my favorite restaurants. Their hamburgers are really good there. Should be interesting because I don't know how my daughter isn't going to fair. Sometimes she's good ... & other times she throws a fit because she gets bored of just sitting there watching me & my husband eat, ahahaa.

I finally have a virus scanner on my computer again, yay! McAfee ftw! I didn't have it for about 2 weeks & I was really worried that I was going to get a virus or something. It's so weird having to have a virus scanner ... I've been using Mac computers for the past 5 years & I never needed a virus scanner on them. I switched from Mac to PC because I was sick & tired of the computer breaking on me for some really lame reason. I'm also sick of iPods. I swear I've had at least 6 of them in the past 4 years & they always break on me after like 6 months of usage. I got a Zune for Christmas & I love it. It's so pretty & it has tons more space than any of my iPods ever had at a fraction of the price. iPods are definitely overrated & just like to break for no apparent reason. Maybe it's just me? My husband has had his Nano for the past 3 years or so & it still works just fine. Then again, he doesn't really use it all that much. I would use my iPod pretty much everyday. I would treat it with care though - I never dropped it or anything - but yet they all still broke to the point where I had to get a new one. Ugh. Apple fail for sure.

Oh yes, I said I would write about why I hate driving . So 5 years ago, I was in an almost fatal car accident. This guy was going 70mph & I was sitting in the passenger's seat & he t-boned the car I was in. I went through the windshield & then the passenger side window. Yes, I WAS wearing my seatbelt! It didn't do that catch thing that it's supposed to do. No, the airbag didn't go off. I found out later that it was faulty. The car I was in was a Ford Focus, so go figure. Ever since then I've been scared to death of being in a car & driving for me has just gotten worse & worse these past 5 years. The only person's driving I trust is my husband's, & even then I almost have a panic attack everytime I get in a car. People in Hawaii drive like MANIACS. I lived in California for 2 years & I thought the drivers there were bad. Boy was I wrong. I didn't think that there was such a place where people drove worse than they did in California, but yup, it exists. Every time I get into a car I'm so sure that I'm going to get into a car accident & die. It's gotten to the point where I refuse to drive my car & I make my husband take me everywhere. Not like I can drive my car anyways even if I wanted to ... it's broken yet again. What a shocker! Volkswagen Beetles are terrible cars. I haven't heard a positive review from anyone who's owned a Beetle. Anyways, I just don't know what to do at this point. My husband says I just need to get out there & do a lot of driving & that will help with my anxiety, but I'm not too sure that that will actually work. I'm afraid that it'll just make my fear of driving even worse than it is right now.