false hope

the check was fraud. figures. don't know how or where they got my name/address.

keep taking my computer back to the apple store, got my logic board replaced
but my stupid internet STILL DOES NOT WORK. or works for 3 minutes and dies. i am scared to take the thing back in there. they are going to hate me.

i am getting tired of it. and i know they are too.

IT CAME TRUE?!

so, today my dad called and had received a mysterious package for me at his office. it was a check. now i posted some of the furniture i am trying to sell on craigs list, and had recieved a couple responses and people were sending me money-but then i figured out all those people who were going to send me money were a scam, so i figured this was one of their checks. but when i got it, it was from someone who i had not talked to on craigs list. it was from a company called Apple Inc.

so i googled it and it was an apple store. and i tried to call to figure out why they sent me this check, for a large amount of money, and if it was real, but they are closed.

but WHAT IF THEY SAW MY LAST POST and sent me a check for a new computer?!?!? but why would they send it to my dads work?! i am so confused.

but here is this check for the amount of a new computer, in my hands. WHAT?!

my wildest dream

so, towards the end of the semester my wireless card in my computer slowly started to die. this resulted in m using an Ethernet cable which worked great. until i got home and we don't even have that option.
lesson 1-Ethernet is handy.

so i made a handy little genius bar appointment at the apple store and spilled my problems, they so kindly ordered me a new card and replaced it-for free mind you.
lesson 2-buy apple care

so then i picked up my worn out macbook and took it home. it didn't work. no airport would even come up. so i decided to unscrew the back and figure out what was wrong. there were lots of different little screws and i think i put some back in the wrong place, after i couldn't even get all them off.
lesson 3-don't think you're natalie scott when taking a computer apart, because you are not and will not fix it

so i made another appointment and took it in. i figured i would just drop it off and they would fix it but the guy took it to the back and said a cable was unplugged, so he fixed it, and then i came back and it still wasn't fixed. i stumped the genius guy.
lesson 4-mac genius's are not all that genius-but very helpful and kind.

so then i left it there, and have not heard anything about it. so i am hoping this is how my next call from the apple store goes.

"yes, tricia? we have your computer, it is broken and can not be fixed*, but because you are such a loyal customer and awesome at everything you do, we are going to replace it with a new macbook, you can come pick it up tomorrow"

this would be the best day of my life. so please, be thinking of me as i sit waiting for this call to come.

i think this problem is because i have illegal softwear on my computer, the whole CS4 suite, which if they ask, i will tell them i bought and they need to replace because i have not even begun to have as much fun on it as it deserves.