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Bought a little mini rose plant thing. It's cute. Only 5 or so flowers on it but a couple of buds and hopefully it'll perk up more. I'd been eying them for a while in the grocery store before I just decided to get one on Saturday. I wanted the dark red/purple/burgandy color, so I had to pick one of the ones that wasn't the best looking (as they'd had the same plants in there for several days and I doubt they'd watered them) but it's still nice. I hope I can get it enough sun inside now that it's almost winter (though I've been told that the lights in my kitchen are good for plants, so we'll see).

I am tempted to make a things I like/hate list on here or somewhere just so I can put on there under hate "really greasy slices of pizza". Grr. I went through like 5 napkins trying to dab off the 2 and a half pieces I had for dinner. How wasteful. If they weren't so greasy to begin with, I wouldn't need to wipe them off. But it was really gross, as the one piece was hanging off of the plate and when I put it on the computer desk it flopped onto the keyboard and I had to wipe off the keyboard. . . .

Just out of curiousity, nobody on my f-list happens to be a computer person that can do the data recovery on my drive for free, are they?

Didn't think so.

I feel like I shouldn't spend a lot of money on getting the stuff back when the things I really want are just a couple of chapters worth of US History notes and about 12 unfinished/unposted fics. I really am missing it and everything on it tonight now that I'm on the computer, though, as I want to save stuff and I'm all screwed up because I don't have my crazy 30 folders deep filing system going on because I've got nothing anymore. And I try to look things up, like whether I saved a certain fic or not, and I can't, because I haven't got any of them saved anymore. I'm dwelling on this, aren't I. T'was a major loss. That's my excuse. That and PMS. But even if not, still a major loss.

I want to get the data back. But I'm notoriously stingy with money. And so I'm at odds with myself. I never spend money on anything, really. And this is going to be a lot. My dad offered to pay half, which is when I had decided that I wanted to do it, but then he told me that since he already paid for the replacement one (which was actually a lot less than the original and with a lot more room like I've said because it's not as small/good/pretty) that didn't think he was going to. Which I understand. But even if he was going to pay, I still am reluctant to spend so much money. I've always been really careful with my parents' money also, a lot more so than my siblings. I'm nearly positive, though, that that's because they don't remember trying to grow up in a family of 5 making $30 someodd thousand a year, and I majorly do.

Anyway. I've got to do it fast, as the data dies more the longer it's not being recovered. So I've got to decide by the end of school Monday. I'm going to take it up there and make them estimate the cost, and then I'll decide finally then.

Maybe I'll try to get my parents to make my brother pay it. As he is the one that broke it. And I've been surprisingly (even to myself) not with the killing of him for it.

You know what? *headfreakingdesk* I didn't check ever if my hard drive thing had any kind of a warranty. I know it probably wouldn't apply since it got damaged by dropping, but still, it wouldn't have hurt to check. Though I have no idea where the stuff about a warranty would be.

Research for my history project bit without all the old stuff is taking longer than I had thought. I'm not going to get done tonight. I really hope the teacher will still take it if I don't give it to him until Tuesday. That will make it two days late, though. Which would be bad. And I can't just not show up tomorrow like I'd like to because I've got both a history test and a math test. (Grr.)