I hate my life sometiumes...

So, I work late on Wedsdays, until 4:30, and then I get to go straight home, so I didn't take my laptop with me today. Good thing or I would have gotten all upset during my 45 minutes break when my laptop wouldn't boot up properly. it keeps getting stuck on the 'Welcome' screen, even when i tried booting up in safe mode.

I spent about 20 minutes waiting in 'normal' mode for it to go beyond 'welcome', and so far anput 10 in 'safe mode', and nothing, it's still on welcome. So, unless it starts working, this means I'll be needing to take it to get it fixed, which could mean wiping the drive and re-installing windows, which means I lose EVERYTHING. My music collection, my video clips, my fanfic (including an unposted chapter of 'Never Again', the first chapter of the Three Years sequel, my original fiction, my nanos from the last two years).

So, I may NOT have the first chapter of the 3Y sequel out by this weekend, and I'm sorry about that, but... if I can't even get it to load in safe mode, there's jack shit I can do until I get it fixed. I can TRY to rewrite it, but it's jsut so frustrating because I know the rewrite won't be as good.

It was FINE last night, no problems at ALL! Maybe I fucked up by turning off windows updates, but I was so tired of the updates causing problems... I'm just so frustrated...

Okay... cautiously optimistic...

I decided to give my laptop one more try... this time, after putting in my password, it blue screened me, but restarted before I could read what exactly the screen said. Well, when it came back up, instead of the normal 'safe mode', 'safe mode with networking' and 'start normally' options for a hard reboot, it had a 'start up repair' option. So, I did the repair, and guess what? It started up just fine! Everything is working and I am posting from my laptop right now... so... I'm cautiously optimistic that it's okay... I'm saving the most important stuff (new fic chapters, nano files, other original works) to my flash drive just in case, but... I'm gonna hold off on calling the repair guys unless this happens again... I am SO glad I tried again instead of just taking it to get it fixed and spending money that I may not need to! (Yes, I do know the problem may re-occur, and if it does, then off to the shop it goes, but... I'm hoping it won't...)

Anyway, I will have the most important stuff backed up by the time I go to bed, and I will have less reason to panic just in case... lol...