As I write this, I am sitting behind a 23 inch monitor on my brand new computer.

I’m not bragging.

Really, I’m not.

I’ve never owned a brand new computer. All the computers I’ve ever owned, (in my lifetime there have been two), have been used. Owned by others. In fact, my first computer was so old, when my husband and I met I was still using Windows 3.1. (To give you a little insight we’ve only been married for five years. Windows 3.1 was released in 1992.)

When we got married I updated to my husband’s ten year old laptop. (The saying–Take’s a licking, but keeps on ticking–applied. No matter how bad I treated that laptop it wouldn’t die. I loved and hated that.) I was updated to a newer version of Windows, (Windows XP! Hurray for me!), but the thing was so slow that I would literally have to turn it on, go watch an episode of Top Chef, (love that show), and then get on the computer. Minus a few crashes, and frozen screens, the old guy worked pretty well.

But now.

Now, I’ve seen the light. I’m a PC kind of girl, so my husband and I settled on a sleek, thin HP laptop, with a huge monitor. And, hold your breath, wait for it, wait for it…a wireless mouse. (I know right? Welcome to the 21st century, Katrina Spencer!) Yes, I had to plug in my mouse to my old laptop, which sits sadly on my breakfast table. Did I mention that the thing had no battery life? If you unplugged it from it’s power cord it will give you a 2 second warning and then shut off. Very conducive to writing.

Speaking of writing, can you imagine all the writing I’ll be able to get done on this? Her fingers–faster than a speeding bullet, able to trounce adverbs in the blink of an eye, able to delete entire paragraphs in a single click…Oh wait. I could do that before. But anyway, you see my point. I’m going to get some serious writing done on this thing.

Right now.

Now.

Now?