On The Plus Side;

I have been given a laptop by the Grandmama.
     Long story. Suffice to say that I didn't ask for it (not that I'm not grateful). 

On the other side; I already HAVE a laptop, so technically I don't need it.

On the plus side again; the laptop is only a year or so old and barely used, so in effect I am getting a new laptop. This means that it is lighter, quicker and altogether far more efficient than the laptop I already have.

Though, on the other side (also again);  I am used to the laptop I already have. 
     We have been through a lot, Niles and I. I am used to him and him to me. We understand each other. We are comfortable with each other. We are as friendly, I believe, as a girl and a machine can be toward one another without legal or moral boundries being crossed.

But on the plus side again; the DVD player on the new-ish laptop works, whereas Nile's does not.
     And the screen is bigger.

But on the other side again; the new-ish laptop does not have Microsoft Office installed, and therefore also does not have Microsoft Word: something which as I have previously described, is essential.
     So I would have to buy that. And at £99, it isn't cheap.

But on the plus side again; if I was to buy and install it, I would then have TWO laptops; one for upstairs and one for down. Which is what I wanted when I contemplated the buying of a Netbook.

But on the other side again; aren't I too reliant on technology already??
     Seriously; what individual person needs TWO computers?

...and round and round and round it goes...

=SIGH=

Why couldn't she have just refrained from buying a Kindle E-Fire (whatever the heck that is) and kept the damn thing? That would have spared me the current emotional quandry I am in.

Alice x