Who fills a 285 GB hard drive? Apparently being a shutterbug and a hoarder do not mix.
What else is new? Really, who would I be without my crazy-beautiful rollercoaster of emotion?
More on that next week.
First, if you are reading this in your email inbox, thank you. I really appreciate that you enjoy this blog enough to have it delivered daily. There are only a handful of other blogs that I get in my inbox, and I know the combination of ingredients that makes me sign up for email delivery, so seriously…thank you.
A maxed out computer (see photos) reflected my maxed out brain this week, as I buckled under the looming deadline of submitting my manuscript for conference agents and the ongoing battle of loneliness, sugar addiction and everything OCD (you might remember that I blame everything on my OCD. It’s kind of my ongoing lifejoke, except that it’s frustrating and isn’t funny while you’re fighting against your own brain on a daily basis.) Anyway, add a typical Marla meltdown to this week and well, you can imagine it’s been a doozy. To get any photos I have to take them with my camera, email them to my computer, then copy and paste them here. Even then it doesn’t always work. The beauty of digital photos is that you can take so many. The curse is in not developing them and making yourself remove them from your computer.
Recovery disk also nearly full. Why do I feel like this is all a reflection of my brain, lately?
My computer hard drive is 100% FULL. Who fills 285 out of 285 GB on a hard drive?!? (See first photo above). My recovery disk is likewise almost maxed out. I can’t preview photos or save files. It’s a nightmare of my own making because like so many things, I wait until something’s burning down before I address whether or not it might catch fire.
For all the time spent writing Preventive Action plans in my former career, I don’t seem to include them in life (unless I’m making lists of lists of lists of lists in an OCD-induced euphoria that actually never manifests itself into action).
The four things that really kept me from going over the edge this week were (1) inquiries from Michelle and Jeff telling me they missed my posts and hoping things were well; (2) an incredibly timed postcard from Leo (of the blog Doggy’s Style); (3) some tough love from my online fitness coach, Colin (of the blog UberBeastMode), and (4) always, always my husband who can diffuse a toxic meltdown by wrapping his arms around me and not letting go until all the anger is gone.
I will return this coming week, but in the meantime, I just wanted to log on and say thank you for missing me, thank you for looking forward to more, and thank you, always, for seeming to know and love the crazy-beautiful messed up parts of me lurking behind my strange daily posts.
Love, Marla
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Great blog ! I hope to keep in touch
Owww glad you finally got the replacement postcard.
Seems like this was quite a week for you too.
Thing will go back to normal.
xx
Thanks Leo! It really is wonderful and what a beautiful photo!
12.4 gb’s? Spend a little money and get a real hard drive so you don’t have this problem silly!
This week is going to be a better week, I just know it!
Coach Beast, 285GB is my hard drive, which is completely full. 12.4 is the recovery drive which is almost full. So basically I’ve filled up 285 GB plus the majority of the 12.4gb recovery.
Sounds like too much Bree.
Hahaha. Those are on DVD’s but it’s definitely a media problem. I have 3 backup drives and am still afraid to delete my photos and videos (non-Bree I mean) from my hard drive. Gah. Who knew electronic hoarding could be a thing?
Thanks for the fix…I was jonesin’!
Thanks Michelle. I’m so glad you’re addicted, haha.
You totally come to my inbox. =) I’ve only posted to my blog twice this week. I was hoping you were a little thin on the posts for the same reason I was–I’m in the middle of a writing storm! Nervous breakdown to follow.
You too, Kris! Yeah, this manuscript has been kicking my butt. I finally got it overnighted to the conference. I have 4 agent meetings there and am nervous as all get-out, you know?
My brain really gets spun around the more I try to revise and rewrite sections. It’s hard to keep the overall plan in mind when I’m digging around in one part.
You are delivered instantly to my inbox!!!
Thanks! I feel like I have such a great community in here!
I LOVE your blogpostings. I LOVE your writing, your sense of humor amidst utter distress (not that I want you to have it or that you’re only witty with it)…you have a gift and I’m so grateful that you share it. Take all the time you need. I’m taking some days to move a droozly cold from my head. Me thinks it’s those sugar toxins being released. Hang in. Cheers! – Pierr
That’s so cool, thank you. It makes me feel good if people can relate that way. Ah! Sugar toxins.
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