Two weeks to Disney!!

Two weeks until Disney.

Is it me, or did this happen sort of quickly?

In my defense, I have been more than a little occupied these days. There's weddings afoot, which means I've been trying to go through library books on being a bridesmaid just so I have some clue as to what it is I'm supposed to do. I've also been trying to figure out where to buy a gold chain. Just a simple gold chain, nothing else. This is for my friend Anjali's wedding which is coming up in just a week and a half. Though the ceremony's going to be Catholic and held in a Church, Anjali and us bridesmaids will be wearing saris, and it has been requested that if the bridesmaids are going to wear jewelry, it's going to have to be gold.

I'm a silver person. Not that I have anything against gold, I just prefer silver more. Thus, I'm on a hunt for something gold to wear. Not so surprisingly, a lot of the stuff I've seen in Claire's and After Thoughts isn't necessarily going to work for the wedding. Too...teenage clubish? And anywhere else I've gone tends to charge a little on the higher side, even for a plain chain.

But this doesn't have much to do with Disney...

What DOES have to do with Disney, and has also been a time-waster, has been my hunt for a netbook. I've weighed the options (ok, thought about them...a little), and determined that it would be in my best interest to bring a computer with me to Disney. The desktop won't be going, no way do I want to lug it down there, and as I learned from my year dorming at college, computers in a computer lab are great to have, but are also for public use, not in a private location, not yours to mess around with, etc etc.

I have a laptop, but it's in a weird Zombiefyed (or perhaps, more popularly, Vampirefyed) state where it won't recognize the operating system and won't turn on, but if you leave it alone for a month and a half and don't touch it, it'll work fine. Is it living? Is it dead? It's not gonna work for Disney, that's for sure. So I need a computer to bring with me.

Back in October, once I had gotten back from my Disney trip, I had talked to my friend Dan and told him how I'd tried to send myself text messages to keep track of what I had done each day in the parks (I DID mention I was a Disney dork, right?). I felt the text messages worked well as little outlines, but didn't really suffice as a way to write about all that I was experiencing. Dan then suggested a neat little contraption called a netbook, which is portable like a laptop, but smaller, lighter, and not meant to be the most amazingly powerful computer around (i.e. cheaper!).

That caught my interest, and when I finally agreed to head down to Disney, I figured a netbook'd be the right thing to bring with me. I could keep in contact with home, do work for classes, and even entertain myself with the internet (may I humbly suggest http://www.youtube.com/user/Blendtec or http://www.youtube.com/user/JeepersMedia for your time-eating pleasure?).

But alas, the hunt for the right one has been "difficult" as I've mentioned to Dan. Mostly, it's been the price. I won't go into all the little details, but let's just say weddings + Disney + college loans = where'd my money go? I was thisclose to buying one yesterday, but wouldn't you know it, Best Buy was out of stock. In an even bigger twist, three other stores in the area maybe had one left in stock, but otherwise everyone was sold out, and there was nothing being sent out from the warehouse for the next couple of weeks at least.

Perhaps I'm rushing in to this just a little bit. The guy at Best Buy did suggest that maybe I go with a laptop instead, and found me one for roughly the same price as the netbook. And while I appreciated that, I guess I was just a little more set on the netbook, although now I've got to look at other options. My Mom's also asked me why I don't just wait a little while until funds pick up and get it then. But the way I'm seeing it, if I go to Disney without a computer, I'll learn to adapt to the sans computer lifestyle. Which isn't necessarily a terrible thing, especially seeing as Disney does provide computer labs for people to use. That was what I did back in college. But I was also going home every weekend in college, and had many of my friends living on campus too. I also had a single with my own tv, so entertainment was all of my own choosing.

One thing's for sure though - in two weeks, I'll know whether or not I brought a computer to Disney.

Dan's actually got a roommate who's leaving for a 6 month deployment soon, and I couldn't help but think of the slight similarity between his roommate and myself. When I asked how his roommate's reacting, Dan replied:

Dan: the same wayone prepares for dissappearing on a ship for 6 months
Dan: he's pretty much left emotions behind and is going through the motions
Dan: he's distant depressed and withdrawn

Oh boy.

It's funny, in a way, because as opposed to Steve the roommate, here I am pondering over netbooks and gold chains, and not really giving any thought as to where I'll been soon. I mean, I know I'll be an absolute emotional basket case the day I leave home; it's just my way. And today I went with Ralph to the zoo, and once I got home, I felt a slight twinge of sadness, thinking that today may have been the last time we'll spend time together before I leave. But obviously there's a HUGE difference between being deployed for the protection and safety of the nation, and doing a college internship at Disney.

Dan's response to my less-than-thrilled reaction to what potentially could be me in any number of days?

Dan: you'll be fine
Dan: just look forward and keep your head high, y'know

Simple. And it works so well.

In any case, two weeks from now, I should be somewhere on Disney property. Will I be getting settled in? Perhaps still at the meet and greet dinner? Who knows? In the mean time, I really should get back to attempting to start to clean my room. I did manage unearth a bit of floor yesterday, which was promptly covered up when I unloaded everything off my bed to get some sleep. And my To-Disney pile downstairs has grown a little, although the selection of items is growing tentacle-like outward from the tub base like some weird garage sale octopus. Packing, by way of using my mad Tetris skillz, should soon be up next.

Maybe I'll just go read for a bit :P