After reading that heading, I don't expect any sympathy.

Sure if I were to tell you that I have gone an entire week without my computer or Facebook, you might just say get over it.

I've heard every comment from the peanut gallery.

After going an entire week without my Apple laptop, I have sadly realized that I have grown completely dependent on the Internet and the daily facts that it offers me. I went a week without catching up on the latest gossip that striked my eye as my browser loaded onto Yahoo. I lost the daily gratification of going on to Facebook and checking up on my friends and my digital farm on Farmville. 

Needless to say, I need a life. But thank God school is starting this week and I will be away from my computer and all the distractions that come with it.

Now that ya'll know how I suffered, let me share with you how it happened:

 The night before I was leaving and packing all of my things for OSU, I thought "Hey, it would sure be a grand idea if I cleaned my laptop so that I would be ready for a whole new typing extravaganza with all the papers and homework associated with school starting." So I turned it off and proceeded to clean my keys and screen, etc with a Mr. Clean "Magic Eraser," which according to a computer salesman was the best way to clean anyone's product. However, after I was done cleaning and went to turn the computer back on, it just sat there.

I kind of flipped out.

So the next day, which was sadly the same day that I was flying back up to Ohio, I woke up early to take my Mac to the Apple store to get it fixed. Having the ridiculous clumsiness that I do, I accidentally scheduled an appointment for the following week rather than that morning. So long story short I ended up calling the Apple hotline, which had this cool future-istic sound sequence that I had to listen to while I waited for the operate ( So I actually enjoyed staying on hold for 20 min) and I talked to the Apple care team about what to do with my computer and they gave me the scariest option. They told me to ship my computer via mail to their headquarters. Yes, that's right, I was told to put my $800 lap top in a box and ship it to God-knows-where. Since it was my only option, I had to nervously abide. 

I am writing this blog now, a week later, to let you know that I did get my computer back and it is in the best shape since I bought it. 

The problem: I had malfunctioning keys. 

So in this case the moral of the story: never clean your computer with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

Mr. Clean says he can erase the dirtiest of surfaces, and he's right, but what he doesn't tell you is that his supernatural cleaning ability leaves a nice trace of water all over the place. This is why you should only use his works on walls and counter tops--- not computers!