A Very Late Birthday Present!

Don't you just LOVE late birthday gifts? You feel like all the excitement of your birthday is long gone, and then suddenly BAM! It's birthday time all over again! That's how I felt Thursday when I was checking my voicemail on my way home from work. My dad left a message saying a bunch of boxes were delivered to me on our backporch. YAY! YAY! YAY! My old laptop died last year. Since then I've been mooching off my brother's laptop (and my parents' dinosaur of a desktop), so they decided to get me my own for my birthday. My mom ordered an awesome Dell XPS with an all-in-one scanner/printer/copier thingy. It was on sale for a really nice price, and it came with a free 30-minute Flip video camera. I got home quickly (by driving safely and focusing on the road, of course), and ripped into those boxes like a mad woman... but not before taking a picture of them neatly stacked in my room!

Packed safely inside those boxes were a Dell XPS M1530 laptop, a Logitech coardless mouse, a Flip 30-minute video recorder, and a Dell V305 Printer. I don't have anywhere to put the printer in my room yet, so I just left it in the box.

Today, I've gotta go shopping for some shelves so that I can move all of my cookbooks off my desk to make room for this beauty! This thing is seriously awesome! Now I've just got to figure out a way to get the songs from my iPod onto this computer without resetting my entire iTunes library.... Ugh!

Anyway, I must give a huge thanks to my mom and dad. They are incredible, and I couldn't ask for better parents. I owe them so much dish and laundry duty now!! Lol :D