Green Eggs and Spam

So, my five-year-old laptop, the one I bought to get me through college (which it did admirably except for two outstanding elective courses I need...my issue, not the laptop's) is very, very sick. 

I thought I was being really good about not accepting suspicious emails from family and friends.  You know what I'm talking about...the ones that have some kind of political or religious junk embedded into it along with some cute animal pictures.  I have totally been guilty about sharing pictures or YouTube stuff, I admit, and I'm hoping nothing harmed anyone's elses's computer.  However, someone, somewhere tossed me something stealthy and stinky, and even with the addition of Norton 360, my little laptop is not where it should be...mostly alive, that is...waaaahhhh.

I love that little laptop likeI love my six-year-old car with over 100,000 miles on it (oh no...did I put that out into the Universe only to have it snap me in the soft part of my Italian-American...aauuuuggghhh.  Puhleeze don't hurt my little Subie). 

When your main job is regaining a job, being without a computer is like being sensory deprived.  I figured I'd stumble through and use my husband's laptop when he was at work.  I was seriously afraid to open anything because of being so severely burned...and then...my dear husband did something very unexpected...he offered to get me another laptop!  How cool is that?!

So, here I am on my new laptop, continuing my job search, and deleting my friends and family emails that look to have anything other than a plain old email (sorry!).  I will not open anything that eggs me on, I do not like spam I am.