YES!!! In fact after relaying the "summer vacation/prison visit" tale with my IC a month or so ago, she again told me how impressed she was with my mindset having been raised in such an 'unhealthy' family environment.
I have it good. I do. But you know what? They could, too. If they wanted to make the effort. Easier to b!tch and moan about how good others have it. That's why I am not big on the social justice theory. I give to charities out of my own sense of need. I am not compelled to give by others, I give freely. Many of my family expect for those with more to automatically give what they have to the rest, even if the rest are without by choice. Ugh.
Anyway, yes the curse of facebook. The last post was too long to include this, but in fact as I was posting a reply on FB, I got a popup thing that said I had malware on my computer. It wouldn't let me shut down, x out, etc. I googled the 'security software' it was trying to sell me on my home computer--the one I am using now. It said it was a nasty spyware program. Designed to scare you into downloading its 'security software' so it could have access to everything in your hard drive...passwords, financial info, etc.
So based on the advice given by my computer, it said I should go up, pull a couple fancy maneuvers to get my laptop restarted on 'safe mode', then go in and do a System Restore to an earlier date, pre-infestation.
Ok. Well. I did that, and was rather proud of myself. However now when restarting in safe mode--and I know it is bc the four corners of the monitor say 'safe mode' ;), the computer does not acknowledge my username/password as valid. My fear is that this is bc it is a school-owned computer. My info is good enough to start in normal form, but I wonder in safe mode if you have to have administrator rights to log in?!
Crap. Now I HAVE to tell our IT guy. Hope they don't take my computer away for letting it get almost-I hope-infected.
