Now that we are back from Disney it’s time to download and sort through the 800+ pictures I took. The good news is that I won’t bore you by posting all of those pictures. The bad news is that not one of those pictures is of a tacky outfit. I know, it’s a sad day when a girl can’t go to Disney World and be assaulted by skanky outfits. I did see a few outfits that were picture worthy but they were all at Downtown Disney and it would have been way obvious that I was documenting the outfit. And then jparks would have had to fight the slut’s boyfriend and I really like jparks’ face the way it is. So, no pictures for you.

So I’m sitting here facing 800+ non-slut pictures from the trip and am feeling highly overwhelmed. The problem is that I had vowed that these would be the first pictures that I give the photoshop treatment to. That decision was made because I’ve had photoshop for awhile now, and have been so scared of it, that I haven’t even opened the application. Yeah, I suck. But photoshop is so big and scary. It’s got so many buttons to click. And I’m a pansy.

To help me get over this irrational fear I bought a photoshop how to book that a friend recommended. And that book was nice, but not quite the kick in the ass that I needed.

What is the kick in the ass that I’m looking for? I don’t think it’s a class because those are too expensive. I don’t think it’s another book, because the one I have doesn’t suck. I think what I need might be more of a tutor, either human or website based. Someone or something that can take a picture and show me what they would do to it. I’m fairly certain that having a hand to guide me through the scary “where the hell do I start?” phase would help a lot.

In my ideal world wide web there would be a site that allows you to submit a picture and then uses it to create a step by step tutorial working towards a final product. Does this site currently exist and I just haven’t found it yet? Please, TELL ME! Do you want to take the time to show me a step by step tutorial? Again, TELL ME! I would be your best friend and probably would make you cookies. Is there a good photoshop tutorial site that you love and you just know I would love as well? FREAKING TELL ME! I mean, please FREAKING TELL ME!

Yesterday I joined a new service (well, it’s new to me) called Twitter which allows me to send short messages from my cell phone or AIM. The messages can then be received on my friends’ cell phones, AIMs, or they can view them on my twitter page. (I’m doing a really poor job explaining this as I’m hopelessly untech savvy)

Thus far I only have two friends on Twitter, but I mainly signed up because this weekend jparks and I are going on vacation to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (did you hear that? It was jparks’ balls falling off and hitting the ground) and I’m pretty sure that the b&b we’re staying in doesn’t have internet. But it does have a bath tub for two, so the lack of internet is forgiven.

And while the tub does help soothe the pain, not having internet leaves a void in my soul that Twitter can help fill. So grab an RSS feed to my Twitter page or sign up and add me as a friend. Either way, you’ll never be without the latest Regan update or a rundown of whatever stupid thing jparks does next.

I just called the hotel (don’t call a Disney Resort a hotel while on the phone with a Disney employee, they’ll correct you. Every single time you say hotel they. will. correct. you. You can’t win this test of wills Ms. Disney Employee, I’m going to call it a hotel and you can’t stop me) to find out if the hotel(!) has internet access. The chipper answer was “Yes, and it’s even high speed!” But when I asked if it was free, the tone in her voice changed. It turned a lot less chipper, as she explained that it’s $9.95 for 24 hours.

$10 a day for internet! That is such a rip off. Disney is mega stupid rich and they can’t provide free wi-fi to their hotel guests? Maybe I’m making wrong assumptions and it’s not 24 hours as in noon to noon, but 24 hours that ticks down for every hour you are logged in.

Anyway, I guess this is just my way of saying I might not be able to post as much as I planned. I’m still going to try to post daily, but unless someone wants to send me $50 for internet access, it might not happen. The weather better be beautiful to make up for this crap.

I know I’m late on the new iTunes 7 hating bandwagon but my complaint is different than most folks’.

On the 12th Apple released a grand new iTunes and I went ahead and downloaded it. At first I thought it was okay and I could live with the changes. I even downloaded some new songs to celebrate (okay, I was going to download then even if a new iTunes wasn’t released, but whatever). The next day when I plugged in my iPod to update, something went wonky. It continued to update for 30 minutes. And when I tried to eject the iPod, iTunes refused to let it go. I had to manually quit iTunes to break the grasp it had on my poor little iPod.

Jump to the next day when jparks starts investigated what’s up with iTunes. It turns out that some how, when iTunes updated, it lost a bunch of my songs. Or it had them but couldn’t locate them. I’m not really sure, but if you really want to know, jparks can explain it to you. And (here’s the heartbreaking part of this tale) the only thing jparks could figure out to do was move my whole library off iTunes onto the computer’s desktop and then move them back to iTunes. And this was going to cause me to lose my playlists, my perfectly constructed, time consuming to create playlists!

So here it is, five days since iTunes was updated and I’m still fixing my library and playlists. I am very upset with Apple. Damn it Apple, now when I see your witty little “Hi, I’m a Mac” commercials I won’t be so quick to laugh at them. You have created a little black spot in my heart of love for you.