Oh Crap!

You won't believe what happened to me this morning---or what I caused to happen to me this morning. You know I've been on this major, obsessive, cleaning mode. Well today, I woke up waaay too early and finally got out of bed at 4 a.m. I came upstairs to my office and decided to clean out my files. I'm working along, feeling really good about what I'm accomplishing---downloading more cd's to my computer---I'm up to 536 albums now---just really crankin' it!

Then I come across this font cd. I don't know if you know that I am also a font junkie. I have 898 fonts all neatly categorized in folders in my Font Book on my computer. This disk I found has 1000 fonts on it. I say to myself, "hmmm, if there's a thousand fonts on this disk and I only have 898 on my computer, I must not have downloaded them." You might think that I would ask myself the obvious question---"do I really need more than 898 fonts?" But, noooooo, I don't do that. Instead, I load the cd, open it and decide to "check" to see if I had gone through the fonts and just picked the ones I liked. Wellllll, I don't know what the heck I did, but the next thing I know I get a little message saying that 1000 fonts are being copied to my DESKTOP!!!! What the f? Oh My Gooodddd!!! (and you know I always say Oh My Gosh!). Suddenly, I have a thousand font icons all over my desktop. I'm totally going nuts. Another thing I'm majorly obsessive about is my computer desktop---I have about 6 things on it. I like it clean and clear---no documents or folders cluttering it up, not to mention covering my cute background picture of Butch and I.

Now I tell myself to take a deep breath and THINK---which is kind of hard to do when your heart is in palpitation mode. I calm myself---a very little---and decide to hit "command Z" for "un-do". Shucks, that didn't work. Now I have no choice but to click on each little bugger individually and drag them to the trash. Of course the easiest thing would be to "select all", but if I do that, then EVERYTHING goes. So, I proceeded to click on each one. Oh, My Gosh---I just had a brainstorm. I'll be right back....

Never mind---it isn't going to work. I thought I could just select all and then go back and "de-select" the folders and icons I want to keep. The reason I can't do it is because after I got rid of all the ones on the desktop, there is a humongous stack ON TOP of my hard drive icon. For those, I have no choice but to click on each one individually---or lose my entire hard drive.

I've worked on it for about 30 minutes before taking a break to write this, plus a minute or two for my brainstorm. Turns out, I guess it's going to be more like 5000 clicks required as each font has a number of types---bold, condensed, etc. Sheesh, this is going to take forever. So much for what I had planned for the rest of the day. Even if I tell myself to just do a little at a time, it hangs over my head. I have to stick to it until I get them all off.

You know what I say to that---FTS!!! Is there such a thing as being "too" organized?