so here we are in day 3… i have put together my new monster computer on new egg and its sitting in the cart. all we’re waiting on is paypal to stop being stupid.

i made a paypal account last year with intent to connect it to a bank account and use it for this paid blogging stuff, but with all the crazy crap that happened with my dad i never got around to adding that bank account. in april this year i suddenly got an email from paypal (yes it was from paypal not a phishing scam, i am not stupid and i went to the actual paypal.com site where it said this.) paypal tells me that they think a third party has accessed my account and that the account is limited.. uh.. ooookay? the account was empty, i never used it at all, and it had no bank account on it, so that seemed dumb to me. it told me i needed to change some details, so i did, and then it asked for a bank account. well i didn’t have a bank account in april so i just let it sit there until i got one.

enter yesterday where i finally get a bank account (that part was easy), i add my info to my paypal account, thinking the restriction will be removed and everything will go back to normal, except it didn’t… it shows no case to resolve in my resolution center but it also says the account is limited and i need to complete steps. all the steps are checked… i kinda need to use this thing paypal!!!

so i go to the call us section to get a phone number and fix this. except the customer service number is LONG DISTANCE!!! i’m not sure who’s grand scheme that was but its very inconvenient. our phone plan does not cover long distance. i can only make local calls. my mother has a cellphone but to use it i would have to go outside away from the computer screen so if they asked me to do anything account related, i would not be able to. i have emailed them twice, but we all know how emailing a big company goes.. i’m sure i will have 2 form letters sitting in my inbox later today. i wasn’t even able to log into their help forum to get advice on this topic because it kept logging me out of paypal and would not let me log into the forum at all.

so since the paypal thing isn’t working, i’m going to have to wait on my check card to arrive in the mail.. which means that my computer is delayed and i’m going to be stuck on this stupid laptop even longer.

edit!: just got an email from paypal and my account has been restored and can be used! yay! computer ordering is happening today!

i am kind of glad i didn’t rush rush and get everything taken care of, because the computer that i had put together on new egg was not good. the parts were not as great as i thought they were and that’s because i fail at computer hardware. i’m really good with software but computer parts are just alien to me and without dad’s help i’m pretty much lost.

i was hoping to call new egg and talk to someone that knows stuff but oh no, you can’t get any advice on products via the phone, so i had to sign up for their forum, and post my build and ask for advice. i did get some great advice and ended up with a slightly more expensive machine, but at least this one has all the bits and bobs i need to do what i want to do.

i’m going with windows 7 64 bit and i hope that’s not a mistake, but everyone seemed pretty confident about it working with what i have program wise so i’m just going to pray they aren’t wrong.

ok this blog is turning into a book…