Anything But Gray

I am so FRUSTRATED and to try to chill out before I start getting absolutely insane, I'm gonna vent.

When we all lived together on Taku Blvd. (Ceci, JR, the kids, me, Zak, Marky….etc….) I used to password protect some of my files. I used Lotus at the time because I knew how to password protect a file in it and it was a word processing program that hardly anyone used. The files weren't a major big deal, but it was my journal, starts to lyrics and a few letters here and there. I did that because with so many people in and out of the house, it just made me feel better to have it password protected. Then I just was in the habit it of it, I continued to do it with my journal and other private writing.

Then I get my new computer and I totally forget that I don't have Lotus on it. I cannot GET TO MY OLD FILES!!!!
I downloaded a free document viewer that would allow me access to the files, but would not let me do any editing or anything, which is fine. I could just copy and paste into a word doc. Easy fix, yes?
NO!
because these stupid friggin' files are password protected the document viewer won't open them.
It's making me crazy…..I look at the pop-up window that tells me "Cannot open file because it is password protected" and I keep wanting to SCREAM at the computer…BUT I KNOW THE PASSWORD!!!!!!!!

This is really annoying the hell out of me. And I get obsessed. I will NOT be able to quit until I beat this friggin' computer and get the files open. So now I'm hunting through all my old computer stuff, trying to find a Lotus disk.
I know this has happened before, I couldn't get into a lotus file because we didn't have the program anymore and I forget how we fixed it. I don't know if we bought a new lotus disk or if we bought it online and downloaded it to the old computer. <sigh>

This is going to be a complete waste of a day because after I get all my house stuff done and in between taking care of the kids, I know I will go completely mad until I get those files open!!!!!

Hopefully I'll either find the disk or find some free trial download or something….and preferably before I lose my mind!!