Wow, that's a whole lot of really great suggestions! (and worded so humorously! )

I'll try to see if I can implement at least some of them (pretty sure I won't do the notepad text thing, because I use the formatting to find/edit what I've written faster than Ctrl&F can. (I'm very much a creature of habit)) but i have to do something so she doesn't burn my house down!

I can't write discs, but I can (and do) frequently save my pics/docs/videos to google docs.. but my understanding there is very limited, I don't know how to save/restore anything else?

I didn't know I needed to prop it up. (Usually it lays on my bed/table/sofa/kitchencounterinapuddleofdishwater/wherever I am. I will look into some kind of... stand or something. Gotta be cheaper than a new laptop/house, right?

I'll also try the task manager thing.

WAIT, there's supposed to be smoke inside my computer? D: What?

Oh, also I guess I could log out of the MMOs when I'm busy drawing... I'd probably die less/get other people killed less that way anyway....

You really think it's going to burn my house up? D: