If just getting a new strap is even an option, I take it that the broken buckle is the one that's easy to do without:
However, carrying notable weight over longer distances on a single strap is not recommended, so I'ld like to suggest a backpack-shaped notebook bag.
I used to have that sort of satchel! But the leather stuff connecting the strap to the bag (exactly like in your picture) tore through ;-; and it didn't even last its one year guarantee ;__;
without a laptop in itThis is the bit that broke. ;_; not the piece I was expecting! There are some chain links that have pulled apart, so they were my first bet...but...the clasp overtook them outta nowhere.
But yeah. A backpack is definitely top of the list.
Also! My cat slept on my bed ALL NIGHT! (Dad went to bed early cos he was in a grump, complaining about all the driving he'd done that day taking mum to the hospital for her cancer screening wow husband of the year. But anyway that meant we didn't have to lock the cats away for night u__u so we didn't >
He's said that if we ever let the cats sleep on our beds he'll get a divorce and kick us all out...but we've been doing that for
aaaaaages and he doesn't even know. Muahahahah. [*Owl fights the power*] Especially since he has his own room now u__u what a blurgh.)
So I'm not sure if this means she's gotten over her silent treatment..or it means I'm going to die soon. O____O duhn duhn DUUUUHNNN.
Oh! Oh oh oh! WEIRD STORY TIME.
Just now, I was sitting at the table in scruffy pjs eating breakfast, when out the corner of my eye I see a CAR sneak up the final metres of the driveway and pull up outside the house. I ask mum who it is: we thought it was my suster's lift home, it could be dad in the good car, or...as we discovered, we had NO IDEA who it was, it wasn't even the J.Witness people. Total mystery. But anyway, no one in the house was dressed and presentable, so we all just scout-maged out of sight and waited for them to go away. Although I am 80% I was visible when they pulled up (there are a lot of windows) but egh. I forgot my steaming breakfast on the table in full view XD (although where in the house isn't in full view.) but we waited. They knocked. We waited nearly ten minutes without hearing a car engine. They knocked again. We waited. We had all sneaked into my room, on the other side of the house. And my sister whispered that once a person walked around to this side of the house when she was hiding, and we were all like o__o because the door wasn't locked or anything. But from my window we have a perfect view of the road and driveway, and we noticed... Our property gate was CLOSED. These people have undone and opened our gate, CLOSED IT BEHIND THEM and driven up our road. But eventually they just left and we watched them undo the gate again to let themselves out. So we were weirded out. And I went back to finish my breakfast, and MAN, my senses must have been ON HOLIDAY because in my peripheral again I saw someTHING hiding behind the garden outside the yard, on the driveway. I thought it was a person and nearly had a heart attack. But no. It was just A GIANT MONSTER DOG
KLOR LIKSOM?!?! and my sister (now dressed) went outside and yelled at it, and it ran all the way down the property, over the creek, and then this maroon crappy car pulled out and this guy got out (we had binoculars <_<) and tried to get his giant dog. He got a zap from the electric fence, and was screaming at the fence and plants and cursing everything in existence, but eventually got his dog out from under the neighbours fence, and PUT THE DOG IN THE BOOT?! And then another dog ran out of the car and up the road, and the car just...chased after..it.
The end!
O__O