Scrambled Eggs

I spent a large portion of my day at work today trying to figure out how to use Photoshop .atn files in GIMP. This is waaaaayyyy above my head. I want to be able to make my pictures brighter and prettier without having to understand all of the nonsense that digital photographers do in their evil little software laboratories. And there's a set of free actions that I really like.
So I found this little plug-in (I think that's what it is) called GIMP# or GIMP sharp and it is very complicated, but one of the things it can do is help you to do just what I was wanting to do. See? So, I wandered around in forums and plugin registries and things and spent hours doing what felt like trying to translate Geek Greek into my native tongue to no avail. Possibly. I can't be sure.
My brain is addled. Addled is a word that I like a lot. It sounds like it means Scrambled Eggs. Which, I suppose, would be what I should actually write if I was wanting to say that my brains were Scrambled Eggs.
I got pretty far with it, for someone who has absolutely no business trying to figure out things like this. I got it all installed and downloaded my little actions and updated my version of GIMP. And figured out where to put what files and opened it all up and everything was in its place. Then, when I went to use my fun little tool, it crashed. Somebody else on some forum's GIMP thread had the same problem. But the answers and the questions are out of my reach.
Ah well. I should probably spend more time at work actually working.

DAILY BLISS: Emma had to wear her beret to school. All the other moms wanted one for their girls, too.