the unholy union that is my laptop

i like my macbook. a lot. but i quickly realized there are a couple windows programs i can't walk away from...picasa for my photos and excel. sure there's excel for mac but as a former investment banker i cannot exist in a world devoid of my precious windows excel shortcuts

so i've been dabbling with bootcamp and parallels. both have worked quite well. here are some screenshots of the unholy OS union running on my laptop

XP starting up in parallels

XP running in its own window

two task bars, safari and IE all on the same desktop. OS X and XP in peaceful coexistence.