When I woke up this morning and went to check my email I found the computer screen black.  I rebooted, only nothing would happen. Our hard drive is TOAST.  My husband told me not to worry, we back up daily to an external hard drive, so I relaxed and looked at this as a minor bump in the road.  I went to the public library (hooray for libraries!) and emailed important people to let them know I would be computer-less for a while while we sorted everything out.

After shopping around we shelled out money we don’t have to buy a new computer. My husband checked out the external hard drive to recover the data and learns that for whatever reason the last back-up was JUNE 2.  You know, BEFORE the baby learned to sit, had her first swim, took her first bath in the sink, we took our trip to WY, before HOURS AND HOURS of client work.

WAIT!  my husband tells me, “I can take the old hard drive out, put it in a case and run it as an external and remove all of our documents”.  So, off he trots to Fry’s Electronics to purchase more computer equipment we don’t have the money for.

-insert children returning from school and eating dinner here-

I left to attend a fundraiser meeting for the kids’ school. On the way home I got stuck behind a car doing 15 in a 25 zone, and THEY flipped me off. When I get home, 2 kids are awake and one isn’t even in bed.  I’m upset, tired, frustrated and a myrid of other things and I yell at my husband.

When things calm down, he tells me that he ran a diagnostic on the hard drive and it FAILED, not failing, but FAILED.  He downloaded freeware to recover info on dead hard drives and nothing worked.  Which means, all those picture of the baby, all that client work…GONE, gone, gone.

I want to cry….and then I feel guilty. guilty for yelling at my husband, guilty for feeling so upset about computer issues.  I mean really, we’re all still alive and short of a minor cold the baby and Aaron have we are all healthy, my husband is employed, we have health insurance, a roof over our head- the list goes on.

The sun will come out tomorrow and it will be better, my pity party will be over.  But right now, I think I need to go apologize (how many is that tonight Jaylee?) to my husband and go to bed. I’ve had enough for one day.

p.s. did I mention that there are mosquitos all over, INSIDE my house?  icing on the cake people.

p.p.s., its friday morning, i just spent an hour reading preslee’s story.  who freakin’ cares about my stupid computer issues?  life is too short.  i may have lost pictures, but i still have 3 children to photograph well into the future. lost data is only a small bump in the road of life.  i’m going to try not to waste another min worrying about it.

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