Save Time in a Bottle: February 2011

A few weeks ago, I woke up and turned on the computer...It wouldn't boot up.

Dun Dun Dun...you say? Yup. You are right. My hard drive crashed, and in a big way.

I was am completely heartbroken.

Why?

Because I was a moron and didn't back up ANYTHING.

Yes, I am the type who always puts things off for tomorrow, figuring that there will always be another day - and nothing will happen, right? Wrong.

The worst part about all of it is my pictures. The computer is 2 1/2 years old - and there were 2 1/2 years plus worth of pics on the computer. So sad. Baby pics of my last two babies, Christmas ~~a few years~~ worth, our Disney vacation last summer and tons of random shots...thousands of pictures.

At this point, it is looking like nothing will be able to be recovered.

Today, I was organizing/cleaning/gutting my house and I ran across my old digital camera. My new Rebel is only about a year old, so I found this camera and my heart began to race. You see, not only do I not back up hard drives very well ~~at all~~, but I also am pretty lazy about emptying my memory cards.

I popped that memory card into the laptop of doom and tears came to my eyes. 887 pictures still on that card! I am really only missing a year's worth of photos instead of the 3 plus that I was originally missing.

Even though I still don't have our vacation pics and countless others, I have pictures from the births of my last two babies, a lot of baby pics and other sweet shots of the other kiddos...I am choosing to look at this glass as half (heck 3/4) of the way full!

This incident brings to mind the parable of the 10 virgins...and yes, I am among the 5 who were unprepared.

Next time, I am going to be more prepared...and this goes for a lot of things in my life that, upon reflection, I need to work on.

Oh, and what would this story be without a public service announcement???

BACK UP YOUR COMPUTERS!!!

Today, 887 is the sweetest number I know...

Here are a few of the gems that I found today...