Close Call

My girl, my macbook, got a little sick. Well, not really sick, she just got the 'x' in the battery icon, which is no bueno. Basically, the battery doesn't charge and every time you unplug, it goes black or like mine started doing, shuts off. Basically it means its time for a new battery. 

My computer did this a year and a half ago, I like to say she was on life support, but then one day I unplugged it and it stayed on, it was fixed. 

Then it started again a few months ago so speney ben got me a new battery for my computer for christmas [which btw, apple sells them for $120...which is insane, especially since you can get them on buy.com for $35. :)]

Long story short, the new battery was not taking care of the 'x'.

We tried some different things, cleaned up some space, etc. The thing is when it was getting 'cleaned up', ALL, I mean every single one of my pictures was deleted. GONE. iphoto...empty. Trash can...empty. 

I tried not to thing about it, they had to be somewhere right?

 After a call to apple didn't help, I took her into the genius bar in the store. Things weren't looking good. They had to keep her "overnight" which ended up being the whole weekend to run tests, and that was just for the battery, which was either a $70 wire fix or a $500 logitech board problem.

At that point i told that apple 'genius' that he was killing me.

Oh and as far as the pictures, they were gone. 

I felt like I was back at a dr appt, waiting to hear the prognosis. The thought of losing all of our pictures, pictures of us before we were married, our wedding, me being pregnant, and all of Blayke's pictures, it honestly made me feel sick.

I tried not to think about it.

Monday, i finally got to pick up my macbook, it was the $70 fix, which still sucks, but not bad. If it were $500 there's no way we would have paid for that, we would have used it as a desktop and always left it plugged in. 

Anyway, the pictures. 

There is a $70 program that restores all of your pictures. Everything that was a .jpg is restored, so even these little favicon things that are not pictures are restored...which is a little annoying to sort through when there are thousands of pictures.

And all the pictures are totally out of order, i have major work to do...

BUT, they're back!!!!! 

I am soooooo happy and relived, even if it did cost $70, those are memories people and we all know memories are priceless ;)

Moral to the story...back up your pictures. 

Don't learn the hard way like I did.

I was too cheap and didn't have the patience to do it, luckily spencer does and saved all of our pictures.

All of our pictures are on a external hard drive now, such a relief!

I am so happy.

While this whole thing was going on, there was one picture that kept standing out in my mind. 

I knew I didn't have it anywhere else but on my computer, 

all i wanted to do was see this picture....

 Blayke at 8 months, right after we moved into our townhouse and right before we found out about her stroke. 

Speaking of, I wish I could go back to that time to see what life was like. 

I can't even remember.

I'm so glad our pictures are back, life can continue now ;)