So much sadness...

For all you computer lovers out there. I am no longer one of them. Over the past year I have had TERRIBLE luck with hard drives. So the short painful story is back in May of this year our hard drive in our computer made a sharp piercing sound and slowly fizzled and vibrated until it stopped. For days I got an annoying blue screen. I made TONS of phone calls to the company and then gave up. I called my cousin you is the "Computer Man!" He saved the day and just told me what to do. Sadly, I LOST about 6 months of pictures. Disappointing fact, I know. But I haven't even let myself think about that. So I purchased a new hard drive for the computer and then I bought an external hard drive to hopefully solve the problem of loosing pictures ever again.

Let me introduce you to our My Book external hard drive...

This lived for a a few months...fulfilling it's purpose until one sad night. I happened to be using it creating a family video and it was safely stored on the computer. Jared then needed the laptop, I said, "Please remember all the cords hooked in!" We scooted the computer over 3 INCHES and DOWN came the hard drive while running....AHHH....I said, then came the piercing high pitched sound until the hard drive came to a silent stop. I had nothing to say...I was just hoping it really hadn't just died. I waited a day to plug it back in. The inevitable was true. It has died. Since it is under warrenty they will replace the piece itself, but I have LOST all my photos, (the ones not backed up on my lap top or DVD's) and all the family videos I have created and not burned. Oh, the patience computers have required...

Now on a happier note Santa came early and Jared got me the NEW external hard drive that does not require another power source other than the USB. This SMALL little guy is about the size of a check book. I LOVE it. It also holds as much memory as my other external hard drive. So going forward we will keep the new My Book on the desk and NEVER transport it anywhere. And this little new friend of mine can go anywhere I want! It has already been wonderful. I think Jared felt so badly that when he saw the extra $20 off coupon at Costco he felt it was his one way of replacing all those hours and hours of hard work.

So if I start posting more and more pictures just know it's because I don't want to loose them on my next hard drive drama! Wish me luck!!!