No, nobody died. (But just for the record, since I couldn’t find a pirate hearse, I think I’d like to be paraded around in the one above….the redneck hearse….when I go.)
I’m in mourning for all of the digital pictures that we took between February 2004 and May 2006. They are gone. Lost forever. Never to be retrieved. Vanished.
About a year ago, our main computer crashed. We had working laptops, so we used those until we had our IT friend come work his magic on our Dell. Before he took the hard drive away to his home, Big D downloaded all of our files, including the above mentioned pictures, onto an external hard drive for safe keeping. Because those pictures were older, we never got around to trying to put them back onto the computer until just recently. Well, guess what? That stinkin’ hard drive failed, and the pictures are irretrievable. I think I cried as hard as I did last year when my dog Bridget died.
Oh, we have a handful of photos from these years. I had printed and scrapbooked some of them. Big D was in the process of storing a lot of them on his photo site, so some are there.
Like these of Bonny Annie….
Or these of Dirty Harry….
*sigh* Now I’m crying again….
Big D left this morning for a business trip, but secretly I think he just needs to get away from me and my hysterics. I don’t blame him one bit.
And by the way, if you happened to take any pictures of my family between those dates and could get me some copies or make me a disc, I would be so grateful. Debbie? Susan? Ma and Pa? Amy? Stalkers? Paparazzi? Anyone???? I will bake you cookies. Scrub your toilets. Give you a pedicure. Anything….you name it. I just NEED those pictures so that my kids aren’t missing approximately two years of their lives.
While I am still very sad that this has happened, Big D has encouraged me to look on the bright side. Nobody died. Our house didn’t burn down. We didn’t have a trip to the emergency room. The Titans won yesterday. We’re on Christmas break. I saved over $60 at Publix yesterday.
Yes, I’m still blessed, even without the pictures of Bonny Annie in her Cleopatra costume or Dirty Harry’s five year-old Star Wars party or our 4th of July trip to Charleston or…
Shoot…I’m crying again.
Oh, no! I know how you feel. I lost approximately 1.5 years of photos, with the exception of 72 photos that I had sent to hubby at work and those I had uploaded to photobucket. Devastated. It was Katie’s 4th year and Topher’s 3rd year. I had some printed out, and Debbie had a few as well. I eventually got over it, until I read your post. Now I’m crying all over again…
But you DO have the awesome picture of your Annie and my friend Tiffany! That counts for something! She totally rocks!!!
I would be crying too! I have random CDs and copies of pics on external hard drives and uploaded pics in various places. I hope I am covered. It’s hard to lose those memories.
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Kellie,
I am feeling your pain. It was our family trip to the Grand Canyon. We visited ruins, the Canyon of course, the Hoover Dam, Vegas, went horseback riding, and went 4-wheelin.’ I had all the hundreds of pictures I took on the trip, and some very nice shots I was going to enter into contests. The very last day we were at the casino, my dad was telling us all to go to the bathroom. I didn’t need to go, but I went anyway, because my dad can be very persistent. I put my bookbag down on the floor in the stall, and decided I should put the camera on the silver trash can (so I would see it and wouldn’t forget it on the way out). Well, sure enough, my plan back-fired. I picked up my book bag and left the camera in the stall. I made it all the way to the front doors of the casino when I remembered it. I ran back to the bathroom, but it was gone. All the memories, and my dad’s new camera…gone forever.
This isn’t much consolation, but I am sure that your family and friends must have some pictures through those years. I hope that you recover some of the lost photos! If not, try not to cry. I pray that God will give you a peace in your heart. Love you!
Awwww…. now I’m crying and I only have vicarious children. I’m going to copy this link and send it to Patrick at work. He’ll be getting right on this. I promise. He’ll take one look at my watery brown eyes and not be able to find anything else to do…
Love you!
I am very sorry to hear about your loss. Sometimes, I think good old fashioned film and a box full of pictures is a better option.
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I know I have some. I’ll look through and put them all on disc. Did we go to Disney during those years? Wasn’t it Feb/Mar of 2006? If so, I have all of those pics on our older computer and I’ll be able to retrieve those eventually.
Shew, this post is adding to the nagging conviction I’ve had for a while to get it together in the picture department. One crash and we’re in the same problem.
As I go back through pictures I’ll pull any I might find for you.
So sorry, Kellie. Thanks for the warning!
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Ours crashed and I’m still holding on to it. One day, I have hope, I can retrieve them. Reading this makes me lose hope so I shall simply ignore it. ;o)
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Oh, Kellie. I would be crying, too. We all depend way too much on our computers. I know I haven’t backed mine up for several months but then again, as you wrote, back-ups fail too. What to do?
I have consoled myself before that at least I have the pictures I’ve uploaded to my blog if something should happen to my hard drive but there are hundreds more that would be lost so… I still would be heartbroken.
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