Sad Day

This update is to tell everyone that I have not been slacking on my blog! I have been working on a project to scan all my mom's scrapbooks and print them for myself. This was harder than I planned for several reasons:
1. The pages were 12x12 scrapbook pages so I had to "convince" my dad to buy a commercial size scanner so I could scan them at home. That took about a week of nonstop scanning.
2. While scanning, I realized that the files were HUGE, almost 1G each, and I have over 300 pages. So I had to connect everything into my 1T external hard drive, and still my computer was way bogged down.
3. Once everything was scanned, I thought I could just upload them to blurb and voila! Done! NOT! Apparently blurb doesn't read tiff files, which is what they all scanned as! Ahhhh!
4. At this point, I had two options. Rescan everything, or convert the files individually. I opted for the second option. I tried to open them and convert them in several programs before I found one that worked. I had to open them all in Photoshop, which took forever because they were such huge files, then I had to resave them, which took even longer!
5. I've been working on converting for about two weeks, and had just finished the first half of the pages when my computer started to get really slow. My macbook is from 2006, when I graduated high school, and has been through a lot. I figured it was tired from the huge project so I finished up and unplugged and shut it down. It did not turn back on.
6. I took out over to expercom, who was impressed it has lasted that long. They called it "vintage". They thought the hard drive was dead, but said they'd look at it. I didn't think it would be a big deal, because I don't feel like I use my computer that much. I was so wrong! In the three days since it's been gone, I've needed it 3-4 different times, and then realized I didn't have it. Then they called me and told me that the hard drive was gone.

I am so sad. I don't know what to do without my computer, and I'm even more sad that I may not be able to recover everything. I backed up my pictures about a month ago so most of those are safe, but all my music and other documents are on that computer. Expercom said they would charge me $100 minimum to TRY to recover anything, and more if it was difficult. I don't know what to do. I can replace the hard drive, but it is an old computer and may not last too long anyway. I could pay to recover my documents and then just use my work computer, although it is a PC and I don't like it. Or we could buy a new computer (probably not feasible after buying a house and new car). So sad!

So I will probably not blog until we figure out what we are doing with the computer situation. I have a bunch of stuff to blog, so when I get back up and running there will be a lot! Until then...