An update on my other post about los­ing my hard drive and my lap­top. I got the call from best buy today, and they want $1350-$1500 to fix the exter­nal drive.

So I will obvi­ously be not get­ting the exter­nal drive fixed.

It’s really upset­ting because that was quite lit­er­ally every­thing dig­i­tal I had saved over the last 14 years or so. Every. Last. Thing.

And now it’s gone.

However, I have my wed­ding pho­tos on CD. And I have my WIP novel. I’d be a lit­tle more dev­as­tated if I lost those two things. The writ­ing hurts, but to be hon­est most of it was crap from when I was a teenager. Going for­ward with my writ­ing, I’ll just have to write all new stuff instead of revis­ing all the old stuff like I planned. It’s not so bad.

I’m sad about los­ing our pic­tures. But as my hus­band said, we never looked at them any­way, and there were so many that it was hard to do so if we wanted to. We have a few printed out, and he has some on his com­puter. I’ll miss them, but we still have the mem­o­ries. And I have some copies of a few on face­book, even if they’re poor quality.

The rest, the old web­site ver­sions and back­ups, old sims saves, and I don’t even know all of it, I’m not too upset over. I had too much junk on there any­way that I needed to sort. The music isn’t lost, I just have to re-burn all the CDs, or not. I have the stuff I lis­ten to now on this com­puter so I may not bother.

I feel like I should have learned some­thing from all this. Obviously I need to back up my back­ups, because when the main com­puter dies, then the backup dies before I can re-install every­thing, I lose all of it. I don’t want to lose it all a sec­ond time. Except, I’d lose much less.

But what else? That I held on to too much old junk? I do that in my offline life too.

Question to the read­ers: Is there a sil­ver lin­ing to all this?

I’ve done dishes for the past 3 nights in a row, and this morn­ing too. Last night, I man­aged to not wear half the sink, or break any dishes!

This is big for me.

However, the floor still got water all over it, but what­ever. At least the floor’s a bit cleaner now, right? 

Photographic Evidence:

A rare occur­rence in my house.

Question to the read­ers: What is your most hated house­hold chore?

I wanted to write a cheer­ful happy, oh 2011 was so won­der­ful, let’s hope that 2012 will be even bet­ter! post, but, I’m just not feel­ing it lately.

In 2011, it felt like I spent the year tired and always busy, but never get­ting any­thing done.

We bought a house. I got a sec­ond job. I fin­ished half my novel.

I started exer­cis­ing a lit­tle in the sum­mer, but once school started in September the park was invaded by teenagers. I couldn’t run along the paths any­more when them crowd­ing it to get to school.

Now, my exter­nal hard drive crashed, and so did the hard drive on my laptop.

For next year, I have only a few hopes. I want to fin­ish at least the next quar­ter of my novel. I want to work exer­cise back into my life. And I want to try harder at being pos­i­tive and happy. I usu­ally am, but lately it’s been a string of things which make that pretty hard to do.

Question to the read­ers: What are you hop­ing to accom­plish in 2012?