Mason at school... the heater turnd up... the dogs in the kennel... Damnit! I should have turned my phone off...

What A Day

So thankful for the time change today! I got a whole extra hour of sleep. And best yet was that I actually got the extra hour because my son is at home with his father!!

I slept in this morning, ate some breakfast, tortured my niece, took some newborn photos... Now I'm gonna eat some supper and then head home. As always I won't be heading straight home but will be stopping by my grandma's house and my cousin's to see her new little baby Carlos whom I have some super cute newborn photos of that are just waiting for me when I get home... I figure I'll get home around midnight. O'well...

5

So... went to the game last night... we won... like it was ever in question that we wouldn't! Final score 58-22. That means that next Thursday we get to play Armstrong-Ringsted again just like last year. The outcome should be different this year though.

I'm excited for the dome though. I only have to drive a little over an hour to get there. No over night crap for me. A win on Thursday would mean they would play again on the 18 for state title.

Now I'm gonna go scrounge up some breakfast (ask my mommy to make me something yummy), do a little work, take a nap, and then get ready for M and D's Dirty Thirty Party.

Let's Go KNIGHTS! Let's Go!

Where has this week gone? Where has this year gone? Anyways...

Today, like here in an hour or so I am taking off for 'down home'. My little cousin had her little baby. Little Carlos is just so cute and so little and I get to take his little pictures this afternoon. I am so excited!

Then tonight I get to go to the Fremont-Mills vs East Mills football game. I missed the game the last time and refuse to miss it this time. So I have to be in Tabor in time to ride with Cammie and Ricky because I do not want to have to find a parking space at the Malvern school.

I have to say that though FM has a great football the cheerleaders are leaving something to be desired. At the game on Monday night I heard exactly 6 cheers... Can I just say HOW PATHETIC!! I know the basketball cheerleaders are way better but that could be because they have a way better coach. Sounds to me like someone needs to step down and let the younger coach be in control because that is exactly what it is a control issue...

I feel...

like I have signed my life away...

You see, last week, my external hard drive decided to take a huge crap. As in it stopped working. Suddenly just started clicking. That just kinda spells disaster. So I sent it to a data recovery place. They come back and say... 

"Our tests indicate failure to the read/write head mechanism of your drive. Read/write head mechanism failure is one of the worst types of failures that can occur to a hard drive because of the difficulty in successfully overcoming the failure. Read/write head failures often lead to catastrophic head crashes that cause platter damage rendering your precious data unrecoverable instantly."

Do you see how my week started out? Let me play the scenario out for you...

Last Saturday, as my husband was packing for a week long business trip in Germany, I was sitting down to finish editing a wedding. My day was going good. I had my coffee and was getting ready to edit the last 4 or 5 photos and then put them on the cd for the happy couple. I plug in my hard drive and it starts humming but then it starts clicking and clicked maybe 5 times and then the hard drive would power down. I unplugged it and set it aside to deal with later seeing as how my husband was getting ready to walk out the door.

I know it seems crazy but whenever my husband leaves the country I get nervous, irritated, antsy, jubilant, good wifey and ask him if he has everything. You know the normal... socks, undies, t-shirts, shampoo, wash cloth, soap, deodorant, tooth brush, phone charger, money, foreign money, passport. Only once have I not asked him all this and that one time he only one clean pair of underwear. I laugh about it every time because the picture of my husband hand washing his undies in the sink every night is hilarious! So we go through our ritual and I see him off and get back to work.

So thinking the last time was a fluke I plug back in my hard drive and it does the same thing. I then run to the bathroom and become physically ill. Then I jump on the internet and get to work looking for someplace to recover my data. The whole time feeling like I'm looking for a witch doctor to heal some unseen mental imagined illness.

So we can fast forward a couple of days and some more physical illness episodes...

Wednesday I got the estimate for the data retrieval. $2199.00! What? Really? That much? Really? But what choice do I have? I don't know about other people but I don't have that kind of change just laying around. So I had to wait until my husband was back in the country and Mason and I were home to discuss our options.

I realize that it would be so much cheaper to just rent tuxes and get her dress cleaned and hair and makeup done again and do retakes. I know that sounds crass but the photos were generic. Totally generic! Not my favorite thing to do. But they wanted traditional. I know that the emotions on her face would very closely resemble the emotions of her wedding day because she would just be happy they would have photos to hang on the wall. And they might be able to laugh about it later but, BUT, all of Mason's baby photos are on there. EVERY SINGLE PHOTO. I have none on my laptop, none on my husband's computer, NONE. So I've set up a payment plan and should know if the retrieval is successful later this week.

I guess my advice for everyone would be to backup everything, and then back it up again, and then backup the backup. If anyone ever tells you that is crazy you can tell them about this idiot that didn't and lost everything...

Now I'm off to backup a couple of sessions I've done since then and then I'll backup my backup and get to work. After all I've got to pay for my failing...

hohum

Where did the year go... Today I am editing a senior session from last weekend and trying to think of Christmas gifts... It is sleeting outside. How can it be sleeting outside? Yesterday it was in the 60's but today sleet... I guess it is iowa.


edited...
For some reason I forgot to post this... I think I'm losing my mind or is it that my son didn't have school yesterday throwing my house into chaos...

NaBloPoMo

It's that time again...

I figured why not. I've got nothing better to do between the hours of 8-1 everyday.

On this day though I am sitting on my parents couch in a house with no internet connection trying to type this on a phone that is working but not working... and I know it won't get posted until I get home tomorrow... such is life. Here is to day 1...