Dead Drive...

Most of you reading this probably already know all of the sad details but for those who don't... here it is... Back on October 11th, just 2 days since my last blog of Tyler's birthday pictures and whatnot (Thank God!), I was doing a few things in the kitchen and had put on Baby Einstein on the computer for Tyler to watch... on the coffee table... Well the segment was over so he ever so nicely carried my computer to me in the kitchen so I could restart it. As he came up to me, he decided to drop it. Only from his little 35" body but yeah... it dropped. It wouldn't turn back on so Monday I took it into the local Apple store to see what they could do about it. They tell me the hard drive is dead... they put a new hard drive in it. Our hard drive was super maxed out on space so I was fine with them putting a new one in but thought all the while they probably just wanted to sell me a new drive and that a guy I know from church (who's really good with data recovery) would be able to fix it. I took it to him and after a day of looking at it himself, there was nothing that he could do to it. It's completely dead... I was devastated at first thinking of every little picture and memory I had lost and was just overall mostly frustrated with myself as I actually sat down to transfer all of our pictures THE WEEK PRIOR but as I was doing so ran into a couple of problems and didn't have the "time" and find and fix the problem... so I just let it go and told myself I would come back to that project later.

In trying to think of all the positive's of the situation and not dwell on what happened when there is nothing that can be done, I've come up with a list of blessings that I am soooooo thankful for more than ever now!! It really could have been sooo much worse!!

• I had given my parents a disk of Tyler's birth pictures (this was before I started the blog) so I have all of those.
  
• I just transferred some of our favorites to our digital picture frame last month - 98 to be exact.
• I just transferred some favorites of the Malestic's side of the family a couple of weeks ago from our photo library - 171 to be exact.
• I had transferred 123 video clips from October 2007 to April 2009 to our external a few months back because they were taking up too much memory on our maxed out hard drive - so we have all of Tyler's "firsts" that were video recorded!! First rolling over, first babbling, first baby food, etc! I couldn't believe there were 123 of them but yeah - huge blessing to have those!!
• I've been able to get quite a few pictures of Tyler and our family from friends and family.
• I just went to use my iPod the other day and noticed there was a "calendar" option... I selected it wondering what it was and it was my entire old calendar!!! I had EVERYTHING (birthdays, anniversary's, Tyler's dates he's done things that I put in there to later transfer to his baby book, etc) in my calendar on the computer and I thought I had lost it all!!!!
  
• We had a TON of music in iTunes and was able to sync it all back to the new iTunes from my iPod using Senuti - didn't know there was such a program to reverse the sync.
• We pretty much got a new computer without spending a ton of money on a new one like we had planned - just last week we were talking about NEEDING to replace ours but needing to wait until we save up the money to do so, which who knows how long it would've been.
  
• I had just put about 60 pictures on a disk of my favorites of Tyler to put in his baby book.
  
• And the most substantial of all that I am so thankful for right now is that I have posted 194 posts on my blog, totaling just about 1,000 pictures over the last 2 years.

So overall, it definitely could have been a lot worse. I had no idea the blessings that would come out of this when it first happened and I thought I had lost EVERYTHING!