Do you back up???

Do I have any readers left??? I am so sorry I have been MIA. As you can see I am still alive :o) and I am trying so hard to get the blog updated. I am back-dating everything just because I am weird like that so there are going to be lots of post so be sure to scroll down. I just want everything in order by date. Sooooo.....

The reason of the absence? Well, I had quite a scare. You see, I sat down one night to start blogging and this little message pops up on my laptop screen that reads, "operating system not found"....Hmmm. I have never seen that before, I thought. I was on the phone with my brother and he didn't seem to think that was a good sign. So I then called my BIL who let out a heavy sigh when I told him....I knew at that point that this was NOT good. My poor little hard-drive had crashed. At that point, I wanted to puke. I had 2 years worth of pictures of my life, my family, my children on my laptop and they were all gone.....I was physically ILL!

Fast forward a few days....I took my laptop to a friend and coworker and he immediately let out that heavy sigh that I had previously heard. He then gave me a little hope and told me not to panic...yet. So I try hard not to stress and then few days later, I have my laptop back up and running and NOTHING was lost!!!!! AHHH! I was doing a happy dance! I assure you! I did have to order a new hard-drive b/c the old one had crashed, but he was able to recover most everything and clone the old one or something...I am speaking way out of my league right now, but the bottom line is I have my pictures and it is time to back-up from now on!!!!

Do you back up your files and pictures? If not, your may want to start! Seriously! I have heard of this happening to other people and they were not so lucky, but it is just one of those things that I thought would never happen to me. Well, it did and I am very relieved and thankful that I didn't lose everything.

So here I am now, trying to get caught up on blogging and blog hopping! :o)
Happy Tuesday!