Do you know what it means when your macbook shows this picture?
I do. It means that your 21 month old daughter [whom you love with all your heart, of course] has dropped your computer on the ground several times in the last year, and has just now kicked it because her foot wanted to occupy the same place in space as the macbook currently does.
I'm not sure that my hardrive so much died, as it voluntarily gave up, sick and tired of the abuse metered out by a most gorgeous chubby grotty stubborn impulsive toddler. Unfortunately the political statement by this harddrive [no doubt it was making a push for a universal declaration of computer rights] has cost me dearly. It has cost me all the original photos of Tiny's life to date, a fair chunk of photos of Addie's life, my uni assignments in progress [that'll teach me for actually doing the work on time instead of just before the due date] countless documents that I will realise are missing over the next few weeks, and finally my rich collection of website bookmarks, which were seriously good enough to be published in a book!!! Oh and $109 for a new harddrive.
I know, I should have had a back up. I know. I even asked Andrew to back up a bunch of stuff but we were busy and it never happened. So I'm learning, I hope. Google Docs is my friend and will store my works in progress, we will invest in an external hard drive, and maybe one day when we're rich we'll pay Abbey from NCIS to get the photos off the old hard drive.
Thankfully this blog and facebook have many photos of the girls from this year, not in printable quality but at least they exist and we can still look at them and reminisce.
Just thinking, I'm pretty sure my brain shows this picture quite frequently these days. Again, I blame the toddler.
