lost and found

It was coming for a while, but it’s official- my external hard drive bit the dust yesterday. Fortunately, I was able to upload all of my 2008 and 2009 client pictures to the online backup service I am now using (smugmug) before the premature demise. Unfortunately, I lost all of my personal 2007 family photos. Maybe. I am giving my IT guy the drive tommorrow with the hopes he can rescue some of the family pix off of there. But, on the bright side 2007 was still during the time that I was printing everything so even though the pix were lost digitally, I still have everything printed. So that’s something.

Bought a brand new external hard drive yesterday and already backed up everything on my computer. But what a pain in the butt.

And to top off the fabulousness of losing a few thousand pictures, Timmy started with a 101.6­­° fever yesterday afternoon. We are off to the doctor this morning. No other symptoms, just a fever. But after the pneumonia debacle (where he had a fever, a tiny little cold with a barely there cough, but had pneumonia nonetheless and I didn’t know it) we can’t be too careful.

Fun times.

One bit of good news, though. The big boys just finished Math Olympiads for the year and came in 2nd (Patrick) and 3rd (Jack) places overall out of over 25 4th and 5th graders. They are so smart and thank god they are good at math, cause already this year I’m getting lost.

So the pictures are lost, but here is the found. Someone on the route to school was throwing away a bunch of old furniture,  so I garbage picked took a great old little chair (I have big plans for it, too as a photography prop) off of the curb. Well, Jack freaked out, telling me I was stealing and committing a “federal offense” and proceeded to grab the chair out of my hands to put it back on the curb! I went back and took it anyway.  Then we walked by our neighbors with the chair in the wagon and the little girl asked what the chair was for, with Jack responding (with his head hanging low) “my mom stole it”. I swear, that kid will throw you under the bus faster than you can say “garbage picking”. But her reply? “That’s okay, my mom stole a dresser.”