Thanks to my resident genius!

What a week this has been! I did an update on my computer last week and began having trouble with it afterward. Usually such things are user error...I'm just not as geeky as the rest of my family and computers are still a mystery to me at times. Since Brian was out of town he suggested I take it to the Mac Superstore so they could troubleshoot for me. Never in a million years did I think it was going to be a big deal, so of course I didn't back up my files. Big mistake. Huge. Turns out my hard drive was "failing" and needed to be replaced. So after paying for data recovery (with no guarantees) and a new hard drive I now have my lovely blue Macbook home again. Brian spent most of the weekend working on it....trying to recover and reorganize my files. And yes, he backed it all up to our Time Machine. So far he's recovered everything up to January 2009, and now he'll begin searching for things from January till now. I'm mostly concerned about pictures (i.e. Amy's graduation, Laura's trip to Ian's home, etc) that hopefully are in there somewhere just waiting to be found. I have most of the girls' writing, and that was a top priority. So while this whole experience has been a major headache, my silver lining is that much has been recovered and my resident genius is willing to keep searching for even more. AND I know now to be diligent about backing up my files! Learn from my mistake, people!!!