Birthdays and computers

 Project 365 - Day 20 (Monday)

First, I want to thank you all for the birthday wishes.  I had a great birthday and your words made it that much nicer :)  I got some great gifts from my family.  My big gift was a new TV (which I have wanted FOREVER).  I got some jewelry, nail polish (I used to be a nail tech, so buying anything for nails is always a hit!) a new wallet, clutch, and some other miscellaneous things for my 'office'.  My parents are so good to me...I don't think I could have picked two better people to have as my parents.  Even though I'm grown, they still take such great care of me :)

You probably have already noticed that I am a day late with this post.  I had some serious computer problems yesterday and got absolutely nothing accomplished.  My laptop has been running sluggish lately and I've been getting a disk check screen when I boot up, but I didn't pay much attention to it because the disk check would not run when I tried and then my computer just started up like normal.

Well, yesterday I put away my gifts and took a few photos and then sat down to upload them onto my computer.  I knew I was in trouble when instead of booting up, there was a blue screen with a bunch of error codes and something about files missing or corrupt.  It would not start up and load Windows.  I panicked because all of the photos and videos of my birthday were on my laptop and I had not backed them up yet!  By some miracle, after the 5th or so time rebooting it ran some kind of problem scanning fixing thing (love my technical explanations? lol) and Windows loaded.  I quickly transferred all of my photos to my Mom's computer through our network and was relieved that at least those were safe.  I lost all of my emails and some programs are corrupted, and after extensive disk scans and hardware scans I cannot figure out why my computer crashed.  It comes up saying no problems found.  I do not trust it anymore with irreplaceable information, photos, files, etc so last night I went to Best Buy and bought an external hard drive.  I am going to load everything from my laptop onto it, reformat my whole computer and see what happens.  I am not storing anything important on this computer anymore, I will store it on the hard drive.  I can't stand the thought of losing thousands of photos if this thing goes spastic again.

Now, the fun stuff lol.  Here are some photos from my birthday  :) 

Party decorations

My special birthday plate

I collect Bearington Bears and a few years ago I got this one for my birthday.

I love this book.  It has a ton of birthday and age-related quotes and stories.

My cake

Gifts

A close-up of the earrings.  I have wanted a pair like these for the longest time!

I am going to try to put up a second post later today for my project photo if I can use my Mom's computer for a little bit.  Cross your fingers for me and my corrupted laptop :)