Sunday, May 8, 2011

Stitchy and not so stitchy update

After fighting that strep throat another disaster struck me - my laptop died! And all the files with it. I've lost all my assignments and some of my precious HAED charts (six of them!). Once again I didn't follow the number one rule, I didn't do backups frequently. My last one was in February... I've lost over 2 months worth of data!

Well, last Thursday I bought a new one - this time I decided to go with a desktop and a 24" monitor. Gosh! It is so much work to set up everything again! First I had to upgrade my windows (PC came with Windows 7 home edition but I need the professional one) and download zillion updates, after that was McAfee and Microsoft Office. It was way past midnight when I decided to quit. Friday - I came home after work and same thing - reinstalling more software... I'm almost done...  I hope I can replace my lost HAED charts - I sent email to Michelle, will see what my options are.

Now the stitchy part!

With all the things going on I didn't stitch much... I was able to do a bookmark:


and I've started on the Cattitude:

Today I'm back to my assignments, finals are coming again... I decided to take Mondays off from work and work longer hours Tuesday to Friday. That way I'm saving a couple of hours by eliminating driving to work and I'm having an extra day to do my study and some stitching of course! I feel like is time to pay a little attention to my Guardian Angel - he was little neglected in April...

So long my friends,

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10 comments:

  1. KatrienMay 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM

    That's a beautiful bookmark, and hey any stitching is still more stitching then I'm doing lately :(
    Looking forward to see more of Guardian Angel ;)
    I hope you get your charts back. A gmail-adress is handy for that, you can store them in your e-mail and get acces to it on any computer.

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  2. MouseMay 8, 2011 at 12:17 PM

    oh that was bad luck :( I transferred my haed chart to a memory stick as I was worried something like that might happen to us as we have had it done before .. hope you can get sorted out love mouse xxxx

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  3. KarenMay 8, 2011 at 12:18 PM

    Really sorry to hear about your computer troubles. Hopefully you can get your charts replaced. I love the little bookmark.

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  4. pandyMay 8, 2011 at 1:31 PM

    computer troubles are the worst. I really like that bookmark, it's super elegant :)

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  5. WandaMay 8, 2011 at 3:09 PM

    Been there, done that. I had 2 crashes on my home computer within a month last year. That time I lost almost everything. Then in December ti happened again, but we were able to recover almost everything.

    What will you use for a back up program? I have a separate hard drive that I copy my data files over onto. But I'd like something more thorough and something that I could schedule.

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  6. GabiMay 8, 2011 at 10:02 PM

    What a bad luck with your laptop. Hope you can replace everything you lost
    Love your bookmark and Cattitude looks good too.

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  7. chrisstitchesMay 9, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    Cute bookmark. Sorry about laptop. Hope you do well on finals.
    chris b

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  8. UnknownMay 9, 2011 at 10:17 AM

    Sorry to hear about your computer.
    Love the bookmark and great start on Cattitude!

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  9. MeariMay 9, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    Good luck with finals. I'm in my final week of class and have been working on my paper. Ugh.

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  10. craftypatty2May 12, 2011 at 11:30 AM

    Love the bookmark it is beautiful
    HUGS
    Patty

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