...and now I have a button!!

Yay Me!!

(insert my own spastic applause here)

I FINALLY figured out how to make a button.

Well, the making part wasn't so hard.

But making it a link and creating an HTML

box for everyone else to grab it was an

UNBELIEVABLE NIGHTMARE!

experience!!

*Sigh*

Ok, now that I'm done venting, I am really happy

with the way everything turned out. I've been looking

at how to make original backgrounds-as frustrating as this

was, I hope think I've got it figured out. I'd

love to make my own backgrounds too!

Ok, so my true stress today came from my computer itself.

It's been a while since I've actually shut my computer down

at night, but last night I decided to.

Bad idea.

Apparently my computer didn't like the idea of me shutting it

down and wanted to extract some revenge. When I turned it on

this morning, it took forever for my desktop to come up.

It kept giving me the message 'preparing your desktop.'

Then when it finally did come up, it was a background I've

never seen before. It then told me that my previous layout

was not properly saved and that it was giving me a temporary

layout. This made me nervous, but at first everything seemed

to be working ok. The first thing I did as soon as it finished

coming up was log on. I was bothered as it made me go through

all the 'new' stuff, like I did when I had just gotten my computer

and had to set up my internet accounts. Then finally when

everything was up, I quickly saw that

everything was gone.

All my logins, all my favorites, etc.

After fiddling with the internet for another minute,

I got a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach as I

realized what I hadn't seen before.

I minimized the internet and my heart stopped.

All my folders were gone. Music-gone. Blog stuff-gone.

PICTURES-GONE!

Now, in my defense, I cleared a lot off my desktop last

night before I shut it down-putting things in folders

(still on the desktop, though)

and throwing away things I didn't need or use.

That's why I didn't notice right away that they weren't there.

Needless to say, I spent several minutes frantically

searching and hyperventilating. I sent Paul a frantic

text at work and he called immediately. He was upset too

because all of our pictures from before Jan are on his

computer as well as mine, and are also backed up on a disc.

The ones from Jan forward, however, were ONLY on my

computer. After we talked a minute about where I had

already looked, he told me to do a general search

in windows. Duh. That should've been the first thing

I tried, but in a fog of panic, I wasn't exactly thinking

clearly!! Anyway, when I searched for them,

they are still here!!!

Thank you, Lord!

They aren't where they are supposed to be, and for

some reason they seem to be scattered and not in any

semblence of order, but they are still here. I will deal with

the rest later. For now I am just happy that

they are still here!

And I'm so glad.

TTFN,