Crash!

I hope everybody can learn from my mistake. For the past six months I have been wanting to get an external hard drive but just haven't gotten around to it. In the summer I took a digital photography class and the teacher talked about how important it is to have your pictures backed up in at least 3 different locations. Well, despite all my intentions I never got around to doing either and now my hard drive on my computer has crashed. I have had several friends look at it and they couldn't do anything so I called a local company to see what they could do. They said that about 80% of the time they can recover the information for about $100. Unfortunately they called last week and said they couldn't recover the information and that I would have to send it off and it would probably cost anywhere from $1800 to $4000 if they can recover them! All of my pictures from the past 3 years of my life are on that hard drive. Basically all of the pictures of Ady and Emma that I have taken! It makes me sick to think that I have lost all of them. I am going to hang on to the hard drive and one day when I decide that I am rich (or I don't want to go on a family vacation) I will send it in and see what can be done. I will say that I am glad that I at least have some of my favorite pictures posted on my blog.