When the Sad but Inevitable Occurs

It happened last night.  We got home from church, played with Macy for a while, and then I decided to sit on the couch and check blogs/Facebook for a little while before going to bed (a routine I adhere to almost every night).  I found my computer frozen with just a black screen up.  When I couldn't get a response from it, I forced a shut-down.  This isn't the first time it's happened...it needs a forced shut-down every now and then (what electronic gadget doesn't?), so I wasn't alarmed.  But, when I went to start it back up, it gave me an error message and suggested I push "Ctrl + Alt + Delete" to restart.  I complied, and received the same message.  Again and again.  :(  By that time, I was starting to get worried.  Jordan walked in, and I handed the whole thing over to him.  Neither of us are computer geniuses (though Jordan is much closer than I am!).  Jordan's pretty sure it's crashed, though.  Crashed, and the jury's still out on whether it's reviveable (not sure if that's a word, but I think you know what I mean!).   The jury is also still out on whether we will be able to recover anything from the hard drive.  Right now, that is my biggest concern.  I really, no, make that REALLY would hate to lose all the pictures, music, and other random files stored on there!  :(  The computer is several years old; it's a laptop that has been very heavily used; I guess it's not too surprising that it has died.  But, still, I was very sad about it last night.  Today, I am trying to have a more grown-up perspective on it, but it's still weighing me down.  It just really stinks!  :P  Of course, I don't have it backed up externally.  Well, maybe half of the pictures or so are on DVD's.  And I also store a lot of pictures on my online Picasa account, not to mention all the ones loaded on this blog.  So, I guess most of my favorites are around...just not in their neat little files running randomly through my screen saver anymore.  Oh, I'm making myself sad again!  

So, please pray for us to be able to recover those things from the hard drive!