I would like to take a moment to remember and lament my photos.
These photos were taken over the last week and included styled photos of my almond delight cookies I was going to post on the blog soon.
Sadly, they disappeared. Right off the memory card. Without a trace. The only photo I have of the almond cookies is on my phone.
Just. not. the. same.
[caution: more dramatic reactions about lost photos coming.]
I think I have been through all of the stages of grief, including but not limited to:
Denial. I switched my memory card from my laptop, to my camera, rebooted my laptop and tried it again. This has worked one time before, so I really thought they would reappear. This sequence was repeated until I was in tears..which brings me to..
Anger/bargaining. Why don’t I properly eject the memory cards?? Am I really in that big of a hurry all the time?? Now I’m even shorter on time since I have to re-do photography of these little cookies (before Dave and I devour them) as well as photos I did for a couple of other upcoming posts…ugh!!
Depression. I sulked over to the dinner table and ate my pizza in grumpy silence. (Don’t ask Dave whether this was true…I may have continued to complain and wonder about what the heck happened.)
Acceptance. As I drove to work this morning at the crack of dawn I realized something. Although I’m not too attached to my possessions in general..I am FAR too attached to my blog and all of the work associated with it. As much as I hate to admit it…this isn’t the first time I’ve cried over lost work.
To top off all of the stages (and to be faced with a touch of reality), my boss told me of a friend who was scheduled to go into surgery and that this friend might not make it. I am so glad I didn’t whine about my silly pictures!! Then the maintenance guy comes in and tells me about how his girlfriend broke her arm ice skating over the weekend. Bad enough to need surgery. Yikes. How’s that for some perspective?
The last couple of months I put a lot of work into the Love Challenge and it was amazing (read some of my favorite posts from participants here). Everyone who participated inspired me to love myself and to find new ways to show others love. I even revisited an area of my life that has been hidden from the blog: my faith. Basically, it was a great time but it took a whole lot of work. On top of that, I’ve been working more hours at the cafe, which can be physically (and sometimes mentally) exhausting. I am tired.
Aaaand have lots of studying to do for my NASM personal training certification! My test is on the 25th and we are approaching freak-out point. I need to take some time off of the blog. (I said it so I have to obey, right??) I think the photos disappearing was a blessing in disguise. I now have less posts I can potentially write up so I can force myself to do some studying!
I have a couple more posts to write for this week (including a delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe to share) and then I have a few guest posters to entertain you in my absence. 🙂
Oh and the reason you probably came…my good blend Alex won the Justin’s Nut Butter giveaway!! It’s always a plus to know the winner of my giveaway. And to have her living in the same city…I might have to stop by to steal a schmear of Justin’s nut butter! E-mail me girl!!
Tell me….
Have you ever lost work and gotten super upset?
Do you think it’s dramatic to be upset over lost photos?
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I get upset like that all the time. We actually had our computer crash and the guy who helped recover things thought “most” of the photos survived and are on our external hard drive – I was in tears thinking about all the baby photos we must have lost – A year later and I still haven’t worked up the courage to check!
There really is something different about lost photos. You can never recapture that moment again. I am so glad I didn’t lose the pictures of my nephew!!
They just disappeared? That is so weird. I don’t think that’s ever happened to me. But yeah I can relate to being frustrated, I remember when I would write a whole paper and the my computer would crash and all that work = gone. The worst.
It’s so weird because it was photos I had taken between the time I last uploaded photos to my laptop…it’s like my laptop was mad I didn’t properly eject the memory card.
I have lost (and cried over) many, many photos. Especially the pictures with the steam floating off of my stir fry….uuugggghhh. Anyway, I feel ya girl!
Thank you!! Foodie photography can be hard work!! And you can’t get those moments back! Sorry about your steam pictures. 🙁
I absolutely don’t think that’s dramatic at all because it just happened to me last week. Dopey ol’ me thought she saved her photos of her scrumdiddlyumptious vanilla pancakes and then wiped her memory card…. Only to go to edit said photos and find the folder EMPTY. Major fail!
That’s why I’m terrified of ever clearing memory cards! I just buy a new one!! So sorry about your pancake pictures girl! Now we have the opportunity to make our creations again..?
Omg I won!!!!! Yay! And not gonna lie I would be super upset also!!! Especially since you’ve really been trying so hard to produce amazing food photos! But I’m also a firm believer in everything happens for a reason!
I’m so excited you won! Mostly because I’m going to come over and steal your nut butter or chocolate cups. 😉
Thanks for your sympathy Alex. And I do think a lot of things happen for a reason!
OH YES- In college I lost a document I had worked hours on and lost it. My dad was thankfully a comp nerd and helped recover a previous draft (though not exactly what I had worked on)- but something is better than nothing! I have also lost many a blog post to the online blog-post-gnome, so I learned early on to save copies of what I’m working on. And I have gotten dramatic about even less, we all have those moments 🙂
I really need to start working on posts in word or something too because I’ve had a couple of moments of “where the frack did my post go.” I’m glad your dad was able to recover some of that document!!
haha losing files is the WORST. I have everything that’s important backed up in three places: 2 external hard drives and on google docs or dropbox. I learned the hard way! The good news is that although losing the photos was frustrating, it didn’t result in anything bad happening. So there’s that!
That’s a good idea! I just backed up all of my pictures after that happened…unfortunately there was nothing I could have done with the memory card. The pictures disappeared upon putting the memory card in the laptop to save the pictures there. Bleh. Not the end of the world though!