You're Sweet

But I'm an idiot. I guess that didn't jive with the title of this post, did it? I'm really sorry, it's just that I'm just very angry with myself. I needed to vent it out somewhere, and if you'd just lend me your ears (well, eyes in this case) I'd be very grateful. Anyway, I'll save that bit for later in this post so that you can choose to skip my rant. Meanwhile I've got a very sweet card to share :)

Sometime in March I got a happy mail from Sandy, an adorable easter card with some clear stamps for me to play with. {And just yesterday I received a surprise prize pack for winning her challenge in March!} When I get happy mails like this I usually like to reciprocate with what I'm given, and so I made a card for her using one of the stamps.

Supplies: g studio Cupcake stamp, All Night Media sentiment stamp, Liquid Applique, Versacolour inkpad, Pearl embossing powder, Squareart acrylic mosaic tiles, button, Fluid chalk, Memento Tuxedo black ink, White cardstock

Thanks Sandy! Compared to yours, this is only a simple card but I hope you like it :)

Back to my rant, feel free to skip this part, I won't mind, really.

My PC at the office crashed on me about 2 weeks ago. And being an IT grad myself, I should very well know that computers are not to be trusted and you should have a good and up-to-date backup of your data at all times. And can you believe that I didn't backup a single thing??? Well, I did, on a thumb drive but it was a year ago. I took for granted that my PC was relatively new (less than 2 yrs) and I've had many hard disk failures before but data was always at least 80% recoverable if not all.

Unfortunately for me, it was a major failure this time, and none of my data could be recovered the conventional way. The only option was to send it to a data center who will dismantle it in a dust free environment and they will try to recover what they can at a cost of a new PC (maybe more)! The hard disk is still under warranty though, and I can get a replacement from the manufacturer at no cost, but data recovery is not included. And so I have to choose between sending it to a data center and void my warranty or sending back to the manufacturer to get a replacement. I chose the latter. And THAT means, for the next few weeks I'd be bound at my desk doing data entry of what I've lost for the past one year. {I just found out that my only thumb drive backup, even though outdated, has gone missing}

If that's not gonna numb my brain, I don't know what will. Sorry if I'm a little lagging when it comes to leaving some love on your blogs. I'm sure you'll understand.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go bang my head on the wall.