MOVING OFFICIALLY SUCKS!!!!!
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Topic: MOVING OFFICIALLY SUCKS!!!!!
Posted By: mum2paris
Subject: MOVING OFFICIALLY SUCKS!!!!!
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 2:44pm
ARGH ARGH ARGH
ok, so we moved yesterday. everything was kinda ok, we started the day well, i had the kitchen unpacked before lunch time and the girls rooms mainly done by the time they got home at 5. BUT Then we tried our computer, which by the way was only bought when ayja was 4 weeks old if i remember rightly, or thereabouts. Nothing had happened to it for us to worry, they were careful, lay it down on soft stuf and made sure it didn't get damaged. Mike wired it up after dinner, tried it the first time, and it was making funny noises and wouldn't switch on, i mean the light would come on but nothing after that, nothing on the screen or anything, so he switched around a cord and it appeared to start up.. there was our usual background and all so we just thought he'd wired it up wrong. So, he turns it off, and we get to unpacking more stuff for the lounge. I go to turn it on later - to retrieve all the addresses to put on the trade-me packages to send out today and hello - IT WILL NOT TURN ON!!!
Now, i managed to persuade mikes boss to let us email all the trade-me peeps to let them know to send their address to mikes work - and mike is gonna check the account so that is kinda getting sorted - hopefully the people will understand - i feel like i have mucked them round - i had been writing all the details on a piece of paper - but thought i would be incrediably efficient and write it all up on a list on the computer.. i wish i had just stuck to paper. but here is the suckiest thing of all. On our computer, is every digital photo taken since we got the computer,we have not used a normal camera since we got the digital one. which means 9 months of Ayja's life that we will never get back unless by some miracle they are able to retrieve it, there were videos of ayja's first roll, first crawling - all that special stuff - we have told them that no matter what cost, we will pay for them to retrieve these. I am feeling so bummed, i actually started bawling my eyes out after i realised that we may never get them back .  I was up till after midnight last night trying constantly to get the computer to turn on in the hopes i could burn them to disc like we have been planning to do forever, but never got round to doing.
Also, i have saved copies on there of every nursing assignment i have ever done - i mean i have the hard copies i handed in, but this was all the resources i used and useful stuff like that. to top it off - I had actually done an assignment early for once, and was way over 3/4 of the way through it, just had the conclusion to do. It is due on monday. and it's ALL GONE. our computer doesn't take normal square discs, only burns them. sometimes i email assignments to ucol, but only if i plan to work on them there at some stage - which i hadn't cos i knew i'd be at home this weekend to finish it. You never think that a NEW computer is going to just die like that! Instead, this weekend, i will be here, at ucol, on the computers all by myself, not helping unpack our house, not spending time with my girls, not anything. Hence why i am on here briefly - I am at Ucol, frantically typing up all that i can remember of my assignment, in the hopes i can get it finished and handed in on time on monday. I just had to check in here for a mo, to de-stress, and let you all know i probably might not be on here much, if at all in the next few weeks - as by the time our computer gets back to us, it will be easter and we are going on holiday. MOVING HOUSE SUCKS! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 2:58pm
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oh omfg!!! what a nightmare hope it all gets sorted soon and can get all of ajya,s photos/vidieos back ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 3:01pm
Oh Janine!  Big hugs, and lots of sympathy!
What a nightmare! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 3:07pm
| aww that sucks chicka do u know that you can have the harddrive taken out and your data saved? We had it happen to us. You should be able to save all the photos etc |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 3:50pm
Hope you can retrieve everything! That is my worst nightmare!! Good luck getting the assignment in on time!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 4:38pm
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Thanks Jes i might see if mike can ring and make sure that they have that requested on the form.
I bet any of you that haven't backed up your files are going to now!! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 4:47pm
Cory is a geek so to speak lol but he backs up all the photos etc that we have on here This computer always breaks but thats murphys law aye  They say that an IT person always has a broken computer and a builder always has an unfinished house etc lol its so troo etc etc
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Posted By: deharn
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 7:21pm
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Hey don't stress you can definately get the data back!!!
My hubbie ran over his lap top (long story)..... but was still able to get everything off it. I tell you, his lap top is more important than oxygen!!!!!!!!! 
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Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 7:57pm
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Oh Janine, I have had this happen before, same circumstances with the assignment as well. Best of luck getting it done and take comfort my friend managed to retrive all her photos after a similar thing happened to her.
We got your email re the sesame street beanie babies, and believe me, we are fine with the delay! Take care ------------- "> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 10:09pm
| contact UCOL and let them know what has happened - you may be able to get an extension. |
Posted By: Alan Mum
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 10:24pm
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oh stink that really sux and guess what I am off ot save my photo's now. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 April 2006 at 2:02pm
lol Liz - i tried first thing friday to get hold of my lecturer - she's away til 19th of April! suck cos 3rd yr you get no resits, and i have already had disaster happen with my last assignment ih anded in - which i got in late, (8am the next day instead of 5 pm the day before) all cos i got stranded at home with a grumpy little grotty baby, who wouldn't let me put her down, i seriously thought i would get it finished. but no, tried to ring lecturer and could get hold of her, left an answer machine message though. but still - since i didn't get the ok from her directly, and didn't ask for an extension (i didn't ask a few days before, cos i didn't NEED one then) then it has to go to someone higher up to make the decision whether they mark it or fail me. fair enough - but then now this happened - i was just like "someone up there really DOES NOT want me to be a nurse!!" and with that, i shall stop wasting time.. and go do more assignment. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 09 April 2006 at 4:57pm
Oh that sucks janine  They should be able to get it all back tho. Fingers crossed for you... ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 09 April 2006 at 6:11pm
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Thinking of you! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |