calendar

On Jan 1, 2007, I started an electronic calendar of my doings. Prior to that and for years and years, I kept a paper calendar. I have all them buried somewhere. They are important to me and just knowing I have them is comforting. I also have various journals (prior to this one!) I have a nutrition journal, a wedding journal, a pregnancy journal, 2 spiritual journals,(on a 3rd) and I have saved copies of most important letters to members of my family. Well, back to the electronic calendar. I put down everything I did with friends, where I went, events and trips; daughter's stuff and husband's too. Well, the computer that we all share crashed a couple months ago. Through much sweat and effort, we were not able to recover 2 and half years worth of the record. I cried when my husband told me it was no where on the external hard drive we used to back things up. I don't think I told him to make sure to back it up as I don't ever worry about such things and I figured if he was backing up it would do that. So I have had to come to terms with this. Not a huge deal but dates have always been important to me and I enjoy looking back on them to find out when I did certain things. It's a record. But it's gone. Now I don't know if I want to start a new one or just not do them. I should just start over and keep it somewhere safe but I haven't yet. Dumb thing to write about but for some reason I wanted to share that. It's a loss but it's a worldly loss and nothing that impacts who I am, has hurt me or will affect the most important things in my life. So be it.