Why me?
Of all the computers in all the world, why did mine have to die on me last night and delete my artwork?!?!?!

I am livid. No, livid in an understatement. I want to break things I am that angry. If it wasn't for Matt last night, I think I may have thrown my stupid PC out of the window. For no apparent reason it just froze, the icons began flashing, the whole screen expanded to some stupid size, then everything went green, then black then it shut itself off. The trouble was I was actually working on a piece at the time (something I had spent HOURS on too) and when I tried to retrieve it, all I had was about an inch of the original picture and then a big black box over everything else.

I tried going back a few days on the system to see if that'd change anything, looked through backup folders, hidden files, but nothing. I said to Matt, I am so pleased that I wasn't working on my writing or I would have probably thrown myself off the roof. I do have most of my artwork backed up, but obviously not the stuff that was working on at that very moment and from the past few days, and although it was all saved, it just made the files illegible.

So...there will be no artwork for a while. I am terribly sorry, but I think my computer heard about Adri's and just decided to crash alongside it in sympathy. Damn machine!
I am probably going to go out and buy myself a new stack next weekend (I am away at a re-enactment this saturday/sunday) as my current PC is 8 years old and refuses to go online anymore anyway. It's about time I treated myself to something that won't crash every time I open photoshop and any other programme.

So yeah, looks like I will have a lot of work to do, transfering everything over to a new PC when I get one. I was thinking of possibly getting an Apple, but as I have a relatively new, not to mention huge, flatscreen monitor, I don't really need anything but the stack. I have about £300 to spend, so if anyone wants to make me some suggestions, all would be welcomed. I just want a machine for word processing and graphics- I don't need it for games as I have my 360 for that.

Anyway. It's the perfect ending to an already horrid week. I really do wish something would go right for me, just once. Poor old Zoe's been pushed quite litereally to the edge of her sanity. Just one break, that's all I want...or the ability to get back on with my comics, which I miss and feel constantly guilty about as I have no time to draw them any more. And then when something like this happens and you end up loosing hours and hours of work, you just wonder why you bother at all.
*sigh*
Some days you just really want to give up, but then I suppose you really would never get anywhere. I will just have to re-do all those pictures even better than before. *tries to be positive*
I need chocolate and yet am facing another 10 hour day at work...I hate work. *sobs*
I am an artist. GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!