I was about to email a picture from my phone to myself when I noticed all but 6 photos in my phone camera’s gallery had mysteriously vanished sometime in the past 24 hours. Naturally, I experienced panic… anxious, upset, torn. As I scoured forums on solutions to my not so uncommon problem, I started trying to come to peace with what had just happened. I was incredibly sad that all these snapshots from the past 1.5 years were suddenly gone. With the way my memory serves me, all of the stories disappeared with those pictures too.

After ~5 different attempts using different techniques, I dejectedly plugged my micro SD back in and turned on my phone to play some words with friends. I thought, “Juuuuust in case…” and checked the phone’s gallery. Before my eyes, the photo count changed from 6 to 120 to 165 to 170 and so on and finally to its current resting place at 370. Even though I had just tried to convince myself that it would be all right, I found myself overjoyed that my pictures + memories had made a recovery (thanks to SOMETHING I did?).

The fact that I just went through such an emotional roller coaster over some pictures on my phone just really goes to show… that I have some first world problems.

peas and adobo grease ^^v