One thing Bella loves is playing the cat fishing game on my phone. It is an app designed for cats and it makes her absolutely bananas. It is pretty cute. What is not cute is Friday, my phone was on the couch and she wanted to play. But her game was not on and somehow she deleted some of my phone apps...including my "notes" app which basically has my life in there (passwords, lists, addresses, etc). I didn't notice they were gone until Saturday night.
After much research, I realized the best option was to restore to my last back up of my phone. But that was November 28, 2016. What I didn't realize is this would make my world go back to that day. All photos, contacts, etc would be reset to whatever it was that date. I didn't have much choice so away I went to restore. Except it was in the middle of the update and I thought it was done and unplugged my phone in the middle of the update by accident. This caused my cell phone to have a fatal error. Suddenly it wouldn't even stay turned on. I couldn't get it to connect to iTunes which is the life line for iPhones. I was totally screwed. I messed with it for quite awhile and at 2 am, I decided to go to bed because I was getting no where.
As it usually happens in these sort of situations, this morning I was more clear headed and got to it again. My phone would not stay turned on long enough to connect to iTunes. I keep rebooting it and rebooting it. Plugging in and unplugging. I was sure all was lost. But I tried again and I did get a screen to restore it. I almost did a happy dance!! The bad news is it first did a factory reset. Then restored to November 28, 2016 which was my last back up. I am not sure why the phone hasn't backed up since then but that is "spilled milk" at this point.
So now my world on my phone is November 28, 2016. It has forced me to look back at that time that was a very painful time for me. Fritz and I were in the throws of breaking up. It had been a month since he spoke to me. I was severely depressed and had zero self value. My music on my phone is back to that date so all those songs we used to listen too were back. My recent photos are all gone. All the work I had done to erase Fritz from my life was reset and those memories now front and center. And all those notes, people, and clean up I've done since that time are erased. Back in November 2016, I had not started dating again. So all those people I've met since then? Erased from my phone. Not a single phone number or photo. Talk about a sort of fresh start from that!
In some ways, it is interesting to look back and see how far I've come since then. I didn't hurt me today to see those photos of Fritz and I when I thought we meant something to each other. I just deleted them all again. All those guys I've met and dated since then are erased but maybe that is a good thing. It is like a "rebirth" to remind me how resilient I have become. And I got to make a conscious choice to delete all those painful memories one last time. Not because it hurts to bad to see like last time but because now, I have moved so far past that period of my life.
I'm very thankful I had a backup and could restore it. Now I only need to remember the last 10 months of my life that mattered. I have the really important stuff I needed. My phone is working again. And luckily, I caught up on much of my scrapbooking so I have photos up through July printed. There are lots still missing but I think I can muddle through okay.
So my reminder today is to be sure to back up your phone regularly. And if you use an iPhone, be sure to stay plugged into iTunes until you can "eject".
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