Houston, we have a problem

I fancy myself a writer and it should come to no surprise that when my computer crashed recently, I temporarily lost it.  Unfortunately my boyfriend was at the receiving end of this, but since he sort of broke my Ibook I suppose one could say he had it coming.  STILL, it has been a very stressful couple of days since my notes and research of ideas for my first novel were on that computer.  I hadn't back them up anywhere and for that I have no one to blame but myself.  Those and countless photos I can never retrieve again.  I was just finishing my first go round on the 6th chapter and was looking foward to starting work on the next.  Some of you know how hard it is to look at a blank page with nothing before the curser and just...type.  Very daunting.  Hopefully the people at Mac can save my butt without it costing me an arm and a leg.  To say 2009 has been a trying year would be an understatement.  This is really icing on the devils cake.