Valuable lesson

I learned a very valuable lesson last night and that is to NEVER clean out my hard drive again without backing things up firs and ask someone first because I accidently erased all of my pics and I had moved them to the trash and to make matters worse I EMPTIED the trash could I be any stupider?  The only bright side to this is that I have my pics on other web sites so when I get Iphoto back up all I will have to do is go to hose places and right click on the pics and put them back in the files.  There are some pics that I don't have on the net and I am going to have to use the external hard drive and get them back.  Today sucked because I didn't get much sleep and I cried a lot because of this and other personal stuff that I am not going to go into.  I work tomorrow and Tues. but on Wed I am going to Best Buy and see if they can help me find iphoto because I can't find that now either.  I have looked everywhere I can think of and I don't want to put the discs that came with it and mess it up even more.  If I have to buy  a new version of ilife that includes iphoto then that is what I am going to have to do,  I have no choice.