I hate Word

we had a sunday school meeting about a month ago....at that time, i thought i had typed up the minutes and saved it, and because I was busy after that, I thought I would spend the Christmas/New Year break tidying up the minutes before sending it out. Then during the break, I realised that I somehow didnt save the file, and now I'm having to reconstruct the minutes from scratch...hmmm....the problem is I cant really remember much of what was said. How?