Hello. I made a really big mistake today. I transferred funds from my blockchain wallet to my electrum wallet. I had done a practice transfer yesterday with a small amount of money, and everything worked perfectly. So I assumed I'd be able to just copy and paste the wallet address and send the money like normal.

I was really wrong though. I'm not totally sure why, but the money just never showed up. So now I'm out hundreds of dollars that I really desperately needed. I'm so defeated and disappointed right now I can barely bring myself to even bother with any of this.

I was reading something about wallet synchronization, and I'm not sure if that could be the problem. It says that my wallet is not fully synchronized (it has said "synchronizing...3/30" basically since I opened it today with no improvement). Could that have anything to do with it? Is there a way to get the wallet fully synchronized? It's just stuck on 3/30 indefinitely.

Can someone tell me what happened so it doesn't happen again? I hate bitcoins for this exact reason. Something goes wrong...and your money is just fn gone forever. The transaction is on blockchain...so I'm just really not sure what happened. But I'm thinking from now on I'm going to do small transfers in pieces and just move a little bit of money at a time. Losing hundreds of dollars that I couldn't afford to spend in the first place really hurts, and is going to affect my life for the immediate future. I just can't even tell you the effect that losing hundreds of dollars in one shot like that has for a person like me with very little in the first place. 

My wallet address expired 1 hour after the transaction. So it's now expired. Does that have an impact on whether or not my money could ever (even theoretically) get to my wallet?

Most importantly, is there anyone you can go to in a situation like this? Like blockchain or the electrum people? I'm pretty sure I'll never see this money...but I'd like to make sure this never happens again. To be honest this has sorta put me off bitcoin generally...and that sucks because bitcoins are necessary for lots of different types of online transactions.