Help! how do I recover my unsaved Stickies?

I'm using my MacBook Air as I normally would. Opened my Stickies app to jot down work notes. I never close (press X) on any of my Stickies, I just quit the app. Whenever I re-open the app, my notes have always been there. I never needed to save it to anywhere. Today, I'm using it as per usual. But suddenly on re-opening the Stickies app, it just shows a blank sticky. All the notes I jotted down are gone! Please help!

--Some more info... I don't use Time Machine because these are daily/weekly work notes that I delete as I finish my relevant projects. However, they are very important and I'm getting cold sweat as we speak. I do use stickies on my dashboard and all the jotted notes on there have not disappeared. Just the ones on my Stickies App have disappeared. I have tried opening the com.apple.Stickies copy.plist file and my jotted notes aren't on there. I also opened my StickiesDatabase in textedit and my jotted notes aren't on there either.