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Author: msgracefulnot
So hard when someone says tell me about yourself...what do you want to know?
The verdict is still out
While the verdict about if switching to self hosted was worth it is still out, I thought I would take a few minutes to update everyone on where I have been hiding.
First of all this is “birthday week” in my family. My birthday was Sunday, Thing 1’s b-day is Saturday and Thing 2 will be turning 21 on Sunday, so needless to say things have been a bit busy. (and been gaining a few pounds…yah cake?)
The stove/oven was identified as the cause of my C02 leak. I am happy to report that the shopping for, financing, delivery, and installation of a new stove has been completed.
3 out of 5 of my animals, have had to go to the vet. (2 cats for breathing problems and one dog for explosive diarrhea) I should be grateful that D.O.G. actually had most of her episodes on my bathroom floor, but if you remember, my bathroom floor is currently newspaper stuck to old tile glue, so it was actually a mini nightmare to keep cleaning that mess up. The bill for the vet hurt quite a bit too. 😦
My bank went through a conversion and payments ended up not being were they were supposed to go, So I have literally had to say, “the check is in the mail” which NO ONE believes or wants to hear.
One day, after reaching 7000 steps, I came home and took off my shoe to see this.
My foot hurts like hell, but I have still been walking every day. IMO, this is NOT gout, and the uric acid levels in my blood say that it is also not gout, however; the doctor is still calling it GOUT. I have purchased new walking shoes, and am having custom inserts made for my shoes, (yah more bills) hoping that that helps, while trying to find a new doctor, that will at least perform xrays….. again SMH
My Shadow
I feel like I should call this little guy more of a stalker now. He comes to my house Every day and either lurks in the tree at the end of my driveway, or rings my doorbell continuously. One day, I did have him sit at my patio table, and I let SNUFF out the meet him. I wrote a note for him to take home to his mother, I read him the note, and reiterated that he can not come over without a parent. I put my phone number on the note, and have still not seen or heard from a parent. Instead, he brought another slightly older brother over 10 minutes after he met my dog……smh that is NOT what I said. I did learn that he is six and his brother is 7. When I asked about his mom, he said she worked until 4
Switching to Self hosted
As far as the switch to self hosted goes, the jury is still out. As with most things in life, there are positives and negatives to everything. One of the positives, or at least one of the reasons I switched include having more options or tools available to use. When you are using wordpress.com, you are basically “allowed” to use what they tell you that you can use as far as plug ins etc. are concerned. Last month’s, 370k in spam comments, and no ability to change security plug ins was the final straw for me, so I finally made the jump.
At this point, there have been more negatives, but part of that can be a learning curve. I think I have said before, that I was skeptical about switching because I read the words “easy and free to transfer”….HA HA HA. Some of the negative things are:
- My stats are bunk. I went from having 200 followers to having 5.
- While “transferring your site” is “free, I don’t feel that it was easy and required a minimum of 15 tickets to wordpress.com and siteground.com to “complete” the process. To be honest, I still don’t feel that the process is complete.
- Not only did my site “disappear” from Reader, I no longer have a Reader without going back to wordpress.com.
- Most of my comments are still going to the old “whatever its called”, and I am missing several. To make it worse, some followers are no longer able to comment, and for the ones that ARE able to comment, most are not able to see when I have responded.
- It WASN’T free. SMH
There is a completely different dashboard, and staging area. Siteground is also rolling out a new editor.
I keep trying to remind myself that it is all about the journey, and things will get better with time. To those of you who still keep looking for me and who have helped me “test” things, I am more than grateful. Ms Gracefulnot, is still out there, and I am hoping things will get better with time.
If you are reading this and don’t want to lose contact, please consider subscribing to the blog via email. (there should be a link at the bottom of this post ) From what I can tell, so far, THAT part works
Me and My shadow
I’ve developed a new shadow this week, in the form of a young boy. Since my kids are adults now, I am really not good at guessing ages. He is old enough to ride a bike and is learning to ride a skateboard, and he has really good manners, but he is YOUNG. Maybe 7 or 8? I keep forgetting to ask.
A few weeks ago, when I was walking SNUFF my German Shepherd, the little boy said, “Excuse me Ma’am, may I pet your dog?” I told him that I did not think it was a good idea because Snuff was “working” and she is kind of protective of me while she is on the job. I then thanked him for asking and continued on my way.
The following week when Danica and I were taking a walk in the evening, the little boy was outside with an older person (older than him younger than me) boy I am bad at ages. I would have guessed the other young man was 18 or 19. Both boys said Hello to us as we were passing. I took a minute to stop and tell the older boy (maybe his father?) that the younger one had incredible manners. (something I always loved to hear about my kids, because they didn’t have those incredible manners at home) We talked for a few minutes, and I told the older boy (his brother) that if the younger one still wanted to meet Snuff, that he and their parent could come to my house, where my dog would be more relaxed.
They have not come by. shrug?
The other day, I was walking D.O.G. and the younger boy ran out of his house asking if he could pet my other dog. D.O.G. is friendly as hell, so I stopped and said, “Okay, sure.” After about 5 minutes, I told him I needed to finish my walk, and tried to say Goodbye. The little guy, I now know his name is Dalton, started following me and he hasn’t stopped. Every day I pass his house and he runs outside yelling, “Good morning, Ms. Grace”. It’s cute, he’s sweet. So why is this a problem?
Because he keeps following me home. I’ve tried to tell him that he can not come to my house without a parent, (who I have yet to meet) or his older brother. I feel bad. We live in a way different world than when my kids were younger, and I was the Kool-aid house. I am sad that this little boy is alone so much, but I don’t want to be a babysitter. I also don’t want him hanging around my house waiting for me or the dogs to come outside and get hurt.
I’ve thought about stopping at his house one night and asking to meet his mom, but (1) I don’t want to get him in trouble for being bored, and (2) what if I find out he is alone all day, am I morally obligated to do something? I really really really don’t want to “involved”, but that’s what I do.
What would you do?
So THIS happened today
The other night, I was making a pork chop on the stove, and my smoke detector went off literally saying. “FIRE, FIRE, FIRE”. There was no fire, there was no smoke, but because it was 10 pm at night, I did have an angry kid who had to be up for work at 5 the next day, running into the kitchen yelling at me. WHOOPS…
I kept hitting the button to turn it off. It did stop yelling Fire, but then it started saying “Carbon monoxide warning”. Thing 2 got angry and took the batteries out before lecturing me about making food so late etc and then she went back to sleep.
Yes I did 😛 when she closed the door. I ate my pork chop and that was the end of it, so I thought…..
This morning I woke up, made my normal path to the bathroom and stepped in dog vomit. SMH….cmon really? Why do animals always have to puke on the rugs or carpet areas?
I kind of hopped into the bathroom to clean my foot off, only to step in cat vomit. You have got to be fricking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( well at least in the bathroom it was on the newspaper that is still down on the floor from my last incident).
After cleaning everything up, I walked into the kitchen to start the coffee…. want to guess what happened there?
I am not kidding….. MORE animal vomit!!!!
When I finished cleaning everything up, Thing 2 came into the kitchen complaining of a headache and feeling like she wanted to be sick as well. You know, come to think of it, I have been feeling nauseous myself which I just attributed to taking wellbutrin to quit smoking….but what if…..
I googled what to do if you suspect a gas or c02 leak and called the number for our utility company. They advised me to take all the people and animals outside (2 dogs and 3 cats). Within minutes, emergency vehicles started showing up from all directions.
It turns out, my stove is broken and there is indeed Carbon Monoxide leaking from it. SMDH!
A cry for help (stolen from Tom)
Maybe, just maybe….my site has been moved without losing too much information?
I need to test some things though… If you are reading this will you please comment below and tell me where you saw the post… in your reader? on facebook? on twitter? or direct to the website
please please please
MS Graceful...NOT! 