Living with MS in an empty nest and exploring uncharted territory in my 40's:)
Have you ever seen the description on a product that says, “easy to assemble” or “no tools required”?
I try to avoid those products like the plague because you do always need tool, and 8 extra hands, the directions aren’t even easy to read
well apparently the same is true for switching to self hosted, when they say…”we will do all the work for you”… OMG SMH
Please send beer
lots of beer
ONE THING that I am really not good at other than telling a lie is keeping a secret. The whole not being good at lying is NOT because I haven’t tried, it just takes too much work and my face gives me away EVERY. DAMN. TIME. so I gave up trying a long time ago. BUT……….
I do really, really, really TRY to keep secrets. 😦 hmmmm That sounds terrible! I hate keeping secrets!!!
Can you tell I have a secret? Or rather I have been trying to keep a secret for a couple months?!?!?! This is not a BAD secret, in fact it’s really incredible news!!! The problem is it wasn’t mine to tell…… UNTIL NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but wait……………
there is more……………….
I am going to be a GMA!!!!!!! ( or a granny, or a nanny, or a mimi, oh the possibilities are endless…) But there it is…. My baby is having babies…and I couldn’t be more excited!!!!!
If you all can throw some GMA names my way, I would really appreciate it!!!!!
Remember in the first paragraph when I said I’m bad at keeping secrets? I know some of you are like “no shit, you already told ME”….SHHHHH I would never do that , well except this one time….
So my kids godmother is named Wendy. Unfortunately, we don’t see Wendy that much any more because our lives have taken different paths, but she is still very important to all of us. I saw Wendy’s Green light come on Facebook the other day, and after about 2 seconds of thought, I figured it would be “safe to tell her”…….
I sent her a message the other day saying, “hey can you talk for a minute”? She replied, “sure”. “Ok calling now”
When she answered the phone…..
Wendy: Hey what’s up?
Grace: I have incredible news!!!!
Wendy: OMG Thing ONE is pregnant?!?!?
Grace: YES!!!!!! But it’s even BETTER than that!!!!!!!!
Wendy: OMG Twins?!?!?
Grace: YES!!!!!!!!
Wendy: Do they run in Z’s (her husbands) family?
Grace: We didn’t know it, but apparently yes……
Next I hear her talking to someone else who then took the phone from her to talk to me….. ?!?!?!? I hear… “Hi, Grace it’s Brandon aren’t you so excited to be a grandma?”
HUH? Stunned silence on my part as my brain races to understand who the hell this Brandon is considering I only know one and this is not his voice. I mutter out something silly like….
Grace: “hell yeah I’m excited, but how did you know?!?!?” Remember it’s supposed to be a secret
Brandon: “well she told my wife and I got to see the ultrasound picture”
At this point, I am frustrated that 1. I know I am busted for telling the secret, and 2. I still couldn’t figure out who the hell I was talking to so I reply a little bit snarky
Grace: Well I got to go to the ultrasound! 😛 😛 😛
Then it dawns on me…. I DO know who Brandon is. He is the officiant from Thing One and Z’s wedding in March!!!! Oh shit, I am really busted…
Brandon puts Wendy back on the phone and we finished our conversation. I can already hear the messenger alerts in my ear and I know that Thing One knows…..ut oh, I’m in trouble….
Thing One: So now Wendy knows?
With the following screen shots attached…..
I swear you can’t make this shit up! Brandon and Wendy don’t know each other, they live in completely different towns and just happened to be a swimming lessons with their two daughters. What are the chances of that?!?!??!!?
Most people would consider jumping out of that airplane the scariest thing they ever did, I found it exhilarating, freeing if you will. The jump I am talking about today though is the jump from wordpress.com to self-hosted. I have read so much about it, and watched so many videos that my eyes are glassy. I am confused, nervous, and well just a bundle of emotions, but I am doing it. HOPEFULLY it will be a smooth transition, but I am not holding my breath.
Wish me luck? Hopefully I will see you all soon!
Last week I posted that in one day I had received 370k comments in my spam folder in the a 24 hour period. Things have slowed down a little bit, this morning I have 564K. SMDH!!!!!
When I contacted wp support, they suggested that I activate the comments option that makes name and email required. Ok did that.
I also added almost 100 individual ip addresses to the block list
I have added all the repeating words that I found in the posts (ty SDC for the tip)
I have blocked anyone using an email from outlook (as that was a huge portion of addresses)
I went through the 1.8k comments that I have approved in the past and removed any from an anonymous user as was suggested by another blogger. (thank you Ralph)
Tom and Tanya both suggested bot blockers and upping my spam control. Whatever version on wp I am using only allows me to use askiment, and it says it have blocked another 300k in spam.
I switched back to all comments needing to go through moderation ( sorry for this guys), but after my phone going off ever 2 minutes with notifications for an hour, I have now removed WP from my phone. Which means I will be checking it less frequently.
I want to apologize in advance if I miss something you have commented on, I am deleting spam in bulk, and although I do scan it first, there are literally thousands of comments.
The only other thing I can think to try is switching to self hosted. I have heard of sites like godaddy, siteground, bluehost. Would anyone mind sharing what host you use? I need a site that will “hold my hand” so to speak . Thank you in advance!
Thank God not the packing and unpacking kind! I mean the putting one foot in front of the other moving kind of moving.
So I bought a “generic” Fitbit. By generic I mean the $30.00 not name brand one from amazon. ( If interested….click the picture!!!) While the specs say that I can link it to my phone, check my heart rate, and sleeping patterns, the only thing I investigated about it, is how many steps I take in a given day.
I’ve heard people talk about making their goal 10,000 steps in a day, and wanted to see where I compared…..
On an average day, I took about 1500 steps. WTF?!? I am busy from the time I wake up til the time I “pass out” each night…. That couldn’t be accurate!!!!!
Well it turns out it is. I spend so much time driving, waiting at doctors, playing on the computer, fighting with insurance companies, reading, doing laundry whatever…that I really don’t move. SMH
Time to fix this shit! I made myself a challenge to get at least 3000 steps in a day and I have done it!!!!!!! Can I have a cookie now?.… No I’m actually serious…..Ok I’m not, but I AM feeling good! I am proud of myself. Not only for setting a goal and making it, but for facing a huge fear of mine by walking alone again.
I am not quite up to a mile at a time yet, but I have learned that if I can beat the heat (waking up at 5 am), I can come close. I have even started taking my dogs with me again… ONE AT A TIME, and holding the leash very loosely.
Walking by myself in a residential area is kind of boring,
and to be honest it is still kind of scary for me considering a crack like this can be a major road hazard. but it is still better than walking on a treadmill and every step I take hopefully keeps me out of a wheelchair that much longer.
Sometimes, I can con my neighbor into walking with me, but she works nights and doesn’t appreciate the early morning “Hey let’s go for a walk wake up calls”.
A bonus is that I don’t smoke when I walk, so if I can keep increasing my activity, maybe it will help with the quitting smoking goal too.
MS Graceful...NOT! 