were you there when I crucified my blog?

Whew, that was close!

All I wanted to do was switch domain hosts from sucky Go Daddy to WordPress-recommended Blue Host. I think my exact instructions from Q were something like: blah blah blah wait for me, I’ll do it blah blah blah. It looked so simple! And I think Q was asking me to wait all of five minutes while he changed TV channels, and you know how men can be with the remote. Who knew when he’d get back to me?

By the time he got back to me in less than five minutes, I’d killed my blog. Almost dead. Which is not the same as completely dead. But I didn’t know that at the time. Q promised me he’d fix it in the morning, and I said okay, then called Blue Host. Got a lovely and informative walkthrough and told Go Daddy suck it. Jake at Blue Host was instantly knowledgeable and didn’t put me on hold to pretend he was working out my technical issues in the background. I mean, my conversations with Go Daddy had devolved into accusations of incompetence everytime I called them for help, and that was only them to me. I won’t go into what I was yelling back, but it involved lots of Ws, Ts and Fs. Thank you, Blue Host, for rescuing me. Things may be a little quirky around here as I restore photos and functionality, but I’m coming.

It took my stepmom and me nearly five hours to get the kids packed for camp, and that’s purely calculated as labeling and packing time, not errand-running to pick up last minute stuff. We’re trying to send them as organized as possible. Two large Ziploc bags each labeled “Monday” and in the bags? Monday’s shirts, shorts, undies and socks. Ooh, look, a bag labeled “Monday’s shower”: towels. Tuesday coming: another bag clearly marked Tuesday with Tuesday’s shorts, shirts, undies and socks. The bag marked “everyday” has, yup, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, lotion, facial scrub. What can go wrong? Heh. Don’t say we didn’t try.

If you don’t hear from me until Tuesday, don’t panic. We’re fine unless we all die right after I publish this. In that case, um, wow, this becomes one of those freaky prescient posts. Otherwise, I’m just trying to get my kids safely on their separate trips.

Safe holiday travels in comments for you U.S. people. Freaky predictions in comments for everyone else…