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This is the weirdest thing but he seems to love it....Can't figure out what he is playing at, and it looks like it would hurt!

Drunk baby

Yesterday two of my favorite bloggers posted this meme.  I have thought about this alot as it was the topic of the BlogHer conference I attended last year.

To be precise there tag line was "how has blogging changed your world" but it means the same to me, which may not make sense. Shocker.

I'm not going to tag anyone but leave a comment below if you do the meme so we can check you out!

Five Reasons Why I Blog:

1. At the risk of being repetitive, of my self and the other memes, I'm a SAHM and we don't have tv. And sometimes we don't have phones. But when we don't have internet? I pack the kids  up and head to a friends house because I can't handle not having the internet.  It where I get my daily information, where I get my recipes and where I get much of my motivation.  My blogs are my connection to other moms, other runners, other quilters and just others.  I have limited time to do what I want and I like be able to stop by a few favorite blogs for ispiration (running, quilting or mothering) and then go back to dealing with potty training, screaming, or chasing the cat.

2. It's an accomplishable goal.  Blogging is something I can finish in one day. And see results. Unlike diets (did you know girl scout cookies and cadburry eggs were not diet food?). I can write a post in a minute, an hour or a day...sometimes a few days.  Sometimes I don't walk the dogs. Somedays I don't get my run in.  Sometimes I don't even go in the sewing room but I can always sneak a few minutes of distracted baby time (look mama, an outlet) and start/finish a post.

3. I've already mentioned inspiration, but support is very similar. Only in the blogosphere do you have complete strangers stopping by to high five you on your five miler, or your potty training or to talk you down from the howisitthatmybabyhateshiscarseatIneedtogotoTarget ledge.  I constantly find inspiration from other moms, who are also runners, who are also quilters who are also married, who are also living in a house that leaks and just trying to get through the day with out shaving their head.  And in turn I am supported by them when they stop by and pat my back or hold my hand to say, I've been there, and you'll get through.  And it's real.  Becuase they don't have to stop by. They could be somewhere else reading someone else, but they have connected with me and I with them. And blogfriends help out when you need help. Like your site crashes or your kids puts tampons down the drain for the forty billioneth time.  I have met so many amazing bloghers, online and in person. I have had so many great interactions and met some life long pals.  I am grateful for what my blog has done for me.

4. Like Marilyn, I thought I would be a writer when I was all grown up. Like Marilyn I used to keep a journal, and I always enjoyed flipping through them. I cut out pictures, glued poetry in them, pressed flowers between the pages. Tried to capture the essence of the moment. Blogs do that for me now, I can link to people, places and things. I can post pictures as I see them. I can write long winded narratives, or short notes.  I've been going over my past posts recently and backing up my blog, as I prepare to make it into a book. And I really enjoy it.

5. In the end my blog is a journal and it is mine. I blog and do meme so that I can go back and look at what my thoughts were. Sure I like connecting with other, family and leaving a history for the boys. Really though, this blog is for me to look at and analyze.  It helped me through my second pregnancy when I was physically exhausted and in pain. It helped me realize that I was depressed, that as much as I love my unborn baby, I hated being pregnant, I couldn't run, I couldn't sew and I got depressed. However I was able to look back at previous blog posts and realize that I didn't always feel that way, that a year ago I had been healthy and happy. It gave me great perspective. And as weird and self centered as it sounds, my own writing has been a support to me.

And just like that my blog is back and I abandon Vox.....I'm heartless that way.

Dudes. Seriously. 

So it looks like the whole Domain fiasco is my own fault. Hows' that for a bite in the butt?  Tru Dat. 

I recieved two emails the same day one saying that my old host "The bastards" was relinquising me and that it would be effective at the end of the billing period.  Pretty much the same email they had sent me the past two months when nothing changed. So I didn't get excited. 

Then I recieved one saying my Domain was up for renewal. In a fit of not paying attention and just being really really irritated with 'the bastards', not to mention being somewhat burried what with the planning of the boyz birthdays and the Heart and Sole Run, I um didn't read the email carefully. Or at all. Or rather, you know, care.

And there you have it. Cancelled my own domain. All the weeping and crying and tearing out of hair (mine and a few other peoples) Pointless.

Yeah I went and renewed my domain tonight and sent emails of joy throughout cyberspace. Hopefully by this time tomorrow I will have my domain pointers trained on my new host 'the non bastards" and I'll be back in business.

Possibly missing a view months.

But who hasn't lost a few months..here and there?

girls in the sand

There is something about having a your blog and all your websites dissappear that is just downright depressing.   A more upbeat person may look at it as a great way to reinvent, myself I'm wondering if it is time to quit.

A week without internet left me out of the loop and missing people. And honestly missing my blogging, but also wondering if I was more a slave to the blog than it's master.

strolling

I still don't know. But I miss my old blog and I still have some mourning to do.

Dudes, Where have you guys been? I’ve been sitting around this blog and like no one has been coming by?

What? My blog has been down for a week?  Surely not.

What I’m not responding to emails and you think I’m dead? Or possibly my internet connection is down? Not MY internet connection. We NEVER have phone trouble here.

To bring you up to speed. Apparently on February 19^th while I was eating birthday cake with my son, my old host finally relinquished my site. Which meant all my sites went down, but I could still see them. So I didn’t realize it till I started receiving email telling me that my blog and the Heart and Sole site were down (four days before the run…AWESOME!)

But some people could still see me.

And then they couldn’t.

And neither could I.

I tried to sit down and fix it. But Wah got Conjunctivitis and a fever, which meant he cried for a week. It rocked.  And then I had a little thing called the Heart and Sole Run to organize.  And then Thursday are internet went down and I was out of luck and then Friday morning it Snowed….awesome.

Luckily I had two netflix full of Veronica Mars to keep me company or I may have hurt people.   And then Scott called the internet service on Friday and they told him to try unplugging the modem and plugging it back because you know, we are morons….

Super condescending universal tech guy: “Are you sure you are at the computer?”

Me: “Holy crap! You’re right this is the toaster! What was I thinking?  Thank you so much…now where did I put my toast?”

Then we found out that their 24/7 service contract didn’t extend to weekends. 

Let’s take a minute to think about that one.

So they would call us on Monday. You know to see if the internet fairy had come to fix the problem.

She hadn’t.

Monday they said that probably it was the Phone service’s fault.  And the Baby continued to cry and run a temperature.  Then I realized that my old host had also cancelled my domain. so my blog and all my websites were gone.

So we  bought new phones, since our phone service AKA they who stink…a lot, had said (the last time our phone went out and they charged us eighty bucks to drive out and tell us…yeah you’re phones are out..bummer)  all the problems we’ve been having, like when it rains really hard we lose our phone service…totally normal, were our fault. Doesn’t that happen to you?  Like we totally live in the PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Like it ever rains here!

So we got new phones and that totally fixed the problem. Okay. No it didn’t but now we have snazzy new phones. And still no internet.

Yesterday (wednesday) our ISP finally got the phone service to admit that they had turned off our dsl service for lack of payment..um. Awesome. Cuz we payed and also thanks for telling ust that next week.  We charged the service to our credit  card because HELLO a week without internet! and it was on in twenty minutes.

but my blog is gone and all my websites.

And the baby has RSV

Lucky me. Lucky Mud.