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Today Seems to Be the Day for Computer Issues

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I woke up this morning, checked my email and found out that there’s an ad running on my website that’s not behaving nicely.  It seems to be slowing things down for folks due to their flash or whatever.  I forwarded it along to the ad agency and I’m sure they’ll handle it.

Not five minutes after waking up this morning my best friend calls.  Seems her website is down and in its place, a GoDaddy place holder.  Luckily the hubs was still home so I send him to investigate.  Turns out when it auto-renewed GoDaddy changed the server locations and had everything pointing to their servers, not our servers. Nice.  Of course it’s now fixed.

So now I sit here and I can’t seem to help but wonder what’s next?  Don’t these sorts of things usually happen in threes or something?  Nah, I won’t worry about that.  I’m all about being positive and I know I’ve got too much going on to worry ’bout something so silly and easily fixable.

If I was going to worry about anything it would be the bookkeeping.  I keep forgetting that even though the personal taxes aren’t due until April, we can’t do our taxes without the business taxes which are due in March.  So basically, that cuts a month off of our my prep time.  And well, I’m a little behind.  I think I have to input from October – December still.  Guess I know what else I’ll be working on this week 😉

And on to a totally unrelated sidenote: Does anyone know someone who knows something about tea?  I’d like to interview them for my site.  Also, does anyone know someone in the eco-friendly bag department (RuMe, Envirosax, etc.).  I’d like to do an interview and giveaway with them as well.

What the Hell Happened to My Theme???

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Well hell.  Last I looked, my blog had this pretty plain and boring, yet functional theme with some lightbulb or something in the header.  I post my Wordless Wednesday post and blamo!  My theme is gone.  It’s still shows the chosen them is the active theme in my dashboard, but it’s not.

Now I’ll need to figure something out again.  Man, this theme thing is getting OLD.

Saying Buh Bye to LiveJournal

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Gawker says they’re on their way out with 20 out of 28 US jobs getting cut (they’re now based in Russia).  CNET says it’s was all an exaggeration and only 12 out of those 28 jobs were cut and that operations are still going strong back in Mother Russia.   Either way, I won’t miss it.  Then again, I’m still disappointed over how they handle harassment and stalking…they do absolutely NOTHING about it (even when contacted by lawyers).  So yeah, no hard feelings here.

While I’ll admit that I cut my blogging teeth over on LJ, I’ve been a WordPress gal nearly as long.  So many of my “real life” friends keep their ‘journals‘ over on LJ and it’s frustrating beyond belief for me to keep up with them since I have to go out of my way to read their posts.  I’ve found that for many people that keep a journal over at LJ, they’re pretty much afraid of someone finding them and reading either the inner-most personal details of their goings on, or what they’re saying about their husbands, their family, the in-laws, their bosses or co-workers , so they like to keep their accounts locked and only open to people they know. In this way, it really is more of a journal than a blog.

It should be interesting to see if they’ll stick it out, move on to something else (seems Vox keeps coming up), embrace blogging on other platforms or drop the whole thing all together.  All of this reminds me that I need to drop Brie a note about my original LJ account that I deleted.  She suggested I try going WayBack, but since I too kept a private, friends only journal over there, WayBack won’t be  much help.  Oh well.

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Still Looking for a New Theme

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Originally uploaded by me!

Head, meet Wall.

Funny how I can help clients to find a theme that works for them, but I can’t seem to find a theme that I like. Funny thing, it’s not like I’m asking for a lot (might actually be easier if I was). I just want a header that I can customize with a photo or three; a tw0-column format that doesn’t have a whole bunch of extra space on the sides, squishing all the content in the middle; and the ability to format with bullets and quotes and to post photos within the posts. Really, how difficult is that?

Work with me WordPress, work with me please.

PS – yeah, not a fan of this one, but it’ll do for a bit until I find something better. I loked a couple of the others better, but they didn’t bullet-format. Useless I tell ya!

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Pre-Christmas Thoughts

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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about anything worth blogging about, so I have a bunch of random, dis-connected things running through my mind.  Lucky you, you get to read about them now…

  • It’s cold.  Like in the low 50’s in Southern California kind of cold. Yeah, yeah, I know, many of you are stuck in snow storms.  But well, we’re dealing with cold rain here in LA.  Even wearing a sweater I’m sitting her freezing my butt off.
  • Which brings me to the fact that I really, really need to clean this office so I can bring in the space heater.  We have only one heating unit here in the apartment and well, much like our AC, if you’re not standing next to it, you’re basically without heat.  So we need a space heater to preheat the bedroom before going to bed and to heat the office…once I get rid of the piles of crapola lying about.
  • My head is clogged.  Still.  And yes, it’s still driving me crazy.  Must go find some sudafed.
  • I made a big mistake today and headed out by our mall to pick up a book at Borders.  I went surface streets, but man, even the freeway ramps were bumper to bumper on the way to the mall.  Word of advice people…head to the mall the hour before it closes and you’ll not only find parking spaces, but you’ll also find a lack of crowds!
  • I was packing my friend’s box of gifts last week and came across a “Baby’s 1st Christmas” ornament.  Um…can’t think of who I might have bought it for.  Luckily it doesn’t have a year attached (it’s a photo ornament) so I can probably find someone to give it to at some point.
  • I’m so happy that I no longer have to set up any of the daily contests (though they are still going on and you can enter until 1/23).  Now I just need to focus on finding products for bi-weekly giveaways.  Which of course means I once again have to send out a bunch of emails and organize all the product and correspondence.
  • I’m thinking my goal his year is to either find an intern or an assistant to help me out with the CC contests and blog.  I find it too challenging to be pulled in so many different directions…staying focused on three or more things happening all at once and trying to grow my business to the next level…nuts, I tell ya.
  • The husband is driving me nuts setting up his “gold watch” Bose surround system (gold watch = his “thank you for your 15+ years with the company, enjoy this gold watch as a token of our appreciation” gift).  We now have boxes and wires everywhere!  On top of all the other boxes we have for the contest prizes and the Christmas gifts.  The only piece of furniture without a box or wire strewn across is the couch.  A huge mess I assure you.  But, I will concede….the sounds is awesome!

And in closeing, it’s mere days before Christmas and the in-laws have yet to decide where and when we’ll be celebrating Christmas and who should bring what.  Go figure.  It’s so much less stressful since I’ve stopped worrying about it and trying to plan everything.  So much easier to just show up and bring foods that I know we like and will eat (like salad and veggies).

PS – things are looking up for Emily and the Taylor Swift contest. If you haven’t voted yet, please do.

Looking for GPS Navigation System Advice

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After our fiasco of driving around Dublin totally and completely lost, while our friends went here, there and everywhere without once getting lost using their GPS unit, we’ve decided to take the plunge.  I’m thinking that Black Friday sales will bring me the best deal.  But not knowing much about one brand vs another brand, I’m asking for advice.

So what brand and model do you have?  What do you like about it?  What don’t you like about it?  Do you use a Mac?

We’re leaning towards either  a TomTom (though it seems it’s not 100% Mac-compatible and no word when or if it will be remedied any time soon) or a Garmin Nuvi (which we know is Mac-compatible since it’s what our friends that we hung out with in Dublin used).

Any input is greatly appreciated.

I’m Calling Quits on NaBloPoMo

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The obligation of having to write daily just isn’t working for me.  Granted, there are only 8 days left and I could quite easily finish up, but really, what do I get out of it?

Last year it was a big deal.  A test if you will, to see if I could blog daily.  I was all sorts of proud of myself when I finished.  This year, not such a big deal.  It really felt like more of an obligation.  Then again, with three blogs and a massive contest event, it really was just another obligation.

Now that I’m pretty much settled in I’d like to go back to focusing on work.  I have articles I need to write.  Seminars I need to create.  Audio files that need to be edited.  Clients I need to work with.  I’m really more excited to focus on all of that than creating some drivel just so I can say “ta da! I blogged today.”

So having said that, I join the ranks of my fellow bloggers and move on with my November and I promise you, no more sucky, obligatory, but-I-gotta posts.  Can I get a WooHoo?!?!

I’m Bored. And Tired.

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I feel like it’s 2:30 in the morning.  In reality, it’s just 10:30.  I’m tired, but it’s too early to go to bed.  I’m bored, but there’s nothing on TV but repeats or politics.  If I head to bed to read, I’ll probably fall asleep in mere minutes.

I should pack.  But to be honest, I just don’t feel like it.  Since nearly all of the hub’s Ireland clothes are new, just for the trip, packing shouldn’t be too difficult.  Everything is in one place ready to go.  My stuff is all stacked up in the bedroom.  But we don’t have anywhere to lay out the two suitcases.  So instead I just look at the piles of stuff that need to be packed.

The good news…tomorrow, all I have to do is vote, get my brows done, hit up the bank for some cash, and pack.  Nothing all too major, thankfully.

So bored.  Really.  Even writing this didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would.  Oh well.

Let the NaBloPoMo Begin!

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It’s officially day one of NaBloPoMo.  No, I won’t be counting off each and every day.  I just wanted to let you know that November 1st it all starts.  So while I sit and wait for the cat sitter to arrive, I’ll get in a quickie post.

How about a brief introduction for those newbies that might pop in?  Eh, better yet, just head on over to my About LA Blogger Gal page over there on the right (see the linky?) and check it out yourself.  Just know that I’ll be on vacation for part of NaBloPoMo (again, this year) so I can’t promise a new post every single day.  But I will what I can to get it done (hopefully, with the time change, time will be on my side).

November 1st is also the day that our 50 Days of Giveaways officially begins over at ConstantChatter.  But since I need to have plenty to post about while I’m gone, I thought I’d hold off on posting our press release here for a bit.  No biggie anyway since every contest will run for 4 weeks.  So there’s plenty of time to enter, regardless of when I post the specific details – but I will post it all in a day or two (probably the day we fly out).

I’m so thrilled that it finally looks like fall is here. We’ve been overcast and grey with spots of rain, both yesterday and today.  Mind you, we’re still forecasted to be in the mid-70’s, but cooler weather is just around the corner (as we leave, of course). First morning in a long time that I can really enjoy my morning tea.  Love that!

Okay, quick post is over. Must love the cat (and the jealous dog) a bit before the stranger arrives.  Hope to see you throughout NaBloPoMo.  And remember to leave comments (activating Comment Luv) so others can follow you back to your own blog.

NaBloPoMo: Yes or No?

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I can’t even believe I’m considering this, but I think I’m going to do NaBloPoMo again this year.  I really enjoyed the daily posting last year and well, I think I’m up for it. I’m not crazy, right?  I mean it’s fun. And a great way to meet new bloggers.

Mind you, I’ll be on vacation for essentially 12 or so days (10 days + recovery time), but since I have to log in anyway to check on the ConstantChatter contest event (over 50 days of giving) I may as well take a moment or five and post an Irish photo or two or something, right?  I mean, two birds, one stone, kinda sorta like, right?

Actually, the hubs broke it to me gently that I’ll need to log on to the contest site daily to officially “launch” each day’s new contest.  He seems to think that I’ll want to check stats, but to be honest, I’ve never really been that kind of stats girl.  But yeah, should make for a fun vacation either way.

Bet you’ll never guess what I’ll be doing every day during lunchtime – LOL.

Anyone else jumping on the NaBloPoMo board this year?  Care to join me in the challenge?  Don’t worry, you can make up your own rules.  In theory, it’s just 30 posts in 3o days. I guess if you were dealing with insomnia and a creative streak you could write all 30 posts in one day.  In my case, I’ll be taking advantage of pre-publishing some posts and posting photos while I’m on vacation (I had to do that a time or two last year as well).  Then again, without the pre-pub, the air travel itself will cause me to lose a day.

And don’t worry, if you miss a day or so, no one will come after you, chastise you or make you feel bad.  It’s all just for the helluva it.  Make it up as you go along.

30 posts in 30 days…you can do it.

Come on…it’ll be FUN!!!