You know how you never get down on your knees beside the bed to pray unless things are REALLY bad?
Today was one of those days where I slid down the hallway on my knees until I hit the side of the bed and screamed, “GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!” palm to palm with fingers interlaced.
When I broke up with blogger, I might have been a tad bit on the cocky side. Blogger got his revenge today when the shit hit the fan and I had NO idea what to do.
Phil helped me set up randomandodd with WordPress. When I asked him what I could do to repay him, he said, “Pay it Forward.” I thought, “sounds good…I’ve been helping people with their blogs for a long time and maybe this was my ‘forward’ part.” I had karma points building up. Just in case I didn’t have enough stored up, I decided to do Von Kranki’s website (which, yes…I haven’t uploaded yet…but it looks REALLY good).
So back to the shit hitting the fanith. I freaked out this morning when my website decided it was going to underline itself and then drop the sidebar to the bottom of my blog. I knew that SOME people can’t see the side bar (because they use IE and not Firefox…and that is more of a personal problem and they need to come to grips with letting go of IE on thier own *cough* susie) but the majority of the people can…but this whole underlining and no background thing was just CHEAP looking!
It was funny at first because I thought I could fix it. I thought, “If I find the right template it will work itself out.” and then there is that moment when you realize, “Oh shit, I can’t fix this…and I am STUCK WITH UGLY FOR THE REST OF MY DAMN LIFE!” and so I prayed…to…well…an internet God of sorts.
And you know what God said? God Saidith, “You Useith The Wrong Tags.” and he showed me where I went wrong in my evil ways. I say EVIL ways because it happens to be the stupid post that I mock my beautiful friend, Lisa in.
I did learn a lot in the whole process though:
1. I can’t fix everything.
2. Men are important in my life. I will never make it as a lesbian.
3. I know how to upload new templates to my wordpress.
4. Tags with U in them…not good. Don’t use them.
5. If you mock your friends, you will have to pay the price.
6. You all come here WAY-HAYYYY too much because some of you saw all 49 different template changes.
7. I don’t deserve my degree.
8. When I panic…I laugh a lot.
9. When I panic…I blame Vanilla Ice and Gwen Stefani.
10. There are really nice guys out there and I will be sending like 157 boxes of Pop Tarts and Rice Krispie Treats to him….and I promise to pay it forward. again.
I had to delete Kara’s Happy Birthday post, because I suck and probably used some God fobidden “U” in there. I think I did. Yeah. Guess who isn’t perfect? Guess who had to ask for help? ME.
Alright, I’m going to lay down with that sick child I have home today.
16 responses to “all better.”
and uh..thanks again everyone.
Can I get one that incorporates sexy housewives and the fact that they love to stuff bon bons and cake into their mouths. Like sexy meat overeaters anon.
gotta say one thing – even if your blog template looked like shit, we’d all love you anyhow!
oh – one more thing… people still use IE? SUSIE?!?! What is up with that?!?
I must be slow, I didn’t get to see any of the interim templates :)
But I am so impressed that dooce’s husband helped you fix your template – LOL.
Good lord. WHY are people still using i.e.??
Sometimes i wish I had me a geek boyfriend like most of my friends have, to fix their blogs for them all nice and such…. but I gotta do it all myself, which really sucks! (GODDAMN YOU WORDPRESS). That’s why my blog’s so cookie cutter though. Glad you got help and got it fixed!
Wow for a minute there it took me a minute to figure out where it said that Dooce’s husband Jon helped you fix your blog. But then I realized that I should try clicking the link! And therefore I’ll understand the whole post! Yeah dorkiness over here.
Does this mean you didn’t get any of the comments from Karas bday post either?……
I had them…but I deleted in a frenzy of trying to fix the problem and lost all the comments.
I have them in email and I will let her have them.
She read the post this morning before I noticed that my whole blog was jacked up.
You mean you can’t fix everything? Great. Now I must go rethink my entire life! :)
WHAT??? The Blurb himself helped you out with this?? Way cool, man.
I just wanted to know if he could point me to someone that could help, but the problem was probably like someone asking “Why won’t my car start?” and you looking in and seeing the keys weren’t in.
I’m hoping someday I can repay the favor.
I guess I should come back more, I only saw one funky template and ran :) J/K!
Good to know things are back to normal.
Apparently you had quite a day. I just checked my rss reader and saw Kara’s Birthday post, your bear with me post, the band picture, and this one. Glad you got it all put back together, and wow Jon helped – too awesome.
I’m glad things got straightened out. I messed around with my templates forever and finally just went back to what worked. Oh..and confession time..but I still use IE. EEK! Hopefully, I won’t be banned from cyberspace. Hey, I admit that I have been an AOL customer for 10 years. Double EEK. I am sure using AOL AND also using IE will get me cyber spanks. ;)
Happy Birthday to Kara =]
heehee – yesterday, when I saw it – your website looked PERFECT in my IE and I was so happy that the sidebar was all moved up and sooooo confused by your post about it being all frucked up.