Gift Certificate Winner and Ramblings (Updated-see link at the end of how I won a Wii)

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I have announced the winner of my Gift Certificate for beauty products good at SkinCareRx.

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Can I just say WHAT A DAY.  Warning this may be a session of blogging therapy but I figured I have not had a rambling post in awhile.

Can I give you a piece of advice…when you wake up really early and you have not had ANY coffee yet.  That is not the best time to be messing with your blog. {sigh}  I messed with my “Beauty Inside and Out” blog and I know enough to be dangerous.  Or in my case I know how to lock myself out of my own blog and not have it come up.  It was G.O.N.E.

I freaked.

If this happened on any normal day I would just chalk it up to God giving me a message or something, but NOT TODAY because today I was to pick a winner for the gift certificate. I had no idea what I was going to do.  I could not get into my blog or even see it, let alone know who left comments to enter.  What was I going to do?

I emailed WebExMedia.net who is my hosting service (can I just say they are worth EVERY.PENNY). They said they would work on it.  After trying to figure out what I had done (let me tell you this is no easy task) they tried to fix it.

Well I was already WOE-IS-ME attitude and just as I was going to sit down and write a post confessing my mess, beg for your forgiveness and ask you what I should do. 

People I was in tears over this today.

They fixed my blog.  I don’t know how, but I can not begin to tell you how happy I was.

But on top of breaking a blog, all three of our kids kind of blindsided us today with unacceptable progress reports.  Usually we have one child that may need a “mid-course” adjustment of reminding them how important their studies are, but all three??!! I want to tell you I was very spiritual and took them aside and discussed things with them.  I want to tell you I sat there with them trying to find the root of the problem but instead I believe I screamed something to the effect of “you are going to remember this Christmas as the Christmas that s*&ked.”

I am not proud, just honest.  Keeping it real.  Will you still be my friend ‘;)

Then my middle son had an ortho apt.  He is having this contraption thing put in his mouth in January and they needed to put spacers in some of his teeth.  He promptly went back to school ate a Jolly rancher and lost one of the spacers already!

By this time I told my hubby I am going to begin to laugh, it has been one thing after another.

I have commited to taking one picture a day (see my Photo tab if you want to see them), well I have not taken one yet and it is pitch dark.  So I am going to go off and find something to photograph.  Thanks for listening to me, now I am going to go make sure all the kids are doing extra homework and to see if I have any more wine for my whine.

Oh and can you tell me, do you like both of my sidebars off to the right, or do you like it the way it is now…I truly can not decide if I like it or not.

UPDATE: Um yeah, about my day. Want to know how it ended? See here. I still am in shock and awe. Now I am going to HAVE to exercise, ha!!

6 thoughts on “Gift Certificate Winner and Ramblings (Updated-see link at the end of how I won a Wii)”

  2. Wow; you really did have quite the day! But, I’m glad you got your site back up and running, with some help. I’ve had computer issues in the past and I hate it. With some knowledge, we can be dangerous.

    I love your honesty and transparency; it’s refreshing! I had to chuckle though; sorry for your pain.

    I keep looking to see whether I like your posts in the center or to the left. I think the center is good because I can see all that you have on this page. I think when the “extras” were all together on the right, I missed a lot of it. As I scroll down the page, my eye catches your family friendly network and a few other things that I didn’t even realize were there. So, that’s my two cents.

    I hope today will be better for you and less stressful!

    Debbies last blog post..Best Gifts to Give

  3. Hm…not a good day, I have to admit. But you know what? When I have days like that, I just say to myself “I am growing…yes I am growing with every experience”. But to be honest — this does not work every time — to calm myself…and I am done growing this year :razz: …

    I am sorry that you had such a ‘growing’ day. And laughter is sometimes the best to get through those days. I am happy that your beauty blog was fixed.

  4. I am feeling ya girl! My youngest brought home his interim with a C in math (his best subject) because his little disorganized self has managed to lose 4 assignments before handing them in. Ahhhhh, I too admit I did not handle it in a WWJD way either. Thank God for His unlimited forgiveness! Then on the way home from church my other son popped a brace off which will require yet another trip to the ortho. You are right, sometimes days can become laughable- it is so obvious the Devil is attacking! Glad your blog got fixed and hope you have a better day today! Thanks for keeping it real!

    Melissa, Multitasking Mamas last blog post..Thankful Thursday- praise

  5. Blogging therapy is wonderful, because usually, we have all been in those places and can relate so well and encourage each other, this too shall pass. Thank you for sharing and being real with us! Glad that things worked out well and next time a day like this happens, you can take out your frustrations on the new WI! Congratulations!

    Joyfulls last blog post..A First Corinthians Christmas