A Dollar Short! And More!
I cannot even begin to describe the last couple of days. It all started when some very nice Bacon readers emailed me to tell me that my site was down (thanks Desiree & Megan!!). Except it really wasn’t down. The Google phone, Mozilla and Safari all said my site was fine. Apparently, it was only an issue with Internet Explorer (IE). And, of course, I don’t have IE, because I am a Mac-kinda girl.
My apologies for the nerdspeak ahead of time, but trying to fix that error took me on the OCD train to hell. The last 48 hours looked like this:
- Backing up my laptop (I only do this once a month … which is dumb, I know. It took FOREVER.
- Partitioning off part of my Mac hard drive so I could run Windows XP via a virtual machine. All this work just so I could run IE and see what you people are looking at. SHEESH! I must really like you! (On another note, the Mac side of the hard drive is now named Elizabeth Taylor and the Windows side is named Richard Burton. Don’t ask me why.)
- Spending several hours examining the html/css code to see if there were any fatal flaws in IE. I couldn’t find anything so I broke down and recoded everything from scratch. Doing this didn’t fix anything.
- I then spent hours scouring the web trying to troubleshoot why my blog was acting up in IE.
- And proceeded to try about 5,000 things that didn’t fix the problem.
- In then end, I woke up in the middle of the night and figured out what the issue was. And it was stupid. And easy to fix. All I can say is … NEVER DRAFT A POST IN WORD FIRST AND THEN CUT AND PASTE IT IN WORDPRESS. I deleted the post and ta-da! Everything is coming up roses.
It was a 2 minute fix, after hours and hours of labor. Damn you, Internet Explorer.
Other than that small technical issue and time suck, there has been this the whole other blogging thing looming over my head. Writing has been so sparse as of late and it has made me intensely cranky. It seriously affects my mood when I don’t have an outlet. In fact, I think that all Mothers who are losing their teenager (in tragic fight for independence) need to blog just so they have somewhere to cry about not being the center of the universe anymore. But I digress.
And there is this whole weight loss thing. I haven’t weighed myself in 3 weeks now … until this morning. I have been completely avoiding the scale because I have been deathly afraid of actually seeing the scale go up again. I am sure it did, but then went down again. This morning, I was just 1lb short of my 20 lb. weight loss goal. But 19 lbs is great! That’s basically the size of 19 – 1 pound boxes of butter off my body. AMAZING.
Sadly, this picture looks like I gained weight. Oh the magic of unflattering clothes.
All in all, living (mostly) Gluten-free has been surprisingly easy. Even though I love bagels, pancakes and other such lovely baked goods, I haven’t really missed it that much. For the most part, I’m not strict about it and I don’t beat myself over cheating now and again (I had a couple of beers and some pita and crackers last night). But I have to say, I am feeling the best I have ever. I used to go into a coma after eating bread and sugar. And I was really gassy all of the time. Now, I don’t have either or those problems anymore. This is quite an improvement. Just ask Paige, who has probably suffered the most as a result of the latter issue.
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Good thing you were able to figure it all out – I’m horrible with the tech stuff….I am a mac girl too and don’t know anything about the windows world.
.-= Lynn (The Actors Diet)´s last blog ..Lynn – More Hip than Hippie =-.
Hmm.. I wouldn’t have done anything. Do ppl really use IE?! IE is like some archaic portal from another dimension that ppl are forced to use. It sucks!
On another note, girl you look good! Good on you for your weight update! Are you allergic to gluten or it’s a way to lose weight? Anyways, fantastic. Loved the video too. : )
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Congrats on the weight loss!!! Way to go.
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IE sucks ass!!!! I love how they are allowed to completely ignore web standards. IE6 nearly made me commit suicide- rembering that my company builds health education web sites. UGH UGH UGH!
I can’t stand IE. Somehow, it messes up everything, even if the coding is flawless.
Great job making it so close to the 20lb mark! I’ll bet next week will be a celebration in your house. =)
So glad I can see things now! They should have a support group for us Vista users
.-= jasmine´s last blog ..Bad Mommy Confessions…. =-.
This reminds me of when my parents got wireless internet in their house. I spent hours on the phone with Dell tech support trying to get my Dad’s laptop to work and finally she asked if i had any other computers in the house.
“Yes, I have a macbook.”
“Oh, so that’s working fine. No we’d need another PC.”
You’re darn right, support lady. It was working fine.
Congrats on almost reaching your 20lb. goal.
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I use IE at work, so I got the error too.
I don’t think I would miss bagels too much if I have a gluten allergy. Now… oatmeal chocolate chip cookies–those I would miss.
.-= Amelie´s last blog ..Citywanderers =-.
I think I heart you. That is all. (I am SO sucking at the weight loss these days. And I thought it’d be EASIER To exercise during the summer. Ack.)
I think it’s great that you’ve lost that amount of weight! Good for you!! Not easy.
As for teenaged angst, yeah, I’m there too. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve had to live with, and I hear it gets worse before it gets better….hellllp!! Not only am I no longer the centre of attention, but I am now devil spawn, according to my daughter, regardless of what I do, don’t do, say, don’t say, etc. You get the picture.
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