This is really such a great community that we live in here on the web. You ask for help and you get it. Usually. Yesterday I asked for help finding someone to help me upgrade my version of WP and all anyone would tell me was that nobody could do it. Thanks. You guys are a great help, I thought. Then I re-read the comments and I realized that “nobody” was capitalized. Nobody can help you. And he did. Indirectly, I suppose, since he had turned Dutchbitch on to the WP plugin, WordPress Automatic Upgrade, and she told me about it. It was so freakin’ awesome! I installed it and activated it and with a few clicks, it was done. I was upgraded to the most recent version of WP. I wanted to get up and do a little jig. But, then I would have had to put the laptop down and my feet would get cold and I would have to stand up, so I just said, “Hurray!”
Look up there…See that? No, you don’t. You don’t see a search box up there anymore. Wanna know why? Luke helped me with that! And Suzi helped with some awesome suggestions, too.
I think that I figured out my problems with the smilies and the comment quicktags. I just have to find time to work on them. It’s back to work today, so I likely won’t have time until this weekend to work on it.
Wanna know what else I have been working on? I have been working on my brother-in-law’s site. You can check it out at JohnVleck.org. The benefit for him is on April 19th. I have been putting up pictures and descriptions of the items that will be in the silent auction. I am sure that I will be talking a lot more about the benefit as we get closer to it. I did get an email yesterday from one of the main people working on the benefit and she said:
I just wanted to email you to tell you what a great job you are doing on
the website. Everyone I know who has looked at it has commented on how
well done it is. You really captured who John is and I believe that I
have been able to get some of my donations, because people have been
able to go out and view our website.
That made me feel really good. I need those attaboys sometimes, y’know?
Speaking of…Therapy went well yesterday. We are going to work on re-framing, taking those negative thoughts and turning them into something positive. He wants me to start journaling these things and see if I start seeing a pattern of some sort. I’m seeing him again on 4/1 and 4/9 and he referred me to the psychiatrist for med management. I see him on 5/23. Yep, that’s the soonest I could get in.
So thanks to you all. For your well wishes and for your suggestions and help with this blog over the last few days. You guys are totally the best bliends a girl could ever ask for.
Glad you got everything straightened out over here! It’s looking good.
5/23?!? Good grief. Did they at least put you on a cancellation list, so you have a chance to get in during the next ten week?
I just looked at your brother-in-laws site. You did a GREAT job on that. I absolutely love the photo of him when he was 5, sitting in a tree with his brother and a broken leg. That speaks volumes about just what kind of guy he is. SO cool.
Ah good for you!!! I did a happy dance too when Nobody set me on to the plug in. It’s Click and Go and so easy! Gotta love that man!
Med management? I can get what you need. Coke, skag, X?
You name it.
That Upgrade Plug In sounds pretty handy. I normally just log into my Control Panel and let Fantastico do the updates for me!
I need that upgrade. Now.
Oh good! So the new update is out? Then my new blog should only be a short time away. They were waiting till the update came out to install WordPress for me. Then I just have to forward the domain over to the new site and voila! Can’t wait.
I’m glad you had a good appt. yesterday…hope things continue to go well there.
And YAY, things are figured out!!
Shelli, I LOOOOVE the new look here! It is gorgeous!!
I’m so sorry about your brother and admire what you’re doing to help him. I hope this doesn’t sound pat, but after watching “Tuesday’s With Morrie,”….I just have a special place in my heart for anyone battling ALS.
Glad things are progressing well with your appointments and meds, and I pray that things continue to go better for you. You deserve all the happiness in the world.
Glad things are going better with the website!
Sorry you have to wait so long to see that doc. Maybe someone will cancel and you’ll get in sooner!
We wub yoo too!
Suzi–I was sleeping when they called me to schedule the appointment, so I didn’t think to ask them about a cancellation list. If things seem to get worse, I will call them and ask them for that. Right now, I’m okay. Of course, it’s going to snow again tonight, so…
Dutchy–Well, he’s all new to me, but I can see why everyone else loves him! Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
Fab–Percoset?
B–Fantastico does that? I did not know.
Finn–Ack. I’m sorry that you didn’t have good luck with it. I see that you are fixed now, but not with the same template. Are you going to be able to get yours back?
Tug–Amen and, well, amen!
Dawn–You know, I didn’t put ALS and Tuesday’s With Morrie together at first until my daughter pointed it out to me. I had read TWM a long time ago and had forgotten that was what Morrie had. It is an awful, awful disease.
FG–I hope so. I will call them and see if I can be put on a list.
Shelli, I completely agree. It’s weird, because just before I read your post the other night, Rob was talking about a co-worker who has it.
Yeah, TWM moved me in a way that no other movie has. Not only because of his fight against ALS, but because of how wise he was, how amazing his spirit was throughout his fight, and the advice he has for all of us on how to live life to the fullest. All from a man who was suffering so. I’m going to cry again just thinking about it.
God bless your brother and your whole family. All of you are in my thoughts and prayers.