NO, I Do NOT Believe in Murphy’s Law!

Well, everyone…  Happy New Year.  I hope it has gotten off to a pretty good start for all of you.

This wish comes quite late, I know.  For this I apologize.  I have missed writing to you. 

Well, I JUST KNOW this is going to be special year of purpose and growth for me because I am having to determinedly stay focused and press my way through, lol!

I have had a few challenges – the last of which just happened – and I am doing my best to keep it all together… and finally GET it all together, so we can get this show on the road.

No I have not disappeared, and I have not quit either.  We will most definitely go on.  We began a series of posts here on BAL that was intended to go somewhere, so we will get there.

I simply encountered a few challenges, and found myself in a bit of a quandary that I needed some time to process.  It wasn’t supposed to be this long.  Then there were the holidays.  At the same time, I began to feel ill prepared with the developments thus far.  Some of you who read I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life may remember I stated in Community Home Open House (oh, that’s right – sorry, it’s not there right now) that the basics were set up, and then I started posting again.  Well, yes the basics were here, but there’s more.

A Stitch in Time…

It is so important to me that this is well organized, gets off on the right foot, and is the best experience possible for the greatest number (as well as in a way I can efficiently manage to continue it).  I’ve found that when things start going off track, you need to start making adjustments sooner than later.  And well, I’ve had quite a bit of adjusting to work out.  I’ve got some more work to do, but we’re a lot closer now.  I do wish it hadn’t taken me so long to write however.

…so it was back to the drawing board to develop and implement the concept some more.  Once things really get going, there won’t be time to stop and take care of some things.  It needs to run on semi-autopilot to work effectively …or perhaps that is just my compulsion    …but then again, to be fair to myself, it is I who have to keep it running.  So I have been working diligently behind the scenes to lay out something I hope will become a pillar of our communities.

It’s been a long silence, and with each day it’s been harder to know what to say.  Yet there’s been so much to do and set up before I felt prepared to post – I didn’t want to post to you about nothing.  But if it wasn’t one thing, it was another.  You have been on my mind though.

Where is I Wanna Get Free?

Apologies for the gloom.  As you can probably tell, I’m not having the best day.  I’m actually quite sad and frustrated right now.  I Wanna Get Free is now missing.  I noticed that my feed reader subscription numbers shot up, and the hits appear to be higher than they’ve been in a while… and alas, now there’s no feed to give.  

…as a result, I have so much more to do starting when I get up in the next several hours that I had to write you right now and just let you know to hang on – I’m aware of the problem, and I’m on it.  (Hmm, maybe I can redirect my IWGF feed to point here so they know.) 

So what happened??

Well… I discovered that someone had hacked I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life and inserted junk I couldn’t remove.  It was a security hazard, so I spent all day and night researching that.  After testing and tightening security on my other sites, I finally decided to uninstall IWGF-HYL and reinstall.

Fortunately I backed up the database, the theme and even the plugins, but in my haste I cannot believe I forgot to actually export the blog content to reimport it on the new installation.  So basically, I just lost the XML for I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life (on the blog itself and the feed) and am trying not to beat myself up about it.

So now I’ll have to add to my current list:

Copy, delete and repost all pages and posts to IWGF.  (Here’s hoping it will at least be that simple, if still time-consuming.)

… but HEY, at least I can see the data on this side to repost from, right?

I guess I’ve gotta be thankful – it could’ve been worse.

Keepin’ that Head Up

And at the end of the day (or as it were, the beginning of the next one), I’ve still got my life, health and strength. I am actually quite fortunate.

Something good’s gotta come out of all this.

That which doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.  (Note to self: It’s true.  Repeat often.)

Gonna get some sleep now.

Please be patient with me.  Thanks.

Have a blessed day.