Nothing Brings Me Down & Spurred In October

So, if you’re a blogger and you’re reading this, you should go back up your content right now. I say this because a few weeks ago when Dream Host was hacked and a few of my blogger friends had first hand experiences with all the drama that ensued, I took it as a sign and immediately went and back up my website. Because of that, I had a backup of my site when the server had a fatal crash yesterday and my site was down for over five hours. I tend to freak out when my site is down because it’s a situation where I am completely out of control, which doesn’t flow well at all with my INFJ personality, and I just sit anxiously waiting for it to be fixed while refreshing every five minutes. (Even though I’m not. supposed. to. do. that.) But eventually I decided to let go and decide that whatever happened happened, and I felt on top of the world.

This morning when I woke up and restored the site from it’s back up, I realized I’d lost two weeks of posts (and comments), but instead of freaking out I remember I have all my posts saved in RSS readers and comments are emailed to me. So I spent the entire morning sipping delicious tea and copy and pasting my content. I was actually humming while I was doing it. After all was said and done, I permanently lost only the comments that I made, which I plan on remaking, especially in response to your amazing comments on this entry. (If you didn’t see my comment before the site went down, don’t worry, I will reply again because your comments mean so much to me.) And had I been ringing my hands and stressed about it, what would it have solved? Nothing. Nothing would’ve been any different. I have such a hard time of saying “it’s out of my hands” in so many situations, but I’m going to actively try to let go when I know there’s nothing more I can do.

(Click on the photos if you’d like to see them larger.)
“Purity” October 7th (Day 280) “Sentiment” October 8th (Day 281), & “Hair” October 9th (Day 282)
It was almost too perfect that the prompt for October 8th was “Sentiment”. I had to take the chance to photograph my dried boquet that sits on our dresser from our wedding ceremony. Cheesy, I know, and even though it was the first thing I thought of it was the second and third too, so I did it anyway. And as for the hair, I was under the impression Locks of Love did not take dyed hair, but I’m happy to learn I was wrong! They take dyed hair as long as it isn’t bleached. (I may be donating in two months here if I can gather up the courage to go for a pixie cut!)

“Kisses” October 10th (Day 283) & “Introduction” October 11th (Day 284)

It’s hard to believe there was a time when the cats didn’t all adore each other, but when I see this picture and realize it was the first time the three of them had piled together, I smile at how far they’ve come. (Pfft, now Pumpkin and Atlas are super BFFs and I feel left out!) And “Introduction” was about introducing Atlas to the “bath”. It went really well! He only tried to jump in one time, and then never made that mistake again, but every time he hears the water running he runs in to play faux fishing. He isn’t afraid to get his paws wet, either.

“Problem” October 13th (Day 286)

The windows in our bedroom have the worst insulation and it causes condensation to build up on the window sill. I know it’s something I could talk to the building manager about, but I keep forgetting! (And I still haven’t done it as I’m writing this five months later! It doesn’t happen very often (especially since we had such a warm winter) so it was easy to forget about.

“Want” October 14th (Day 286)

Our good friend Will spent a lot of time in China over the years for school and business and he brought home Pumpkin flavored Pocky (delicious Japanese snack!). Unfortunately I’m almost positive it has milk in it (at least the frosting), so I haven’t actually tried it, but I keep them on my desk to remind me of awesome friends.

“Fantasy” October 15th (Day 287)

Haha, oh gosh, this is a photograph of my desktop on my computer. It’s fantasy themed and very special to me. Of course, it doesn’t look like that now because my computer crashed last week and I had to reformat, but I’m sure I’ll get it back to normal in no time.

“Solace” October 12th (Day 285) & “Smart!” October 16th (Day 288)

Really, he’s just enjoying the sun. And for the “Smart” prompt, I managed to snap a photo of Pumpkin doing his “touch” trick for breakfast. All the boys know how to “sit” and “touch” and do so each morning before breakfast!